Princess Bride

Pros: Brilliant performances, especially Elwes and Patinkin, great story, very, very funny...
Cons: ... well... not any I can think of right now...

The Princess Bride is a classic movie in so many ways that have already been explained before that perhaps I won’t even bother telling you about them. Then again… maybe I will. Basically this is a fairy tale, being told by a grandpa ...

Pros: Pirates! Great cast, outrageously funny
Cons: not a one!

Pros: Sword fights, pirates, humor, and true love
Cons: Only if you're Humperdinck (I told you to stop saying that name!)

The Princess Bride is an odd little movie. I'll freely admit I didn't completely get it the first time around. But each time I have watched it sense, I have absolutely loved it. The movie opens with a sick boy (Fred Savage). His ...

Pros: William Goldman's screenplay, Rob Reiner's directing, and a wonderful cast.
Cons: None!

For millions of television viewers who grew up during All in the Family's groundbreaking run (before it became stale in the post-1977 seasons), Rob Reiner will always be remembered as the Meathead, a.k.a. Archie Bunker's ultra-liberal, atheistic, and ...

Pros: funny and refreshing
Cons: a single word that makes it unusable at school

Mom and Dad gave me a love for old movies. I love black and white films. I love Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers. Of course, not everything from the "golden age" of Hollywood was golden. There were plenty of clunkers, too....

Pros: Characters, Acting, Plot, Costumes, Music, Action, Humor, Romance
Cons: Theme song lyrics and vocals

The Princess Bride is my favorite movie of all time. And now, with the “Elevdado: Six Degrees of the Eighties Write-Off,” I finally have a decent excuse to write an epinion that does it justice. You see, I have actually reviewed this movie...

Pros: Sheesh, where should I start?
Cons: If this movie has any real flaws, they're buried under all the good stuff.

Hoo boy, this should be tough. Not one day removed from my "Goonies Gushing" I am now compelled to review yet another of my all-time favorite movies. But while The Goonies is a slight, sloppy and addictively entertaining adventure, The...

Pros: Memorable characters and some of the funniest dialogue in any movie.
Cons: No cons at all! I mean it! (Anybody want a peanut?)

When I first saw The Princess Bride at the age of eleven, I liked it somewhat. Nowadays I like it even better. At that young age I enjoyed the adventures, the swordplay and the antics of Andre The Giant playing a literal giant. Today, at the age of 25, I ...

Pros: Fun for all ages to watch.
Cons: None

I have seen the Princess Bride more times than I can remember, having first seen it in Junior High in the Theaters, then on video with dates, and now with my own children on a rainy afternoon. This movie has everything- comedy, love, triumph, and...

Pros: Hilarious writing, great acting, touching and funny
Cons: none whatever

The Write off within the Write off

This is what I consider the write off within the write off. The grand challenge within the microcosm of time and space. A way of truly focusing on that, which deserves to be truly focused upon. This...

Pros: Great story great director fine actors = superb movie.
Cons: Those who don't know their fairy tales may be unamused.

The Princess Bride was released some 20 years ago, and it is esteemed by many as one of the best films of all time. It is in essence a comic parody of many of the stereotypes found in the “classic” fairy tales of English literature, and ...

Pros: Everything!  Fits all ages.
Cons: The princess could have had a better name; that's all I could think of.

Three thieves (a brilliant but whiney little guy, a giant, a drunken Spanish swordsman) kidnap a princess-to-be, to take her into a neighboring kingdom, to kill her, and thus start a war between the two kingdoms. But, they are followed by a masked ...

Pros: The cast, the story and everything else
Cons: The initial annoying interruptions by Fred Savage

If you want a movie that has everything: action, adventure, humor, romance and a little bit of pain, then The Princess Bride is for you. There are very few films that can reach every emotion on the spectrum with both power and perfection and when ...

Pros: Sometimes, true love goes away for a long time.
Cons: You have to be able to recognize it when it comes back.

Thanks to SurgRN911 and SusiDee34 for inviting me to participate in this write-off depicting some aspect of my life. As I sit here writing, I am wondering how I will be able to work being owned by a bullmastiff into the relevancy of this...

Pros: Every single thing
Cons: Not a one

When I watched this film the other day I nearly fell out of my seat when I saw that it was released in 1987. I had forgotten just how old it is. For a film that is fast approaching 20 years old, The Princess Bride still doesn't miss a beat. It ...