Great for kids and fans

Rating: 7/10 (27 October 2011)

The Adventures of Tintin is a great adventure movie for kids and probably for anyone who read the Tintin comics as a child. I only had maybe two or three of the comic books when I was young, so I was not expecting too much.
Technically, the movie is absolutely impressive. The characters, hair, skins and clothes look so realistic it's almost scary. But because the faces are straight from the comics, it never drifts off to uncanny valley.
The story itself is supposed to be taken from three of the books and is nice to watch, but not too exciting. It is remarkable, though, how many guns and shooting is displayed in a Spielberg movie.
I saw this in IMAX 3D and while the sound was impressive, the 3D effect is not too eye-catching, except for a few specially-for-3D moments. The 2D Blu-ray Disc will surely be a great demo disc.
All in all I was glad that I won the tickets to the presentation, especially in consideration of todays 3D ticket prices. The ending was a bit of a letdown and came too soon after the big "boss fight" shortly before the end.