Movie #103: The Princess Bride

Movie #: 103
Movie Title: The Princess Bride
Year Released: 1987

Director: Rob Reiner
Notable Cast: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, Peter Falk, Billy Crystal, Fred Savage

Short Description: While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him a story called The Princess Bride. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: #100
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: #65
FlickChart.com: #40



Date Watched: 6/11/2016

Grade: 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)

Rationale: I’d heard that The Princess Bride was good, but I didn’t know what to expect other than finally getting to see André the Giant act since I knew he was in it. Thankfully, I liked the movie very much. André the Giant was fun in his role as a giant brute for hire but a little hard to understand on occasion because of his accent and either slurring or mumbling. The main reason, though, that I ended up enjoying The Princess Bride was Mandy Patinkin’s Inigo Montoya. Quite the entertaining character and a shame he was absent for a long stretch in the middle. That’s the kind of role a spinoff would have been worth watching for, even if it required writing an original story since The Princess Bride was adapted from a book with no sequel.