Stardust (2007) Critic Reviews

Floating in on an airy breeze of dreams and true love, the lively adventure-romance Stardust offers that elusive quality summer movies are supposed to possess but rarely do -- total escape.Read the full review

Stardust lights up the screen with a splendid tale of heroism and romance.Read the full review

Unlike "Pirates," Stardust is anything but a wretched mess. It's a charming and smartly plotted fantasy.Read the full review

The film's merry, enthusiastic tone--set largely by Robert De Niro, playing a giddy transvestite sky-pirate to the hilt--is hard to beat.Read the full review

It's the closest the movies have come in a while to the nudgy, knowing fairy-tale enchantment of "The Princess Bride."Read the full review

There's less whimsy to be found here than in "The Princess Bride," but the film is likely to appeal to the same group of older children and adults that appreciated Rob Reiner's classic.Read the full review

Diverting and pleasurable to watch, Stardust, a tongue-in-cheek sword-and-sorcerers romp bolstered by a top-flight cast, is most adroit when it plays the fantasy straight rather than sending up the genre.Read the full review

Stardust has it all: sweetness, magic, lusty wenches, evil witches, tankards of mead, a gay pirate.Read the full review

Sprinkled with tongue-in-cheek humor, fairly adult jokes and some well-known faces acting very silly, this adventure story should have particular appeal to fans of "The Princess Bride," but in any event will never be mistaken for a strictly-for-kids movie.Read the full review