A story full of wonderfully illustrated imagination and wits

Rating: 9/10 (4 November 2009)

Stardust had to be one of the films I watched that always reminded me of Lord of The Rings, C.S Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, Eragon and other films. The dress, the atmosphere, the characters has the similarities; similarities which I tell in a sub-toned way. The film for me is another brilliant depiction of a novel (Which I honestly say I haven't read yet). To be guided, they always made the film easy to follow if one hasn't read the book yet, and they were successful on it. Stardust's story was easy to follow, but of course the history and other relative accounts how the world existed, how things get so magical, what is that and how is that questions can be explained by the book. I was also struck that Peter O' Toole, Ben Barnes, Mark Strong was in this film! I didn't even recognize Robert De Niro was that transvestite captain Shakespeare! And Ian Mckellen was narrating all the time! I got the laughs all the time. I would love to read the book as they say it was darker, graphic and detailed. The movie adaptation was lightheartedly fine for me. It was nevertheless successful and beautiful. I can see well how wonderfully the story was illustrated.