Inkheart Movie Review

     Inkheart is a movie about Mortimer (Brendan Frasher) and his daughter Maggie (Eliza Bennet) that have magnificent powers. Their voices were beautiful and drew people in, wanting to hear what he was reading just to listen to the beautiful voice. They can make things that they read come out of the book and into their world. When Maggie was little and she was reading her simple one-word children's book a red shoe would show up or a butterfly here and there and her father never thought anything of it. Until one night something terrible happened.

            Mortimer was reading Inkheart out loud to his wife and daughter. When they came on a part in the story about Dustfinger (a fire eater) fighting with Capricorn and some of his men (the bad guys). After reading this all of a sudden the room seemed emptier, yet fuller at the same time. While Mortimer was reading he had read Dustfinger and Capricorn and his men out of the book and in their place his wife along with some other objects in the room went into the book.

            Mortimer was terrified. After that incident he swore to never read out loud again. He told his daughter that she was never to read aloud again and he would spend the rest of his life trying to find the last copy of Inkheart so that he can bring his wife back. That, is what the book is all about. Mortimer trying to find his wife, Maggie discovering her power, and the two of them fighting Capricorn and his men to find this woman.

            The movie begins and it is carrying on and you sit there and wonder when is it going to pick up and get to the point. It is a very slow going movie. The actors are mediocre in their acting and the details of the book are left to waste. It should be a movie called "stardust- an idea from the book" and not "Inkheart- a making of the novel". It is a three book series and all of them are about six-seven hundred pages long, and they made one movie to cover all of them. 

            It was a terrible movie, in my opinion. They could have done so much better. The makers got the names right and the basic plot of the story correct. All the other details that make the novel the wonderful book it is they left in the dust. There was so much that could have been taken from this novel and made into an amazing tale that adults and children alike would have loved.

            The depth and magnificent magic and power and impossible events that goes on in each book they could have easily made three movies. I do believe that the producers got lazy and didn't want to take the time to read through the books, take the details, and make a series that if well done people would have loved. It could have been an amazing series like Narnia. It just infuriates me that hollywood will take great novels and written art and make a crappy movie out of it. But, then they take books like Twilight, and make four movies out of it. It just goes to show what our world values most, and indeed it is not the imagination.