Wednesday, August 29, 2007

A Star Hidden in Dust

OK, I have to say, whomever was in charge of creating the trailer for Stardust should be shot. The trailer makes the movie look like utter drek. Trailers usually contain the best parts of a movie so as to better entice consumers into going to the theater. So, when the trailer looks hideous, one can only assume the movie will be as well.

This is not the case for Stardust. I haven't laughed like that in a while. The costuming was good, the acting was good, the dialogue and situations were good, the sets were nice, the effects were good. Pretty much everything was good. Nothing really spectacular, but nowadays you're lucky to get good across the board. There were really only two weak points. The story was a bit thrown together, things seemed to lurch slightly from one act to the other, but not so badly that it threw off everything else. The other weak point was what they did to the looks of the men in the town Wall. The man who played Humphrey is actually quite attractive but in the movie it looked like a drag queen did his hair and make-up. The main character is not at attractive man. Yes he looks better with the long hair later in the movie, but he's still not what most people would call handsome. Really, the movie would have done better if Tristan were played by the actor who played the young version of his father shown in the beginning of the movie.

What's also nice is the movie had a little bit for everyone. There's the romance for the chick flick fanatics, there's sword fighting for the action crew. There's political intrigue, can can, pirates, witches, high speed chases, dropping boobs, there's even a built in peanut gallery.

All that being said, this is really a highly entertaining, see with your friends, underrated movie. I think it was well worth the price of full admission. And I think it's a shame that a good movie like this is doing so poorly when a stinky pile of poo like Eragon did well.

Yeah, if you haven't seen Eragon yet, don't bother. You'll just end up wanting your money and the two hours of your life back. I'd go into detail about how terrible everything in Eragon was, but really, the movie is so bad it's not worth the effort to describe how bad.

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