![]() Most characters are really over-the-top and are often being played by some fine big name actors. Also the diverse wide range of characters makes this movie a real fun one to watch. The humor and overall story is too mature for that. Even though the movie got obviously targeted towards this audience, I strongly feel that it are the adults who will mostly enjoy watching this. I also don't know if this is really a kids movie. It's quite formulaic stuff all and of course the way the story progresses is rather predictable. Because lets be fair, if this movie purely had to rely on its story, this would had been a rather weak and simple movie to watch. It's mostly the fun level and atmosphere of this movie that makes it such a good one to watch. It's often more subtle and not something you would expect from a genre movie such as this. It knows to remain fresh and it doesn't overly try to make you laugh. The humor within this movie feels non-forced, even though it got put in- and planned out all deliberately into the movie. Because the movie needs to be taken with a grain of salt, also the humor works out the best. Fact that his movie doesn't take itself as serious can also be seen in the delicious over-the-top roles from Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer roles. Because of this you also tend to forgive this movie from 'borrowing' elements or entire sequences from other movies. This is mostly what makes the movie so fun to watch. It knows it is ridicules in parts and it doesn't try to hide this but rather even exploit it further. You obviously have to take this movie with a grain of salt. Best choice the movie made, was that it was one that didn't took itself as seriously. But even though this movie borrows heavily from other movies, it remains a good and certainly fun quality production. This seemed to me like just another fluffy 'light'-Lord of the Rings children movie. No way this movie seemed like one deserving its current 8 out of 10 rating on here. Image Credits: Header (), Image 1 (rottentomatoes.To be honest, I didn't expect this movie to be as good as it turned out to be. Whilst Stardust has a bit of an identity crisis part fantasy, part adventure, a lot fairy tale, it is all love story. And if you wanted it, I’d wish for nothing in exchange – no gifts. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me anymore. “My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. After all, it’s Valentine’s Day and everyone deserves a little beauty in their lives: Sadly I will not be arriving at the ceremony on the back of a Unicorn, nor leaving for honeymoon on a Skyship, but you can’t have everything.Īnd for anyone who doubts that Stardust is a love story, I leave you with Yvaine’s declaration of love for Tristan. ‘Magical’ candles will feature in the table centrepieces and around our ‘enchanted forest’ and quotes from the book will appear throughout the day. The setting of the wedding itself will be in a temperate house, which we will turn into an enchanted forest, inspired by the wood in Faerie through which Tristan and Yvaine travel and begin to fall in love. For the wedding day, the groomsmen will all be wearing glass buttonholes and I will have a single glass flower in my bouquet, all hand made by my Maid of Honour. In Stardust, the lead character, Tristan, wears a glass flower in his lapel for protection. My fiancé and I have decided to draw inspiration from the book for our wedding in August. This is not just a love story, this is the perfect fairy tale. The bad guys are slightly ridiculous, the good guys are swashbuckling and the heroine beautiful. However, the darkness is tongue-in-cheek, and you never truly fear for your main characters as you do in some of the author’s other work. The book still contains a good dose of darkness, with the seven princes of Stormhold cold-heartedly murdering one another in a race to the throne and liberal lacings of Gaiman’s trademark black comedy. ![]() Even before Paramount waved their Hollywood fairy-godmother wand over the story for the 2007 film (giving it a Disney feel and ‘happy ever after’ ending), it was a beautiful love story, set in the magical land of Faerie. ![]() Whilst his books often feature relationships, they’re usually tales of unrequited or lost love, inferiority and vengeance and they’re usually framed amongst some pretty dark themes of death, loneliness and isolation.īut, amidst the darker fantasy of his back catalogue, lies a modern romantic gem in Stardust. When thinking of the quintessential love story, the mind doesn’t naturally turn to Neil Gaiman for inspiration.
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