Iain Softleys fantasy-adventure Inkheart, based on the 2004 novel by Cornelia Funke tries hard to be enchanting and has a number of wonderful actors including Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis and Jennifer Connelly. Its too bad it never finds the magic. Brendan Fraser plays Mo Folchart, a book lover with a gift when he reads aloud, the people and events on the written page spring to life, literally.

But when fiction blends with reality, things get dicey. Being about books and not Twitter, its a story you root for.

You just wish it had come to life.