Inkheart

Genre: Fantasy
Language: English
Director: Iain Softley
Cast: Paul Bettany (The Da Vinci code), Brendan Fraser (The Mummy), Eliza Bennett (Nanny Mcphee)
Runtime: 106 mins

Plot:


Mortimer "Mo" Folchart (Brendan Fraser) and his 12-year-old daughter, Meggie (Eliza Bennett), share a passion for books. What they also share is an extraordinary gift for bringing characters from books to life when they read aloud. But there is a danger: when a character is brought to life from a book, a real person disappears into its pages.

Watched this on 31 Jan night @ GV Vivo with Colonel, Sylvia and Barbara.

Just when everyone thought that this just another bedtime story kind of movie, it proves it is different as instead of being the typical fairy tale-liked, Inkheart brought all the fairy tale to life. While people in the real world has to overcome the fact that characters in our story book have come to life and be in our surroundings, the characters in the fairy tales have to overcome their fears that they have have to adapt to the real human world. Magical creatures and firespitting became a norm if all these were to come true.

One thing i do not like about the movie is the daughter's character who portrayed it too maturely for a twelve years old. However, the other characters such as Farid, Dustfinger and Fenoglio were lively and funny that lifts the whole movie up. And the villain, Capricorn, reminds me of Mike Myers in Austin Power.

ah-deng says: 3/5 Colourful and Entertaining.