The Princess Bride (The Criterion Collection) [4K UHD]

Not much to say other than this is one of my favorite movies and the 4k transfer was pretty darn great. Big plus for having the box look like an actual hardcover book, I love that.

Its a good upgrade from standard dvd quality. Great bonus feature Criterion movies always high quality

Great movie . A collector’s item in 4k

Edit to original: Reordered recently. They fixed whatever issue they had at release for the 4k disc. Ordered the 4k version. Tried to watch it the day after it came. It looks fantastic in 4k HDR, when it works right. There was an issue with the disc I got. When it got to the sword fight on the cliffs the image started to artifact a little. By the time the fight with Fezzik was over the artifacting was worse and more often, and the sound started to break up. I tried another known working movie to make sure it was the disc and not my player and found out it was definitely the disc. Had it returned and a new copy sent. Same problems starting at about the same time. Not sure if I'll be trying to get another copy any time soon since apparently there was a large bad batch of them and I don't want to waste time and shipping resources trying to find a good copy.

Great movie very impressive edition with lots of extras

This was a wonderful version. Comes in story book cover style case that flips open with inside story picture book and disc. Beautiful and well done design.

I ordered this recently as I was feeling nostalgic. The Blu-ray has quite a few extras. Well worth the price!

The video is incredible. Huge step up from the blu-ray. Another Criterion release done right. I won't comment on the movie, if you know, you know. If you don't, BUY IT.

This is a beautiful upgrade to an amazing movie. I love the fabric covered case with the booklet, it is really an elegant touch. I also love the quality of the 4k upgrade. Both the visuals and audio are really well done, and allow me to really enjoy a movie that I absolutely adore. (Not that I would not enjoy it in lower formats, but the 4k upgrade on this is REALLY worth it!) My nitpicking complaint is just from the menu. The music playing on the menu is weird. The menu itself seems lazy. Highlighted items on the main panel are then the "turned-off" colour in the submenu. I realise I am not explaining it well, but since there is no check mark or written notice of settings being adjusted, and the colour-change is the ONLY visual cue to a changed setting, the colour change needs to be consistent, and not reversed depending on which particular menu you are accessing. It feels overlooked and is a bad design. I will not withhold a star for the bad menu design, since the menu is not the important part of this movie. Everything else is top quality, and feels this was really upgraded with care. Even at the expensive price, this is an upgrade that is well worth the cost.

As other reviewers have already said, this film is a classic but the Criterion 4K release is a disaster. So far I've returned 2 copies to Amazon and will be returning the 3rd copy they have sent me. All 3 copies I received started pixelating almost immediately and quickly worsen to the extent that the disc cripples all functionality in my player. The only way to remove the disc is to yank out the power cord and then (if I'm quick enough!) keep pressing eject upon switching it on again. I also noticed that upon closing the disc tray of my player, this disc causes it to spin so loudly and rapidly unlike any other disc I own, for an extended period of time before the menu actually loads. I realise that by returning it for the third time I am putting Amazon in the position of administering this procedure yet again, for no fault of their own. Amazon's customer service has been stellar. I have also emailed Criterion, who in a typically corporate fashion, fawningly encourage their customers to contact them in case of defective products, because they "care so much" that their customers receive good quality items. Given the cheap, faux book packaging that Criterion manufactured for this release I find that difficult to believe. And given that Amazon have managed to facilitate the return of previous faulty copies I received quicker than Criterion could be bothered to even reply to my emails, I doubt that Criterion give a hoot about what their customers receive or whether it functions. I'm still waiting for a reply from them. We are all waiting for them to admit they released a faulty disc. I've never before received so many consecutive copies of the same product which all failed to work. It's a record for me, and I own a lot of discs. I even tried to be proactive while I waited for Criterion to get up off their rears and see if it was possible to resolve this issue myself. So, for those of you who are fans of this entertaining film and are wondering whether you want to pony up the better part of £40 for this plastic beer mat, in the hope that any problems can be resolved by yourselves:- - Updating my player's firmware to the latest, month old, firmware made no difference. - Spending numerous hours reading the many online forum threads complaining about this release and performing all manner of recommended tweaks and tricks in my player's settings made no difference. Think I'll consider the German 4K release before bothering with another Criterion copy. To confirm to myself that my player (Panasonic UB820) was fine, I tested other 4K discs I owned and they all worked perfectly pre fimware update, post firmware update and they worked whether or not any tweaks were made to the settings. Which is exactly as you'd expect for a product that is fit for purpose. I wonder if Criterion will admit to there being an authoring or manufacturing problem? Luckily we are no longer in the early days of DVD and there are now numerous independent boutique releasing studios out there. Criterion releases are no longer the only shade of "special edition" produced to exacting standards for enthusiastic film fans and collectors. I'll be looking elsewhere for high-end editions and probably only resort to a Criterion release after it has been on release for a while. Even then I'll probably put in the due diligence first and see what the enthusiastic, early adopters are saying. But still, the low quality materials/manufacturing of their releases in recent years has been slowly putting me off their products. Their Princess Bride 4K disc is probably the straw that broke the camel's back for me. These days they seem to like charging the prices that they used to charge for their laser discs, except that in return you now get media that cost pennies to manufacture. Edited 2nd Jan 2024: Just to follow up here in case anybody finds this useful. Criterion contacted me by replying to my email in which I demonstrated the issues with this release. I was asked to return the 4K disc to them and they would send me a re-pressed replacement disc. I obviously did not bother because Amazon resolved this for me weeks ago with a refund and with much less effort required by me. But it seems that the offer to send a re-pressed disc is an admission of some sort of production/manufacturing fault for this title. I've been unable to find any public notification of this. I wasn't motivated to look too hard though. Criterion did not attempt to offer any explanation of what the problem was, nor what caused it. It seems they'd like to simply send newly re-pressed (ie. fixed) copies of the 4K disc to people who experienced problems without any public announcement. That to me suggests that they will continue selling the original faulty pressings that are out there and when customers who experience problems complain directly to Criterion, they will get a re-pressed, 4k disc replacement sent to them. So the only way to get a working 4k disc (if you are one of the unlucky people for whom this disc does not function) is directly from Criterion, and it will cost you some international shipping fees if you do not live in the USA.

Why send me a American region dvd when I am on Amazon Netherlands. That’s just not fair

An absolute thing of beauty!

Australian collectors reast assured iv had confirmation from Criterion that they will ship replacement disc to Australia if you have a faulty copy. Lucky for me mine is fine and the case is brilliant a must have for collectors