Came out of the Stardust smiling. I love a bit of swashbuckling, with romance thrown in, and some colourful baddies. Michelle Pfeiffer was a wonderfully malevolent witch, Lamia, radiant at the beginning (my lord, she's 50!) and then ageing in leaps as the film progresses, and her magic wanes. The main storyline involves our hero, Tristan (Charlie Cox) discovering his destiny, finding his true love, Yvaine (Clare Danes), and ditching the wrong girl, Victoria (Sienna Miller).
Clare Danes begins as a prickly, irritated fallen star (as you would be), and gradually regains her glow as she warms to Tristan. Sienna Miller didn't have too much of a stretch, looking pretty and spoilt. Charlie Cox is the bland, but sweet, hero who saves the girl, and the day.
As well as Michelle's deliciously wicked witch, Tristan and Yvaine are also pursued by Prince Septimus, the ruthless seventh son of the king of Stormhold who'll stop at nothing to accede to the throne.
Robert de Niro looked like he had a blast as captain of a pirate airship, but has a bizarre secret life as an outrageously camp cross dresser (Hollywood still rolling out campy gay men for cheap laughs).
Rickey Gervais can't act, he just plays a variation on the same character, with that inane, annoying grin.
All in all though good fun and who could doubt but that goodness and truth will win in the end, yay.
2 comments:
I really enjoyed Stardust. Just a lovely sweet film.
Not quite as interesting as the book though.
Yeah, left me feeling happy for the evening.
Thanks, will look into the book, it can join my pile of other unread books and backlog of New Yorkers - I need a month off.
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