The Adventures of Tintin

A seemingly ideal combination of Spielberg and Hergé's comic book albums "The Crab with the Golden Claws," "The Secret of the Unicorn" and "Red Rackham's Treasure." Unfortunately, it used motion capture animation that ruined the whole thing. Personally, I remain faithful to the series and the old 1947 puppet film. (29/03/2022)

The boyish dream of Spielberg, who is only brought down by unnecessary megalomania, which sometimes kills space for subtle finesse. But other than that, I've been riding this wave from the beginning like a little bastard. The Adventures of Tintin is a beautifully simple, joyful and straightforward film about which there is no point in discussing anything at all. Steven created something that once held me breathless for hours and hours while reading adventure novels. A beautiful film. (26/10/2011)

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 visually perfect, fun-filled and innocent-looking adventure ride that in many ways looks like Idiana Jones in animated form. The action scenes are first-class and richly compensate for the not entirely believable story, which copies perhaps a thousand and one fairytales read to children at bedtime. As with Spielberg's other films, I was literally overjoyed while watching Tintin, my eyes and ears were fully satisfied, and since I wasn't expecting anything other than highly commercial popcorn entertainment, a full rating is firmly in place. (17/04/2012)

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)