...the first work with animation, also became the first degradation. Yeah, I didn't expect that from Spielberg and his band. The graphics are of course good, the drawing of some details is impressive (the sea is generally chic). The passing of the camera and the transition from one scene to another look great. However, I do not understand why this style of characters was chosen. It doesn’t seem to be overtly caricatured (when living/non-living objects are disproportionate) like most cartoons, but it doesn’t make enough movies with real people (like Beowulf). Well, let’s consider this an original approach. That’s not the problem, though.
What really disappointed me was the story. From the investigation of the main character, I expected adventures in the spirit of “Indiana Jones” with a bias towards detective. And if the bundle was quite interesting, then it was already closer to the middle of the frank fuck. Instead of saturating the plot with various interesting riddles, travels, meetings with extraordinary characters (and there are very few of them here in principle, if you take important ones), the disclosure of the mystery of the Unicorn slides into the fact that the captain-alkash needs to remember something allegedly important and this absolutely idiotic event was also given considerable time. Although the investigation itself, in my opinion, did not affect and did not help at all, rather, the scene with memories was crammed in order to show the “epic” battle of pirates. Of course, the alkaline captain is a funny character, but with these alcoholic jokes, the writers clearly overdid it, especially the scene with the plane, there was already a clear overkill (on the other hand, I would not be surprised if he decided to pee instead of what he did). In the same way, they went overboard with other no less funny characters - twin detectives, whose stupidity at first amused, and then frankly annoyed. I mean, the scene where they found the thief, but they didn't get into it. Well, the chief investigator. Tintin, it seems, should be a kind of smart boy, but he had so long reached simple guesses that I had to wait, when he will understand what has already become clear to me, although ideally it should be the opposite – the viewer puzzles for a long time, and the fictional character catches the raid. And then, of course, someone will say a phrase like “you what, it’s a children’s cartoon, it should not be anything complicated, everything should be simple and clear.” The fact that he is a child (or rather for the whole family) is clear to me, only, you may not believe, but I will reveal a terrible secret: there is a difference between children and morons. The current generation is even smarter. And in general, it is not correct to assume that once for children, it must necessarily be something very primitive (I am already silent about this finished stereotype: if a cartoon is necessary for children). It’s as if all adults are smart. Okay, a little distracted. But I remembered that I recently watched “Young Sherlock Holmes” – here you are, please, a children’s (well, or again “family”, not important) version of the detective and by and large distinguishes it from “adult” detectives only that the main characters are teenagers. And what prevented "Tintin" to be with the same interesting and twisted plot? Yes, just everything indicates that the main emphasis was made on what would demonstrate the capabilities of modern technologies and hide under all this that no one really thought about and did not work.
In general, if short, it is visually beautiful, and plot primitive. The saddest thing was that I was more than sure that I would like the cartoon and so I left it to watch in case I needed to cheer myself up after watching poorly selected films. To say that "Tintin" did not help me is to say nothing, on the contrary, he "finished me." It is better to reconsider for the hundredth time what this creation looks like, or rather tries to do it, that is, the good old Indiana Jones (and the last part will also roll) and / or Pirates of the Caribbean.
5 out of 10
P.S. I very much hope that Spielberg will still be rehabilitated (especially hopeful for Robopocalypse), and this was his last failed experiment in the field of animation. It is enough that we lost Zemeckis, who was too carried away by her, but in my opinion simply moved.
