Tintinitis ...

Rating: Null/10 (28 October 2011)

... is clearly gripping the viewers who have reviewed this film before me. I've never read a line of the Tintin books so I had no strong feelings either way; I have seen a couple of Spielberg films but again found them fairly ho hum. Nevertheless I decided to give this one a shot but it might have been a shot of strong liquor because I kept nodding off. This is not to say it was bad but clearly it wasn't that good. Unlike some posters the three D didn't bother me but neither did it enhance what seemed a fairly bland plot and I found myself straining a little too hard to discern the actors behind the effects. If I hadn't known, for example, that Andy Serkis was playing the old sea dog I'd have been hard put to get beyond the bulbous nose - I've seen Serkis on stage in London several times before he became well known, often in small theatres where one is close to the stage - and I still don't know who Daniel Craig was. On the other hand many posters have stated that this is a fine example of a 'family' film and I'll go along with that.