What a movie!!

Rating: 10/10 (16 November 2011)

A MUST SEE movie!!
Saw it in 3D with original English speech. Wow what a movie. Putting ion my professional glasses as a 3D illustrator - the 3D was simply stunning!
All details were done to perfection, materials were literally photo-real. All was modeled, - no shortcuts, such as facades added just a texture. The animations - done mostely by motion tracking - were 100% natural, mimics as well, - even tongue movements at closeups were done - and they looked real! Amazing!
All characters in the movie are modeled so they are photo-real and at the same time stay true to the Hergé world. So you can say that it is made as cartoon characters with a photo-real look. That fact that they are not completely human-like is actually liberating for your mind, - because you switch of your brains automatic dissecting scanning of how a human look like - which still often start some alerts "This is not a real human" (amazing what our brains can do in a split of a second). Thereby you see the characters as figures and your are not disturbed by the many "no human" alerts, that often appear when you see other 3D animation movies.
I have put the weight in this review on the technical aspects of the movie - because this is what I am best at, - and there are many others that can make a better review of the plot etc. My impression however is, that movie has all elements a movie of that kind needs, - excitement, - humor, - action - and you never know what is waiting around the corner, - even though you have read "the book" - the mix of the 2-3 books is done with such caution and artistic ingenuity. And as all good movies it stop just when you have taken the jump from a cliff - and just can't wait to see what will happen then ... To be continued
Need I say that I can't wait till "The Adventures of TinTin II" is out, - and also the DVD is out as well, hopefully full of additionally background of how the movie has been made, - let this be a hint for the production company :-)