Stardust

A peasant boy wants to impress Jude Law's ex-girlfriend, so he seeks a fallen star, which is actually a human, who also has a stone that gives everlasting life. Also seeking the star and stone are seven potential heirs to the king's throne, some of whom are dead; an aging witch played by Catwoman (the white one); and a secretly foppish sky pirate played by the Taxi Driver.

It's a pretty good straight-to-DVD movie, except that it played in theaters. It's a decent fantasy in the genre of quasi-children's kings-and-witches-and-magic stories. But it won't have the staying power of "Labyrinth" or "The Princess Bride."

Claire Danes can't act. That's a sign of how bad a year 2007 was for movies: movies were so bad this year, I was actually impressed by a Claire Danes movie.