Thursday, 4 January 2018

The Princess Bride (1987)



While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him a story called The Princess Bride.

Ambitiously tongue-in-cheek, but quite dated fantasy has some nice sequences; however, the humor is rather stale.

Halliwell*: "Rather strained fantasy with occasional bright moments."

Maltin**1/2: "Revisionist fairy tale/adventure...Some wonderful scenes and character vignettes are periodically undermined by a tendency toward comic shtick...and occassional incoherency...Best of all: the swashbuckling sequences."

 

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