The scrolls were hidden in three models of the same ship that our hero purchased at the market Tintin’s faithful pup, Snowy, discovers the first one after rampaging with a vicious neighborhood cat through the apartment and overturning the miniature craft. At stake are three scrolls, each containing a clue to the treasure that was lost when the Unicorn, captained by one Sir Francis Haddock (Andy Serkis), sank after a battle with the pirate Red Rackham, a rogue who looks and sounds suspiciously like he might just be related to present-day villain Sakharine. Once Tintin’s tale takes off via a kidnapping courtesy of Sakharine’s gang, there’s a dash of high seas adventure, a smattering of globe-trotting, an Arabian marketplace chase, some time spent lost at sea, a plane crash in the desert. In this respect, his is a perfected movie-ready brand of heroism. Save for a moment near the climax, their Tintin never expresses any doubt in his ability to succeed in any situation, survive any adventure now matter how dire. Even so, screenwriters Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, and Joe Cornish (lesser-known than his cohorts, but responsible for last year’s best B-movie, Attack the Block), having established in their opening that Tintin is both plucky and indefatigable, and here in his home that he has, well, done some stuff, seem content to let things slide a bit. This is about all we’re provided in the way of background information for our hero, even if Jamie Bell seems intent on transforming his digitally rendered Tintin into a flesh and blood creation through sheer variety of his vocal inflections. The lad returns home triumphant with his new purchase and Spielberg ranges his “camera” around the lad’s apartment, slowing briefly to pick up some framed headlines of the “Tintin Finds Lost Tomb!/Young Journalist Cracks Thousand Year-Old Riddle!” variety. The boy vigorously rebuffs both advances, but trouble is clearly brewing for young Tintin. Sakharine also has an interest in this particular piece of craftwork, a replica of the lost HMS Unicorn, though his intent is clearly malicious given the particular cant of his goatee and small rimless glasses. Mere moments after Tintin (voiced by Jamie Bell, but looking more like some bulbous vintage wooden toy varnished into life than the chiseled British actor), fresh from having his portrait painted in an open-air market, spies a beautiful model of an old galleon and makes his purchase, he’s accosted not only by a breathless overweight American, Barnaby (Joe Starr), bearing a dire warning about the provenance of the model, but following that, an elegantly creepy, long-limbed gentleman by the name of Sakharine (Daniel Craig).
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Steven Spielberg’s long-gestating, performance-captured take on the Belgian comic artist Hergé’s classic action-adventure serial The Adventures of Tintin starts with a bang and barely pauses until the credits roll a hundred or so minutes later. Jeff Reichert on The Adventures of Tintin
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