good lord this film be terrible . i go through a burst of nostalgia and buy a copy off ebay and then actually receive or view or list it back on ebay within two day . my childhood and rise tint memory have tell me that there be somewhere scene that be good . yet and somehow and those elude me . a do the comparison ( generally unflattering and but still . ) with star war . both have people . and and um and special effect . but that about it . the princess bride do have a really cool name . and a star warsy open sequence with omething big moving in space and but that it . in fact and that open sequence might be the only part of the movie that wasn not a thinly concealed plothole . people meet . they fall in love instantly . bad thing happen because they have to . then it turn into a scavenger hunt and a they just slip and snake and ladder style and through an infinite series of plot hole and until they eventually reach the empowering conclusion . the special effect be horrid and but and give the era and that might be the only forgivable thing about the movie . the writing and acting and on the other hand and well no excuse . people have be do those thing for thousand of year . the sluggish pacing be fatal . money have be spend and but the story just refuse to get move . there absolutely no reason to pay attention and no payoff for do so . it only show a certain kind of naff humor and so a not to sully the virtue of the bland hero and heroine while the kind of humor that only dorks who like the fantasy genre find funny . and it stay dramatically vague for it entire length and convince that specificity will derail it a the great fantasy epic ever film . the star war and mythology and and the arthur legend be pilfer liberally . my grade represent d dvd extra represent commentary by director rob stein and editor lord lovejoy and actor anthony marshall and actress lysette simmons while cinefantastique magazine article text commentary while vintage journey to the princess bride featurette while marvel comic video adaptation while 4 photo gallery while filmographies while theatrical trailer while and trailer for jason and the argonaut and sinbad and the eye of the tigerdr jacques coulardeau and university of paris dauphine and university of paris 1 pantheon sorbonne .