This is utterly formulaic. True, there are a few jokes, but as they are all extraordinarily lame, this can't be called a send-up.

| Aug 23, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Like the star that falls to Earth near the beginning of the movie, Stardust is glittery and pretty and possesses its own pleasing-enough personality, but it won't set the world on fire.

| Dec 19, 2007

Despite its faults, Stardust should at least be accounted a partial success - and certainly more than a failure.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 19, 2007

Brutally disappointing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 19, 2007

There's a shameless romantic streak here, quite welcome in a boy-targeted genre that usually insists battles are cool and love is for wimps.

| Oct 19, 2007

A wackily surreal, primary-coloured fairytale from a graphic novel by Neil Gaiman.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 19, 2007

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| Oct 19, 2007

Vaughn pays scant attention to the niceties of a well-told story and buries his shekels in a sparkling cast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 19, 2007

You could call it a cousin of 'Time Bandits' or 'The Princess Bride', but it lacks the former's originality and the latter's heart.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Oct 19, 2007

Patchy but great fun, peppering plenty of black humour into a sweet if silly fairy-tale romance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 19, 2007

Massively pretty to look at, Stardust bursts with (original novel) author Gaiman's trademark invention.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2007

Everybody has a lot of fun here.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2007

It's puffed up in obvious ways but disarmingly puckish in others.

| Aug 13, 2007

The kind of genre-defying project that even an old hat like Peter Jackson would struggle with tone-wise and, despite his valiant effort, Vaughn can't quite seem to get the mix right.

Full Review | Aug 13, 2007

A stern editor with a sense of dramatic timing could have given this film more tension to go with its random bursts of comedy and big, happy fantasy setpieces, but lacking tautness, it'll have to settle for expansive joy.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 10, 2007

This luminous, magical movie will dazzle even the fantasy-film phobic.

Full Review | Aug 10, 2007

Stardust lights up the screen with a splendid tale of heroism and romance. You don't have to be a fan of fantasies to enjoy its considerable whimsy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 10, 2007

Stardust [feels] episodic and clunky, constantly straining for the impression of overall coherent design that Gaiman renders invisible.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 10, 2007