Saw Inkheart, since there were ripples on the kid-lit circuit about it, but I didn’t like the premise that much so I thought I’d wait for the movie. Indeed, you had to really accept a lot of silly things, like the way only worthy literary sources were included. Seriously, all the protagonists had to do was get a Superman novelisation, read him into being and all their problems would be dealt with quite easily. It would’ve been an interesting power to see taken to extremes, but that wasn’t how the story went, and it made the whole thing seem quite shallow.
Still, it was lovely visually, the thief and the daughter were quite adorable characters, Andy Serkis and Jim Broadbent gave lazy but effective performances and Brendan Fraser was more likeable than in The Mummy (plus seeing him on Graham Norton afterwards helped). Paul Bettany was great as always.
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