Stardust (2007) Critic Reviews

Stardust certainly could have gone somewhere fun. But the magic and zip you need to get a blimp like this off the ground is scarce.Read the full review

It's a film you enjoy in pieces, but the jigsaw never gets solved.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

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

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

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

Michelle Pfeiffer is Lamia, as deliciously evil a witch as the movies have ever invented.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