Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Tintin and Sakharine have one each and the villain intends to use the glass-shattering top Cs of operatic soprano the Milanese Nightingale to secure the third. With aid from bumbling Interpol agents the Thompson Twins our boy hero, his dog and the captain must prevent Sakharine from obtaining all three scrolls to fulfil the prophesy that only the last of the Haddocks can discover the treasure's whereabouts.
Intrepid reporter Tintin and Captain Haddock set off on a treasure hunt for a sunken ship commanded by Haddock's ancestor.
I know it is &quot;performance capture&quot; and all, but there are still animators at work here. And they did a terrific job too. Before the Oscar nominations went out, I had one clear winner: This movie as Best Animated Feature. Didn&#39;t happen, because it wasn&#39;t even nominated. Puss&#39;n&#39;Boots was on the other hand. Really? Nothing against that movie, it&#39;s OK, but nominated for best Picture? Really? <br/><br/>But back to this. Not only one of the better animated (actually the best I remember seeing in 2011) movies I saw last year, but also one of the best movies in 2011 period. Spielberg did it again. I can&#39;t explain how he did it, but the movie works very well. Great comedy and action value, the set pieces work very good. I even remembered some of the comics (characters) from way back when I read some of Tin Tins comics.<br/><br/>Of course Tintin and the other characters do have many names in different countries. In Germany he&#39;s called Tim (the Dog is called Struppi). The original name of the dog also seems to be Milou and not Snowy (though I have no clue what that would translate to). But no matter what you call them, this movie is awesome
When I first saw the ads for this film my heart sank. It&#39;s been years of watching every beloved story from my childhood get butchered by Hollywood. Now Tintin? Damn! I didn&#39;t like the character design–why didn&#39;t they just reproduce Herge&#39;s characters in conventional animation? I felt sure they were going to make Tintin into some gloomy anti-hero with a tragic back story like the pouting brat in the last Indiana Jones movie–ugh!<br/><br/>Then I read a New Yorker review–a very negative review–complaining that the movie was non-stop action. &quot;What&#39;s Tintin&#39;s motivation? What&#39;s his background? What does he want?&quot; the review asked. And I thought &quot;Maybe Spielberg really did capture the naive spirit of Tintin.&quot;<br/><br/>Did he ever. The Tintin stories are globe-trotting adventure at its innocent best, and so is this movie. No, Tintin doesn&#39;t suffer from angst and self-doubt–he&#39;s Action Boy! What&#39;s his motivation? An unquenchable thirst for adventure, that&#39;s what.<br/><br/>It takes a few minutes to get used to the character design, but you soon realize it&#39;s perfect, nothing like the creepy waxworks of Polar Express. I realized that two hours of looking at Herge&#39;s simple line work and flat colors would have been tedious. And the more naturalistic figures help to make the adventure thrilling.<br/><br/>The movie gets all the little things right, too. Captain Haddock&#39;s drinking is handled well, played for laughs but with a serious side. The secondary characters are great, especially the thuggish Allen. Even the Thompson twins, who got kind of annoying in the comics, have the right weight.<br/><br/>There are some sly references to other Peter Jackson and Spielberg films, good voice work all around, and even a cameo appearance by Herge himself. Snowy is just perfect–you feel he could have stolen the show, but Spielberg, who usually dumps on cuteness by the truckload, restrains himself admirably. For creative use of animation, this movie ranks with Toy Story or The Incredibles.<br/><br/>I wouldn&#39;t want every adventure movie to be this simple, but I&#39;m glad this one came out just as it did. If you can&#39;t have fun watching Tintin, you don&#39;t know what fun is.
Busy, busy. That's The Adventures of Tintin boiled down to its essence.
It was decided to set the film in 1949 but we cheated a little because no new cars were being developed during the war. We really wanted to use vehicles like 2CV Citroëns and all the cool cars seen in the original books. So the year 1953 became the absolute cut off point for objects and vehicles. Past 1953 and it starts looking like the 1950s and not like the source books anymore. No. In the original book Sakharine is a mysterious—but harmless—model ship collector who persistently irritates Tintin by trying to buy the Unicorn model off of him. The Bird Brothers were Tintin&#39;s enemies in the original story. Yes and no. While Haddock was an alcoholic in the original book, he was much more violent and quite scary when he got drunk. At one point he even broke a bottle over Tintin&#39;s head. In the film his alcoholism is toned down greatly, becoming more comic than violent.
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