Claire Danes Movie:

		List Price: $39.99		Label: Paramount Salesrank: 8545 Released: December 18, 2007
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: HD DVD

Editorial Review:
Escape into the enchanted world of chivalry and romance in Stardust, an epic tale starring Claire Danes with Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro. In hopes of wooing a beautiful girl (Sienna Miller), Tristan (Charlie Cox) promises to bring her a falling star. But he’s in for the adventure of his life when he discovers the star is actually a celestial beauty named Yvaine (Danes) When an old witch Lamia (Pfeiffer) attempts to steal Yvaine’s youth, Tristan must protect her at all costs, in this magical family adventure that will make you fall in love over and over again.

Description of Stardust [HD DVD]:
Stardust settles over the viewer like a twinkly cloak. The film, which captures the magic and vision of author Neil Gaiman's fantasy graphic fable, is a transportive journey into a world of true enchantment, which fans of the Harry Potter books will enjoy as well as will adults looking for the perfect date movie. The tale is a not-so-simple love story and adventure, set in 19th century England--and an alternate universe of witches, spells and stars that turn human--and hold the key to eternal life.

Young Tristan (played with wide-eyed vigor by Charlie Cox) vows to retrieve a fallen star for the most beautiful girl in the village, the shallow Victoria (Sienna Miller), and in his quest, finds his true love--in a true "meet-cute" moment (by Babylon-candle-speeding into the just-crashed human incarnation of the star, Claire Danes). Much of the film involves the duo's journey back home--though home for Tristan is his village, and home for the celestial Yvaine is, of course, in the heavens. There are villains, notably Michelle Pfeiffer as the vain witch who seeks the fountain of youth a fallen star can give, and the seven venal sons of the dying king of the mythical realm, backstabbing, grasping, and hilarious--even in death as a ghostly Greek chorus.

While the sparks of love between Tristan and Yvaine are resonant and touching, Stardust truly succeeds as a brilliant fantasy yarn--and as a comedy with more than its share of belly laughs. Much of the humor belongs to Robert De Niro, who plays a notoriously wicked air pirate, who is secretly a bit light in his swashbucklers. Ricky Gervais has a small but memorable role essentially channeling his character from Extras, including his catchphrase, "Are you having a laugh?!" The special effects are all that any fan of Gaiman would wish for. Catch a bit of Stardust and you'll feel enchanted for a good long while. --A.T. Hurley

Stardust [HD DVD] Reviews:
Overlooked gem
2009-12-14 - This apparently little known movie features a great cast, fun & lighthearted storyline and a fantastic soundtrack. I thoroughly enjoyed the humor, dialogue, special effects and action sequences. Similar in genre to the Princess Bride, but with higher production values. I don't recommend it for kids as its a little dark/scary at times for young children... Definitely a good date movie, etc. Highly recommended.

8)
2009-12-09 - I absolutely love this movie. If you love fantasy/love then this is a great movie for you.

Great Idea, Poorly Cast.
2009-12-06 - Stardust was someone's great idea for movie fantasy with lots of high tech special effects and a wonderful story line. Unfortunately "someone" had a "casting agenda".
The fallen star heroine is played by the less-than-attractive Claire Danes while a "totally beautiful Sienna Miller" is completely mis-cast as the bithchy stuck-up girl friend. Likewise, Charlie Cox isn't really "leading man material" but "someone" seems determined to make the viewer buy it. Robert DeNiro is "awful" as the "closet gay pirate captain" (The "only" movie I've ever "not" liked DeNiro in).What a waste. This could have been a "classic" fanstasy movie. Now it's just a flagrant nepotistic showcase for the power of Hollywood "insiders' vain promotion" of their relatives and family members. They'd be more believable as an industry if they just released their "backyard home movies".

Movie in good shape... shipping really slow.
2009-12-02 - It took a month for the movie to arrive. I had actually forgotten I had ordered it and purchased it in town a week before this one arrived. Great movie.... slow shipping.

A Campy Robert De Niro
2009-11-30 - In "Stardust" (2007) you will see a campy, funny, cross-dressing, sexually ambivalent Robert De Niro loose in a movie that at times is nutty and staggeringly stupid. De Niro is the captain of a pirate galleon that floats beneath a blimp. The village of Wall, England, has, naturally, a wall around it. Its only opening is guarded by an old retainer, a little guy who turns out to be quite tough when provoked. He tries to keep people from going to the supernatural kingdom of Stormhold (Faerie).
Tristan is the young hero who has walked through the opening in the wall to the magical kingdom. He finds the falling star turned into the young woman Yvaine.
Michelle Pfeiffer, playing a witch/sorceress, is looking for eternal youth, and is on the trail of Yvaine whose heart may do the trick. Michelle's two sisters, crones, are always egging her on, and she turns into a crone as the movie progresses. She's always pointing a finger at someone, casting spells. She turns an oaf into a goat and later into a buxom barmaid. Oh, and there's a unicorn in the story.
The Stormhold king has died, and his nasty son-princes are vying for the throne and are willing to kill for it. They go looking for the falling star girl who will give them magic powers and legitimacy. The glowing ghosts of failed dead princes go along for the ride.
The film is full of chases and counter-chases which seem interminable and turn tedious. There are the three various plot strands that come together: Tristan, the witches, and the princes.
There's some sly wit and humor. The buxom barmaid who's really a guy sneaks looks at Yvaine in the bath.
Some of this flick seems labored, and it tries awfully hard to be fey. The repetitions of the bolts of light from supernatural beings become irksome. Is it a fairy tale with a lot of action for adults, a send-up, or just fanciful fluff? It's from a graphic novel with a cult following by Neil Gaiman.