So painfully dull my family could not bear to finish it

Rating: 2/10 (17 June 2013)

The good: The cgi is outstanding, the most realistic I have ever seen. John Williams' score is wonderful, as always. The casting works well, the acting is acceptable.
The bad: Everything else. I hate to criticize the story, as it is beloved and a classic, but it needed much fleshing out and expanding to work as a movie. Instead it seems as thin as the newspaper it originally appeared upon. There are no subplots, no character development, nothing to draw us into the story, nothing make us care about the characters and what happens to them. Some predictable things happen, and we are left uncaring and bored.
Overall this movie is a disaster -- a terrible waste of time, money and talent. Many other reviews say it was a good story ruined by the Hollywood treatment. Instead it seemed to me the exact opposite, a thin story which worked as a comic but needed to change a lot more in order to work as a film. Other similar projects have worked in the past because they were properly rewritten for the screen. This one, instead, was just Tintin the comic, remade in cgi, and that didn't work at all.