TinTin!
Saw The Adventures of TinTin last night. While it plays like ‘Indiana Jones meets Wallace and Gromit‘ (with a side dose of 20,000 Leagues under the Sea) it’s great fun. The animation is nothing short of amazing – Note to Pixar: the bar has been raised, and for once, not by you. Jamie Bell‘s voice kept making me think he was Elijah Wood (kerewin disagreed) and it was nice to see Andy Serkis get a role for once that wasn’t a weird creature (Gollum) or an ape, or some other character using a CGI overlay from his facial and body acting – he is a great actor, period, and the dual Haddock role shows it.
The other nice thing about this movie is its period setting – there’s enough technology that people aren’t running around completely on horseback (cars, motorboats, etc. all exist) yet there’s still plenty of excitement – that’s definitely the first ‘container crane sword battle’ I’ve ever seen, for sure.
And these stories are tailor-made for Hollywood – If the next one does as well as this one (note to makers, follow the Harry Potter and LOTR franchises for lessons on keeping up the quality) – there should be several more TinTin movies before they’re done….You can’t help wondering though how much Spielberg and Lucas (among others) were influenced by Hergé when they began making movies – TinTin’s adventures predate Indiana Jones by many decades….
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