The Princess Bride, 2 disk special edition - Pirates, Revenge, Miracles and True Love in one of the greatest films ever made!
Ah, the Princess Bride. This really has to be one of my favourite films of all time. Its fairy tale mixture of swashbuckling adventure as the hero tries to rescue his true love is perfectly executed to deliver a film that just hits all the right buttons.
With a sense of humour, a cracking script with lots of eminently quotable lines, a great cast full of famous faces, excellently staged sword fights, a great sound track from Mark Knopfler and Willy De Ville, this is family entertainment at its best. I guarantee that you will all enjoy it, and be smiling for ages after seeing it.
This two disk special edition is pretty good. On the first disk there is the film itself, nicely cleaned up and presented in 1.78:1 widescreen. The sound track is 5.1 surround, and sounds pretty good. The quality of the main feature is head and shoulders above my old version. There is then a disk full of extras, two interesting featurettes and a documentary, along with various trailers and TV spots. Quite interesting, but really just a garnish to the main feature and I do not anticipate taking this disk out too often.
A really great film, very nicely presented and with some interesting extras. A real quality purchase, quite a steal at the low price it is currently on offer at. Highly recommended.
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