Review 1:
5 stars out of 5 -- "More swashbuckling than Errol Flynn, more romantic than Casablanca, funnier than virtually everything, THE PRINCESS BRIDE is -- like MARY POPPINS -- practically perfect in every way."
Source: Empire
p.211 12/01/2008
Review 2:
5 stars out of 5 -- "It was influential...the current crop of fractured fairy tales clearly owe a great debt to its groundbreaking balancing act of melodramatic pastiche, light-hearted send-up and the simple delights of a good yarn well told."
Source: Total Film
p.146-147 11/01/2008
Review 3:
"...At heart, PRINCESS BRIDE celebrates the power of true love to triumph over adversity..."
Source: Variety
09/16/1987
Review 4:
"...Sweetness and sincerity....A delightful cast and a cheery, earnest style that turns out to be ever more disarming..."
Source: New York Times
p.C10 09/25/1987
Review 5:
"...THE PRINCESS BRIDE is a fun, sad, scary, witty fairy tale featuring the greatest performance ever given by a professional wrestler, the late Andre the Giant..."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.71 09/14/2001
Review 6:
"Reiner's beautifully crafted fairytale pastiche still represents one of the high points of US comedy in the 1980s..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.64 02/01/2001
Review 7:
"...Rob Reiner's uncategorisable blend of action, romance, spoof, swashbuckler and fairytale is purely and simply a corking movie..."
Source: Total Film
p.118 05/01/2000
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