The stunning and 'radiant' Claire Danes playing the role of Yvaine, a "fallen star".

Stardust's theatrical poster. As the tag line says it, it really is a romance and action-packed chase.

Stardust is a fantasy movie based on Neil Gaiman's novel of the same name. Based on that I really did expect to see a really great movie and it surely was. The movie is about the legend of a different realm beyond a certain wall found in England near the town of Wall (so appropriately named).The story begins with a young lad, Dunstan Thorne (played by Ben Barnes as the young Dunstan and Nathaniel Parker as the older Dunstan) who wanted to prove the other realm existed. He crossed the wall and eventually came to the magical kingdom of Stormhold. There he met the kingdom's only Princess, Una (Kate Magowan), who was bound in servitude to a witch. They both fell in love in an instant and bore themselves a son, Tristan Thorne (played by Charlie Cox), our story's hero.

Years later, Tristan Thorne now a grown man, as was his father, fell in love with a rich girl, Victoria (Sienna Miller). Unfortunately, Tristan is just a lowly shopboy and cannot compete with Victoria's wealthy and dashing yet arrogant favorite suitor, Humphrey (Henry Cavill). In determination to prove his love for Victoria, he promised to bring her back a falling star they saw that crashed on a place beyond the wall. Tristan tried to cross the wall in vain for the wall's guard had learned martial arts (after Dunstan tricked and got past him). Meanwhile, in Stormhold, the king had died and the bequeathal of the throne depended on a quest given by the king: to capture the fallen star and retrieve from it the gem that he threw into the sky before he died. Also he who takes the gem should also be the last surviving male heir of the Stormhold bloodline.

Another party who took interest in the fallen star was a group of old hag witches led by Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer) and wanted to take the star's heart that would grant them everlasting beauty, youth and magic.

Back, in Wall, Dunstan, tells Tristan that his mother is on the other side of the wall, and gives him a Babylon Candle which his mother left him with and when lit would take one instantly to a desired location. Tristan lit the candle but instead of thinking of his mother, he thought of the star he promised to Victoria. He crashed instead on the location of the falling star. He did find the star but he never expected it to be a beautiful woman - Yvaine. Nevertheless he chains it to bring home to Victoria.

More interesting stuff happen as everyone goes on a wild chase to capture the star - the Princes of Stormhold for dominion, the group of witches for self-gain and Tristan to bring Yvaine to Wall (or perhaps to win each other's hearts. :p).