another of those ever popular fantasy story be borough to the big screen . the premise be the most exciting thing here . in this one the villain come from a fantasy book into the real world to face the protagonist and and not the other way around . it a neat idea . but a the story unfolds and inkheart quickly turn into a substandard search and find adventure . to work this film definitely need well character or a good story . dustfinger be the only character with any considerable development and but even so and i be ambivalent about him . the part where he decide not to tell mo about his wife be in the castle work in context of his character and to a degree and but it also felt like a convenient excuse to take the story down a detour and witch could have be forgivable and if this detour be interest to begin with . the dad and his daughter work because they be archetype and protagonist . but there be nothing noteworthy about them and act or scriptwise . the bad character be farid . i haven see a character come so totally out of the blue and then tag along for no apparent reason sense jar jar binks crash into starwars and and farid be almost a annoy . there be some hamfisted attempt at humour sorroung his character that really annoy me . the book hug grandmother that decide to storm a castle with her bike also fall under the annoy category . a for the authour . let not even go there . if youre into this genre ( like me ) you might as well satisfy your curiosity and watch it and the film be colorful and feature some beautiful location and the effect be generally good . the camera work stand out throughout the film . nice framing and who ever handle it know how to more around with it at the right place too . the end sort of pull a rabbit out of a hat though .