Tintin - All aboard the KARABOUDJAN !!
The long long wait was finally over! I heard the news , maybe an year back about a possibility of a series of Tintin movies, based on the comic and i got goosebumps reading about it.
Ususally such news follows a disappointment.(The movie probably wont do any justice to the book).
Such an incredibly huge legacy, maybe a boring hype to go along with it, but wait, what?
Steven Speilberg and Peter Jackson are going to be directing this together?
Ok, this should be the bomb!
I have probably read each and every Tintin a gazillion times back in the day
and know the characters,text, illustrations, humor, plots, minute details like the
fact that every Tintin has exactly 62 pages, except Tintin and the Lake of Sharks
(because it was the only one made for a animation movie, and not for the book)
and all sorts of trivia , in and out, so my excitement was rocketing through the
highest utopia in space that could be possible.
The movie is an adaptation of two of Herge's books:
The Secret Of The Unicorn and The Crab With The Golden Claws
I am not going to talk about the story here , simply because this is a movie
review of an age old comic. The blend between these two books was unusual because they do not have a link between them. Steven Speilberg did a mindblowing job at
connecting these two stories and since this was the first movie out, it was
great to bring out the introduction of Tintin and Captain Haddock. There were some
outstanding features which i am going to point out:
Opening Credits Animation: You know you are in for a thrill, if the 1st few minutes
set you in an awe.
All the fight sequences were incredible and you can clearly see Peter Jackson's touch
in them.
The actors were just phenomenal, right from Daniel Craig who played Sacharine to
the blundering Thomson and Thompsons (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost).
Snowy looks as cute as he does in the book. Captain Haddock, played by Andy Serkis was spot on!
The sets created for the fictional city of Bagghar were a drool for the eye.
Above all, a big THANK YOU to Herge (Georges Remi)
Rating : 4/5
Thanks for the review KP! I've been looking forward to this movie all year ! Good to know that Spielberg has done justice to the legacy of Tintin! I will definitely be catching this over the holiday season. When I first heard that Spielberg was making a movie on Tintin I was quite apprehensive...then I heard he was making an animated movie and a not a live-action one and that allayed my fears somewhat as I felt there was no way he could've conveyed the magic of the Tintin stories in a live-action movie. It's great to see even a famous director like Spielberg re-invent himself and learn to make an animated movie using new technologies like motion capture and 3D ...it's not easy to learn new things and re-invent yourself in any field and people like Spielberg keep reminding us that it's never too late to learn something new or to re-invent yourself. All you need is the passion!
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