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Tintin and Captain Haddock set off on a treasure
hunt for a sunken ship commanded by Haddock's ancestor. But someone else is in
search of the ship.
by
don @ minifie-1 : 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.
Review:
Blistering Barnacles! The adventure
film of the year!, 20 October 2011
By keuhkokala
from Finland: Having grown
up with the Tintin comic books, I was doubtful of this project. I'm not a fan of
the motion-capture technology and I feared the world created by Hergé would be
sanitized for American audiences. But there was no need to worry. Tintin is a
funny, exciting and tremendously entertaining adventure movie. It's also
Spielberg's most entertaining film since Jurassic Park.
Tintin (Jamie Bell) is a young reporter who gets tangled in the affairs of
smugglers when he buys a model ship from a scrap meet. When he gets kidnapped to
the smugglers' ship, he meets Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis). He's a pure-hearted
old drunk, who has information on a great treasure, told as a legend in his
family for generations. He just needs to get sober enough to remember it. The
adventure takes the pair to the Atlantic, Sahara, Morocco and finally back home.
Tintin lives in an unmentioned European city that could be Brussels, London or
any other one that has a sea port, really.
True to the comics, Tintin himself doesn't really have any strong
characteristics. So it stands to reason that the minor characters steal the film
again and again. Captain Haddock's alcoholism may not be suitable for the
younger children, but it provides some of the film's most hilarious jokes.
Almost as good are Nick Frost and Simon Pegg as bumbling Interpol detectives
Thompson and Thomson. Familiar faces from the comics pop up now and then, but
don't overcrowd the film. The focus is still on the main characters.
Even the 3D isn't just a distraction, as Spielberg has truly gone off his way to
make use for the technology. Action scenes are shot with a long single shot,
where the camera goes around to wild angles. There's a strong sense of being in
on the action and forgetting you even are wearing a pair of painful glasses. The
film takes a while to pick off steam at first, but after that the action varies
from pirate battles to crane fights. The most outstanding scene is the
motorcycle chase near the end, which would give Indiana Jones a run for his
money.
The film's story is faithful to the comic book, and thus ends promising more. I
hope there will be, because I was willing to follow Tintin and Haddock on new
adventures straight away! I'd say it's among the best, the most innovative
comic-book films with Sin City and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. The film is
excellent escapism from the dreary day-to-day life and it made me smile for the
rest of the day.
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