Mama movie rating 3 stars out of 5
Recommended for Age of primary school and above
Starring Helen Mirren, Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis
Director Iain Softley
Duration 1 hr. 43 min.
MPAA Rating PG for fantasy adventure action, some scary moments and written language.
Genre Adventure Family Fantasy
Folchart Mo (Brendan Fraser) was born with a special power everything you read aloud comes to life. I did not know of his talent, until he read the book Inkheart to his daughter, Meggie (Eliza Hope Bennett). Several characters in the book was presented to him, the evil villain Capricorn (Andy Serkis), some of his henchmen, and a fire juggler named Dustfinger (Paul Bettany). And as if the characters are dropped from the page and Mo threat to his life is not bad enough, his wife Resa (Sienna Guillory) was transported tragically in the book. When the book is destroyed, Mo spends his life traveling around the world Meggie in search of another copy of Inkheart so you can bring your wife back to the real world.
Inkheart, in essence, is a fantasy tale about a fairy tale. The idea of ??reading stories to life is intriguing. With all the wonderful books and characters in literary history, Inkheart has the potential to be a great film masterfully woven intimidating. However, the writer and director took the easy route, giving the public a mediocre story with an ending underutilized disorderly characters.
While Inkheart is a family film acceptable, true movie lovers will feel cheated and confused. For example, Meggie has an English accent, although we are led to believe it has never been solved anywhere, and his father has an American accent. Maybe I’m a little picky about accents, but when a director has the ability to create a world for us to get into the simplest elements, should click. Eliza Hope Bennett is an excellent Meggie, and her accent is charming, but was vaguely out of place.
Helen Mirren plays Elinor rude Aunt Meggie, who lives a life of solitude, escaping into novels instead of putting one foot in the real world. His character is very interesting, especially when she gives up her solitude to help Mo and Meggie, but Helen Mirren’s performance is nothing above the stage acting community. I was thoroughly annoyed with her for the final. As for Brendan Fraser, it does not add anything new to the big screen since his latest film, Journey to the Center of the Earth.
PROS
Although Inkheart author creates a character Dustfinger as cowardly and selfish, he learns that he may choose to be different, that our actions and options to change what we are and are not preconceived notions of ourselves.
Dustfinger is redeemed in the end, be a disinterested person. However, this is only represented by him, committing a selfless act alone. In my opinion, this is not enough to convince me that he has changed, but a selfless act is better than nothing.
Mo is always the protection of Meggie, much to his regret. But he is a wonderful father figure, risking his life for it several times. He has also pledged to restore his family, for years to find his lost wife and meet her.
CONS
Dustfinger Huron obtained the keys to an old wrinkled witch split. I thought it was tasteless and inappropriate. The villains are fun and not afraid of truth, however, are handled knives and one short arm of Mo in a flashback. The shadow creature may ultimately be too much for the little ones. There’s a scene turned violent, where men are drawn into the cyclone, and a very mild language.
GENERAL
Inkheart is a moderately entertaining film of the family, but nothing more.