STARDUST Film Review - 29/10/07

As the master of the fantastical Neil Gaiman's touch is certainly to be seen in this film version of "Stardust" with a stand-out cast of actors like Peter O'Toole, Sienna Miller, David Kelly & Ian McKellen to name a few. We also get the likes of Jason Flemyng, Rupert Everett, Robert De Niro, Ricky Gervais & Claire Danes. Michelle Pfeiffer is a tour-de-force as the evil scheming witch Lamia striving to reach her goals by any means necessary. But alas - Fantastic as it is; it is also so sssslllllllllooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww dragging itself from one scene to the next with far to much exposition and explanation when they should just get on with the story.

Rejected in love our Hero archetype wanders over the wall into Stormhold hoping to find a fallen star to show his truelove - Unfortunately on the other side of the wall is a very different world from ours with flying skypirates catching lightning and evil witches with hideous charms amongst the political scheming of a group of brother Princes attempting to seize the crown of Stormhold for themselves. Certainly have no idea what sort of market this film was aiming at; but worth a wet Sunday afternoon watch at least once.