Claire Danes as a fallen star! Robert De Niro as a campy ship captain! Excellent plot! Fantastic acting!
And that sums up Stardust. Everyone go watch it.
All right, since you came all the way here to read my review, I might as well go into a little bit more detail than that. But it's really quite unnecessary – Stardust is the best movie I've seen in a long while. It was engaging, it was colourful, witty, and intelligent and it was an epic film to watch. I actually sat in the movie theatre, completely engrossed in what was happening, before I suddenly thought, "This movie is really, really good!"
Stardust should be classified as a "comedic fantasy adventure." Robert De Niro as Captain Shakespeare was definitely the highlight of the movie, and I hadn't expected Stardust to be quite as hilarious as it had turned out to be, but it was - and the comedic scenes actually worked in Stardust. All too often you see serious movies that have moments of comedy purely for the purpose of alleviating the stoicism of the film, but with Stardust, it's all incorporated seamlessly into the plot and acting. At the same time, Stardust is a serious movie. Actually, Stardust is everything... It's action-adventure, it's fantasy, it's a rom-com...
The actors were really good. Charlie Cox reminded me of a young Brendan Fraser, in The Mummy era (pretty much the only Brendan Fraser movie I can stand, and possibly the only good one that I can remember), and Claire Danes - well, I love Claire Danes so I might be a bit biased, but all the actors did their part and were true to character.
Hm, what else? I know I wanted to say something about certain parts of the movie that made me doubt the integrity of the film, but that would be spoiling a reader who hasn't watched it. I will only say that, in Stardust, some things aren't quite what they seem, and in the end, you won't be disappointed. My final rating for Stardust will be (and I'm changing my rating system to a score out of 10, instead of just five) 9.4/10. I'm not sure I'll ever watch a movie that I would be just as pleased with, as I was with Stardust.
And that sums up Stardust. Everyone go watch it.
All right, since you came all the way here to read my review, I might as well go into a little bit more detail than that. But it's really quite unnecessary – Stardust is the best movie I've seen in a long while. It was engaging, it was colourful, witty, and intelligent and it was an epic film to watch. I actually sat in the movie theatre, completely engrossed in what was happening, before I suddenly thought, "This movie is really, really good!"
Stardust should be classified as a "comedic fantasy adventure." Robert De Niro as Captain Shakespeare was definitely the highlight of the movie, and I hadn't expected Stardust to be quite as hilarious as it had turned out to be, but it was - and the comedic scenes actually worked in Stardust. All too often you see serious movies that have moments of comedy purely for the purpose of alleviating the stoicism of the film, but with Stardust, it's all incorporated seamlessly into the plot and acting. At the same time, Stardust is a serious movie. Actually, Stardust is everything... It's action-adventure, it's fantasy, it's a rom-com...
The actors were really good. Charlie Cox reminded me of a young Brendan Fraser, in The Mummy era (pretty much the only Brendan Fraser movie I can stand, and possibly the only good one that I can remember), and Claire Danes - well, I love Claire Danes so I might be a bit biased, but all the actors did their part and were true to character.
Hm, what else? I know I wanted to say something about certain parts of the movie that made me doubt the integrity of the film, but that would be spoiling a reader who hasn't watched it. I will only say that, in Stardust, some things aren't quite what they seem, and in the end, you won't be disappointed. My final rating for Stardust will be (and I'm changing my rating system to a score out of 10, instead of just five) 9.4/10. I'm not sure I'll ever watch a movie that I would be just as pleased with, as I was with Stardust.
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I still stand by what I said about Charlie Cox before you posted this :)
( He has the emotional range of a peanut, but then again so does Brendan Fraser, so I guess you know that)
And I can't remember, But did we agree or disagree on the implausabilty of Tristan so speedily falling in love (over the course of the ship traveling montage) ?
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