Mortimer "Mo" Folchart and his 12-year-old daughter, Meggie, share an extraordinary gift for bringing characters from books to life when they read aloud. But there is a danger: when a character is brought to life from a book, a real person disappears into its pages. On one of their trips to a secondhand book shop, Mo locates a book he's been searching for since Meggie was three years old, when her mother, Resa, vanished into its mystical world. But Mo's plan to use the book to find and rescue Resa is thwarted when Capricorn, the evil villain of Inkheart, kidnaps Meggie and, discovering she has inherited her father's gift, demands that she bring to life his most powerful ally, the Shadow. Determined to rescue his daughter and send the fictional characters back where they belong, Mo assembles a small group of friends and family--some from the real world, some from the pages of books--and embarks on a daring and perilous journey to set things right.Although Brendan Fraser really has become one of the most annoying, type cast actors, I was still able to enjoy this movie. It wasn't a great movie by any means. It was definitely watchable though. Even though, Helen Mirren was more annoying than Brendan Fraser and you pretty much knew everything that was going to happen - it accomplished the one really important thing for a fantasy movie to do. It took you to the other world and got you in to it. Pulling that off in fantasy movies is more important that getting you hooked in to the characters. If they would have done both - I would have absolutely loved this movie. Pulling off the one made it enjoyable enough to watch though.
I would somewhat recommend people checking this out. Kids will like it and the parents won't bu writhing in pain watching it with them.
