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Ever since I heard that Steven Speilberg and Peter Jackson were making this film, I have felt a blend of anticipation and nervousness. You see, I have wanted someone to make a Tintin movie since I was a child. The Nelvana animated series was pretty good, but I have always longed for an adaption of Tintin that would, well, adapt rather than just animate. Luckily I was not disappointed.
The film condenses several different comic adventures and adds stuff, but it gets all the things I love most about Tintin right. The Thom(p)sons! Captain Haddock! SNOWY!
I think what I loved most was the level of background detail, especially the stuff that only the comic fans would get. (I could tell the two people next to me in the theater were readers, because they laughed with me at the tins of crab meat on the dock.) Attention to background detail was a hallmark of the comics, and its nice to see all the little things here.
What I was most concerned about when I heard they were doing a film adaptation was whether they would get Captain Haddock right. When I heard they were casting Andy Serkis, I relaxed, and I was right to do so. He's marvellous in this, and gets across all that glorious drunken Haddock personality. I had a moment of 'bwah?' when I first heard the accent, but Scottish seems to work for Serkis and the geography of all this is pretty vague anyway. (The English translations never really specified where exactly Haddock is meant to be from; I don't know if the Belgian originals had any more to say on the subject.) They were absolutely right to pick The Crab With the Golden Claws and The Secret of the Unicorn for the first story, since it gives us the story of how Tintin and Haddock meet and become BFFs.
I am also glad to report that the film contained sufficient Snowy. I was a bit worried about this, since screen adaptations understandably leave out his little asides, but he gets plenty to do and saves the day more the once. And is also fluffy and adorable.
I may have made high-pitched squeaking noises when they first mentioned ( spoiler. )
Today I went to the IMDB message boards and found a bunch of idiots claiming that no true fan of the comics could possibly like the movie. Then I rolled my eyes a lot and plotted to see it again next weekend. (I mean, I am cool with other people not liking things I like. Just not with declaring people who like the film fake fans!)
The only thing I am sad about is that I have to wait until at least 2014 to see a sequel, and that they are probably never going to adapt The Blue Lotus and Tintin in Tibet.
The film condenses several different comic adventures and adds stuff, but it gets all the things I love most about Tintin right. The Thom(p)sons! Captain Haddock! SNOWY!
I think what I loved most was the level of background detail, especially the stuff that only the comic fans would get. (I could tell the two people next to me in the theater were readers, because they laughed with me at the tins of crab meat on the dock.) Attention to background detail was a hallmark of the comics, and its nice to see all the little things here.
What I was most concerned about when I heard they were doing a film adaptation was whether they would get Captain Haddock right. When I heard they were casting Andy Serkis, I relaxed, and I was right to do so. He's marvellous in this, and gets across all that glorious drunken Haddock personality. I had a moment of 'bwah?' when I first heard the accent, but Scottish seems to work for Serkis and the geography of all this is pretty vague anyway. (The English translations never really specified where exactly Haddock is meant to be from; I don't know if the Belgian originals had any more to say on the subject.) They were absolutely right to pick The Crab With the Golden Claws and The Secret of the Unicorn for the first story, since it gives us the story of how Tintin and Haddock meet and become BFFs.
I am also glad to report that the film contained sufficient Snowy. I was a bit worried about this, since screen adaptations understandably leave out his little asides, but he gets plenty to do and saves the day more the once. And is also fluffy and adorable.
I may have made high-pitched squeaking noises when they first mentioned ( spoiler. )
Today I went to the IMDB message boards and found a bunch of idiots claiming that no true fan of the comics could possibly like the movie. Then I rolled my eyes a lot and plotted to see it again next weekend. (I mean, I am cool with other people not liking things I like. Just not with declaring people who like the film fake fans!)
The only thing I am sad about is that I have to wait until at least 2014 to see a sequel, and that they are probably never going to adapt The Blue Lotus and Tintin in Tibet.