Whats playing the week of January 23, 2009

Movie night went on the road this week. The mommy of the house wanted to see the new movie Inkheart and then decided to toss dinner into the mix.

Mo did not enjoy the movie all that much, it is more the Harry Potter crowd than Kung Fo Panda crowd. Meaning too much plot for a six year old. We parents thought it was okay but not as good as we would have liked.

Brendan Frazier plays a man who repairs antique books. It is his cover for dragging his daughter around Europe looking for a book that is quite rare. It also allows him to stay away from reading out loud, you see he has a magical power called 'Silvertongue' that brings whatever he reads to life. One night several years ago while reading a book called Inkheart, he brought characters out of the book and his wife went into it and he has been trying to find another copy of the rare book to release her.

The movie has a very strong, though wasted cast. Paul Bettnay, Helen Mirren, Andy Sirkis (golem for LOTR) and Tom Broadbent all perfrom very well. They are however wasted on a script that only dabbles on what the power could provide. For example, why bring the tornado from Wizard of Oz to life, why not bring one of the witches? Things like this, I think frustrated many of the people in the theater that night.

Dissappointed but glad we saw it nevertheless.