The VR Princess Bride Reunion was streamed tonight. Patton Oswalt introduces the production and says it was “the suburban Mall Rats of Monty Python surrealism.” Ben Wickler, the representative, noted that Cary Elwes is the producer, actor, and ringleader for the actors. Oswalt then introduced Jason Reitman who is reading stage directions. Reitman is currently directing Ghostbusters Afterlife. He brought on Rob Reiner, the director of Princess Bride, now voicing the Grandfather. Reitman joked that he was about to have Oswalt play the Man in Black, Oswalt joked no one would want Bilbo Baggins to play Aragorn. The mother is played by Whoopi Goldberg, some technical problems, and the Grandson is voiced by Finn Wolfhard from Stranger Things. Reiner greets his grandson. The older and still beautiful Robin Wright starts with her dialogue with Wesley, the always dashing Cary Elwes. Wright’s accent is even better than the movie.
This of course shifts to Prince Humperdinck played with perfection by Chris Sarandon. His grey hair and beard makes him look like a distinguished noble. The prince introduces Buttercup. Then, we get the trio; I started laughing at Wallace Shawn as Vizini, there was Fezzick, now played by Josh Gad, and Mandy Patinkin, slightly older, but still swashbuckling as Inigo Montoya. The audio was not working for Gad so there wasn’t any dialogue for Fezzick, gasp! Patinkin added, “You have a gift for rhyme my friend even though I can’t hear you.” Gad’s audio is restored with “I only dog paddle.” I love the missing dialogue between Inigo and Fezzick’s rhyme game before the Cliffs of Insanity climb. I like the defense of Inigo for Fezzick on the climb and the additional dialogue for the film. A little mumbled audio and loss of video for Elwes for a bit with his Inigo conversation. Patinkin holds up the sword prop from the movie! I like Elwes smiling at Patinkin standing up in a sword stance. I really like Elwes putting on a mask during the Fezzick fight and saying “they’re terribly comfortable”, very funny.
Elwes had a glass in the Vizini contest, but Shawn mimics an invisible goblet. Shawn’s laugh before his death is still hilarious. Then, we get Humperdinck tracking our heroes with Christopher Guest as Count Rugen, and there was some audio problems with Guest. The description of the Fire Swamp as “an international convention for insects” is funny. The audio was out for Sean Ross as The Albino, but Elwes took over the lost dialogue. Whoopi Goldberg boos as the Ancient Woman at Buttercup’s ceremony, she should have been in the movie. The captain of the castle guard, Yellin, is played by Wolfhard told by Humperdinck to empty the Thieves’ Forest. The Brute Squad has Yellin, another guard played by Oswalt, we have Patinkin, and of course Gad. I love these cast members together. Patinkin mimiced getting dunked by Fezzick, Reitman laughed at this gesture that Patinkin kept going. Inigo saying who he as been with Patinkin holding the sword is awesome! I like Wolfhard’s outrage at Wesley’s death. Buttercup’s hope for Wesley at her room is something that is so needed.
Then, we get Billy Crystal in cap as Miracle Max (his costume from the film), too funny!, and Carol Kane as his wife Valerie are perfect! We need more Billy Crystal! Crystal adding “the Hex Appendix” made Gad laugh. Patinkin says, “I’m no clergyman” and there is some video of characters until he finally goes to Eric Idle as the Clergyman! Eric Idle from Python! He should have been the Clergyman! This is a Dream Cast except of course we need Andre the Giant. Some of Sarandon and Idle’s dialogue had technical problems. The video shifted to Wright and Wolfhard before it moves to Reitman. Some problems with Elwes’ dialogue with his Buttercup reunion. Patinkin goes full anger with his last duel with Rugen. Some of Reitman’s description was lost in the Wesley and Humperdink duel. Another great description with “Buttercup floating in the air.” We lost the final description by Reitman. Oswalt noted that Wolfhard filled in for Yellin. Elwes put the reunion together and had agreement from all of the cast starting with Reiner.
Reiner noted that they had a Princess Bride reading with his father before he passed, Carl Reiner, reading the Grandfather and he played the Grandson. Oswalt then goes to Norman Lear!, he said that “the script just knocked me out.” Reiner noted that Lear helped with Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, and Princess Bride. Reiner told the story of how William Goldman gave the movie to his father to make the movie and then his father gave to him at 20. Lear said of director's cuts and sequels, “This is the director’s cut.” Reiner brought up a musical of the movie. Wright brought up that she overheard that Reiner said, “We have our Buttercup” which surprised the director. Sean Ross’ audio finally worked and talked about the visibility of albinism in the movies. Oswalt had a question about which one was the fake finger in the glove and Guest joked that there was no fake finger which got laughs. Oswalt asked what Miracle Max did to get fired and Crystal joked “he wrote a book.” Shawn said of Vizzini, “I don’t find him that lovable.” Elwes talked about sword coordinators, Bob Anderson and Peter Diamond, “They were the fastest people with a weapon.” Reiner said that every single frame of the fencing was done by Patinkin and Elwes. Patinkin said of Gad’s performance for Fezzick, “He’s smiling up there.” A VR Princess Bride Reunion was a magical night of old friends, telling a memorable story with laughs and action, with some technical problems, but unforgettable all the same.
Five Masks out of Five!
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