Inkheart, Inkheart, Inkheart
Who among you have read a book and wished it was real?
I want to see Inkheart for the premise alone. Inkheart offers the type of storyline that is so simple and appealing, I am jealous I didn’t think of it myself. I’ve spent a lifetime reading books wishing certain characters were real (Mara Jade) and thankful others weren’t (Hannibal Lector).
Inkheart is a family friendly fantasy adventure about a man and his daughter reading books and bringing the characters to life, you know, that old chestnut. It stars none other than everyone’s favorite family friendly fantasy adventure star, Brendan Fraser (been crushing on him since School Ties).
Over the holidays, I had the opportunity to watch two Brendan Fraser movies: The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and Journey to the Center of the Earth. They were about what you’d expect: quick action sequences, seemingly indomitable obstacles overcome with surprising ease, and witty words from Mr. Fraser. And I have to admit, I loved every minute of them. Let me just say, any movie that brings in a team of fighting yetis without any explanation whatsoever is top notch entertainment in my book. That is what all movies need: more yetis.
Inkheart may not have yetis, but it does have unicorns and ferrets. In other words, Inkheart is giving me the two animals my third grade self wished to have as pets rolled up into one big happy film, with a shirtless Paul Bettany playing with fire to boot. Along with Brendan Fraser and Paul Bettany (and the unicorn and ferret), Inkheart co-stars Helen “The Queen” Mirren and Jim “Bridget Jones’ dad” Broadbent, as well as Andy “Gollum” Serkis as the bad guy.
Inkheart comes out January 23, and I can already tell you, Inkheart is awesome. Lack of yetis notwithstanding.
Official Inkheart website here.
Enjoy the preview:
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Ilsa and I love those books! We saw this trailer and both went “no no no” First of all it’s TWO books. Second, we were both going, “What? That’s not right!” So we’ll pass. But I am sooo stoked that my daughter, who’s 11 now and starting to roll her eyes at me and was always so annoyed when I went on and on about how they shouldn’t make movies out of books I liked, agreed with me! It was a fun bonding moment.
See the movie; I don’t care. But also check out the books. Inkheart is first and then Inkspell. Inkdeath is out but we don’t have it yet…sigh.
Oh Riley, we’re excited about that one too. I haven’t seen the Mummy movies because I’m a scary movie wimp. Even if I DID watch it, it would be thru my eyelids or fingers, which kind of defeats the purpose.
But if there are yetis….? I might have to make an exception.
I loved Journey. It was funny and exciting and illogical and Brendan Fraser was CUTE. (I’ve been crushing since that caveman movie with Pauly Shore.)
Wow sounds great. I hadn’t heard of this one. I plan to see it now.
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Inkheart is not a bad film, but not too wonderful either