THE PRINCESS BRIDE Blu-ray Review — Peter Debruge argues why this is the last time you’ll ever have to re-buy the timeless love story. Honest.
Written by Peter Debruge
Has there ever been a movie with a less boy-friendly title than The Princess Bride? (I mean, no wonder a wary Fred Savage wrinkles his nose and asks, “Is this a kissing book?” when grandpa Peter Falk starts to read.) It’s something of a miracle that the younger me — two months shy of my tenth birthday — even saw it as a kid, but as memory serves, I was there on opening weekend, and now, with all the sophistication and insight that supposedly accompanies my decade-plus of experience as a film critic, The Princess Bride remains the one film I’d salvage in a desert-island scenario. Not Raiders, not Star Wars, but this, a mushy “kissing” movie.
In a sense, The Princess Bride does for fairy tales what the other two did for B-movie adventure serials and sci-fi epics, delivering a “good parts version” …