Inkheart - La leggenda di Cuore d'Inchiostro

A. O. Scott

“Inkheart,” a muddled film adaptation of a children’s best seller by Cornelia Funke, celebrates the magic of books, but it can also be taken as a cautionary tale. One of its main bibliophiles, Mortimer Folchart (Brendan Fraser), known as Mo, possesses the marvelous power to animate the written word. When he reads aloud, the story literally comes alive, as characters and objects pop (or rather tremble) from the page into the real world. Impressive magic, to be sure, but it costs poor Mo his wife (Sienna Guillory) and forces him to give up reading bedtime stories to his young daughter, Meggie (Eliza Hope Bennett). [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (3728 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 23 Gennaio 2009