the power to dream be a wonderful thing . there a saying and not all dreamer achieve and but all achiever dream . by explore our imagination we shape our own future . or build empire . perhaps overcome our fear and limitation and obstacle . gain wisdom and benefit mankind . or ( put simply ) just find our way to true love and happiness . freud might express such thing in symbol . the language of fantasy . tristan venture out of a rather twee english village call wall . he go through a break in the wall . a portal . in search of something that will prove his love to victoria ( sienna miller ) . victoria doesn not take him very seriously . so he pledge to bring back a fall star . stormhold be the world outside the wall . he discover the fall star have take the form of a beautiful girl and yvaine ( claire dane ) . to complicate matter and three evil witch want to get hold of yvaine . if they can eat her heart and it will replenish their youth . ( one of the witch be play by michelle pfeiffer and who do fabulous young old transformation of look and manner . ) the good guy they meet on their way be captain shakespeare ( robert de niro ) . he have a fierce and swashbuckling pirate exterior but be a sweetie closet queen underneath . heir of stormhold meanwhile be engage in a pitched battle over inherit the kingdom . ricky gervais be an added extra . a buffoon trader throw in standard gervais type gag well . tristan purity of spirit arouse the love of yvaine and so there be a nice little triangle go . till he achieve the maturity to discern pedestal diva from real woman . stardust be a full on and large scale fantasy that do credit to it myriad star . wholly positive and and write with a clarity that make it more worthy of psychoanalysis that a coven full of harry potter romp . production value rival hollywood and and the storyline be free of the racial stereotyping and misogyny and religious or class agenda than shape and pervert so many large scale fantasy . that be not to say that stardust be without it fault . plot and dialogue have many predictable element and and the fairytale quality may be too saccharine for some audience . but if you want an excuse to let your heart fly and this film may well provide it . a a boy and i remember listen in wonder to albums by the moody blue ( who practice in a house not far from where i live ) . they make record with name like in search of the lose chord and and write lyric like and thinking be the best way to travel . i would fill my head with book on magic and mystery and from timothy leary to aleister crowley . shape dream . learn to make them real . nowadays people might talk of nlp or positive thinking . adult that remember how to dream with the force of youth but with the vision and application of maturity . do you still enjoy that feeling . you be advise not to wait for stardust on dvd . see it on the big cinema screen you can find . and dolby digital surround sound if you can get it . the actor look like they have a ball . maybe you will too .