TinTin comes to the Big Screen

Rating: 8/10 (21 January 2012)

My younger daughter is really the TinTin fan, but I'm not sure I could have gotten her to write this review. (it's hard enough to get her to do her homework.)
The modern version of Rotoscoping is done well enough where on occasion I could suspend noticing it was animation and not live action. In fact, this movie could have been done live action save for the search for an actor to play TinTin.
The movie does earn it's rating. Someone early in the film is shot dead in a hail of gunfire, but the impacts are shielded from the viewer and TinTin by the front door of his apartment building. My daughter wanted to duck out before this scene because she is enough of the TinTin fan to recognize the level of gunfire and the results in his stories.
Daniel Craig, who we're now conditioned to seeing as a hero (Cowboys and Aliens, Mr. Bond), is the villain here. In a complement on voice acting, to me he does not sound like James.
It may have been the theater, but for a children's series it was dead quiet at the beginning and quiet (almost except for my daughter, who tends to make a running commentary). When the lights went up, I found out that most the audience was adults, especially groups of adults. One group included an elderly lady with a French accent to whom I commented that she probably read the stories in French and not the ugly English translation.
The film works well enough to earn an eight in my book.