DVD Review: "STARDUST" Score B-

This one is in the words of the director Princess Bride meets Midnight Run. And for the most part it is a great movie, there are a few problems with it however. Now I will start off by saying that the young lead does well, and Claire Danes is stunningly beautiful in this and does a great accent and character. She is a falling star and looks like what one would be. Michelle Pfieffer does a great job as the evil witch, and with her sisters brings in some great comic moments as does Ricky Gervais. Now the big glaring mis-cast here is Robert DeNiro. He was only cast because the director wanted desperately to work with him. However he is completely wrong for the part. In a character movie with an old medieval fantasy feel, one of the last actors that you should put in a film like this is DeNiro, he is an incredible actor however not right for this type of film or character: The gay captain of a flying lightning capture air ship. He immediately takes you out of the fantasy as you watch in horror trying to play a pansy. Other than that the film is great, fun, nice storyline and other actors do great, I enjoyed it. I just wish they had put an actor that was better suited for this material than DeNiro. I suspect that DeNiro decided to do this role because he was bored and wanted to play something way off type for him.