Neal Conan’s interview with Neil Gaiman here. It sounds like he’s happy with it.
I just read the book last week. Charming story, with just enough darkness to give it an edge.
I’m psyched. You psyched?
ETA It opens this Friday, August 10.
Ooh, it’s a Neil Gaiman movie? I was stoked enough just seeing the commercials without knowing that. MirrorMask was crazy but wonderful.
I work at a movie theatre where it’s showing, and I am so there. 
I am. I just re-read the book on the strength of the trailer.
They seem to make a bigger deal out of the “sky pirates” (who only take up about eight pages in the book) and for some reason (spoilered just in case, though it’s on the website)
they start with four princes of Stormhold alive instead of just three.
These are observations, not complaints, especially since it involves swashbuckling and Rupert Everett. I’m perfectly happy to love the movie for itself. I’m just interested to see what they do differently and why. It looks like it’s going to catch the feel of the story very well.
I’m, looking forward to the movie AND getting spoilered here before it gets to the local theatres.
Loved the book, loved MirrorMask by Gaiman.
Checked IMDb and loved the casting.
Psyched? Yep.
Still waiting for Good Omens.
Were I rich, I’d finance the making of that film myself.
I am, however, quite psyched for this film. Perhaps I ought to go back and re-read it myself. I have memory that the reading went fairly quickly, and since I have false-started on “Quicksilver” three times now, I clearly need a distraction anyway. 
ETA: Yes, I know “Quicksilver” is by Neal Stephenson, not Neil Gaiman – I didn’t mean to imply any connection between the two books other than my desire to read both.
I was looking forward to it, but I saw a trailer the other day that had quotes from ‘reviewers’, and let me tell you, they must have gone right to the end of the movie critic food chain to find people to say nice things about it. The quotes were like, “ASTOUNDING!” - Mike Berry, Dubuque weekly. “EXTRAVAGENT!” - Jill Smith, Podunk Review Newsletter.
Always a bad sign. Maybe it will be a good movie and they had a reason for using quotes from nobodies, but I’m not holding my breath.
Ahhh, but what does Rex Reed think? Is he still alive?
Anyways, I went to IMDB looking for reviews. A link took me to a site that had just two mainstream “scores” – from Hollywood Reporter and Variety – an 85 and an 80, respectively. Assuming that’s out of 100, not too bad, especially for a light fantasy.
I’m always fond of watching a swash get buckled. Yarr!
I am VERY excited. I cheered when I saw the poster. People looked at me strangely.
The cast is mindblowing. I really can’t wait at all.
I’m not a big fantasy fan, yet somehow I usually like Neil Gaiman’s work. (Loved American Gods, like Sandman more often than not, but could never get through Good Omens.) My girl and I will probably check it out this weekend.
I wasn’t, but then I saw a trailer and now I’m thinking I may see it.
Loved the book – like Lou, I enjoy (okay, love) Gaiman though I typically dislike fantasy literature – but am not impressed with the trailers. I’ll see it in the theatre if the discount cinema picks it up but I’ll wait for the DVD otherwise.
I saw it in late June at a special early screening. There was a thread going back then where I talked about it a little bit, but I didn’t care for the movie at all. I’d give it a C-, because it looked really nice and had some good performances in supporting roles. The sky pirates are the best part of the film by far. I was so desperate for something not-boring to happen by the time they showed up that their awesomeness may have been slightly exagerrated by comparison. Michelle Pfeiffer is good too, but the lead characters are so dull and irritating I wished she would just smite them and go have jolly adventures in a different movie. Imagine what The Princess Bride would be like if Wesley and Buttercup totally sucked. Even surrounded by delightful secondary characters and lovely locations, it wouldn’t hold together very well. That’s how I felt about Stardust. Disappointing, because I like Gaiman and was looking forward to this movie.
This snuck up on me. Though I’ve read and enjoyed the book, I hadn’t heard about the movie until I read an article about it in the paper today.
A big part of that article talks about how the book (& movie) represent an earlier sort of fantasy, and how it should supposedly appeal to people who don’t like fantasy:
As someone who’d never heard of the book or film 'til I saw the trailer, I’ve got to say it looks rather generic to us regular folk. I fear it may go the way of Sunshine (as in, away. Quickly.) I could be wrong, of course.
I’ve never heard of it or Gaiman, but it’s scoring a 53 at Metacritic, so it’s something I’m likely to never get around to until it starts showing 3 times/weekend on TNT.
Was this one that was a graphic novel before it was a novel?
Just 'cause I like to get the history down.
This Wiki article says it was, in a couple of different forms.
Maybe I’m too cynical, but as someone who hasn’t read Gaiman’s book looking at the trailers all I could think was: “Wow, that girl is such a Mary Sue it’s not even funny.”
Here’s hoping I get proved wrong, but I might wait until it comes out for rental to watch.