Pluskylang Great Film overall

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

mrreymysteryo It is good movie with good story and the best of use of motion capture 1.30 hours with full of fun reccommend to eveeyone

Mihai Toma This is the story of a well known boy, Tintin, who works on an article regarding a model war ship and its history which ultimately gets him into a lot of trouble. While the ship itself is rather insignificant, it contains a secret message that leads to a priceless treasure which lays at the bottom of the sea. Together with a famous but drunk Captain, he must solve the mystery and find the missing treasure before the bad guys get to it first.It's a cliché story, featuring a bunch of stupid, idiotic and mentally retarded characters who generally try to reach their goal, if they remember which that is of course. It's as linear and as predictable as it gets, nothing and nobody from it managing to stand out of the misery. This movie has one upside, a very big one. It is absolutely superb animated, in a lot of scenes being difficult to tell the difference between it and reality.Despite this major advantage, they decided to rule out most laws of physics, a lot of mind boggling events almost shatter your intelligence. I understand that it is, despite all, an animation which isn't supposed to be realistic, but when you do everything you can to draw it as realistic as possible and tell a plausible and apparently serious story, you cannot insult the general public like that. I mean, how can you tell me that a drunk person can burp inside an empty airplane tank and give it enough fuel to continue almost as nothing happened and even after the same plane crashes into the desert, it continues to spin it's propeller although buried into the sand...It leaves you speechless. The finale is as stupid as the rest of the movie, leaving room for an upcoming sequel, unfortunately.To sum it up, a stupid movie in every single way which receives five stars from me only because of its gorgeous appearance and nothing else. A huge disappointment!

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.

zkonedog Though not a movie I would usually be drawn too (it looked a bit unabashedly "kiddie" for my tastes), it came highly recommend from a family member obsessed with Spielberg filmmaking. I gave it a try and, while it won't top any of my "best-of" lists, it did provide a great deal of adventure, drama, action, and humor, pleasantly surprising me in the process.For a basic plot summary, "Adventures of Tintin" focuses on the young Tintin (voice of Jamie Bell), a kind of Indiana Jones-type adventurer along with trusty sidekick dog Snowy. When young Tintin buys a model ship at an auction one day, he is suddenly thrust into a race for treasure involving a drunken sea captain (voice of Andy Serkis) and his nefarious foe (voice of Daniel Craig).I would say that the long-lasting effects of this film will be two-fold:First, I would still categorize it as very much a children's movie. It could probably best be described as "Indiana Jones for the elementary set" in terms of its combination of all genre elements. Had I first viewed this film as a child, I know that I would have watched it again and again! For adults, of course, it also functions as escapism.Also, the somewhat controversial animation (is this middle ground needed between reality and Pixar-like animation?) is truly a sight to behold. I honestly am not any sort of expert on the subject and thus have no predictions for the future of the format, but the visuals are as top- notch as anything you'll see anywhere else. It is just...different.Overall, "Adventures of Tintin" just seems like Spielberg's childhood epic. Perhaps the film can be appreciated even more if one has read the comic novel stories it is based on (I didn't even know about this until after the viewing!). On the whole, though, a very entertaining flick that makes for great family viewing.