the spice of life

Variety's review of Stardust is at http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934304.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=2562#

Sprinkled with tongue-in-cheek humor, fairly adult jokes and some well-known
faces acting very silly, this adventure story should have particular appeal to
fans of "The Princess Bride," but in any event will never be mistaken for a
strictly-for-kids movie.

It's also another lovely review for Michelle Pfeiffer...

The best thing in the film, Pfeiffer shows great comedic timing, and her metamorphoses -- as Lamia careens from flourishing beauty to horrible crone -- show considerable courage, as the actress manages to be funny regardless of what state of decrepitude she's in. It's not a very admirable character, after all: Lamia turns people into goats and goats into people, and she and her sisters foretell the future by hacking up animals and reading their entrails. They're not the most in-demand dinner guests.

There's a little footage from the Premiere at http://www.film.com/tv/mediaplayback/thelapremiereofstardust/15725204

As far as I know, that was the last big premiere until the UK premiere on the 3rd of October.

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