The Adventures of Tintin

James M Sandbrook

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The Adventures of Tintin

‪2011

PG - 1 Hour 47 Minutes. Animation - Action - Adventure - Family - Mystery

This movie was based on the work of Georges Prosper Remi, otherwise known as Hergé, who died in 1983. Hergé is famous for the Tintin comics and other works. I am sure that he would be impressed to see how famous his Tintin comics and their characters have become since his death and what they have done with technology to make his characters invented in his head come to life for modern generations.

My children were all big readers of Tintin comics, which hold some violence, some amazing characters that could remind someone of the mix of different characters in a Charles Dickens novel. I have enjoyed the videos and books for some years now.

Tintin, the famous boy reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy get into all sorts of crazy, interesting and exciting adventures, and are helped by many characters such as Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, the forever bumbling Thomson and Thompson, and even the opera diva Bianca Castafiore.

This movie is Tintin given a work over by Steven Spielberg who directs the movie. The colour are bright and graphics realistic, the action often fast and exciting, and the characters are as they can be remembered in the comic books.

It all starts with Tintin buying a model ship of the magnificent sailing ship, the Unicorn. As soon as our action reporter sets his youthful eyes on the ship he wants it, and so buys it but others are very persistent on wanting to buy it as well, and Tintin and snowy smell an adventure ahead of them. In Tintin’s usual stubborn fashion he refuses to sell and the adventure grows in pace and excitement.

Later on Tintin discovers the ever drunk Captain Archibald Haddock, who, becomes the best of friends with the ever so famous boy reporter. A strange pairing of characters Haddock and Tintin, but each in their own way is good in the depths of their hearts, and from their adventures a special bond is created as they both seek justice for the greater good of others, both unselfish, heroic, stubborn and determined, even if Haddocks moods get him and them all in all sorts of trouble. There is of course the villain from the comic books Allan, who is Captain Haddocks first mate turned traitor.

The bad guy, Sakharine, who captured Captain Haddock with Alan's help, is on Haddocks and Tintin's trail in his furious attempt to take them both down, clearly he has the same temperament as the infamous Red Rackham. Captain Haddock’s and Snowy's reaction to Bianca Castafiore’s singing is hilarious.

The pace, the characters, the actions will keep you interested up until the very end of the movie.

My only disappointment from the very first time I saw the movie was Tintin’s eyes they tended to look lifeless, made him kind of creepy. Probably just me, but I felt they could have done a better job with that. I have not seen the movie in 3D so maybe it looked much better like that.

Good movie.

All the best from

James M Sandbrook.

23rd of February, 2021.

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