directed by Matthew Vaughn
While I was visiting my parents for Christmas I decided to take a break from computers and internet, so I had nothing else to do but read and watch TV. That being said, on Christmas day I watched Stardust. They usually air happy movies and this one fits right into this category. It has everything they could fit into an easy-to-watch, happy-ending, fantasy movie.
We have our hero, a pretty girl, witches, evil princes, good people trying to help our hero and of course true love. The story is about a fallen star, that is actually a beautiful young woman, not your usual rock/meteorite formation, and the love story between her and a young man from an English village. Our happy couple goes through a lot of adventures, being chased by evil witches that read into animal guts and evil princes that want to be king, but in the end they get married and live happily ever after.
What can I say, it’s a nice fairytale, sometimes funny, but not quite my favorite kind of movie. I know i am too cynical, but the whole true love/live happily ever after thing is a bit cheesy. It did remind me though of all the stories and poems I used to read when I was growing up.
A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really… ”Do the stars gaze back?” Now that’s a question.
