- The usual disclaimer: I’ve never read the Tintin stories and my degree of familiarity is such that I was able to appreciate the street artist drawing Tintin in the traditional style of his creator but beyond that, any in-jokes were lost on me.
- How old is Tintin supposed to be? They kept disparagingly referring to him as a kid and he looked like a teenager yet he was irresponsibly running around with a gun and seemed to have his own apartment. Where are his parents? There is an extreme lack of supervision going on here.
Also, he oddly resembles the ginger prince that is John Arne Riise.
- I suspect that the numerous extended and somewhat ridiculous action scenes were meant to disguise the fact that Tintin really should have solved this mystery a lot sooner? As this is a children’s movie I’m not exactly proud or impressed with myself that I was able to unravel things much sooner than our protagonist, but Tintin’s inability to put two and two together was very frustrating at times.
- I hate villains with silly motives. I understand wanting to recover a lost treasure that your ancestor tried to steal hundreds of years earlier. Sure, why not. I do not understand wanting to murder the descendant of the guy whose treasure your ancestor was trying to steal because… what? Does not compute. Get in, get the treasure, get out. But he seemed to particularly relish the idea that he’d get to kill Haddock and I need a teeny bit more of a motive to understand this.
- I don’t know whether or not to be pleased or disturbed that the mocap animation in this manages to avoid the Uncanny Valley, which is precisely where mocap animation is supposed to live.
- The opening title sequence was fantastic, I have to say. The only thing that dulled it a bit was how much it reminded me of the opening sequence to Catch Me If You Can, although I think that feeling was magnified by John Williams’ tendency to plagiarize himself time and time again.
- The second best part of this movie was the trailer for The Hobbit at the start. Sorry, Steve.