If you wish to see a fantasy story about love, adventure and supernatural, you don’t have to miss “Stardust”, a movie based on Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel.

The story begins in the English village of Wall, placed close to the stone border which separates the real world from a legendary land, Stormhold, where humans are not allowed to enter.

Tristran Thorne (Charlie Cox), a 18 years old poor young villager, is madly in love with the prettiest girl of the village, Victoria Forester (Sienna Miller). But he has a rival in the person Humphrey (Henry Cavill), the village’s bachelor. As you can imagine, Tristran is ready to do anything to show his devotion and win Victoria’s love.

His wish will become reality during a night-time rendezvous, when a star falls from the sky in the mysterious land across the stone border. In order to prove his love and win her hand in marriage, Tristran tells Victoria that he will return in one week and bring back the star for her.

So Tristran ventures into the magical land and in his romantic quest, only to discover that the fallen star has transformed into a beautiful maiden named Yvaine (Claire Danes).

However, Tristran is not the only one seeking the star. Lord Stormhold's (Peter O'Toole) three living sons, not to mention the ghosts of their four dead brothers, all need ruby pendant worn by Yvaine as they vie for the throne. In order to became the next king of Stronghold, Septimus (Mark Strong), the seventh and the most ambitious son of the dead king will ruthless pursue Tristran and Yvaine across the kingdom.

But Yvaine has other enemies also. Three witches lead by Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer), who are growing older and ugly, would like to kill her and eat her heart for gaining eternal youth and beauty.

So Claire Danes plays a character in a continual run, with all the others chasing her like the hunters are chasing a deer. While watching this fairy tale movie you won’t know whom to like and whom to dislike, as Michelle Pfeiffer is evil, but she is extraordinary in her role at the same time. She is able to make Lamia morph from wretched to ravishing and so on, so that you could remember that evil is sometimes very attractive.

However, Michelle Pfeifer, Peter O’Toole, Claire Danes and Sienna Miller are not the only famous great actors that star in this fantastic masterpiece.

As Tristran battles to survive these threats, encounters a pirate named Captain Shakespeare (Robert De Niro), a fearsome character, but…you have to see the movie to fully understand his truly bizarre role, which involves a piano and dancing can-can.

Along the way, during his battle with ruthless princes and wicked witches, Tristran’s quest changes. He must now win the Yvaine’s heart for himself as he discovers the meaning of true love.

“Stardust” features all the ingredients of a fairy tale, such as a magical kingdom with a dying king in it, dueling goblins, evil wicked witches, flying pirates, princesses and magical heroines, and even an unicorn. The movie seems to really create another fantastic world from which we all could learn something about our real one.

It’s true that sometimes the movie seems crowded. There seem to be too many plots and too many characters who are chasing over Yvaine, being moved by different interests. All of them are somehow wicked, although only the witches are formerly called so.

But thanks to its many subplots and characters, Stardust, which is produced by Paramount Pictures and directed by Matthew Vaughn, has the potential to become a trilogy or at least to be followed by a sequel.

Tough it is about a fantastic world, Matthew Vaughn’s film proves to be a great pieceof entertainment not only for kids, but also for adults. It could be somehow compared to Guillermo del Toro’s masterpiece “Pan’s Labyrinth” for its way of wrapping sense and serious things in a fairy tale.