Not a bad film, just not for me

Rating: 6/10 (9 January 2012)

My best friend went to see this twice before she took me to see it. She's now completely obsessed with it. Me? The best I can say is meh.
The main reason I saw this was for Steven Moffat. I love his work on Doctor Who, he's the best thing that ever happened to the show, but he wasn't up to his old tricks with this. I think I wouldn't have been so disappointed had I not known that one of my favorite writers was involved.
The film was a lot of fun but there was one little thing that bothered me enough to knock 4 points off the score. TINTIN!! Boy was he boring!! He had no personality, he was just sort of a talking cardboard cutout!! I didn't care at all about him!! If he'd been randomly killed off, I wouldn't have felt bad at all. As for the other characters, they were okay but Tintin brought it all down. I liked Snowy a lot and that other guy with them, Haddock or something, he was okay. But I just wanted Tintin off the screen. If that's how he was in the comics, no wonder Americans don't know who he is. I've never seen a more lifeless character in my entire life and that's saying a lot considering I've seen some pretty awful movies with horrible actors. But I felt like whoever played Tintin didn't have anything to work with and that's the fault of the writers, which brings me back to my immense disappointment with Steven Moffat. I mean this is the guy who wrote for the 11th Doctor, my favorite Doctor of all time, and he didn't give Tintin any personality.
And of course I could go on and on about the over the top, self indulgent ending that screamed "OF COURSE THIS MOVIE WILL HAVE A SEQUEL, YOU'RE PAYING FOR IT!!" While the movie was good in its own right, I won't be seeing the sequel.