Moving along.
Don't let the title of this movie fool you. Hearing the title without knowing the movie brings to mind the kind of cheesy, poorly acted love story that only girls under the age of ten can enjoy. However, it more along the lines of things that are so hilarious, most of it will go right over the heads of those very same girls under the age of ten.
Cary Elwes stars as Westley, a servant boy who seems a bit too eager to do whatever the heck Buttercup (Robin Wright Penn) tells him to do. In addition, he seems to have an extremely limited vocabulary. Then Westley and Buttercup fall in love, so he decides to leave. Makes sense to me.
So then he leaves, and promptly gets capured by the Dread Pirate Roberts, who never leaves prisoners alive. Well now! This is certainly no children's story! Murder already? Jeez. The narrator's grandson seems to think this is just great, however. Man, children were violent back in the 80s.
Where was I?
Oh yes. Then the movie skips ahead like five years or something, and some more stuff happens, culminating in everyone who watches it spouting the word "inconcievable" uncontrollably for up to a week afterwards.
But the movie supplies many other excellent lines as well, many of which can be used in everyday life, provided you are either quick witted or downright nuts.
Such lines as:
"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
"I am not left handed."
"NOT TO FIFTY!"
and
"Well, he's been mostly dead all day."
Well now. It seems that reviewing a movie in a humorous manner without spoiling it is quite difficult. I shall have to expend more effort next time.
The Bottom Line: If you do not own this movie and are not a humorless dick (in which case I doubt you'd still be reading this nonsense), then do yourself a favor and go buy a DVD of this film. And then go watch it. At least once a month. Forever.
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