A superbly animated failure

Rating: 5/10 (16 August 2017)

This is the story of a well known boy, Tintin, who works on an article regarding a model war ship and its history which ultimately gets him into a lot of trouble. While the ship itself is rather insignificant, it contains a secret message that leads to a priceless treasure which lays at the bottom of the sea. Together with a famous but drunk Captain, he must solve the mystery and find the missing treasure before the bad guys get to it first.
It's a cliché story, featuring a bunch of stupid, idiotic and mentally retarded characters who generally try to reach their goal, if they remember which that is of course. It's as linear and as predictable as it gets, nothing and nobody from it managing to stand out of the misery. This movie has one upside, a very big one. It is absolutely superb animated, in a lot of scenes being difficult to tell the difference between it and reality.
Despite this major advantage, they decided to rule out most laws of physics, a lot of mind boggling events almost shatter your intelligence. I understand that it is, despite all, an animation which isn't supposed to be realistic, but when you do everything you can to draw it as realistic as possible and tell a plausible and apparently serious story, you cannot insult the general public like that. I mean, how can you tell me that a drunk person can burp inside an empty airplane tank and give it enough fuel to continue almost as nothing happened and even after the same plane crashes into the desert, it continues to spin it's propeller although buried into the sand...It leaves you speechless. The finale is as stupid as the rest of the movie, leaving room for an upcoming sequel, unfortunately.
To sum it up, a stupid movie in every single way which receives five stars from me only because of its gorgeous appearance and nothing else. A huge disappointment!