Film Review: Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride

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I have just finished watching the Princess Bride and will be giving my opinion on the film. The Princess Bride is a fairytale movie that has princes, princess, mythical creatures and your typical villains. It is a action movie with lots of twist and turns the princess bride will keep you on your toes the entire time. It is a romantic comedy fantasy film directed and produced by Rob Reiner
The Princess Bride took place at Lee international studios in Shepperton England with additional locations rural Derbyshire and Kent. The film was first released in the U.S on September 25, 1987. The film is about a grandfather who is watching his sick grandson for the day reading to him a book his father would read to him when he would get sick as a little

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