A Fantastic Tintin Adventury underrated by the Oscars

Rating: 8/10 (29 January 2012)

'The Adventures of Tintin' is just the most stylish and visually stunning animation of 2011 – a beautiful effort and unique creation from director Steven Spielberg. It is a pity, however, that it didn't receive a nomination for Best Animated Feature because this film is far away better than the other animations that were nominated.
The scenarios were so creatively made – the backgrounds - that sometimes I thought that they were real scenes, not animated and like 'The Polar Express', this film captured real human movements to built the characters on the movie making them appear much more natural and their faces much more expressive.
The movie is based on three Tintin stories and for those who have already read them may notice some strangeness. Some radical changes were made – especially in the villain's character – and the situations presented in the tree stories were all mixed to make only one story that could fit in the film's necessities. That is the only thing I have to complain about – and I am not saying that the plot was bad, but just different from the original.
Overall, a good film that deserves high remarks on its visual production. Although it is an animation, it is a much more an adult film. There are some gun shots and deaths – nothing shocking, obviously – but uncommon in traditional animations aimed for kids. Also, the vast majority of the audience that was watching this film was adults – actually, I didn't see any kid watching it.