Our expectations on this film was not to high but we were positively surprised, Aurore and I.
Some trailers we had seen didn't make an impression on us but as we often say:
We prefer a mediocre trailer and a good film instead of the opposite (yes it's a truism but anyway).
First of all we found the technical part extremely well realized, not least the movements of the different characters. Of course this is easier to do nowadays when using motion capture and performance capture but the results differ.
We didn't watch this film in 3D but personally I think that this more or less obsolete device seldom add something interesting to the films on the whole, it's just a way of attract people being more interested of the surface than the content.
Secondly we thought they had succeeded in giving life to the animated figures as characters, their appearances in every sense, even Milou ("Snowy") had been granted a real personality, making him one of the most important 'individuals' in the film.
Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis) is the second (or third after Milou) most important figure and as in the books, he's not able to controle his consumption of liquor. Haddock, created by the most well known moton- and performance capture-actor of our time.
Besides him and Tintin (Jamie Bell) we get to see some familiar faces, appearing in Hergé's books: Dupond and Dupont, in this American version called Thomson (Nick Frost) and Thompson (Simon Pegg), Bianca Castafiore (Kim Stengel) and Nestor (Enn Reitel). At the beginning we also meet an animated Hergé himself, in this film working as a painter, making a portrait of Tintin, resembling the drawings in his books.
In short the film tells the story about how Tintin finds a fantastic model of a ship on a fair.
When having bought this ship, a man comes up to him and warns him about the consequences of keeping it and when he disappears another man by the name of Ivan Ivanovich Sakharine (Daniel Craig) is accosting him, wanting to buy the ship. Tintin refuses.
Not long after, the man having warned him not to buy the ship is shot outside Tintin's door when wanting to approach him concerning some information.
Tintin decides himself to search for the historical background of this ship as it seems to cause such an upsurging. He finds out that it's a ship by the name of 'The Unicorn' ('La Licorne') ones sunk, being attacked by a pirate called Red Rackham (Rackham Le Rouge), who was an ancestor to the above mentioned Sakharine, something we get to know later on in the film.
The Captain of the sunken ship was the ancestor of Captain Haddock but at this point in the story, Tintin and Haddock have not yet met.
The model ship is stolen from Tintin's appartment and now he understands that there are much more to this 'Unicorn' than only the ship model per se.
He finds it in a castle - Moulinsart (the future castle of Haddock and once the castle of his ancestor) - where he is attacked by the owner, the above mentioned Sakharine and his valet/butler, Nestor (later becoming Haddock's valet as we know).
Sakharine convinces Tintin that the model he has found in the castle, is not the model he bought and when examining the ship, Tintin becomes convinced that Sakharine is right but...
From now on follows an adventure beginning with Tintin - or rather Milou/Snowy - finding a small metal cylinder earlier having fallen out of the ship, containing a crypted message. This was the cylinder and the message the burglars were looking for.
Tintin is kidnapped, brought to a ship where he again meets Sakharine who wants to know where he has hidden the message he has found.
On the same boat Tintin - after escaping from his cage and cabin - meets Captain Haddock who is being hold hostage in another cabin, supplied with liquor in order to make him satisfied and with a bottle or two or three... in his hand, he can sustain almost anything as we know.
Tintin and Haddock escape from the ship in a rescue boat, are attacked by an airplane, taking over the controle of the airplane, crashes in the dessert, are taken care of by legionairies, pursuing the hunt for the secrets of the Unicorn, meets Bianca Castafiore (causing Captain Haddock and Milou to suffer), finds a treasure, fights Sakharine again etc etc.
Some thought that the film was made in a very 'Indiana Jones'-manner and of course there are a lot of action whereby one could compare it to Jones if one like to but on the same time, there are a lot of action in the books too, as we know.
Our friend, Didier Godet, the cinema projectionist and responsible for Cinéma Lux in La Châtre, also thought there were to much action and that some pictures were made in a more obscure colour scheme than in the books.
The latter might be true but on the whole, I must say that Spielberg, Jackson et consortes have succeeded with this adaptation for the movies, better than I had anticipated and I'm actually looking forward to the next episode(s).
Of course there are purists, finding faults everywhere in this film but I (Gunnar) have read all the books about Tintin, whereby I'm quite familiar with them and I can't see that there are any major objections to be raised towards the screen adaptation.
Aurore didn't find anything particular to object to either and she is of course as familiar with the originals as I am and often more critical than I am. :-)
(Image of Tintin and Milous running copied from: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio1MXAj8__drE2uUS-cMu_fSwsv7NueBi-bS_ycdrnSDPic1DAqvHrgTL2NC0V9Bm-ApRV3CUX4dLKdBe6oMn4qrDp0FJD_XMZ46Bf-8NJ1WXhCqKtdgHfVM7B_DE3DHAEZ8w5/)
Some trailers we had seen didn't make an impression on us but as we often say:
We prefer a mediocre trailer and a good film instead of the opposite (yes it's a truism but anyway).
First of all we found the technical part extremely well realized, not least the movements of the different characters. Of course this is easier to do nowadays when using motion capture and performance capture but the results differ.
We didn't watch this film in 3D but personally I think that this more or less obsolete device seldom add something interesting to the films on the whole, it's just a way of attract people being more interested of the surface than the content.
Secondly we thought they had succeeded in giving life to the animated figures as characters, their appearances in every sense, even Milou ("Snowy") had been granted a real personality, making him one of the most important 'individuals' in the film.
Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis) is the second (or third after Milou) most important figure and as in the books, he's not able to controle his consumption of liquor. Haddock, created by the most well known moton- and performance capture-actor of our time.
Besides him and Tintin (Jamie Bell) we get to see some familiar faces, appearing in Hergé's books: Dupond and Dupont, in this American version called Thomson (Nick Frost) and Thompson (Simon Pegg), Bianca Castafiore (Kim Stengel) and Nestor (Enn Reitel). At the beginning we also meet an animated Hergé himself, in this film working as a painter, making a portrait of Tintin, resembling the drawings in his books.
In short the film tells the story about how Tintin finds a fantastic model of a ship on a fair.
When having bought this ship, a man comes up to him and warns him about the consequences of keeping it and when he disappears another man by the name of Ivan Ivanovich Sakharine (Daniel Craig) is accosting him, wanting to buy the ship. Tintin refuses.
Not long after, the man having warned him not to buy the ship is shot outside Tintin's door when wanting to approach him concerning some information.
Tintin decides himself to search for the historical background of this ship as it seems to cause such an upsurging. He finds out that it's a ship by the name of 'The Unicorn' ('La Licorne') ones sunk, being attacked by a pirate called Red Rackham (Rackham Le Rouge), who was an ancestor to the above mentioned Sakharine, something we get to know later on in the film.
The Captain of the sunken ship was the ancestor of Captain Haddock but at this point in the story, Tintin and Haddock have not yet met.
The model ship is stolen from Tintin's appartment and now he understands that there are much more to this 'Unicorn' than only the ship model per se.He finds it in a castle - Moulinsart (the future castle of Haddock and once the castle of his ancestor) - where he is attacked by the owner, the above mentioned Sakharine and his valet/butler, Nestor (later becoming Haddock's valet as we know).
Sakharine convinces Tintin that the model he has found in the castle, is not the model he bought and when examining the ship, Tintin becomes convinced that Sakharine is right but...
From now on follows an adventure beginning with Tintin - or rather Milou/Snowy - finding a small metal cylinder earlier having fallen out of the ship, containing a crypted message. This was the cylinder and the message the burglars were looking for.
Tintin is kidnapped, brought to a ship where he again meets Sakharine who wants to know where he has hidden the message he has found.On the same boat Tintin - after escaping from his cage and cabin - meets Captain Haddock who is being hold hostage in another cabin, supplied with liquor in order to make him satisfied and with a bottle or two or three... in his hand, he can sustain almost anything as we know.
Tintin and Haddock escape from the ship in a rescue boat, are attacked by an airplane, taking over the controle of the airplane, crashes in the dessert, are taken care of by legionairies, pursuing the hunt for the secrets of the Unicorn, meets Bianca Castafiore (causing Captain Haddock and Milou to suffer), finds a treasure, fights Sakharine again etc etc.Some thought that the film was made in a very 'Indiana Jones'-manner and of course there are a lot of action whereby one could compare it to Jones if one like to but on the same time, there are a lot of action in the books too, as we know.
Our friend, Didier Godet, the cinema projectionist and responsible for Cinéma Lux in La Châtre, also thought there were to much action and that some pictures were made in a more obscure colour scheme than in the books.
The latter might be true but on the whole, I must say that Spielberg, Jackson et consortes have succeeded with this adaptation for the movies, better than I had anticipated and I'm actually looking forward to the next episode(s).
Of course there are purists, finding faults everywhere in this film but I (Gunnar) have read all the books about Tintin, whereby I'm quite familiar with them and I can't see that there are any major objections to be raised towards the screen adaptation.
Aurore didn't find anything particular to object to either and she is of course as familiar with the originals as I am and often more critical than I am. :-)
(Image of Tintin and Milous running copied from: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio1MXAj8__drE2uUS-cMu_fSwsv7NueBi-bS_ycdrnSDPic1DAqvHrgTL2NC0V9Bm-ApRV3CUX4dLKdBe6oMn4qrDp0FJD_XMZ46Bf-8NJ1WXhCqKtdgHfVM7B_DE3DHAEZ8w5/)
(Image of Thompson and Thomson/Dupond and Dupont copied from: http://drnorth.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/tintin-thompson-and-thomson-simon-pegg-and-nick-frost.jpg?w=584&h=328)
(Image of Sakharine, Tintin, Milou at the boat copied from: http://www.ol-design.fr/tintin/etape_08.jpg)
(Image of Sakharine, Tintin, Milou at the boat copied from: http://www.ol-design.fr/tintin/etape_08.jpg)
(Image of Captain Haddock copied from: http://image.toutlecine.com/photos/t/h/e/the-adventures-of-tintin-secret-of-the-unicorn-the-adventures-of-tintin-s-4-g.jpg)
(Image Tintin and Captain Haddock on a rowing-boat copied from: http://image.toutlecine.com/photos/t/h/e/the-adventures-of-tintin-secret-of-the-unicorn-the-adventures-of-tintin-s-3-g.jpg)
(Photo Jackson, Tintin and Spielberg copied from: http://www.fusedfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/tintin_spielberg_jackson-500x278.jpg)
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