A fantasy flick for everyone

Rating: 9/10 (6 January 2008)

I am writing this review as if the movie was standalone. Granted, much of the credit for the plot will go to the book author, but this is a movie review site, and I have yet to read the book anyway (though I greatly wish to, after seeing this movie).
That aside, on to my mini-review:
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It is very difficult to make a movie that will entertain both the young and the elder, especially when it comes to that crowd in between, specifically the breed of creature known as "tweens," "teens" and the like. Most films don't even bother to take the challenge, and the older audience is left to watch these films simply for the sense of nostalgia rather than for serious enjoyment.
Stardust takes this challenge on without breaking a sweat.
The only thing Stardust asks at the door is for an openness to magic and warm, fuzzy love stories.
In fact, if I was to describe the movie in a word, I'd have to use vocabulary practically unheard of in a standard American 20-year-old's dictionary: Cute.
So, whether you're a young lad(y) who knows little to nothing about love's more intimate activities, or you're a strapping young (wo)man who has outgrown the bedtime stories, Stardust will deliver to you a world that you'll not soon forget.