The Princess Bride Reviews
Top CriticBased on William Goldman's novel, this is a post-modern fairy tale that challenges and affirms the conventions of a genre that may not be flexible enough to support such horseplay.
The leads are vacuous; the absurdities sometimes forced and obvious.
Common Sense Media
Witty, winsome fairy tale for the whole family.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Since its release more than 15 years ago, The Princess Bride has often been copied, but never equaled.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
This witty modern fairy tale by William Goldman is resoundingly satisfying.
| Original Score: 5/5
Radio Times
An unexpected delight for all the family.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Arizona Daily Star
The lesson it most effectively demonstrates is that cinema has the power to turn you into a kid again. As we wish.
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| Original Score: 4/4
eFilmCritic.com
Storybook perfection.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Moviehole
One of the Top films of the 1980s - if not, of all time. A treasure of a film that you'll want to watch again and again
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| Original Score: 4/5
Flipside Movie Emporium
'As you wish' may be gaining on 'we'll always have Paris' as the single most romantic line ever.
| Original Score: 5/5
rec.arts.movies.reviews
All I can say is this is the most fun you will have in a film for quite a while.
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| Original Score: 6/8
Antagony & Ecstasy
An inordinately smart and sly motion picture, one that has enough simple pleasures to succeed as one of the better popcorn movies of its decade.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Rob Reiner's friendly 1987 fairy-tale adventure delicately mines the irony inherent in its make-believe without ever undermining the effectiveness of the fantasy.
Combustible Celluloid
One of the hottest cult videos of the 1980s, and a family classic besides, enjoyed by new generations of youngsters as well as their parents.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Filmcritic.com
Any movie that can convince you that Andre the Giant should have been an actor instead of a wrestler is an "A" in my book.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Little White Lies
Shall we re-wind and give it another spin? As you wish...
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| Original Score: 4/5
