Inkheart ...fantasy/action

I agree with Laura when she says that it is complicated to determine a piece of work’s genre. However, as Jacques Derrida proposed in this text by Daniel Chandler, “A text cannot belong to no genre, it cannot be without genre.” Every text participates in one or several genres; there is no genre-less text.
On such film with countless genres is Ink-heart directed by Ian Softley. The movie is based on a book about events surrounding another book. Author Cornelia Funke’s best-selling children’s novel is a family friendly tale about a book “doctor” whose story telling skills possess the power to transport the characters he reads aloud, to the real world and vice versa. This of course becomes a problem when a nefarious villain from the book “Inkheart” emerges. From my description you can already get the feeling that this is some sort of fantasy/action movie. It can even be compared to in ranks among those movies such as The Pagemaster.
One scene of the film that definitely confirms my argument is when Maggie, the doctor’s daughter is found to have her father’s gift and is then forced to read from the book “Inkheart” to summon the dark and evil ‘Shadow.’ Like The Pagemaster, books in this movie are again used as weapons, shields and escape routes. In another scene they are captured and being carried to some sort of dungeon. On their way they see characters from books, like the Minotaur, a unicorn and flying monkeys. This is a definite sign of an unlocked fantasy world behind every book in the movie. The action genre in this movie is played out beautifully by the fighting scenes and the scene where the ‘Shadow’ character is in play. Fighting scenes and other intense scenes like these are expected in action flicks. I’ve used two genres to describe this movie and in many ways they complement each other. A text or a movie cannot be classed within genre like plants and animals are classed in a genus or species.