I loved Mathew Vaughn's work on X-Men: First Class, don't remember Kickass much but I do remember seeing Stardust as a kid on TV and being intrigued by it.
Thought of it a few days ago and decided to give it a try. The first thirty minutes are the worst part, frankly if you can move past them then you are going to enjoy this movie a lot. It's a fun adventure and Mathew Vaughn's direction makes sure that even fairy predictable action scenes turn out to be exciting to play out and watch, they're fairly simple scenes too but he manages to add an edge of thrill into them even though you know the characters will eventually make out safe.
The fact that this movie is an attempt to tell a story in an old fairytale fashion is a bit annoying at the start because everything is so predictable but they're are a few twists here and there that stop the film from being completely stale and boring.
Performances add a lot too, particularly Robert De Niro as Captain Shakespeare and Michelle Pfeiffer as the main antagonist who is a witch. She's beautiful in this film
Also it's a pretty looking movie. Vast open landscapes and visuals that still look good. My dreams of seeing a proper live-action flying ship from Final Fantasy or Legend of Dragoon (or Skies of Arcadia? I forget the name for it but it's a Dreamcast turn-based RPG and you have a flying ship and it's glorious) got fulfilled and I'm happy about that lol
Overall I wasn't blown away as my nostalgia made me think I would be but I had a good time and this movie is a callback to when films were just a good time and had a proper happy ending.
