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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz3j8gKRUTg

i´m afraid i feel the "uncanny valley" 3d characters don´t work for me. i know they were trying to transport hergés comic book lines into the 3d world, and i applaud the effort, but somehow these two world clash, i feel. the surroundings look great and the voice actors sound great, but the faces are utterly artificial ... i don´t know. will all this really come alive? i´m doubtful.
so, what do you say?

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Eurgh. Not digging it. Cartoons and comics come to life belong in the trash, or in Japan where they do it properly.

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Don't worry. The faces look alive, and are cartoony enough to avoid the Polar Express and Beowulf zombie-ism. I found absolutely no uncanny valley anywhere. They built a bridge right across it, but I was to caught up in the movie to look out the window. No Zemeckis Zombies in this movie.

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ah, this is reassuring. i´m planning to watch the movie either this week-end or next week, but very soon in any case. and i´d love for it to be a great big magical adventure with a nostalgic touch. i don´t think i´ll be terribly bothered by the changed plot elements, since tintin isn´t about one single adventure. but i was worried about the "Zemeckis Zombies" (great word!). thanks for your post!

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saw it and liked it very much. i´m a little disappointed and suprised that i didn´t love it though. i can´t lay my finger on what it was. i remember thinking "this is brilliant" when it started, and i was totally into the parts up to and on the "Karaboudjan", also in the desert... all in all, a charmingly nostalgic adventure film, true to the spirit of the comic books, absolutely. and looking absolutely gorgeous. i hope it does well at the box office, but i wonder if the american public will go for it, since i hear tintin isn´t very well known over there.

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

Haven't seen the film yet, but planning to go this week. Seems like Tintin has been collecting mostly praise in Europe, and some friends of mine have said good things about it. The tempo seems to be very fast, and some negative reviews have claimed that "this is not the Tintin we loved", but hyperactive rollercoaster that loses the charm of the original. Well... I'll tell later what I think, being a fan of the comic-strip from the late 70's.

I thinks it's pretty clear that if any newcomer picks a Tintin comic-album after seeing the film, they will think the comic-version of the film is pretty lame and slow... For me, the photorealistic Tintin looks a bit strange. The style of the comic is a combination of cartoony and realistic, with flat colours. I originally kind of hoped that they would have invented some similar effect to the film, but of course they went to more realistic direction.

Making a film about Tintin is... almost like somebody trying to make a film about H2G2.

i was wary of these points of criticism, too. but i have to say, the animation looks just beautiful, and while at first the 3d-rendering of our beloved 2d-characters seems a bit strange, i warmed to it very quickly. as to the action, actually i didn´t feel overwhelmed by it at all. there is one chase in the middle of the movie (where it departs the most from the known storyline, which isn´t a problem imho) which is pretty impressive, but also very apt, considering that we are no longer on paper. i feel that bringing tintin to the big screen needed a bold vision, and this movie has brought us this, while still retaining the charm and heart and humour of the original comic book adventures. the characters work and have a "chemistry", especially the trio tintin-snowy-haddock just clicks.

one thing i know: you´ll love the intro, which is like a tintin mini-adventure very much in the style of the comic books.

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I saw Tintin 3D yesterday. I liked it, fun adventure film and even impressive in many sequencies. The motion capture was well done, much less creepy than in some earlier efforts. More realistic characters worked well, but I'm still a bit disappointed that they didn't find a stylistically more comic-like way to do it. Some reviewer said that it is strange that Hergé could still put more feeling to simple ink-blot eyes, than these fully realistic versions had. A little unfair comparison, but I guess there is some truth in that. Hard to imagine how dot-eyes would have worked in the film, though...

3D was well done, maybe the best one I have seen so far (Haven't seen too many actually). There were some nice touches, like right in the beginning Hergé drawing the caricature of Tintin.

Tintin will probably do well in Europe and elsewhere, but the character is almost completely unknown in USA, so it will be interesting to see how this will do in States. Naturally they released it first in Europe, hoping the good word would help the american box-office.

This alternative fan-made title sequence is also quite clever, covering all Tintin-albums. The artist is a professional animator, I guess. Some comments suggested that Spielberg would have contacted him to work for the sequel.

http://www.slimjimstudios.com/tintin.html

that trailer was brilliant, thanks for sharing!

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