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First Impression: I have pretty much all of Neil Gaiman’s books, and Stardust is one of my favourite. When I heard it was going to be adapted into a movie I had my doubts. It grew when I saw the movie trailer, especially when I didn’t really find Charlie Cox that attractive or charming. And I guess I was a little pissed about what they did to Captain Shakespeare as well.

Afterthoughts: Honestly, I think this was one of the few movies I truly enjoyed last year (that is, watched last year…not came out). I’ve never been a fan of such epic fantasies like Lord of the Rings or Chronicles of Narnia. Sure, the movie special effects were low budget, but so what, I thought the film was fairly faithful to the book itself. I think it did a good job of capturing that whimsical and magical, romantic and comedic story. And come to think of it, I think that’s why I like the TV show Pushing Daisies! Anyway, back to Stardust. You know, I didn’t think it was possible. When I saw the trailer, I thought Tristan’s flippy hair looked entirely stupid on Cox, but when Captain Shakespeare gave him that haircut, he literally turned from small town boy “cute” to a fucking man. I also thought Claire Danes was great in this as well; especially her attempt at British accent. And if you need any more reasons to rent this, consider this. After British pop band “Take That” watched a screening of Stardust, they loved it so much that they immediately wrote a song for it. I don’t think the song played in the theatrical release but when this played at the end of the DVD it was just perfect.

Here are two videos for the song. One for those who hasn’t watch the movie, and one for those who did, respectively.

Official music video

Tags: adventure, charlie cox, claire danes, comedy, fantasy, michelle pfeiffer, neil gaiman, robert de niro, romance, s, sienna miller