A Special and Perhaps Magical Animated Comic Story

Rating: 8/10 (18 January 2019)

1 January 2012. One of the best animated adaptations to the full theatrical screen of a comic strip character and storyline. The technology has arrived at a point along with the strong script that resonates with its original cartoon material. Perhaps almost overly long with an almost forced condensing of an immense amount of material of three of the series stories, the film nevertheless manages to create a magical experience that neither live action films based on human characters in a real world nor the fantasy animation of animated characters can reproduce. In the best of both worlds, Tin Tin can feature amazing physical action that audience are willing to suspect their disbelief and experience almost Disneyland spectacular ride for themselves. At the same time the film effectively captures both the spirit and the personality of the original cartoon strips themselves. The transformation to film is somewhat more dark, at times, and physically intense than the more passive colored flat 2-D images on the page. Whether or not the animated technology will subsume the live actor performances within a decade is another matter.