http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/24/THE-PRINCESS-BRIDE-Still-Heartwarming-After-All-These-Years.aspx There is no way to write about THE PRINCESS BRIDE and make it sound cool.  Ostensibly, THE PRINCESS BRIDE is a fairy tale that a grandfather (Peter Falk) reads to his sick grandson (Fred Savage). You think you’re skeptical?  Even the grandson is turned off when the story begins with lots of kissing.  “Hold it, hold it,” he says. “Are you trying to trick me?  Where’s the sports?  Is this a kissing book?” No, it isn’t.   What it really is is an excuse for William Goldman, who wrote the screenplay from his novel, and director Rob Reiner to offer verbal and physical gymnastics that combines the best of Errol Flynn with the best of Mel Brooks – often at once. The Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright) believes her true love Westley (Carey Elwes) is dead, so she becomes engaged to the cruel Prince Humperdink (Chris Sarandon).  How evil is Humperdink?  He has a henchman, Count Rugen (Christopher Guest), who prides himself on “a deep and abiding interest in pain.”  That’s how evil. At the behest of the prince, Buttercup is kidnapped by a gang led by Vizzini (Wallace Shawn) and includes a giant (Andre the Giant) and an expert swordsman with a really bad Spanish accent, Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin). It is a plot that is difficult to make sense of in print, but suffice it to say that eventually Buttercup ends up trapped in Humperdink’s castle. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/24/THE-PRINCESS-BRIDE-Still-Heartwarming-After-All-These-Years.aspx 77 60 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/24/THE-PRINCESS-BRIDE-Still-Heartwarming-After-All-These-Years.aspx#2345 not my style needs50 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/24/THE-PRINCESS-BRIDE-Still-Heartwarming-After-All-These-Years.aspx#2345 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:29:23 GMT http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/24/THE-PRINCESS-BRIDE-Still-Heartwarming-After-All-These-Years.aspx#2349 love this movie tinkluvspan http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/24/THE-PRINCESS-BRIDE-Still-Heartwarming-After-All-These-Years.aspx#2349 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:28:28 GMT http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/24/THE-PRINCESS-BRIDE-Still-Heartwarming-After-All-These-Years.aspx#2377 This is a great movie. It is entertaining and at times hilarious. I love the dead pan delivery of the discovery of the R.O.U. S.'s Todd http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/24/THE-PRINCESS-BRIDE-Still-Heartwarming-After-All-These-Years.aspx#2377 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:23:19 GMT