If you never saw “The Golden Compass” or Mummy 3″ or any of the “Narnia” or “National Treasure” movies or “City of Ember” or even “Bedtime Stories” you can now see them all, on DVD, at the same time!
Unfortunately, “Inkheart” is as disappointing as those other movies.
Brendan Fraser stars in his typical fantasy/adventure role: a regular guy who finds himself in an amazing situation. This time Fraser’s character has the ability to make stories come to life simply by reading them out of a book.
Fraser’s character lost his wife 9-years ago when she got sucked into a book he was reading and all the evil characters came out into the real world. He finds the book, “Inkheart”, and he and his daughter spend the rest of the movie trying to put their family and the world back together again.
Sound weird? Sound a bit confusing? The movie is both of those things. It’s also surprisingly dull and boring.
None of the actors look like they were excited to make this movie. In fact, Oscar winner Helen Mirren looks the most uncomfortable, having to make believe she’s riding a motorcycle and a unicorn.
The special effects in “Inkheart” are pretty good, but that’s about it.
The film was adapted from a popular children’s book, and is just another example of a good novel being chopped-up and squeezed into a movie. The plot has too many holes and you don’t get to care about any of the characters.
On The Official Kid Critic Report Card, “Inkheart” gets a D+.
It would be nice if the studios stopped making all these fantasy/adventure films from books and start coming-up with some ORIGINAL scripts that would work better as natural movies.
Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of 7. Jackson has written nearly 1,000 reviews of new releases. All together he has seen more than 1,500 films. In 2010, Jackson became the youngest person to win a NY Emmy Award, for his on-air movie reviews on Time Warner TV station, Capital News 9.