Stardust

[kenjari]

Other Kenjari and I got to see a sneak preview of Stardust (yes, based on the Neil Gaiman book) last night. I'm happy to report that it was really good. In fact, it filled me with glee, it was so much fun. The casting is very good and so are the performances. Robert DeNiro is particularly delightful as Captain Shakespeare. Kate Magowan (Una) reminded me a lot of duskydawn. It's also a very pretty movie - it has a classically bright, colorful look that really works with with the fairy-tale nature of the story. The special effects are refreshingly understated, too.

Comments

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

The TV spots don't do it justice. The ads are very rushed compared to the film, and they don't capture any of the humor or charm.

[holmes-iv.livejournal.com]

The lack of humor and charm was one of the things that scared me about it, yeah--it came off as generic fantasy action, which is a dead waste of that story. (Others included the "where the heck did that special effect come into the story?" problem, which is admittedly endemic to movie adaptations.) Since I was unquestionably going to get dragooned into seeing it anyway, I'm glad to hear it might not be entirely regrettable. :-)