ChrisThilk Blog

I read the Neil Gaiman novel that Stardust is an adaptation of just a little while ago and thought it was great. Light and entertaining and yet another version of Joseph Campbell’s “A Hero’s Journey,” the story has a young man trying to find out something about himself as he tries to find a fallen star that he wants to present to the woman he loves but who doesn’t love him back. In the magical land he enters he encounters murderous princes, witches who also seek the star and eventually finds his own fate lies before him in this world.

The movie doesn’t follow the book exactly but does retain most of its major plot touch-points and certainly contains it’s spirit, making the movie largely enjoyable. Everyone turns in light and effortless performances, even Robert DeNiro as a pirate who’s more concerned with his own reputation than anything else.