Review of The Princess Bride (1987) by David M — 05 Mar 2017

I'm really not sure what genre this film belongs in - is it a romance? An actioner? A comedy? - as it has elements of all of the afore-mentioned blended in.

The film is told as a story-within-a-story (somewhat like that other great 80s film, "The Neverending story") with the narrator as a grandfather telling the story to his sick grandson. Cary Elwes plays the protagonist of the story being told as a sort of combination Robin Hood/Errol Flynn character, while Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montaya provides the template for Antonio Banderas Zorro over a decade later.

Some classic lines in here, quoted by a cerain segment of the population nearly as often as Monty Python: "Is this a kissing book?", "Inconceivable!"/"You keep using that word: I don't think it means what you think it means", "I know something you don't: I'm not left handed!"/I'm not left-handed either", "You fell prey to one of the classic blunders! The most well known is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia ...' ", and, of course, the all-time favourite: "Hello. My name is Inigo Montaya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.".