The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (aka The Adventures of Tintin) ***½ (7/10)

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2018)

Available on Blu-ray Disc (Region B)
USA/New Zealand 2011 English (Colour); Animation/Adventure/Family/Mystery (Paramount/Columbia/Hemisphere Media Capital/Amblin/Wingnut/Kennedy-Marshall/Nickelodeon); 107 minutes (PG certificate)
Crew includes: Steven Spielberg (Director); Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish (Screenwriters, adapting Comic Books THE CRAB WITH THE GOLDEN CLAWS, THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN and RED RACKHAM'S TREASURE by Hergé *** [6/10]); Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Kathleen Kennedy (Producers); Ken Kamins, Nick Rodwell, Stephane Sperry (Executive Producers); Michael Kahn (Editor); John Williams (Composer)
Voices include: Jamie Bell (Tintin), Andy Serkis (Captain Archibald Haddock/Sir Francis Haddock), Daniel Craig (Sakharine/Red Rackham), Nick Frost (Thomson), Simon Pegg (Thompson), Daniel Mays (Allan/Pirate Flunky #1), Gad Elmaleh (Omar Ben Salaad), Toby Jones (Silk), Mackenzie Crook (Tom/Pirate Flunky #2)
Academy Award nomination: Original Score; BAFTA nominations (2): Visual Effects, Animated Film; Golden Globe Award: Animated Picture
"This year, discover how far adventure will take you."
A baby-faced reporter (Bell) and his ever-faithful fox terrier join forces with an inebriated sea captain (Serkis), to trounce a sinister landowner (Craig) in his ruthless search for a centuries-old sunken treasure that went down with an ill-fated sailing ship when it was attacked by pirates.
Based on elements from three of the books in THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN series, Hergé's entire universe seems ideally suited to Spielberg, transferring the iconic comic strip hero into a teenage, similarly globetrotting and adventure-seeking Indiana Jones.
Spielberg's first wholly animated feature, utilising 3D motion capture, contains strong, expressive "performances" from a mainly British cast, including the original BILLY ELLIOT, Gollum, and James Bond.
Blu-ray Extras: Featurettes. *** (6/10)