The princess bride is such a funny movie because everything I know about the book it’s based on implies the book is a serious, run-of-the-mill YA medieval romance adventure novel
And the movie took that and ran so far the book can’t even see a hint of the movie on the horizon, the horizon beyond which is the land of everlasting, eternally amusing comedy films
Also there’s an in-movie explanation for why the movie is so different and it’s the grandpa reading to the kid. The man knows no kid his grandsons age is gonna enjoy the real book so he just. Makes stuff up. I love it












