cppguy First, this is basically done in classic Saturday morning cartoon style. After all, that was its budget and target. It's a mistake to expect it to be a Disney movie. Next, it's better than most animations in its class... especially since it benefits from keeping all the plots and comedic details of the original books. The 19th century adolescent delighted to the tales by Mark Twain and those of us adolescents of the middle 20th century got Tintin and related to the adventures in the books. I only recently discovered that this series existed on Netflix and I'm happily reminiscing some of the stories I knew and freshly enjoying some of the stories I missed.Note: I own several of the books (including a couple in Esperanto) and I felt the animation was quite faithful to the original art. I'm not quite sure why others are saying it's not.At the time of this writing, the series has an 8.5 rating on IMDb with over 4000 votes. If it were a movie, it easily would be in the IMDb top 250. If you're not yet a fan, have a watch of the TV series, recent movie, or any of the books. You'll soon be hooked.

Wizard-8 First of all, I feel I should say that I am a HUGE fan of the original Tintin comic books. Since I was a small child, I have read them over and over. So you can imagine that I was thrilled when I first heard that they were adapting Tintin to a television series.However, when I finally saw the animated series, I was extremely disappointed. The first problem I had is evident right away when watching any episode - the animation and the colors. Yes, I know this show didn't have the budget of a feature film, but I thought that the animation was jerky. As for the colors, while the color pops out in any Tintin comic, here the colors are bland and washed out (especially in the background art.)The show could have worked despite the inadequate art, but if you stick with watching it, more problems become evident. The original stories have been severely cut down to fit two (or sometimes just one!) episode. As a result, much of the detail (story-wise or comic material) that made the comics so extra special just isn't there. I don't understand why they didn't follow the original stories more closely, especially since that would mean more episodes made, which would have made the show easier to syndicate world-wide, and more money would have been made.If you want to see a screen adaptation of Tintin, I would suggest you either see the Spielberg movie or the live action "Tintin And The Mystery Of The Golden Fleece". While the first movie took some liberties with the original Tintin stories, and the latter movie used a brand new story, those movies capture the spirit of Tintin much better than this animated TV series.

atomius let's forget the comics for a minute, because the story is practically the same. This show features the young reporter turned adventurer tintin and his dog snowy, with the other comic stars Captain Haddock, Prof. Calculus etc. in an animated version of the comics. The animation itself is nice, not elaborating or becoming too modern, and keeping the essentials of the comics in place. The plots, for those who haven't read the comics, involve all manner of events from coin forgery to stolen jewels, and the adventure is as entertaining now as it was when published. The opening credits with the scenes involving the train and instances from various episodes, with the dangerous and anticipatory feel of the music is very nice. All in all a good cartoon.

Freedomisanillusion This show came back on TV a few months ago, and I have been watching it religiously. I used to watch this show as a small child, and I loved it, but coming back to it after almost ten years (I was five when it was first on) of only reading the books, it is very disappointing. That's not to say that I don't love the show, though. But (if you can get your hands on these episodes) compare the Cigars of the Pharaoh episode to the Shooting Star episode - Cigars of the Pharaoh - creepy, mysterious, surreal - like the book. The Shooting Star - sappy, obnoxious, boring - very much not like the book