The Princess Bride (20th Anniversary Edition) (DVD)

Believe it or not this was my first time ever seeing The Princess Bride, which means that now that I have seen it perhaps everyone has seen it. People LOVE this movie, women in particular, and when I asked a friend of mine why they laughed and said, "Because it is about a guy that gets stepped on all the time by one woman but he still loves her and fights for her. Women love that, a man they can control and will still keep trying to impress them." I laughed, he had a point, but could that really be the only reason? Why do guys also like it so much? I'll admit it is decent, but I don't understand the love affair most people have with it.

The story centers on Buttercup and farm boy Wesley. You see Westley is head over heels for Buttercup and will do anything she asks of him. Buttercup being oblivious to just about everything around her finally figures out he likes her, then figures out she likes him and they fall in love. Next Westley is seen leaving Buttercup to go off and make his fortune so he can come back and marry old Butt. However, when rumor reaches Buttercup that Westley has died she up and gets engaged to the dickhead prince. This news breaks and Buttercup is soon kidnapped in the hopes of starting a war, but hot on their trail is none other than Westley... come back from the figurative dead ready to seize the day and his true love.

It's a cute story and that is about it. I don't plan on revisiting it often or really ever again, but who knows, perhaps it will come in handy one day...

As far as the DVD goes I am not sure if there is all that much for folks looking forward to a true collector's edition. You get the super cool tricky DVD cover which reads the same whether you look at it right side up or upside down. Inside there is a little booklet that has two different versions of the story and it too is flippable giving you one story upside down and another right side up. It's a novelty act at best.

There is also a new featurette with the cast and crew talking about the film and the effect it has had on their lives, a look at the art of fencing which was more interesting than it really should have been, a look at fairy tales and folklore in general and then a terrible DVD game that is mind-numbingly slow making me wonder who actually plays these things when it takes the disc years to react to your selection.

For the most part this is a simple double dip, but it has been six years since it first hit DVD so may as well remind people it is out there and earn a few bucks at the same time.