Inkheart is virtually a two-hour promotion about the "power of books" and how your imagination can bring them to life.

Mo (Brendan Fraser) is a guy called a "silvertongue"; someone who can bring characters, etc. from books to life simply by reading the book aloud. After accidentally freeing a villain name Capricorn years ago from the book "Inkheart," and Mo's wife Resa goes missing, he and his daughter Meggie go on an adventure to defeat Capricorn and find Resa.

Sounds innocent, yeah? Innocent, and boring. What starts off as a pretty straightforward and interesting movie turns into a heaping bowl of chaos and confusion. Mo and Meggie get help from Dustfinger, a character from "Inkheart" who can create fire on command. It's not until the end that we see him use it in a productive manner. I screamed at him the entire movie; YOU CAN MAKE FIRE...FREAKIN USE IT TO BURN CAPRICORN AND HIS GOONS TO A CRISP YOU JERK!

Mo's aunt Elinor (Helen Mirren) also tags along. Why Helen, why would you agree to take on such a bad character? Elinor's dialogue is bad, and her character is a waste. Midway through the movie Elinor decided she was going to just go home and I thought "Damn, it's bad when your characters decide to bail on you before the end of the movie." She eventually returns and she's even worse than before.

Elinor isn't the only "waste of space" character. They all are to an extent, except for maybe Meggie. Several times Mo or other silvertongues bring characters to life. Capricorn has a collection of them at his castle ranging from minotaurs, to flying monkeys. Even Toto from "The Wizard of Oz" is there through a good portion of the movie. The ending gave me a slap-you-in-the-face feeling. They sputtered along for two hours to do something that could've been done in a few minutes. I spent way too much time calling characters idiots because their screw ups were there to obviously prolong the plot longer than it should've been.

It's great that a movie promotes reading as hard as this one does. However, I'd expect a movie about the power and eloquence of books to be less sporadic and more clear. Take the passion the creators obviously have for books and place that passion inside the characters, not along side them through characters from some of the most popular books of all time. Oh, and Jennifer Connelly appears very briefly in the movie a couple of times. Her eyebrows now officially scare me.

RATING: 2.5 out of 10
LoLz Factor: 1 out of 10. "You're as sour as goat's urine."