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Inkheart Reviews
| Original Score: C+ | May 6, 2011
Readers who want to exercise their imaginations may prefer to stick to the written word. If a story gets boring, you can always skip a few pages and move on. In the cinema there isn't much choice.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2009
The message is so muddied by the film's dizzying changes in pitch and tone that a lot of young readers aren't going to know what to think.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2009
The aesthetics of Inkheart are part of what make it such a surprisingly enjoyable experience to watch.
Full Review | Jan 23, 2009
[Has] plenty of thrills, a smart although oft-confusing script, delightful scenery-chewing scenes from stalwarts like Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent and Andy Serkis, and a gorgeous high-concept visual style.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 23, 2009
Seemingly intended as a celebration of the power of books, it's an occasionally incoherent, sleep-inducing picture that reduces narrative to mere mechanics.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 23, 2009
Over and over again, characters in Inkheart wax eloquent on the power of books. But there's nothing in the movie as haunting or as compelling as the sound they make when they speak for themselves.
Full Review | Jan 23, 2009
A flea market of fairy tales and hocus-pocus, Inkheart makes as much sense as an inkblot.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 23, 2009
The film's storybook Alpine vistas are lovely to behold, and bits of humor pop out in welcome moments. Other than that, it never quite springs to life as intended -- not in your kitchen, and not on screen.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 23, 2009
As an adventure flick, Inkheart is not all that adventurous. It goes to places and falls on tropes that many fantasy films -- most notably but not exclusively the Lord of the Rings trilogy -- have covered.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 23, 2009
Even if it can't quite conjure up the movie magic it intends, Inkheart does serve as public service announcement promoting literacy. And as such, your kids could do a lot worse at the cineplex.
| Original Score: C | Jan 23, 2009
Much of this comes across as a labor of love, with a classy cast frolicking in Iain Softley's whimsical direction of a lushly imagined adaptation by David Lindsay-Abaire.
| Original Score: B | Jan 23, 2009
It's handsomely mounted, with supporting turns by Helen Mirren as the girl's flinty aunt and Jim Broadbent as the author of the book that caused so much fuss.
| Jan 23, 2009
Inkheart illustrates an obvious problem with making a movie about the joys of reading when the movie made is labored and sludgy looking: Why bother seeing it if you can stay home and read a book instead?
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 23, 2009
Instead, much like a forgotten piece of pulp fiction, this film evaporates instantly from memory, the book closing on this one's chances of success long before they even have a chance to begin.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 23, 2009
Inkheart was a busy, crowded, hugely successful book to start with....the film version retains nearly all of author Cornelia Funke's story complications. It's a mixed bag and a serious load for a movie to carry.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 23, 2009
A movie that can produce the image of Helen Mirren astride a unicorn has some claim on the audience's interest, and a movie that can make that image seem perfectly uninteresting is in some serious trouble.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 23, 2009
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 23, 2009
Despite its interest in creative expression, Inkheart's hurried pace, shorthand characterizations and regularly scheduled set-pieces obliterate all but the faintest traces of lucid thought.
| Jan 22, 2009