Inkheart

Dec 23

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4/10 (-3)

What is it with potentially good movies being made into crap these days??? Huh?! I mean this is the second one I’ve reviewed lately that has been a big disappointment.

I wanted to watch this movie the first time I saw the trailer. Then I read the book, saw the trailer again and groaned in agony. There was no way this movie could live up to the book. I should have waited. It felt like a made-for-tv movie as opposed to a Hollywood film. I must first tell you something I liked about it though. I enjoyed Capricorn – which I wasn’t expecting at all. Andy Serkis was a deliciously evil villain. Ok, now that that’s out of the way…

The bad, well I could go on ad nauseum about what it lacks. Instead of doing that, I will simply point out what I believe to be the single biggest failure of this movie – the casting. Brendan Fraser should not have been Mortimer and Paul Bettany should not have been Dustfinger. The casting was perfectly reversed. Paul should have been Mo, and Fraser should have been Dustfinger – it would immediately have been at least 2 points better on my scale if that had been the case. I understand when big name stars want to do a certain character, but for that to succeed, the rest of the movie has to be cast well, and this one wasn’t – not in any way shape or form.

Don’t bother with this movie, read the book instead!

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