I'm still glowing, all puns intended after seeing... oh the joy, of a Neil Gaiman adaptation with some budget to provide a glimpse into his imagination.
Note to the excessively purist... the Graphic medium allows to stretch it as far as the ink allows, translating it to visuals is not as easy as it might look, specially when you are dealing with settings that you cannot quite compare with reality. Counting with Neil Gaiman himself as both producer and script adapter is THE CLOSEST any fanboy/girl will get, and we should be thankful for it.
Setting all book controversies aside, I will dare say this is THE PRINCESS BRIDE for a disenfranchised generation.
Went to the movies with the usual summer crew. Michelle and Kendra. After crossing my heart and promising my niece there won't be much kissing, etc, etc, etc... lights went and we all found ourselves glued to a charmer of a movie.
Claire Danes makes a lovely Yvaine, a fallen star in human form that is experiencing for the first time the petty agonies and trifle joys of ordinary life, magnified by her apparent lack of understanding of human nature.
Charlie Cox's Tristan is innocent and true and like many boys... without a clue.
Mark Strong and Michelle Pfeiffer steal their respective scenes and they are evil, cold and have no heart, as every villain should.
Robert Deniro as Captain Shake n'Spear, or is it Shakespeare? is... well go and see for yourselves how one of the greatest actors of his generation takes himself lightly, he sure got the hardest laughs.
What I found enchanting about it is that it kept to the spirit of the book, a fairy tale meant to teach us what is is to be human, the subtle difference between what love is and what we would want it to be and the prize that await those who learn to take chances, even if it means to venture into another world.
If you love Gaiman, you'll be like me, the fangirl will walk out smiling and crossing her fingers saying, they got it right...
PS: In the Kendra meter the yuck, kissy factor was within the expected range, the witches, ghosts and flying pirates carried her seal of approval: AWESOME!!!!
The quote doesn't come from the movie, but it was funny:
"I didn't know Gaiman could do pink... well now that I think about it that's kind of fuchsia"- Michelle
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