Stardust was cool!

…continuing off from yesterdays post. The movie I was waiting to watch was “Stardust“(warning heavy flash site ahead), that is based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. A lot of people told me of positive reviews given to the movie, which all the more made me want to watch it. It’s not enough that I’m already fascinated with fantasy and medieval story lines, so I really really wanted to watch it.

And it did not disappoint me! Starting out first with the soothing voice of Ian McKellen who was the voice of the narrator. The story was very simple and had enough adventure in it to capture my attention throughout the film.  It helped too that it was marvelously hilarious at certain points. For a B-grade movie…and I may point out… that while it did not have the glamorous effects of Lord Of The Rings, it was still lovely to watch. The film was very well portrayed despite the simple and complicated sets they had. It felt rather bit like how they would have shot scenes in Xena and Hercules then.

 The story is about a wall that separates the real world and a realm of fantasy. One man manages to cross over and he meets a princess captured by a witch. Nine months later a baby is left at his doorstep. It seems that this baby, Tristan (Charlie Cox) is the 7th royal blood of the Stormhold kingdom. Needless to say, his brothers do not know about him and while they kill off one another to gain the throne, everyone is on a search for the fallen star that came from the King (Peter O’ Toole) of Stormhold’s necklace. But the star is actually a beautiful girl, Yvaine (Claire Danes). Tristan searches for the star to bring back to his ‘beloved’ Victoria (Sienna Miller), the king’s remaining sons searches for the necklace to claim the crown and the witches hunt for the star for immortality. Talk about quite an adventure for the little star.

The cast was fantastic with Claire Danes once again back in the picture. The last movie i saw her in was Little Women, ages ago. Charlie Cox was seen with Sienna Miller in Casanova. Robert De Niro.. well it was quite a surprise to see him in a movie like this, playing the character that he was known for – the mafia man. Michelle Pfeiffer was stunningly elegant and with a great body to boot for her age.

Michelle Pheifer and Robert De Niro stole the limelight ever so often. I think this is her second movie where Michelle acts as a witch again, after her other movie called the Witches of Eastwick acted together with Jack Nicholson and Cher. She was rather scary towards the end where she went from mourning for her sisters, to suddenly cackling like a real lunatic witch. Her funny moments had to be when she was starting to look haggard from using to much magic and she tried to fix her face. In doing so she shot a magic finger to fix her face, but instead her boobs drooped. Hahaha.

Robert De Niro was a fantastic pirate… who had a secret other side of him, which loved being prime and proper….as well as dancing around in his courtesan’s corsets. Haha…What was really hilarious were the slaughtered princes. When one of them dies they become a ghost until the rightful 7th royal blooded prince is united with the necklace. So till then, all six of them wind up as faded beings that can’t be seen by others, but can see everything happening. Like the scene where the last 6th prince, Septimus (Mark Strong) was fighting with one of the witches, and when he killed on of them…his brothers were sitting on the mantel of the fireplace and were cheering like as if it were a football game. Hhahaha Oh please go watch it, then we can laugh about it. Hahaha. But on another note, while it was fun to watch, I think it still left me wanting more out of it. I don’t know could be just me. It doesn’t give that satisfying ‘ahhhhh’ after a movie like Lord of The Rings or Pirates.