Stardust (2007)

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	Year of first release: 2007
	Director: Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, X-men First Class)
	Actors: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes (Terminator 3), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), Michele Pfeiffer (Scarface), Robert de Niro (Heat), Mark Strong (John Carter)
	Country: USA, GB, IS
	Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Adventure
	Conditions of visioning: 13.04.2015, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Tristan (Cox) promises the girl of his dreams to bring her back a star fallen in the forbidden region beyond the Wall near his native village.
Review: After watching Kingsman: the Secret Service and Layer Cake, I was motivated to watch that other movie by Matthew Vaughn without really knowing what it was about. And I find that it is a good and original Fantasy movie, especially since it is not trying to copy either The Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, it is not aimed at children and it is not a Superhero movie. And you can understand that in the past ten years it is hard to find such a movie. It reminds me more of movies like Willow and Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits or The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. In fact Gilliam was briefly interested at some point in making Stardust. The digital special effects are not perfect (the practical effects are better) but good enough to bring life to a magic kingdom. The characters encountered during Tristan's Odyssey are all interesting and funny in some way, providing some offbeat humour (especially the dead princes) throughout the movie. I like in particular the act of de Niro as Captain Shakespeare, a pirate who is not what he seems. I found that there was a bit too much Romance to my taste, but it actually fits well in the story and the couple Tristan / Yvaine is touching, especially when her emotions are shown as she glows. Stardust is very different from all other Matthew Vaughn movies, so it is interesting to see that he can be good at many genres.
Rating: 6 /10