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Ink­heart is the story of a man who finds he has the power to bring char­ac­ters from sto­ries he reads aloud out of the book and into the world of the liv­ing. His dis­cov­ery, how­ever is tragic as it brings sto­ry­book vil­lains into the real world and leads to the loss of his wife. Bren­dan Fraser plays the role of the ‘Sil­ver­tongue’ who searches des­per­ately for the pos­si­bil­ity of bring­ing his wife back but the vil­lains he has freed like it here in the real world and have no inten­tion of return­ing to the book. Paul Bet­tany plays the hero of the book Inkeart, try­ing to find a way back into the book. The main vil­lain of this piece is played by Andy Serkis, (you remem­ber Gollum?).

It was a pleas­ant sur­prise to see Bren­dan Fraser in a role that’s not some silly over the top action movie. He’s quite lik­able in this film. In fact the entire film is quite lik­able. This is a fam­ily movie so it has some­thing for the young ones as well as the chap­er­on­ing adults includ­ing appear­ances by clas­sic char­ac­ters and crea­tures of lit­er­a­ture. It’s a fan­tasy adven­ture so you sus­pend your belief going into it and while at some times it is quite pre­dictable, the jour­ney is still fun. Bren­dan Fraser kindly moves aside for the vil­lain and hero of the Ink­heart book to shine a lit­tle brighter than him in this movie, another depar­ture from what we have seem from him lately. While it may never achieve the sta­tus of  the clas­sic fam­ily fan­tasy adven­ture, it is enjoy­able and worth rent­ing for fam­ily night. I give it 4 out of 5 marks.