Stardust a Sparkling Success

Rating: 8/10 (1 November 2007)

Matthew Vaughan, bringer of classy film Layer Cake along with Daniel Craig and Sienna Miller, he is already in my good books. Neil Gaiman, huge fantasy writer whose imagination and storytelling is top notch. Put the two together and the result bested the entire selection of 2007's summer blockbusters. Stardust is quite simply a great film. The story is clever, quick-paced and funny, the characters lovable and performed to perfection by a superb cast. Stardust is a film that will be popular for years to come, a film that can be watched over and over. It certainly stands among the strongest of its genre, a genre which has, of late, become a mixed bag of mediocre offerings.