#The adventures of tintin by hergГ© movie#
#The adventures of tintin by hergГ© series#

вЂњSpielberg is truly in his element here, incorporating the old-fashioned thrills of his Indiana Jones franchise with cutting-edge motion-capture animation.вЂќ вЂњIf anything, his erudite approach to solving mysteries, along with a taste for escapades in the Middle East, Asia and Africa throughout the mid-20th century, make him a less brawny, more European counterpart to Indiana Jones.вЂќ вЂњвЂ¦ if this starts to sound any more like Indiana Jones youвЂ™re going to wonder whether Tintin sports a fedora and carries a whip.вЂќ вЂњIt is the jutting crest of hair that cuts a shadow as iconic as the brim of Indiana JonesвЂ™ fedora.вЂќ In fact, The Adventures of Tintin - based on HergГ©вЂ™s two-part adventure The Secret of the Unicorn - feels like the closest weвЂ™ve come to a real Indiana Jones adventure since 1989вЂ™s Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.вЂќ вЂњHe might look like Prince Harry, but he handles himself like Indiana Jones. In what other ways can we compare Tintin himself to the worldвЂ™s toughest archaeologist?

#The adventures of tintin by hergГ© series#

вЂњвЂ¦ The film largely jettisons the characterвЂ™s quasi-Gallic charm (such as it is) and makes him into something of an energetic cipher who runs through a series of elaborate action set pieces like a young and rather vanilla Euro Indiana Jones with a cute dog вЂ¦вЂќ вЂњThereвЂ™s a young British Indiana Jones feel to Tintin.вЂќ вЂњвЂ¦ a sort of Young Indiana Jones: Brussels Edition.вЂќ вЂњHad The Adventures of Tintin been a live motion picture rather than a motion capture-driven animated endeavor, it would have been compared to Raiders of the Lost Ark and Pirates of the Caribbean.вЂќ The answer, IвЂ™m afraid, is that it might have begun to look a lot like a National Treasure sequel, or a Pirates of the Caribbean sequel, or maybe Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.вЂќ вЂњI kept wondering what the film would have felt like if, shot for shot, Spielberg had simply made it with live action. вЂњSome marketing whizzes are calling Tintin a cross between Pirates of the Caribbean and Indiana Jones, but Tintin was Indy before Indy was Indy.вЂќ вЂњAfter a so-so run culminating in the regrettable Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the most successful filmmaker of the modern era proves heвЂ™s still got the goods.вЂќ вЂњIf you were expecting a bracing, thrilling Raiders of the Lost Ark, what we get here is more like a muddled, busy Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.вЂќ Be encouraged вЂ“ or forewarned вЂ“ by that.вЂќ

вЂњSimilar action earned a PG-13 for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the Spielberg movie this most closely resembles. вЂњIt seems entirely fitting that his motion-capture animation The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn should rep such a rollicking return to the action-adventure form, especially after the disappointment of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.вЂќ вЂњ The Adventures of Tintin is never quite as resonant as SpielbergвЂ™s earliest Indiana Jones films, in which, for all the clamor, it often feels like something real and vital and human is at stake.вЂќ вЂњSpielberg has made his biggest, boomingest adventure since Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first Indiana Jones.вЂќ In contrast to Raiders, which sees Indy shooting a sword-wielding opponent in a jokey illustration of Western imperialist might, TintinвЂ™s adventures here feel willfully guileless: colonialism may haunt TintinвЂ™s world as imagined by HergГ©, but it doesnвЂ™t trouble this one.вЂќ The most involved chase sequence in the movie finds Tintin and company creatively racing through, and laying waste to, Bagghar, much as Indy does to a stretch of Cairo in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Spielberg took on Tintin, which he has described as вЂIndiana Jones for kidsвЂ™ (a redundant notion). вЂњIn gearing up to make The Adventures of Tintin, I suspect Steven Spielberg reached down into that place inside that fueled his Raiders of the Lost Ark.вЂќ In the new movie, Tintin and Haddock crash-land in the desert, and the propeller of their little seaplane keeps turning, wreaking havoc before it finally dies. вЂњIn Raiders, when the flying-wing airplane, grounded and moored to the spot, kept circling, Indy, fighting some lout, ducked every time the whirling propellers swung around. How does it compare to Raiders of the Lost Ark? Tintin might as well be claiming some precious artifact that belongs in a museum and grouchily avoiding snakes, because according to the critics, heвЂ™s Indiana Jones. The Adventures of Tintin opens today, and while you could be forgiven for trying to compare it to motion-capture brethren like Avatar or Polar Express, those arenвЂ™t really the filmвЂ™s closest relatives. Photo: WETA Digital Ltd./? 2011 Paramount Pictures. Left to right: Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), Tintin (Jamie Bell), and Snowy in THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN, from Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures in association with Hemisphere Media Capital.

#The adventures of tintin by hergГ© series#

#The adventures of tintin by hergГ© movie#