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Watch the Tintin movie! (non-spoilerific)
Dec. 22nd, 2011 11:27 pmIf you haven't read the Tintin books, the Tintin movie probably comes off as amusing, hyperactive, fairly incoherent and certainly contrived in places, and yet fun to watch. Technically it's quite a feat, too: it's cartoonized, but more realistically than I've seen before, and according to Mom and Dad it uses real actors and captures their motions as was done with Gollum in Lord of the Rings. But, you should read some of the books first!
To a die-hard Tintin fan like I was as a child, it's like a brilliantly composed medley. It was mostly drawn from "Secret of the Unicorn", with a large chunk of "Crab with the Golden Claws" (these I believe are required reading for maximum enjoyment) and a few other references rather brilliantly woven together. By the way these books were written by a Belgian man, Hergé, apparently between 1929 and 1983.
I was really worried that it would be done badly, but I loved it and I kept laughing. I loved seeing how the characters came to life, but looked somehow exactly like the way Hergé drew them. I recognized panels! I loved the small references were woven in. I loved seeing Captain Haddock come up, fist pumping, yelling "Thundering Typhoons!"
I also loved the screenplay in the preview, where it did a sort of pantomime video like the cartoons. I think that might come from some sort of Tintin TV series that I only saw a tiny bit of once.
( ok spoiler )
Finally, fan service for geeks like me instead of geeks who read all the X-men and so on! And /good/ fan service at that. I am impressed. My whole family decided to go on Mom's whim, though my sister's had it on our to-do list for months. I am glad.
To a die-hard Tintin fan like I was as a child, it's like a brilliantly composed medley. It was mostly drawn from "Secret of the Unicorn", with a large chunk of "Crab with the Golden Claws" (these I believe are required reading for maximum enjoyment) and a few other references rather brilliantly woven together. By the way these books were written by a Belgian man, Hergé, apparently between 1929 and 1983.
I was really worried that it would be done badly, but I loved it and I kept laughing. I loved seeing how the characters came to life, but looked somehow exactly like the way Hergé drew them. I recognized panels! I loved the small references were woven in. I loved seeing Captain Haddock come up, fist pumping, yelling "Thundering Typhoons!"
I also loved the screenplay in the preview, where it did a sort of pantomime video like the cartoons. I think that might come from some sort of Tintin TV series that I only saw a tiny bit of once.
( ok spoiler )
Finally, fan service for geeks like me instead of geeks who read all the X-men and so on! And /good/ fan service at that. I am impressed. My whole family decided to go on Mom's whim, though my sister's had it on our to-do list for months. I am glad.
