Stardust

I'm going to be completely honest with you here; I didn't want to see this. I wasn't really that fussed, to be perfectly frank with you. But my mum and my sister were staying with me for the weekend and they quite fancied going to see it, and I couldn't think of a persuasive argument to see The Kingdom instead.

I am so, so glad I saw this. It's excellent. In fact, it's really raised the bar for any future fairytale movies. IN FACT, I hereby declare all future fairytale movies obsolete as the genre has already achieved perfection. Literally this is the movie against which all other movies of this genre will be measured.

It's got romance and magic and sword fights and horses and quests and betrayals and derring-do and more magic and jokes and transformations and true love and enchanted items and candles and flying boats and explosions and pirates and fairytale makeovers and stuff about fate and chivalry and potatoes and some of the blackest humour I've ever seen in a fairytale and I'm not telling you any more about it.

Direction: Excellent.
Special effects: Superb, neither subtle nor over the top, but nicely balanced and very good looking.
Story: Compelling.
Humour: A strange mix of black humour, slapstick and witty banter, but it hangs together fantastically well.

Score: A+++++ (if not higher).

OQ: '...and then I was hit by a magical flying MORON!"

OOQ: I'm sorry Mr De Niro and Mr Gervais, but we do have a screenplay here and we paid rather a lot of money for it, and it'd be super if you could stick to it or at least stay in its general vicinity..... (That one's from the director)