My name is Inigo Montoya

January 22, 2021 12:08 PM

A homemade Princess Bride. Many of the actors are ID’d here. Fbo World Central Kitchen Please feel free to suggest tags.
posted by anshuman (19 comments total)

This is timely! We're just about to set up for movie night, and last week I insisted that we watch the original. Before that we watched the TikTok Ratatouille, so this is the perfect synthesis of the two. I love that it's entirely shot in portrait mode.

My friends all asked "So uh, how did Little Hobo take to the Princess Bride?" and I had to explain that the film is designed to be shown to a reluctant child of about the age Fred Savage was when he starred in it. It's like Rob Reiner performed dark Dad Movie magic to create the perfect structure for a bunch of "ha ha that's you, that is" giggling on the sofa before getting back to enjoying the film.

Time and again she'd moan about a scene and then Fred Savage would interrupt and make the same complaints!
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 12:45 PM on January 22, 2021 [9 favorites]

I'm glad someone put this up on youtube! This was the only reason I ever even considered getting quibi and I'm glad not to have bothered with it (and apparently hardly anyone else did, either).
posted by NotTheRedBaron at 12:48 PM on January 22, 2021 [2 favorites]

wow, Rainn Wilson's delivery of "...UNEMPLOYED IN GREENLAND!" was very spot-on. Really enjoying this, including the very haphazard special effects.
posted by entropone at 12:53 PM on January 22, 2021 [2 favorites]

OH, WOW!

I saw folks talking about this in another MeFi thread somewhere and lamented that I would probably never get to see it.

I am SO STOKED!

Thank you so much for posting this, anshuman!
posted by kristi at 12:54 PM on January 22, 2021

I'm not generally a fan of Adam Sandler, but that's a pretty creditable Peter Falk impression.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:06 PM on January 22, 2021 [6 favorites]

Oh of COURSE Jack Black has light sabers...
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:31 PM on January 22, 2021 [4 favorites]

. Quibi, you died so young and so unloved.
posted by rikschell at 2:17 PM on January 22, 2021

Definitely stick around for the last grandson/grandfather pair.
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:17 PM on January 22, 2021 [3 favorites]

What? It was a slow day at work...
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:17 PM on January 22, 2021

Duplicate?
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 5:38 PM on January 22, 2021

It isn't really a duplicate because that post was about the forthcoming quibi rendition of A Princess Bride and only included a 14min portion of the movie with the intent that people would pay to see the rest. But since quibi went down in flames, it seems that the whole thing is now on youtube for free.
posted by NotTheRedBaron at 5:44 PM on January 22, 2021 [2 favorites]

I would not have bet money that anyone could do a better Inigo Montoya than Pedro Pascal but Diego Luna is excellent. Lots of competition for best Vizzini. Who is playing Westley in the Inigo fight?

I am now up way past a healthy bedtime.
posted by biffa at 5:57 PM on January 22, 2021

Man, Princess Bride really is a perfect film. Future generations will say that there was the wizard of oz, then some other stuff, and then princess bride.
posted by kaibutsu at 6:08 PM on January 22, 2021 [1 favorite]

I didn’t hear about this when it was made, and went into it deeply skeptical that it’d be my thing. I’m delighted to say I was wrong - I love this! Thanks for posting!
posted by jacobian at 6:29 PM on January 22, 2021 [1 favorite]

We watched this a couple weeks ago. One thing that came to mind was that there should never be a remake but that it would make a fabulous play adaptation so that high schools and community theater groups everywhere could have their own adaptation of The Princess Bride.
posted by fiercekitten at 6:37 PM on January 22, 2021 [2 favorites]

Brandon Routh as Buttercup with damsel eyes and Courtney Ford as Westley.
A corgi as an ROUS.
Patton Oswalt as Vizzini.
posted by jenfullmoon at 8:50 PM on January 22, 2021 [1 favorite]

I had forgotten about Jason Segel's amazing Andre the Giant impression. Here he is on SNL, Andre the Giant Gets and Ice Cream.
posted by NotTheRedBaron at 11:05 PM on January 22, 2021 [5 favorites]

“One thing that came to mind was that there should never be a remake but that it would make a fabulous play adaptation so that high schools and community theater groups everywhere could have their own adaptation of The Princess Bride.”

I have an acquaintance who created a one-person adaptation of Princess Bride for our local Fringe some years ago. The theater community LOVED it. The rights holders... not so much.
posted by Shotgun Shakespeare at 10:52 AM on January 23, 2021 [4 favorites]

I was really tickled to see the ostrich boots.
posted by ftm at 6:27 AM on January 25, 2021 [1 favorite]