The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 203
Fresh: 152 | Rotten: 51
Drawing deep from the classic Raiders of the Lost Ark playbook, Steven Spielberg has crafted another spirited, thrilling adventure in the form of Tintin.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 13
Drawing deep from the classic Raiders of the Lost Ark playbook, Steven Spielberg has crafted another spirited, thrilling adventure in the form of Tintin.
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Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures Present a 3D Motion Capture Film The Adventures of Tintin directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish. Starring Jamie Bell as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig as the nefarious Red Rackham. -- (C) Official Site
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Jamie Bell
Tintin -
Andy Serkis
Captain Haddock, Cap... -
Daniel Craig
Rackham/Sakharine, R... -
Nick Frost
Thompson Twin, Thoms... -
Simon Pegg
Thompson, Thompson T... -
Toby Jones
Silk -
MacKenzie Crook
Tom, Tom/Pirate Flun... -
Daniel Mays
Allan, Allan/Pirate ... -
Gad Elmaleh
Ben Salaad -
Joe Starr
Barnaby -
Enn Reitel
Nestor/Mr. Crabtree -
Tony Curran
Lieutenant Delcourt -
Sonje Fortag
Mrs. Finch -
Cary Elwes
Pilot -
Phillip Rhys
Co-Pilot / French Me... -
Ron Bottitta
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Mark Ivanir
Afgar Outpost Soldie... -
Nathan Meister
Market Artist -
Sebastian Roche
Pedro/1st Mate -
Kim Stengel
Bianca Castafiore -
Muhamadi Ibrahim
Soldier -
Sana Etoile
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All Critics (203) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (152) | Rotten (51) | DVD (4)
There are so many variables moving so fast that it's a wonder Spielberg didn't have someone onboard from Princeton's department of Higher Math to help keep track. But his crack team here is enough.
Top CriticIt's delirious stuff, often laugh-out-loud funny.
The action grows wearisome as it grinds on, and the film becomes a succession of dazzling set pieces devoid of simple feelings.
A frenetic bonbon with an empty center, and a movie made without any perceivable audience outside of filmmakers besotted by their own innovative processes.
The Adventures of Tintin comes at you in a whoosh, like a volcano full of creative ideas in full eruption... It hits home for the kid in all of us who wants to bust out and run free.
Hergé was the pioneer of an even-handed style of cartooning with solid lines and no shading that became known as ligne claire, but there is a decided lack of clear lines in this erratic movie adaptation of his work.
Visually triumphant and chock-full of classic Spielberg-isms -- both good and bad.
Spielberg has made his first foray into computer-generated 3D animation. He proves a natural with the form, his (virtual) camerawork dizzying but fluid, and never confusing.
The movie is fun and colorful, but it doesn't have that creative explosion needed to bring Tintin to life.
By no means a masterpiece, the full-length computer-generated animated film nevertheless has freed Spielberg from the shackles of conventional filmmaking and physical limitations.
Arguably Spielberg's most out-and-out fun movie since Jurassic Park.
It has been said that Hergé believed that Spielberg was the only one who would be able to do justice to his work, and after having spent over 25 years trying to get the film made, Spielberg has finally delivered a result that is quite extraordinary.
It isn't that The Adventures of Tintin is bad, but outside of the visuals, this film breaks no new ground for Spielberg.
If the only flaw in a film is that it's so entertaining that it liquefies your brain, we should all be thankful.
Tin Tin is a visual feast; a wondrous exploration of the boundaries of computer animation and performance capture.
This "Raiders of the Lost Ark's Greatest Hits" is a delight to look at, even if motion capture isn't your particular cup of animation tea.
You don't need to be a fan of - or indeed have more than a passing acquaintance with - the original Tintin comics to enjoy this film.
A very entertaining, energetic film, highlighted by gravity-defying action set pieces. However, Tintin is also a bit emotionless, lacking character development.
If the movie reminds you of an animated Indiana Jones adventure, don't be surprised.
Tintin's fantastic, charmingly naive little world is not well served by the epic quasi-realism of high-tech computer animation.
The best animated film of 2011.
...more a virtual thrill ride than an old-fashioned action adventure. But while some of us will find the movie's frenetic pace exhausting, it seems that Spielberg is having fun.
Finalmente temos de volta o Spielberg que tanta falta fez nos últimos anos, quando comandou mediocridades aborrecidas como O Terminal, Indiana Jones e o Reino da Caveira de Cristal e Cavalo de Guerra.
With gorgeous animation and action typical of its director, Steven Spielberg brings a comic strip to the big screen - in 3-D, no less. 'Tintin' has a lot in common with 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and other fanciful Spielbergian adventures.
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- Tintin: Well this is a fine mess.
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- Captain Haddock: Thundering typhoons!
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- Captain Haddock: Nobody takes my ship!
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- Tintin: It's over.
- Captain Haddock: I thought you were an optimist.
- Tintin: Well, you were wrong, weren't you? I'm a realist.
- Captain Haddock: That's just another name for a quitter.
- Tintin: You can call me what you like. Don't you get it? We failed.
- Captain Haddock: 'Failed', there are plenty of others willing to call you a failure. A fool. A loser. A hopeless souse! Don't you ever say it of yourself. You send the wrong signal, that is what people pick up. Do you understand? You care about something, you fight for it. You hit a wall, you push through it. There's something you need to know about failure, Tintin. You can never let it defeat you.
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- Tintin: Well.. this is a fine mess.
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- Silk: I'm not a bad person...
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Steven Spielberg Aiming for 2015 with Tintin 2"We have a script and we're going to start performance capture probably at the end of this year."
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- Die Abenteuer von Tim und Struppi - Das Geheimnis der Einhorn (DE)
- The Adventures of Tintin (UK)
Good movie though. Kinda wish I had seen it in all of its 3D glory in theaters.