I saw Stardust last night, but I haven't read the book. I was curious if any of y'all had any opinions about how they compared.
Judging from the so-so boxoffice performance (opening at #4, behind crap like Rush Hour 3), it seems like people are not really into fairytales anymore.
The Princess Bride is definitely the best. But Stardust is entertaining, funny, imaginative. Everything a good fairy tale fantasy should be. Here's my review of the movie.
Primus and Secundus...etc are faeries. Tristran's part faerie on his mother's side. The star becomes a nationalized faerie or maybe refugee would be a better term. What I mean is that faeries...in the most basic terms...are 'people of the land of Faerie'.
IAnd as an addendum to the term "faerie" - it's not just Gaiman who uses the term this way, it's an established label.