Comments on: Movie Review – Stardust (2007)

By: ioana

ioana — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:58:08 +0000

just wonderful:stardust is more than a family-movie;fairytales should be read by adults as well.i think they will find more to them than they actually show.

By: Nathan Guest

Nathan Guest — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:25:57 +0000

I actually thought Stardust was better than MirrorMask on a story level anyways (I found the story in MirrorMask to be cheap and very boring, whereas the story in Stardust was at least entertaining and made me want to follow along).

Cinematography-wise though, MirrorMask wins hands down.

As far as Golden Compass, the first movie *should* be good despite the slight watering down. If they make enough money to warrant doing the entire trilogy though I have a feeling that the latter two books to movies will be so watered down, to not offend the Jesus loving crowd, that it won’t make the films worth seeing. But maybe I’m being overly pessimistic.

I need to see Layer Cake now since I really liked the directorial work on Stardust.

By: James

James — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:50:27 +0000

Our ships aren’t docking at the same port on this one. Loved “Stardust” to death and felt it had everything you could ask for in a movie: adventure, horror, romance, action, comedy, drama. It was a really good faerie tale and one that should serve as a model for future adaptations of fantastical works (I’m looking at you “Golden Compass”).

This movie also serves to remind me what a rising star director Vaughn is and how much better “X3″ might have been under his guiding hand. I need to rewatch “Layer Cake,” too. It’s been too long.

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:37:22 +0000

I would have written a similar review, although I enjoyed Stardust more than you did. I especially liked the dead princes’ chorus, and there were some fine small fantasy touches in the visuals (like when one of the princes bleeds blue blood).

I think the reason I didn’t like Stardust more than I did is different from yours, though. It’s not because I’ve seen better fantasy movies in the last few years (although of course that’s true), but because I’m too old for this movie. Stardust is basically a family-audience film with a young love romance at its core. If I had seen this when I was 17, I would have absolutely adored it.