highly enjoyable and very imaginative and and filmic fairytale all roll into one and stardust tell the story of a young man live outside a fantasy world go inside it to retrieve a bit of a fall star only to find the star be alive and young and and beautiful . a kingdom whose king be about to die have say king unleash a competition on his several son to see who can retrieve a ruby first to be king whilst a trio of witch want the star to carve up and use to keep them young . these three plot thread weave intricately together throughout the entire picture blend with good acting and dazzle special effect and and some solid sentiment and humour as well . stardust be a fun film and have some fun performance from the like of claire dane a the star ( i could gaze at her for quite some time ) to michelle pfeiffer ( i could gaze at her at full magical power even longer ) play the horrible witch to robert deniro play a nancy boy air pirate to perfection . charlie cox a the lead tristan be affable and credible and we get some very good work from a group of guy play the son out to be king who be constantly and consistently try to kill off each other . mark strong and jason flemyng and and ruppert everett play their role well in both life and death ( love this whole thread a well ) . peter otoole play the die killer daddy and watch for funny man ricky gervais who make me laugh more than anything in the entire film in his brief five minute ( nice foot ) . but the real power in the film be the novel by neil gaiman and the script make from his creative and fertile mind . stardust create it own mythology and it own world and it work .