The adventures of tintin review
It segues into a sly reference that sets the tone for the rest of the film: while the little white-haired Fox Terrier Snowy is trailing a pickpocket at a marketplace, Tintin, back to the camera, is getting a caricature done.
Tintin starts out on the right track with a terrific Saul Bass-influenced title sequence (though this fan-made title sequence, incorporating material from Tintin’s adventures through the years, is pretty great, too). Also behind the scenes is producer Peter Jackson, whose company Weta Digital has handled the motion-capture animation. Specifically, the writers are adapting material from three WWII-era books: The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham’s Treasure.
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He has a lot to work with here: a script by UK writers Stephen Moffat ( Coupling and the most recent Doctor Who incarnation) and Edgar Wright ( Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim) & Joe Cornish ( Attack the Block), adapting the legendary work of Belgian author Hergé, who detailed the exploits of his iconic creation in a series of comic strips and graphic novels over the course of five decades. Tackling animation for the first time in his career as a director, Steven Spielberg has delivered a terrifically enjoyable adventure with The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, perfect family-oriented entertainment (despite some infrequent gunplay) that recalls the best of his Indiana Jones films.