The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Computer generated animation that is used today seems to be getting better and better as time goes on. But just because you use new and better technology doesn’t mean you’ll have a hit film on your hands, you still need a strong plot and an enjoyable story. Both of which are lost with this movie. Usually when dealing with a long time source of material, as we have here with the Tintin comics, you would think that a strong and enjoyable movie would be made. Even with big names attached to the feature, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Daniel Craig, couldn’t save it from the failure heap.
The well known journalist Tintin is dragged into an adventure that could solve a centuries old mystery of pirate treasure. Even with top of the line computer animation the people don’t quite look real, which is fine since the characters are straight from the comics, but it draws your attention away from some of the other things that are going on in the scenes. Where this film is supposed to be an action movie you would think that the sequences would be stronger and faster paced, here they just seem planned and contrite.

This film proves the fact that you can’t have a hit every time you make a film, and the two biggest names attached here, Spielberg and Jackson, know this all too well. Maybe the next time around they’ll do better but for now this isn’t worth the time or effort to watch.