Tintindiana 4,5 (dad)

Rating: 4/10 (22 May 2012)

It begins and ends like the Tintin comics i used to read long ago before comics: a gentle mystery story, set in Europe and with real cardboard characters: the blank curious reporter, his ingenious dog (the best thing here) and his grumpy friend. But, between, it becomes a non-stop action extravaganza going from boat to desert to opera to port. It is just too much and the final fight with cranes looks like "Transformers". It's above all the Spielberg of "Indy 4" who focus only speed that commands the camera, in spite of his old self taking a few shots: the duel about the fuse is a bit "Hook"ish and maybe the best sequence. This CGI picture isn't wonderful: if the actors have indeed been shot live, it would have been better to keep the original shot. Finally, this Tintin gives a distorted view of the comics and the original cartoon is much true to this.