The Adventures of Tintin

Tintin walked around me in my youth, not that he didn't, but I preferred Pif, to tell you the truth. Anyway, Tintin was still a symbol and it was expected that someone would soon start filming it. But honestly, I'll admit without any hesitation that even though Steven Spielberg took on the direction, the result is an average movie where everything is nice, but incredibly unremarkable. Not funny enough, not sympathetic enough, and certainly not adventurous enough. In other words, everything I would have wished for from a movie in this form. This animated film simply didn't make any impression on me at all, unlike other movies that no one expects anything from and are very pleasantly surprised. (03/04/2012)

Although the cleverest character of the movie is a dog, any simplicity is replaced by Spielberg’s playfulness and talent for this particular genre. State of the art technology (Zemickis’ innovation gets a good slap in the face when Spielberg manages in one movie to do what he worked on for years) is a blessing mainly in the action scenes, which are lively, full of ideas, humorous and perfect. The ending has superb gradation, including the grandiose clash of the two main antagonists on the crane. Beautiful work. (24/02/2012)

A technically perfect flick with a lot of visual ideas, but its inwardly impersonal and not funny at all. Did any of the characters work their way into your heart? Did Thomson and Thompson make you laugh? I suspect that this whole thing is just the first of the trailers for a future tourist attraction at Universal Studios. The BRILLIANT action scene in Morocco (which is the only highlight of the film apart from the opera scene) seems to indicate as much. (06/11/2011)

There was something missing... Something, something, something... But what was it? The film had pace, it was funny and suspenseful, the animation was perfect, Williams' music was great (how I miss those honest orchestral pieces) and Steven Spielberg took his proverbial toy-ness to a new level. If you're also wondering why Tintin wasn't made with live actors and in a real setting, the answer is easy: Spielberg would lose a camera that he can do absolutely anything he wants with, and that would be a huge shame. It is thanks to it that he served us a decent number of (without exaggeration) unforgettable scenes (apart from the chase in Morocco mentioned by everyone, I would like to highlight especially the breathtaking naval battle, which is equal to the craziest escapades of Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean, and the final bombastic duel of cranes), which definitely makes it worth going to the movie theatre to see this. In 3D. If someone is bothered by the bland main character, it's certainly not the film's fault - the three-dimensional Tintin is practically identical to the paper version. And that's a good thing. At least Captain Haddock, who is the main character anyway, will stand out more. So why don't I give it a full score when I'm so happy with everything? Well, it's because of the ending. I found the last minutes of the "search and find" strangely drawn out and was actually quite surprised that Tintin was "only" an hour and three quarters long. I didn't know the runtime beforehand and I guessed it to be about two hours (and a bit) by the end.__P.S. The Jaws parody was divine.__P.P.S. Hergé's digital cameo was just as good. (12/11/2011)

Tinindytin. Not many of this type of movie is made anymore/yet. “Yet" applies to a playful, ingenious, adventurous watch that sparks children’s enthusiasm; you know, that timeless Spielberg-Jones-esque dime-press entertainment. And “yet" applies to a picture where the special effects are there more than just to dazzle, but are for the good of the movie in all (creators’ and viewers’) respects. But this applies to the possibilities of non-static camera than about the excellently done 3D. The one, but absolutely fundamental hitch was the lackluster hero. Which was a problem already in the books, but here it is all the more obvious and Tintin ends up overshadowed by the Haddock/Snowy duo. OST score: 3/5 (26/10/2011)