I seriously doubt anyone else has seen Stardust staring Robert Deniro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes and Sienna Miller, so I thought I’d review it so that someone besides me actually sees it.

Stardust was a fun and whimsical adventure fairytale about a boy named Tristan promises “his beloved that he’ll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm.” This quest leads him to find Yvaine, Claire Danes, who turns out to be a star and they embark on their own adventure to not only get “the star” to Tristan’s beloved (more like beeyoootch) but to keep people, namely Michelle Pfeiffer’s witch character, from finding the star, cutting out her heart and eating it to make her and her evil sisters young again.

I know, Stardust sounds really geeky but it’s great. The nerdiness redeems itself with an awesome cast and memorable comedic moments.

A brilliant Deniro plays a dainty pirate, Captain Shakespeare, who leans towards homosexual tendencies while keeping up a barbaric and scary facade for his crew and the rest of the world because as he says “A reputation takes a lifetime to build and seconds to break.” It is worth it to see Stardust simply to see Deniro in this never before seen hilarious roll. Another fun additive is the cast of ghost brothers who killed each other for the thrown. The brothers keep getting killed off and in the ghostly line up throughout the movie. They are our brilliant comedic relief through the drama and sword fighting.

All in all I just have to recommend that you see Stardust. It’s a brilliant story that doesn’t take itself too seriously and in a world that is going through all this turmoil, it’s nice to see another original fairytale.

Stardust gets 5/5 LJ stars