Review of As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'

"As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'" is a half-hour documentary (27 minutes to be precise) released back in 2001, so this one is also already over 15 years old and the title summarizes very well of course that this is a new take on the film "The Princess Bride", a movie that becomes more and more one of the defining fantasy film classics of the 20th century the more time is passing. Jeffrey Schwarz directed this one here and he is one hell of a prolific filmmaker. Of course, this is not a look at behind the scenes and there aren''t really any parts in here that were directly from the filming, but not in the movie, as obviously a lot of time had passed in 2001 already since the filming of this one, so it is just some of the key players, those still alive, talking about how they see their characters, what they remember from production and how they see the film in general. I personally would say I like "The Princess Bride", but don't love it, so maybe I need to watch it again at some point in the future to make a new judgment, and that's why for me it was a good watch this documentary here. But those who really love the movie this is based on, will maybe also really be happy to find out a bit more about it. A worthy DVD addition and I recommend checking it out. It was decent fun and informative, better than many other examples of film on film I have come across. So I give it a thumbs-up and a positive recommendation.