A Fairy Tale Not For Little Kids

Rating: 8/10 (30 December 2007)

Oh, what a mixed impression! Take Michelle Pfeiffer, add Robert De Niro, Rupert Everett, Sienna Miller and then throw is some brutal jokes, gay innuendos, magic worlds, incantations, miracles, Unicorns, blue blood (literally), love story, flying ships in the Lexx style  and what will you get? A tasteless, banal, lascivious mess of a film? No, Stardust  a very humorous, deeply funny and highly entertaining 2 hours of a very good movie. At the very start, the film smacked of some bad, borrowed Lord Of The Rings  style parody, but with the course of time, it got only better in amazing proportions. Be warned, this is not the film for little kids, it has such gooey moments like De Niro as a gay pirate captain, or Pfeiffer as a merciless murderer. The film has so many gory scenes and sexual hints that it borders on adult fringe. This is not a classic fairy tale in a classic sense of the word. No, it has so much of a tragedy, so much of a broken romance and of violent historic costume drama. There are many highlights here. Peter O'Toole as a senile dying king is one of them as well as the seven dead but very much alive ghosts of king's murdered sons. After all, De Niro's gay dance with cross dressing is a pure explosion of risky but extremely clever humor. 10 points go to his pirate crew, the bunch of slightly dumb but yet valiant commandos. A very exceptional treat for those with wide world view.