Let's be realistic.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Inkheart is an adaptation of a book released at a time when fantasy films aimed at families have been doing great box office. However the magic of great storytelling cannot be passed on to all adaptations and certainly not Inkheart which has an appalling screenplay.Brendan Fraser plays Mo Folchart, a silver tongue who has the ability of bringing book characters to life just by reading aloud. The catch being that someone or something from this world goes back in.This shift from the world of books to the real world creates havoc as there is a risk you might lose someone close. Andy Serkis plays Capricorn who along his henchmen uses these special readers for his own meansPaul Bettany plays Dustfinger a character from the book Inkheart and wants to be read back into the book.There is plenty of European location filming and some notable actors. The downside is that the film is confusing, uninteresting, heavy on clichés and lacks charm. The poor screenplay is a let down.

I'm not going to lie. Inkheart is one of my favorite books, as are the sequels, so my opinion may be slightly biased. Now that I've given you that warning, I'll cut straight to it: This film reduced me to an angry, seething mess. When I first saw it, I wasn't particularly upset. However, the more I thought about what they did to the book that holds a special place on the bookshelf of my heart, the more outraged I became. This film, in no way, did the book justice. So many small but important points were changed that it was pretty much just a spin-off of the original story. I won't name them here, in fear of ruining the book for others (I'm not worried about ruining the movie, there isn't much more damage to be done there. The creators took care of that themselves.), but I will say that if you want to engage in this thrilling story, just buy the books.

I just have to say this is just what I thought of the acting and cinematography.We had to watch this in English class and then do some assignments based on it afterwords. It was really hard to pay attention because the acting was so damn bad!! You can't take them seriously at all. The graphics aren't the best either. Why Helen Mirren aspired to be in this movie, I don't know. She was the best actor in the whole movie (no surprise there.) If they got better actors and and changed the whole look of the background and animations it might of been enjoyable to watch. But for me, a 15 y/o it was too cheesy for me, maybe a younger person might of enjoyed this, but I certainly did not.

OK I thought this film would be a story about someone/people who can bring things out of other dimensions.Therefore all good hearted writers have an unknown gift from GOD to create and bring to life stories, as soon as the ink hits the paper.No one knows that all fictional stories are actually made real by GOD and given their own dimension. Just like Einstein's theory suggests there is the possibility of multiple universes/dimensions etc. Thus a chosen few people (known as "Silver Tongues" in the film) have the power to transport objects/living things from their written dimension to Earth. This is done by just reading out loud the text. However it was a lot more unbelievable than my adaption is. Although the acting is OK not great by any means but acceptable. I found "Andy Serkis" who played the baddie, really good and captivating.Paul Bettany and Brendan Fraser almost live up to their well known great acting abilities. I would give their performances 7/10. Even though they both have the capabilities to produce a level of 11/10.Hellen Mirren, got easy money. Her character was not even needed in the film, for her role and performance was pointless. Her acting in this for me was the worst. It was just too unconvincing and forced, not to mention annoying at times.It did have some mildly interesting effects. I especially enjoyed the shadow at the end. Yet to be fair could have been drawn and done as good using 3d animation workshop software on any fairly powerful home computer.I consider it worth watching, just to see the crazy creatures/objects come to life. When they bring them out of the classic books we all remember. If you like happy endings this film has the perfect example of one. Which I really enjoyed but hey I'm a big softy at heart, he-he.All in all a worthy family film. When you have seen everything else, you might as well give this a go! It's certainly NOT to be avoided. :D