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Customer Review
- Reviewed in Canada on October 11, 2021I've been meaning to get the Criterion version of the Princess Bride for several years now. I finally pulled the trigger as the older copy I had simply wouldn't play after a certain point in the story (just after rolling down the hill, it froze and wouldn't budge) - I was delighted, because it gave me the chance ti get the Criterion.
The reproduction in this version is absolutely stunning: clear, crisp detail in both image and dialogue. I haven't yet gone through the extras - I know I've seen some. The packaging is beautiful - a small hardcover book containing the disc and two great essays, one by the author of the book, and the other by a comic writer who perfectly captures the sense of the movie through the eyes of her pre-teen daughter.
One gripe - I always prefer to use the English SDH subtitles, and the Criterion editions (I also have Local Hero, also highly recommended) don't make it easy to engage them - they're not on the main menu where you'd expect to find them. There are no instruction anywhere on the packaging how to find them. After searching the Criterion web pages, I finally found out how. You have to go into the Blu-Ray player settings (either the 'subtitles' or 'options' settings), Even there it's not easy. They (Criterion) have done everything else so well, it baffles me why they omitted to simply put the subtitles on the Main Menu.
