Inkheart

After getting pushed around due to that Damn Narnia movie (yes the lion is Jesus, blech) and the writers strike, Inkheart was finally released this year. I never read the book it was based on, or even heard of it. A German story about a family with a "silver tongue."

Did I like the movie? Hard to tell at this point. I didn't hate it, but it had quite a few holes that perhaps would be properly answered by reading the book. It tells of a man, Mortimer, who had a gift. When he read a book aloud, what he read would leave the book and come to our world. There is a catch, everything that leaves a book is replaced by something from our world. After reading the book inkheart to his wife and baby daughter, the fire juggler arrived and Mortimer's wife, Resa disappeared.

Swearing never to read aloud again, the father and daughter travel for years to find copies of Inkheart in hopes of getting Resa back. Followed by the fire juggler who is desperate to get back into the book, a copy is finally found and the family is abducted by the villain of Inkheart, Capricorn.

Capricorn was been having creatures, people and riches read from various books by others with the gift of the silver tongue. Capricorn destroys the book that Mortimer found and puts them in the dungeons. After freeing themselves with the tornado from The Wizard of Oz the group search for the author in hopes that he has a copy himself and to destroy Capricorn and bring Resa back from the written page.

It was a fairly enjoyable film, but I found that it was not as engrossing as other movies of this genre.