Stardust

We put off seeing this movie for fear it would be corny and painful. When we decided to see it after all, it wasn't that anything had changed our minds, it was that we just ran out of other movies to see and decided to give it a try. Taking a lesson from our friend Gibson, we went in with low expectations so it would be harder to disappoint us.

It was only about 20 minutes into the story that I was hooked. A young man ventures across the wall in a town called Wall to a magical land where the townspeople aren't allowed. What happens there sets the course of his son's life and we are off on a fantastic journey to catch a fallen star, to win the heart of our true love, to sail the skies with a band of randy lightning pirates and outfox cunning witches.

It was well written and well acted. There is tons of imagination here. Thank you Neil Gaiman. There is enough fluff (magic and unicorns and ghosts) for kids to like it and enough humor for adults. Had Terry Gilliam directed this, it wouldn't have surprised me. Something akin to the Princess Bride, only not quite as funny. Not quite as classic. But close. I think this will hold up through the ages...or through part of them.

A solid cast with Michelle Pfeiffer, Peter O'Toole, Robert De Niro and Claire Danes.