--- title: Watch The Princess Bride Honest Trailer YouTube description: In their latest Honest Trailer, Screen Junkies pokes fun at everyone's favorite satirical love story, The Princess Bride. canonical: https://time.com/4630636/the-princess-bride-honest-trailer/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-10T20:30:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:04.445Z og:title: The Princess Bride Honest Trailer Proves It's the Best 'Swashbuckling' Love Story og:description: "Gather round for a tale of epic romance that kicks off a young boy's puberty" og:url: https://time.com/4630636/the-princess-bride-honest-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Princess Bride Honest Trailer Proves It's the Best 'Swashbuckling' Love Story twitter:description: "Gather round for a tale of epic romance that kicks off a young boy's puberty" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # _The Princess Bride_ Honest Trailer Proves It's the 'Best Sappy Swashbuckling Medieval Love Story Ever Made' > Sponsored content. 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In the latest [Honest Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E28KDhsJ65U) from [Screen Junkies](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOpcACMWblDls9Z6GERVi1A), the YouTube channel pokes fun at everyone’s favorite satirical love story, dubbing [Westley and Buttercup’s](http://time.com/3503598/the-princess-bride-cast-photos/) star-crossed saga the “tale of epic romance that kicks off a young boy’s puberty.” The video goes on to tackle the film’s amusingly [civilized fight sequences](http://entertainment.time.com/2011/10/20/top-10-movie-swordsmen/slide/inigo-montoya-the-princess-bride-1987/). “Prepare for plenty of action to go around — really, really polite action,” the narrator says. “Where no danger is too great that you can’t carry on a polite conversation and no enemy is too vile that you can’t have a nice chat while they’re trying to kill you.” Watch the full trailer below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4630636/the-princess-bride-honest-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4630636/the-princess-bride-honest-trailer/"},"headline":"The Princess Bride Honest Trailer Proves It's the 'Best Sappy Swashbuckling Medieval Love Story Ever Made'","datePublished":"2017-01-10T20:30:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:04.445Z","description":"\"Gather round for a tale of epic romance that kicks off a young boy's puberty\"","url":"https://time.com/4630636/the-princess-bride-honest-trailer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","honest trailers","screen junkies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4630636/the-princess-bride-honest-trailer/","name":"The Princess Bride Honest Trailer Proves It's the 'Best Sappy Swashbuckling Medieval Love Story Ever Made'"}}]}] ```