Awesome movie! Fantasy, adventures, funny, cute, freaky, and suspenseful!
I loved the characters, scenes, stories... everything! It included so many different stories (witches, princes, stars, pirates, quests...) that all come together perfectly in the end! Such a cute ending to such a great movie!

I give Stardust an A! I liked all of it. It wasn't scary but I did feel like my stomach was (clenched) for a long time at the end!

The two and a half hour running time went by as fast a shooting star in a fantasy adventure that keeps kids on the edge of their seat.

Stardust is a romantic fairytale in the spirit of The Princess Bride. In his quest to prove his love and therefore win a disinterested girl's hand in marriage, our hero Tristan promises to cross into the forbidden forest and bring back a shooting star. He finds a shooting star in the form of a woman and in the enchanted world, his mission crosses the path of two princes sent to bring back a stone that will prove their rightful ascension to the throne and the path of a witch searching for the shooting star which will give her eternal life and beauty. Through his adventures of taking the Shooting Star home to the girl he thinks is his true love, our awkward boy becomes a self-assured man.

Weaved into every fairytale is death and the threat of impending doom and it's no different with Stardust. The death is off-camera or in the distance, but it's there nonetheless: witches who without blinking slaughter animals, murderous brothers who are taught the last one alive will become king, and pirates who kill for sport. The deaths, as frequent as they are, are shown off camera and often played for laughs. That said, I can't imagine any child would walk away thinking they had learned a disrespect for life from the characters in Stardust.

Several lessons do inspire conversation, especially with a preteen or teenager: confidence comes from discovering yourself ...which takes time, a true love will appreciate you for who you are not what you can get them, beauty truly comes from within, and ugly acts make you ugly.

The big lesson, though, is that all of our characters are seeking love in the wrong ways: seeking the love of a father through power, seeking the love of oneself through beauty, seeking the love of friends by pretending to be who you think they want you to be, and seeking true love by proving yourself with an acquisition. For right or wrong, our characters find that love can be found by being yourself. That's a lesson worth sharing. For kids 6 and older ...younger won't appreciate the story and may find some moments scary.