Stardust is a Star Bust *

Rating: 1/10 (25 October 2012)

Miserable picture best describes this 2007 film.
The opening sequence showing how Tristan was conceived was totally ridiculous at best.
Who exactly were these three witches? They wanted a fountain of youth. They were so ridiculously added into the milieu of this mess. You could have easily brought back the gals from Hocus Pocus-Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy. At least, these ladies are funny and maybe that's what this ridiculous film needed.
There is plenty of hocus pocus here but it's all so nonsensical that even small children would have come away tired from all this.
Peter O'Toole, as the king, was so fortunate to have died off quickly in the film. His ludicrous sons are also mostly dead here.
Michelle Pfeiffer comes off here as a pretty nasty lady. She seemed to have had a cat's nine lives. That's the problem with this film, there is no life here. It's just one spectacle after another. Special effects: A, the rest a solid f for failure.