Stardust: Storybook Romance at its BEST
August 19, 2007 · Print This Article
If you love a good boy-meets-girl storybook movie (Think Princess Bride, but more romantical) chock full o’ comically nasty witch queens and evil princes, fantastical sorcery and swordplay, and Robert DeNiro in drag, well, this one just magically fell into your lap:
Stardust, adapted from a novel by Neil Gaiman.
I saw it last night, and I have to say it is charming. No, really! And I’m not just saying that because it’s a wicked good pun. Okay, I AM saying that because it’s a wicked good pun, but also because it’s TRUE! Utterly charming. And FUNNY. And romantical. Did I say romantical?
*sigh*
This is the date movie of the summer, y’all. I mean, nothing warms the cockles of one’s heart like a story of an impetuous young man setting out on a magical quest to retrieve a fallen star in order to impress his beautiful but cold unrequited love, am I right? Eh? (And when that unrequited love is played by Sienna Miller, you just KNOW it will take a ginormous gesture to win her affection.) And when a packed theater (packed! a week and a half after its release!) is laughing and cheering throughout the movie–so much, in fact, that you will probably have to go see the movie again because you missed some parts due to the laughter and cheers from the audience– you know there’s something special going on.
Honestly. This movie is one of those rare, boy-meets-girl, storybook romances that actually EARNS its sweetness. And I think I have a new secret movie character crush in the impetuous Tristan (played by Charlie Cox). Allow me to say… RAWR.
Plus, did I mention Robert DeNiro in drag? Yes?
Well, there you go.
No need to thank me. It was my pleasure.
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I am a big Gaiman fan. (pronounced Gay Man…so I do not often say that out loud but when it is written it is okay) I read the book and the comic. and I loof forward to seeing the film.
Love the wicked good pun and the fact that you usesd the word wicked in the pun is a pun in itself.
Word of warning: I read the book AFTER viewing the movie, and “adapted” is the accurate term here. But truthfully– and this is probably because I saw the movie first– I like the story told on screen better. That’s not to say the book isn’t good! It is! I’m loving Gaiman, too! (oh, well that’s just great, William… now his name sounds silly in my head, too…) But the story–in my opinion! just sayin’!– unfolds a little more organically onscreen…
I have to say that I LOVED this movie! I went to see it last night with my husband and son, and I had wanted to see Becoming Jane which was sold out, so I was pretty irritated that I had to see this movie. But I become quickly enchanted with it. It never did have any slow or boring parts. You really had to pay attention to keep up with it, but I found it to be funny and charming. I’ll definitely be buying the DVD when it comes out.