Princess Bride offers nothing new to the adventure genre in terms of storyline or set or setting, but has enjoyable and funny characters (including Andre the Giant!), plus over sized rodents, in order to gain the affection of the tough 1987 audience and ages to come.  The movie is presented as the imagination of a young bratty boy as his grandfather reads from a book, which was actually pulled off very well, and adds to the magical/medieval vibe of the movie.   The film has a brilliant pace, and has an all encompassing feel, with so much land being covered and the broad range of emotions displayed from the characters (e.g. fear, hate, jealousy, longing, satisfaction, uncertainty, over zealous confidence, and true love of course).  Even the young recipient of the story seems to have aged by the end!  Good movie, I'd say 7/10