Star Bright

I hate to say it, but American movie audience members can be such doofs.

How is it that a fantastic film like Stardust can make only $9.1 million its first weekend out, when threequels – unoriginal threequels, people! – make 10 times as much.

So Ocean’s Thirteen’s got Brad Pitt. That don’t impress me much.

Details of the film, directed by Layer Cake’s Matthew Vaughn, can be found here – I’m not even going to try and sell you the film; your loss if you haven’t seen it yet – but know that Stardust has it all: romance, magic, adventure, and even flying pirates.

Next time you feel like Hollywood isn’t offering you something worthy of your buck, remember that perhaps you’re part of the problem.

Stardust shines. Too bad you may be too blind to see it.

My Rating ****

Photo: Paramount Pictures.