Word: princess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ovum drifting down a fallopian tube belonging to the Princess of Wales fuses with a royal sperm and becomes lodged in Her Highness' uterine lining. Nine months later an heir is born to the throne of the British Empire...
...Gildern and Florin (why not Pound and Shilling?). The devious designs of her kidnappers are foiled when she is snatched from her captors by the murderous masked pirate Roberts (played by Cary Elwes). Unmasked after a frolic with Buttercup on a grassy hillside, Roberts is exposed as the princess bride's sweetheart...
...accordance with the traditional laws of fairy-tale telling, The Princess Bride has a mawkishly happy ending, reinforcing the mistaken notion that a happy ending is a cliche. Even Reiner's framing device is trite: he has a grandfather, played by Peter "Columbo" Falk, read "the Princess Bride" fable to his ailing grandson...
...PRINCESS Bride is also plagued by an inept and poorly directed cast. Andre the Giant is endearing but inarticulate in his cameo role. Wallace Shawn, star of My Dinner With Andre, must have drunk too much in that flim, and after this role he should reconsider his career. And Wright, who makes her film debut in The Princess Bride should get out of acting before it is too late...
Although the film has been touted as an instant classic, a more appropriate description would be classic trash. A combination of classically insipid action and acting, classically artificial scenery and classic melodrama, The Princess Bride represents pop art at its pop worst...