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Paramount Release date: Tuesday 18th of December 2007 Starring: Robert De Niro, Dexter Fletcher, Adam Fogerty, George Innes, Rupert Everett, Format: AC-3, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, Running time: 127 minutes Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Subtitled) Language: French (Subtitled) Language: Portuguese (Subtitled) Language: Spanish (Subtitled) Language: French (Dubbed) Language: Spanish (Dubbed)

Michelle Pfeiffer will put a spell on you.
Review date: 2007-12-24 Rating: 8 out of 10

A young man looking for adventure and what ever comes his way breaches The Wall to find a magical kingdom. He is seduced by a beautiful woman who claims to be a captive princess. Later he finds a little gift at his doorstep. Yep the little tyke looks like its father.

Well Young Dunstan Thorn is unaware of his heritage and has a soft spot in his heart for a local girl, Victoria (Sienna Miller). He would do anything for her, even bring back a fallen star; this quest will take him to the other side of The Wall and we will go with him on the quest.

This quest reminds you of "The Walrus and The Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll, as we dive into adventure with the fallen star Yvaine (Claire Danes), a witchy woman (Michelle Pfeiffer), a flying pirate (Robert De Niro), and several loving "yeah right" brothers, who are prince's and would love to get their hands on their father's (Peter O'Toole) throne.

Unlike many stories of this type we dive in so fast that we have no time to acquaint ourselves with the shock of the other world. They may have been in a tad too much of a hurry to tell the story. However it had its moments. It had style. It was the best show in town.

One double plus part of the film was the narration by Ian McKellen which takes up about tow thirds of the story. Ian is excellent; however being a fairy tail it might have sounded better with the late Edward Everett Horton Fractured Fairy Tales narrator (12 episodes, 1959-1960)