The Adventures of Tintin

2011 "This year, discover how far adventure will take you."
7.3| 1h47m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 20 December 2011 Released
Producted By: Paramount
Country: United States of America
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Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret. As Tintin is drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine suspects him of stealing a priceless treasure. Tintin and Snowy, with the help of salty, cantankerous Captain Haddock and bumbling detectives, Thompson and Thomson, travel half the world, one step ahead of their enemies, as Tintin endeavors to find the Unicorn, a sunken ship that may hold a vast fortune, but also an ancient curse.

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invisibleunicornninja For some reason we had to watch this movie in French class in 8th grade.Rating - How the hell is this movie rated PG? I was under the impression that graphic depictions of blood and violence weren't appropriate in children's movies. I'm not saying that kids movies can't have violence and/or stakes to the plot, but this movie gets pretty bloody. There are a lot of scenes in this movie with machine guns as well. There is a scene where an old man gets shot to death, then has to write out his final words in blood. Based on the overall content, this movie probably would've worked better as a life-action adults' film. All you would have to do is make the plot slightly more complex and it would've been better. Plot - The story is a simple, kinda predictable crime story. Its ok. Pretty entertaining, but the runtime is a bit long. Characters - The dog is the most intelligent character in this movie. The human characters are all really dumb. Animation - The animation in this movie is absolutely phenomenal. Scene Transitions - Almost every transition is the same thing - the camera zooms in on an object and it fades to a similar object somewhere else. One example of this is a boat in the ocean fading to a foot stepping in a puddle. I have nothing against this type of transition, but when almost every scene transition is the same thing it gets visually boring. I spent a lot of the movie complaining about this along with some of my classmates. Overall, this movie isn't as entertaining as it could be. It could've been a lot shorter, which would've made it less boring. The animation was great, but most of this movie is really dumb.
texlaw-04452 Since seeing the movie, there has been one thing that has continually nagged at me about Spielberg's treatment of Tintin. I have loved Tintin books for around 40 years so you have to bear in mind this is written from a long loved Tintin Fan's perspective. Interestingly, I have also long loved Spielberg's movies with one of my favourites being his first, the haunting masterpiece, Duel. So what did Spielberg get so wrong with the movie? To answer this you have look at what is the book series appeal. It is 3 things. The story lines/scripts, the Ligne claire artwork and the character design. It is the character design that Spielberg fails at for one reason only. In the books, every character, without exception, has a cuteness about them. Every character from the main cast to the most evil villain has a cuteness about their face. Admittedly this cuteness did decrease with the later books(compare Dr Ridgewell from Broken Ear to the same in Picaros)however they were still cute characters. In the movie, it is like Spielberg has gone out of his way to make a lot of the characters ugly and grotesque. The one's that especially come to mind are Haddock and the Thompsons. Compared to their book counterparts they are ugly and command no compassion or empathy especially when in the books their cuteness offsets their character's short comings. Tintin only just escapes the ugly and grotesque label however compared to the book, he is still a lot harsher. This can also be attributed to the dead eyes that Spielberg did not get right. Additionally the storyline and splitting up of story elements was also disappointing but could have been forgiven if the characters had not been destroyed.
Bill Slocum A kidnapping and a mutiny kick off the start of what becomes a dangerous and profitable journey for that most famous of Belgian boy detectives and his loyal fox terrier, Snowy.What you get in the end is minor Spielberg and minor Tintin. At least its heart is in the right place.As a drink-plagued captain with a bulbous nose tells his young friend: "You care about something, you fight for it. You hit a wall, you push through it."Here's hoping they follow their own advice and come up with a long- awaited sequel!Revisiting the joys of childhood can be a perilous experience, and so it proves here, even if what's good outweighs what's bad. Director Steven Spielberg serves up an enjoyable lark of a cartoon adventure featuring that marvel of European comics, Tintin. If it lacks the cohesion and charm of Hergé's original, it keeps you in your seat till the end.Spielberg's enthusiasm and talent is on bright display. Too bad the film veers more in the direction of his old "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" than Tintin himself. This adventure involves three lost scrolls which together present a key to finding a great treasure. To get them, Tintin (Jamie Bell) and his new friend, Captain Haddock (a note-perfect Andy Serkis) will have to brave the wiles of the evil Sakharine (Daniel Craig), a "sour-faced man with a sugary name."I'm not a fan of motion-capture animation, even well-done animation such as this, which is presented with a nod to Hergé's "clear-line" style. Colors are deliciously bright, with a strong sense of depth and detail in every frame. Yet the adjustment from print to film medium gives the original characters a whiff of the grotesque.After some opening credits that employ the clear-line style as well as a John Williams score and animation that seems a nod in the direction of Spielberg's classic beginning to "Catch Me If You Can," we are dropped quickly into our fast-moving story. Hergé himself pops up to say the first line of dialogue, seemingly blessing the enterprise with his presence, before Tintin finds himself in a case of mast distraction involving a search for a missing piece of a ship model.This opening section is so enjoyable you wish it could continue forever. It does last a while, all the way up to the point where Tintin and Haddock fly a seaplane in the desert wastes of Bagghar. There's a couple of welcome appearances from the Thom(p)sons (Nick Frost and Simon Pegg), and some harrowing battles that allow the director to recycle old tricks in motion-capture form.Humor, too. Asked if he can fly a plane, Tintin replies: "I interviewed a pilot once!" Haddock and Snowy later vie for a drop of the hard stuff in zero-G, a film highlight. After that, Indiana Jones takes over. The result is too crowded and chaotic by half. In a March 2015 review here, jc-osms describes his "battle fatigue" with some of the setpiece action scenes, and I heartily concur. As dams burst and derricks clash, Hergé's gentler approach is missed.But "The Adventures Of Tintin" did connect with audiences, especially outside Spielberg's native land. That provides motive for a long-promised sequel, hopefully involving second-unit director and co-producer Peter Jackson, who unlike Spielberg grew up reading Tintin and will perhaps invest a film with more of the original spirit, like he did with his Tolkien adaptations.As it is, I don't think the film stands well enough on its own to be remembered. But as a foundation stone, it could yet prove the start of something quite grand and fun for generations of Tintin fans yet unborn.
nayamamarshe This was a great movie. The animation graphics were so damn cool! They looked like real(close enough). -\x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x The story was great! 80% of the reviews that say the movie was bad is because the original story was altered. -\x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x But who cares? The story was still great! -\x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xEnjoyed watching it! . . -\x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x This really was an under rated movie. It wasn't that bad, It was AMAZING! . -\x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x -\x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x Don't believe me, go watch it yourself. The adventures were great! . THE BEST ANIMATED MOVIE EVER!