invisibleunicornninja
I enjoyed reading the books before watching this movie. They were well written. This movie follows the books very closely and is very entertaining. Sure, there is some stupid, but at least its very well done for the most part. I would recommend watching this movie.
lennoxja
I did not enjoy this film one little bit. The story was almost incomprehensible. If this was supposed to be fantasy, it was fantasy rubbish. I kept watching in a state of disbelief, wondering how so much money and how so many talented actors were wasted on this travesty. I hoped it would get better, but it only got worse and worse and worse. I could never recommend this film under any circumstances. I feel annoyed with myself for wasting so many precious minutes of my time on this unedifying spectacle.
Fedorahawk
If you have read the book, Inkheart, your in for a disappointment. If you haven't read the book, you will still be in a very depressed state. The filming is sub-par, the story an insult to the original work, and the acting is painful, very painful. The story that the movie presents is hard to follow at times, and throws in backstories from every other side character. Some of the effects are interesting, but most of them are crap. It's a festival of uninteresting scenes, filled with bland dialogue and unimaginative chemistry between the characters. All in all this film is a depressing example of a terrible adaptation from novel to film, its bad all around.
eric_dx24
Cornelia Funke's novel was one I picked up in our school book fair not knowing what to expect for quite a sum of my measly school allowance. The first two chapters kept my brows scrunched at what exactly I was reading, but as soon as tongues started rolling out fiction into reality, I found myself riding through the pages of this wonderful story. I wish I could say the same for the film, left much of the world of Inkheart trapped in the book rather than conjured up on the big screen for fans and ordinary folks to enjoy and an ending keen on never seeing the other two books made film. The complete unfulfillment is nonetheless made up for by Paul Bettany perfectly embodying Dustfinger, Helen Mirren as the sternly captivating Elinor, and Andy Serkis as Capricorn, although the bald look wasn't as appealing. The photography was great and amusing, yet these were shots of the beauty of the country and not the conceptual world of Inkheart, which again was what the filmmakers just somehow narrowly missed.
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