Movie Review: The Princess Bride - Buttercup Edition

The Princess Bride - Buttercup Edition: Torgo approves

Of course I do. This is a great movie. I've seen it probably a dozen times, at least.

We were at the library yesterday, and I saw this 2006 2-disc set, so I got it mostly for the extras, but we watched the movie again anyway.

There's a nice assortment of short documentaries on the second disc. Since the original movie is from 1987, I didn't expect deleted scenes or outtakes (though, with this movie, that would've been cool).

One of the highlights is a section within a doc. that acts as an Andre the Giant remembrance. Billy Crystal talks about how Andre had a farm in North Carolina, and he used to walk through the fields with the animals. Crystal asked him why he liked that. Andre said, "Because they don't look twice at me."

In a similar story, Mandy Patinkin says his favorite moment from filming the movie was when he and Andre were sitting on the boat with a crew member. The crew member asked Andre if this, his first movie, was fun. He said it was. When asked why, he said, "Because people don't stare at me."

Also, someone notes that when he was growing up in France, he was too big to go on the school bus, so his next door neighbor, who owned a car, drove him. The neighbor was Samuel Beckett.

There's other good stuff among the extras. There's an interesting story behind the sword fight scene early on between Inigo and Westley. It's noted that both actors had no prior fencing experience, but were trained to duel expertly with both hands.