YMMV / Home Movie: The Princess Bride

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• Dancing Bear: This series' primary draw is watching an All-Star Cast fool around at home reenacting a classic film like the rest of us with cheap costumes and props and filming on smartphones, without professional stylists or makeup artists, without CGI or Photoshop, away from red carpets and film sets and perfect lighting, all while still bringing their A-game and treating it as seriously as a "real" project. It's drawn comparisons to celebrities discovering Vines several years late, or old-school YouTube content from the mid/late 2000s.
• Heartwarming Moments
  • Nearly all of the romantic scenes between Buttercup and Westley, save the Big Damn Kiss that was included via a clip from the original, were performed by actual real-life couples sheltering in place, with all of the genuine chemistry and tenderness that entails.
  • Rob Reiner and his father Carl Reiner sharing a scene, mere days before Carl passed away.
• Retroactive Recognition: One of the actresses playing Princess Buttercup is Jenna Ortega!
• Spiritual Successor: Some viewers consider this series to be in the same vein as Be Kind Rewind, with the premises of both being about recreating a classic film in an amateur way.
• Tear Jerker: The ending scene, with the director of the original film Rob Reiner as the Grandson and his father Carl Reiner as the Grandfather. This was Carl's final filmed performance- he passed three days later, the day the series premiered. The original scene is about the Grandfather telling the Grandson that he loves him, and this series' rendition of that scene is so obviously the elder Reiner telling his son the same.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Fully knowing just how ridiculous a "home movie" remake of The Princess Bride while quarantined at home would be, you can tell that the actors approach their respective roles like any other "real" part, making it actually pretty enjoyable to watch. Even the dialogue is pretty much identical to the original.

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