Movie Review: The Princess Bride

Credits are still rolling in the family room (also known as the TV room) and we just finished watching...'The Princess Bride'.

'The Princess Bride'
Rated PG

Buttercup, a young lassie, falls in love with a farm boy named Wesley. But they're too poor to get married, so Wesley has to go out and seek a fortune. Fairly usual, except Wesley here does the above average--he gets captured by an infamous pirate who takes no prisoners. That is a death sentence.

Hardly any time has passed before Prince Humperdink requests Buttercup's hand in marriage--and it's impossible for Buttercup to refuse. But before the wedding, she's captured by a giant, a Spaniard, and their somewhat-obsessed-with-the-word-inconceivable' leader.

A mysterious ship on the horizon forces the small kidnapping group to do some quite daring things--climb up mountains, split their ways, have contests for their own lives--but the man in black, still following them, is unstoppable.

But kidnapping and mysterious, masked men might not be Buttercup's only troubles. Even though she learns what she thought impossible, she is still forced to marry Prince Humperdink. Her true love has disappeared yet again. And he won't show up in time to save her. Until it could just very well be too late.
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I know, bad summing up of the movie. But it's late.

First of all...IT WAS AWESOME!!

Before I watched it, I wondered at everyone who raved about it, thinking 'Who would want to watch a movie titled 'The Princess Bride'? All that sounds of is mushy-ness.

It's awesome!!! The sword fights are awesome, the humor is awesome....it's awesome.

To be more official: Buttercup and Wesley are devoted to each other, and not even death will stop true love. The swordfights are (I won't use the word awesome)...spectacular, and the movie had us all laughing. There were some parts, too, when I...ah...cried. If you know me, I am not the crying type. So maybe I didn't cry...my eyes just got a little watery. The blanket must have been dusty...or something.

However, there are some bad parts. First of all, the torture scene is a little disturbing (and I thought the torture scene in my book was pretty gross). Buttercup's parents are never mentioned (not that that's bad, it's just not good), and there are some other intense parts that may disturb younger kids (I myself didn't watch the torture scene. And I consider myself pretty hardened). Buttercup, although she never does it, does mention suicide. And then there's the kissing.

On a less moral and more quality-based critizism level--the first part, I thought, seemed a little rushed. The acting of the dude who's obsessed with 'inconceivable' I didn't think was first-rate. It may just have been me. And the rodents in the Fire-Swamp didn't look real, either. Just like an overgrown mole.

The Spanierd dude--I can't remember his name--was really good though.

Overall, it was an AWESOME movie! Watch it.

Izori