GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

ajs2000 I watch this every time it's on cable. So delightful.

srdjan_veljkovic This is not a great movie, but it is a very good one.Unlike, say, Harry Potter or such, it doesn't get bogged down in its own mythology. It's in the back, a setup for making some funny situations and having some fun in general.Michele Pfeiffer is _great_ as the main witch, villain. There are several very nicely staged and done jokes. In general, the humor is not "thematic", so you can't get annoyed with it. There's wordplay, physical comedy, story-jokes, one-liners... BTW, Michele Pfeiffer has maybe the best part of physical comedy, when she uses magic to stop her advance aging, but it has interesting side-effects.But, it's not just humor, it has a story to tell. It's a naïve story, but, it's nice.I didn't like the extended cameo of Robert De Niro very much, but, it, too, was OK (and it's, like, the worst part of the movie). Second worst is, unfortunately, the ending, which misses a few shots and kind of drifts off the main point of "forget the fantasy, we're just having fun" (and, again, for such a movie, it's OK).With just a few bad elements and none of them being really bad (more not good) and many nice ones, several very good ones and a few great, this gives for some very nice time spent watching this, having fun.

Ersbel Oraph This fantasy fixes all the problems with fantasy before it. One movie to rule them all. Gone are the millions of orcs fighting a pointless battle against millions of elves. Without these images, things like Warcraft would not be possible. Yet, Warcraft makes far more sense than the battles of Lord of the Rings.And the story is a gem. Meaningful characters kept to a tight minimum. Twists and turns. A complicated story made to feel simple. After all they are so many links! The witches wanting the star. The boy needing the star for a silly promise. The prince wishing for a jewel, ignorant of the fact that the boy is also a contender. Yet Gaiman's way of unfolding the story makes everything seem so easy, so clear.Finally the effeminate captain puts Analise This to shame.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

Leofwine_draca STARDUST is one of those flimsy, lightweight, CGI-fuelled effects extravaganzas that have been all the rage in cinema as of late. Eschewing plot and character in favour of pithy one-liners and outlandish caricatures, this is an adventure yarn aimed squarely at the masses and focusing on style over substance. Needless to say I'm not the ideal target audience; I'm a guy who likes something solid in his films among the effects, and I didn't find it here.That's not to say it isn't entertaining. On a superficial level, it definitely is. The CGI effects are pretty good and the fantasy world is well imagined. A near-continuous plethora of cameo appearances also helps out on the entertainment front too: Robert De Niro has a ball as a camp pirate, Michelle Pfeiffer equals him as a wicked witch, and Mark Strong does his snarling bad guy routine very efficiently. Then there are brief turns from Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Sienna Miller, Peter O'Toole, Ricky Gervais, David Kelly, Rupert Everett, and Ian McKellen as the sonorous narrator. These help pass the time. Claire Danes is a bit wishy-washy as the fairy-type character, though, and I never did end up warming to Charlie Cox's lead.Still, there are moments of inspiration amid the chaos and the fantasy stereotypes. The ending, in which Strong's character is exposed to all manner of dark magic, is very well realised. There are twists galore, and a level of breathless imagination usually missing from fantasy films. The resultant concoction is a bit like a sugary sweet: fun at the time, but not something you'd want to return too for fear of an upset stomach.