anishThe Adventures of Tin Tin
December 11th 2011 14:14
This November master innovator Stephen Spielberg saw his long time dream of creating a full length Tin Tin come to fruition and also proved that the newly proposed Performance Capture technology is a commercially viable option for animators.
Story of The Adventures of Tin Tin
Stephen Spielberg goes ahead and mashes up no less than three Herge comics (The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure) to create a pretty seamless narrative.
It all starts when Tin Tin buys a cheap replica of Sir Francess Haddok's historic ship called The Unicorn which attracts an undue amount of unwanted attention. But little by little Tin Tin realizes that The Unicorn has carries a secret message which will lead to a vast amount of sunken treasure. But only a Haddok knows the true secret of The Unicorn and can find the riches.
Fortuitously Tin Tin (and of course Snowy) team up with the perpetually drunken Captain Haddok, the last of the Haddoks, and tak on the sinister and formidable Ivanovich Sakharine in a bid to find Red Rackham's treasure first.
Review of The Adventures of Tin Tin
First of all kudos to Stephen Spielberg for really bringing to life the iconic
Belgian reporter and his smart and adorable dog. And personally I think the Performance Capture thing has really worked for the film.
Captain Haddok's love for the golden liquid is very well documented and not surprisingly the script writers have often gone out of their way to derive humor from his vice. In fact, the Captain plays perhaps a more prominent and certainly more entertaining part in the film than Tin Tin himself.
Another thing I really enjoyed about rip roaring adventure was that quite a few of the funny bits are unmolested works of Herge himself and the writers have shied away from including a few of Herge's more subtle humors which are rather easy to miss after the first viewing and thus increases the movies re-watch value.
However, on the downside, the second half of the movie is a bit too fast for my liking with things happening faster than your brain can comprehend them and even the action gets weirder and weirder by the moment. Further, the character of Tin Tin is totally lacking in the playfulness and humor which has made it such a success for nearly a century now.
Overall, its a good watch (particularly the first half) but not the best anime movie nor the best Spielberg move--not by a long way!
Story of The Adventures of Tin Tin
It all starts when Tin Tin buys a cheap replica of Sir Francess Haddok's historic ship called The Unicorn which attracts an undue amount of unwanted attention. But little by little Tin Tin realizes that The Unicorn has carries a secret message which will lead to a vast amount of sunken treasure. But only a Haddok knows the true secret of The Unicorn and can find the riches.
Fortuitously Tin Tin (and of course Snowy) team up with the perpetually drunken Captain Haddok, the last of the Haddoks, and tak on the sinister and formidable Ivanovich Sakharine in a bid to find Red Rackham's treasure first.
Review of The Adventures of Tin Tin
First of all kudos to Stephen Spielberg for really bringing to life the iconic
Another thing I really enjoyed about rip roaring adventure was that quite a few of the funny bits are unmolested works of Herge himself and the writers have shied away from including a few of Herge's more subtle humors which are rather easy to miss after the first viewing and thus increases the movies re-watch value.
However, on the downside, the second half of the movie is a bit too fast for my liking with things happening faster than your brain can comprehend them and even the action gets weirder and weirder by the moment. Further, the character of Tin Tin is totally lacking in the playfulness and humor which has made it such a success for nearly a century now.
Overall, its a good watch (particularly the first half) but not the best anime movie nor the best Spielberg move--not by a long way!
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