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Okay. This was the strangest movie I've seen in a long time. We spent the first 5 minutes wondering if the person in the projection room had accidently put in a video of some late night, B-grade horror schlock he'd accidently taped thinking it was the World Cup or something.

Then, while shaking our heads in mock disbelief, we started considering tha fact that it might be a spoof. The more we watched, the more likely it was. Then when the lead villain bumped his head on the door frame, it was confirmed. We were watching a Princess Bride wannabe.

The strange thing was all the "serious" actors who must have gotten the script, read it and thought - this is going to be one of the amazingly clever little movies that takes off every genre and is going to garner critical acclaim and professional notoriety. Unfortunately, the vision got lost somewhere between reading the script and making the movie.

It was funny in parts, bittersweet in parts and just weird in others. Princess Bride owns the self deprecating comedy and Kate & Leopold handled the time-travel romantic comedy bit much better, so on both those counts, it was nice try but no cigar.

Still, it was only 88 minutes and at the end of the day, it just added to our whole drive-in experience. I'll be going again once I stop laughing about my mum telling me about how she and dad used to go to the same drive-in when they were in college.