When journalist and keen adventurer, Tintin, buys a model
ship at a stall market, he merely thinks that it’s a wonderful piece of work to
have on his mantle. But then other people begin showing interest in it and,
soon after bringing it home, it’s stolen from his flat, his home is ransacked,
and he and his dog Snowy are kidnapped. Eager for the story behind the secret
of the ship, called the Unicorn, Tintin manages to escape from his captors, an
evil man called Sakharine, and teams up with mutinied against Captain Haddock
to uncover the secret of the Unicorn and find the hidden treasure before
Sakharine does.
I remember seeing the occasional Tintin cartoon when I was really little and liking the adventure
and the puzzles and clues that it was filled with. I don’t think I ever read
any of the comics, but at least I had some insight into what this movie was
going to offer. It’s a wonderful movie; the perfect family film in fact. It’s
got practically everything: action, adventure, violence, murder, pirates, comedy,
and buried treasure. It’s really great!
When journalist and keen adventurer,
Tintin, buys a model ship at a stall market, he merely thinks that it’s a
wonderful piece of work to have on his mantle. But then other people begin
showing interest in it and, soon after bringing it home, it’s stolen from his
flat, his home is ransacked, and he and his dog Snowy are kidnapped. Eager for
the story behind the secret of the ship, called the Unicorn, Tintin manages to
escape from his captors, an evil man called Sakharine, and teams up with
mutinied against Captain Haddock to uncover the secret of the Unicorn and find
the hidden treasure before Sakharine does.
First off, I have to say that it was
good to see a real PG rated movie on the screen. In recent years the ratings
have become so played down and desensitised and everything, you don’t know what
you’re in for. For me, Tintin was the
perfect PG film: there were a fair amount of mature and adult themes, as well
as a fair amount of violence and would-be gore, but the camera doesn’t show the
finished result of it all. All you get is the suspense and the sounds of
demise. Successfully conveying the danger, but not showing the younger audience
what happens when someone gets chopped to bits in a plane blade or blown to smithereens.
It’s good.
The animation is superb. I have a real fascination for this
motion-capture animation from The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol.
It’s just wondrous to behold and the animation in Tintin was just as stunning and amazing as the aforementioned
films. It just makes these characters so much stronger as they are computer-generated
creations, but the actors really do give a performance and not just with their
voice. I tell you, this would have been a great film to watch in 3D.
Featuring
the voice talents of Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick
Frost, Mackenzie Crook, Toby Jones, and Cary Elwes, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn was a fantastic family
film packed with adventure, pirates, comedy, booze, explosions, puzzles, clues,
hidden treasure, family feuds, suspense, violence, and plenty of rollicking and
swashbuckling action. It was just fantastic and a film that I could definitely
watch again. IT WAS GREAT!
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