After not seeing this movie for several years (seven, to be exact,) I decided to rent it from the video store.  I thought it was okay, definitely not up to lotr's standard, but I didn't hate it.  One thing that reallybothered me was Buttercup's complete uselessness.  Like in the Fireswamp, when the ROUS was gnawing on Westley's shoulder, she just stands there and watches her true love suffer when she could be stabbing the thing with the sword and helping him.  And instead of telling Humperdink that she wasn't going to marry him and running off, she just stays there. 

Vizzini was probably the character I remembered most vividly.  I, however, forgot about how he looked like he was wearing football shoulder-pads, and how short he was.  I had also forgotten about Fezzik and Inigo, and the albino who looks like he dunked his head in a flour barrel, and most of the later half of the movie, including one of my favorite parts, in Miracle Max's and Valerie's house.  ("He distinctly said, 'tu blave', which as we all know, means, 'to bluff.'")

So I'd give this movie two and three-fourths stars, I guess.