Tintin Movie Review

Movie Review From Jane Taylor

The quiff in the mirror, also that glimpse of Snowy's hind legs something Hergé himself used frequently. Tintin's voice correcting the stall holder, yes it is Tintin. And later when he says "It's not for sale". Okay, we may be having difficulties with Tintin's face but the voice is just right.
As the story unfolds and you get comfortable with the pace, you drop the assumption that it is about the adventure "Secret of the Unicorn" and once you understand it is about the spirit of the adventure. Just like that secret quality a Tintin book holds, you really enjoy it, it is funny, it is clever, it is visually pleasing. All those ingenious twists and intricacies that Hergé wove into the stories are acknowledged in the film, from those scenes of the mirage moving from the Unicorn ploughing though the desert sands into the high seas-dreamlike, one of Hergé's own favourite ingredients.
The characters, Captain Haddock portrayed as fearless with a large dose of old softie! The Thompson's well... so annoying and Castafiore introducing Sakharine as Sugar Additive!! And Snowy - the Star! The scene at Ben Salad's palace, peopled and decorated with many references to the other Tintin Adventures.
For me this film paid homage to Hergé's style, the essence that makes a Tintin adventure so enthralling and so readable again and again. Mister Spielberg and Mister Jackson did really well and we are grateful to them for being so respectful to our your hero!

The Adventures of Tintin Movie DVD
Directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson
Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Tintin and Sakharine have one each and the villain intends to use the glass-shattering top Cs of operatic soprano the Milanese Nightingale to secure the third. With aid from bumbling Interpol agents the Thompson Twins our boy hero, his dog and the captain must prevent Sakharine from obtaining all three scrolls to fulfil the prophesy that only the last of the Haddocks can discover the treasure's whereabout
The DVDs are PAL system only, the following countries are not compatible: Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, Colombia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Philipines, South Korea, Taiwan, Trinidad, USA, Venezuela.

Price: £14.97

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The Adventures of Tintin Movie Bluray
Directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson.
Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Tintin and Sakharine have one each and the villain intends to use the glass-shattering top Cs of operatic soprano the Milanese Nightingale to secure the third. With aid from bumbling Interpol agents the Thompson Twins our boy hero, his dog and the captain must prevent Sakharine from obtaining all three scrolls to fulfil the prophesy that only the last of the Haddocks can discover the treasure's whereabout
The DVDs are PAL system only, the following countries are not compatible: Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, Colombia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Philipines, South Korea, Taiwan, Trinidad, USA, Venezuela.

Price: £19.97

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