Phenomenal visual feast but not so great storytelling

Rating: Null/10 (12 November 2011)

My review is in a simplified format - avoiding all the waffle, idiosyncrasies and ego massaging.
Visually outstanding and faithful to original books. The narrative is not really in the spirit of the original works though, because the movie is overwhelmed with action set-pieces and only tentatively embraces the Arthur Conan-Doyle/ Agatha Christie-type action-mystery genre. Overly-elaborate fight scenes, including swordplay using cranes. Too much of 'I thought I'd already killed you.' and Mwahahahaha... I'll get you next time...
Excellent Captain Haddock characterisation (normally I don't really like Andy Serkis). Quite good TinTin - though not great. Decent Thompson twins characters. Terrible 2D villain by D Craig. Other characters not worth a mention.
All-in-all the kidz up to age 14 will love it. Probably boys more than girls.
A sequel is probably in the pipeline ... Mwahahahaha !!!