"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

The Princess Bride is simply the best Action Romantic Comedy of all time. If you think you have a better contender for that title, we here at ComicsOnline are very interested in hearing your list of contenders and we hope you are bold enough to comment this review with your thoughts, but you might want to think about it for a moment before posting a pretender to the throne. Don't fall victim to one of the classic blunders. Does your film still hold up after twenty years and feature amazing swordplay? True Love? Andre The Giant? Is your film so very quotable that you can you walk up to absolutely anyone on the street and they would be able to give at least one but probably ten quotes from the film? Exactly. The Princess Bride is that film.

"When I was your age, television was called books. And this is a special book."

The Princess Bride begins with a grandpa (Peter Falk – Columbo, Shark Tale) reading a story to his grandson (Fred Savage – The Wonder Years, Justice League Unlimited) who is sick in bed. The grandpa acts as the narrator and they stop the story a few times and also bookend the story with an appearance after the grandpa completes telling the story.

(I'd say "*SPOILERS*" here, but I know you've all seen it.)

The rest of the story is acted out in the fantasy medieval world where the tale takes place, and the grandpa is merely voiceover. The story within the movie opens up with the love story between Buttercup (Robin Wright Penn – Empire Falls, Beowulf) and Westley (Cary Elwes – Comic Book Villains, The X-Files, Saw) , her farm hand she tried to demean by calling only "Farmboy". They fall in love, Wesley go out into the world to seek his fortune in hopes of returning to marry her, but his ship is beset by pirates and Buttercup learns nothing more of his assumedly grim fate. So women's constancy being what it is, naturally she gets engaged to the prince (Chris Sarandon – Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood, The Nightmare Before Christmas) at her first opportunity. It is then that she is beset by hired assassins while off in the woods. She's captured by them, but they are pursued by a man in black.

In true epic fashion, the man in black pursues them across eel infested waters, up the Cliffs of Insanity, and then must defeat each in his attempt to rescue the would-be princess bride. He first defeats the fencing master Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin – Alien Nation, Dead Like Me) at swordplay and learns he is honorable and kind but is on a mission of revenge, trying to find and slay a six-fingered man. The man in black, then confronts Fezzik the giant (André the Giant – The Six Million Dollar Man, The Greatest American Hero, Conan the Destroyer) and defeats him at grappling as he learns of the giant's gentle nature. The man in black then comes upon the self-proclaimed genius Vizzini (Wallace Shawn – Toy Story, Star Trek: DS9, The Incredibles, Life on Mars) and defeats him in a battle of wits and thus takes over Buttercup's capture himself.

The man in black soon admits to Buttercup that he is the Dread Pirate Roberts, the one who killed Buttercup's love Westley. When Buttercup lashes out, Roberts' response reveals that he himself is Westley, and they fall in love all over again… Down a hill. They then realize they're pursued by the Prince and his men so they try to escape through the Fire Swamp which itself has 3 dangers: The Lightning Sand, The Fire Spurts, and the Rodents Of Unusual Size.

The R.O.U.S.s don't eat them. I'm explaining to you because you look nervous. Actually they're captured by the prince and Westley is killed.

"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."

If there are any people left in the world that are reading this and yet somehow have not watched this whole movie, then I stop my plot synopsis here for you… Or do I? After all, if Westley is killed, then the story is over, right?

"Offer me anything I ask for."

The extras on this two-disc set are similar to what's been offered on previous versions with some additions, most notably: Hello, this is Blu-ray! You get to watch in 1080p, which is not only the best it's ever been seen in, but the best available. Likewise the audio on this Blu-ray release is better than ever as well featuring Dolby 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. The second disc in this set is simply and kindly the DVD version of the 20th anniversary edition.