stardust

this is a surprisingly fluffy film, considering it's from the director of Layer Cake, but it's a reasonably amusing distraction from reality. Michelle Pfeiffer plays the same character as the one she does in Hairspray but with more wrinkles. Robert deNiro is utterly unconvincing as a gentle, cross-dressing pirate, but Charlie Cox is cute and Clare Danes, dare I say it, is luminescent.