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If you see Neil Gaiman at the grocery store, please don't talk to him.

Dan Krovich: It feels like this got the greenlight in some post Lord of the Rings mini fantasy frenzy. I don't think it looks bad, but I don't see it catching on.

David Mumpower: My excitement for this project peaked about 12 months ago when the casting was finalized. Ever since then, it seems as if the news has grown worse and worse. The teaser was bland, the trailer was deadly dull, and the early reviews are lackluster at best. I simply cannot imagine how a production crew could be given a tapestry as rich as the world of Stardust and proceed to lay an egg. It makes me wonder what they would have done to About a Boy or L.A. Confidential.

Shane Jenkins: Are they even advertising this? I go to the movies constantly, and I've only ever seen the trailer once. I don't watch much TV, but I haven't seen ads anywhere for it. The release date makes me think the studio doesn't have too much confidence in it. It feels a little like Brothers Grimm to me, though I still do want to see it.

Dan Krovich: I'm getting the feeling that they don't know what to do with it, either because it's not good or that they just don't know how to sell it.

David Mumpower: I strongly suspect it's quite a bit of both. Early reviews for it are so anti-Claire Danes one would suspect they are all written by Mary Louise Parker.





Kevin Chen: Reviews seem to be squarely in the mediocre category, although a lot of them are saying it's in the vein of (but not approaching) The Princess Bride. Which I might be able to live with. I do like that the production material I've seen so far does a good job of capturing Charles Vess' art style.

Jim Van Nest: The only advertising I've seen for it has been as I'm fast forwarding the commercials through Eureka on Sci-Fi. I haven't seen it on any other channel. I don't know what that means other than I just might not watch the right channels. *shrugs*

David Mumpower: We're going to go see this tonight, but I am actively annoyed that the sky captain part got dialed up, because they talked De Niro into crossing-dressing for the role. I have to wonder about the series of events that led to such a sequence in the movie.

Kevin Chen: I don't understand this at all, as if the two-hour running time couldn't be sustained by the rest of the source material. Although I can guess that the unicorn sequence was cut and they needed something to fill it up.

Also, gay people are funny.

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