Poorest Storytelling for Audiences

Rating: 4/10 (26 December 2011)

After I finished watching this movie I still couldn't understand what was the story? Visually I can see it but it was empty its like they spent so much time to make it visually appeasing that they didn't bother putting a story in at all.
In this movie everyone is carrying a MP40 as if it was widely available, motorbike with side carriage chase scene was identical to H.Ford and S.Connery and that tank just came out of nowhere, with an arch ontop of it? Captain Haddock became a drunk scott, they used too many puns in one sentence at times, felt like he was a liability instead of a helping hand, wont mention too much about the plane scene 'physics' burp for fuel?, crane wars? what were they thinking. Even the pirate scene didn't help there was more to it than just that. All the characters were better portrayed in the cartoon than the movie they don't have them all like the professor. I remember the twins Thomson and Thompson kept changing their disguises, Haddock had hiccups (*hic*) when he was drinking, snowy was more adorable had thought bubbles on dogbones or what would happen to him or trying to explain to tintin what he was saying. Tintin was not much of a sleuth in this movie everything just happened to fall into his lap, originally I'm sure he sometimes said "lets search for clues" and he pulls out a magnifying glass and starts elaborating on his findings etc and each clue would lead to another, which was better told in the comics than the movie.
Its so bad you could fall asleep, the only thing good was the introduction with the paintings reminiscent of Tintin and in one scene tintin had just one bullet to take down an airplane that was so funny in a corny way.