Genre defining

Rating: 10/10 (7 November 2013)

This is the greatest family adventure film I've seen - truly fantastic!
The animation is simply breath-taking and astonishingly lifelike for the most part, the storyline is good (as you would expect from an adaptation of the Herge classic) and it's superbly witty and exciting. I adore this film and have watched it a great many times without tiring (although I will admit the kids sometimes request we watch something different!).
The casting is good, Jamie Bell does a great job as the roving reporter, and Andy Serkis plays a mean Captain Haddock. I am sometimes a little less convinced of Daniel Craig's character (Sakharine), but not enough to damped my enthusiasm for the film. Thomson and Thompson are the best characters in the film, a tribute to Pegg and Frosts ever fruitful partnership. Finally, Snowy, wonderfully brought to life by Peter Jackson's studio: managing to instill a considerable degree of character into a subject with neither facial expressions or vocabulary.
I can't speak highly enough of this film and cannot wait for the next in the series.