Review of Stardust (2007) by Keng — 08 Sep 2007

This is a real misfire. The script definately needed to be tightened, as the story just rambles along, and feels like the filmmakers are just throwing in anything that pops into their heads to fill time, until the climax.

Danes and male lead are both bland, do little more then smile at each other as they walk through movie, and have no chemistry together. The male lead actually has a lot more chemistry with Sienna Miller than with Claire Danes, and thus you'd rather have him wind up with Danes.

Consider that Danes is a star that fell to earth, no imagination went into her character, that makes her seem anything else but your standard helpless movie heroine, in need of rescuing. I was a big fan of all the Lord of the ring movies, all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and also a big fan of "The princess bride", "Ladyhawke", and "Willow".

I was really disappointed by this one.