Best parents film since Hook..

Rating: 3/10 (14 December 2007)

There are films that truly capture the imagination of a child, whatever age the child and there are adults that have long since lost that child-like wonder and no longer understand these films or that world. Then unfortunately, there are films made by these people - think "Company of Wolves", "Chitty, chitty bang bang", "Hook", that are meant to be children's movies but are really what some parents think should be good children's movies.
Stardust falls in this category. Despite the special effects and high powered cast, it fails to evoke any sense of magic. I didn't buy into the fantastic world though I wanted to. Laziness, lack of attention to details, inconsistencies and too many self-indulgent moments (not as bad as Hook I admit), none of them fatal in themselves but put together make for a boring mess.
Think of the children - and avoid...