History YMMV / ThePrincessBride

* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Fans of {{Series/Columbo}} and Series/TheWonderYears should get a kick out of seeing Savage & Falk play off one another. Who knew the Detective had a Grandson?
** Creator/{{Pixar}} fans ought to find it more than a little amusing that [[Franchise/ToyStory R]][[Creator/WallaceShawn ex]] and [[Franchise/MonstersInc Mike]] [[Creator/BillyCrystal Wazowski]] star in the same movie (though they never share any scenes together).

** Creator/{{Pixar}} fans ought to find it more than a little amusing that [[Franchise/ToyStory R]][[Creator/WallaceShawn ex]] and [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Mike]] [[Creator/BillyCrystal Wazowski]] star in the same movie (though they never share any scenes together).

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The movie's title counts for a male audience. The fact is that's a very accessible and funny adventure film that actually isn't that much focused on romance or targeted towards women isn't enough for certain people to overcome its RomanceNovel-sounding title (though the movie's CultClassic fame helps with this).

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The movie's title counts for a male audience. The fact is that's a very accessible and funny adventure film that actually isn't that much focused in romance or targeted towards women isn't enough for certain people to overcome its RomanceNovel-sounding title.

** The Fire Swamp, which is basically a miniature DeathWorld.
%%** The [[RodentsOfUnusualSize R.O.U.S.]] That is all.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The movie doesn't carry the same bite for people who grew up watching genre movies made afterwards, that don't feature or lampshade elements this one parodied and/or played straight.

** The [[SeaMonster Shrieking Eels]] from the film. They were [[ThreateningShark sharks]] only mentioned in passing [[AdaptationSpeciesChange in the book]], but in the film we get to see and hear them. To make matters worse, we [[HellIsThatNoise hear them]] more than we [[NothingIsScarier see them]]. And according to Vizzini, their shrieks "always grow louder when they're about to feed on human flesh".

** The [[RodentsOfUnusualSize R.O.U.S.]] That is all.

** Even if it's totally deserved, the description of "[[TropeNamer to]] [[ToThePain the pain]]" leaves a heavy amount of {{Body Horror}} to the imagination.

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Australian fans are in fact very pleased by the line ''...and Australia, as everybody knows, is populated entirely by criminals'' and cinema screenings are often interupted by loud cheering after this line.

** [[AristocratsAreEvil Count Tyrone Rugen]], the "six-fingered man" Inigo Montoya has dedicated the past twenty years of his life to hunting, is the Prince's "[[TheDragon twin in misery]]". A cold-hearted TortureTechnician who seeks immortality through the science of human suffering, Rugen once offered a noble swordsmith named Domingo to slave for a year on a perfect sword, then offered only a tenth of his original price upon seeing the result. Rugen heartlessly murdered Domingo when he was refused and spared his son Inigo only a whim, [[WouldHurtAChild leaving the boy with two scars upon his cheek]] to [[ScarsAreForever forever mark the moment]]. Rugen now writes what he hopes to be the "definitive work" on torture, testing his skills upon the captured Westley for weeks on end. Rugen's crown achievement is a ghastly device he simply calls "the Machine" that he first demonstrates on a dog before subjecting Westley to it, leaving him broken and sobbing.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Many who can quote the movie from end-to-end don't even realize there ''is'' a book. In the introduction to more recent printings of the book, Creator/WilliamGoldman says flat-out that if you are picking it up for the first time, it's probably because you've seen the film.

* HarsherInHindsight:
** In his introduction to the 30th Anniversary Edition to the novel, William Goldman assures the reader that the sequel, ''Buttercup's Baby'', will be in the reader's hands "in time for the 50th Anniversary Edition". While this was probably meant to just be a joke on how long it was taking, in real life Goldman died five years before the book's 50th Anniversary, with no sequel ever appearing.
** During the fight between the Masked Man and Fezzik, Fezzik asks why the former is wearing a mask. Wesley quips that "they're terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future." It seems oddly prophetic after everybody across the planet had to wear face masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

** Westley's comment about how masks are terribly comfortable and he thinks everyone will be wearing them in the future naturally came up in response to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Cary Elwes even quoted the line on his Twitter.

** Creator/CaryElwes can't stay away from torture and chains, [[{{Film/Saw}} can he]]?