
Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at... (Full plot summary below)
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Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Tintin and Sakharine have one each and the villain intends to use the glass-shattering top Cs of operatic soprano the Milanese Nightingale to secure the third. With aid from bumbling Interpol agents the Thompson Twins our boy hero, his dog and the captain must prevent Sakharine from obtaining all three scrolls to fulfil the prophesy that only the last of the Haddocks can discover the treasure's whereabouts.
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| MediaMikesMichael A. Smith...as he has for over twenty films with the director, John Williams provides a brilliant score that captures the on screen story beautifully. |
| CinesnarkSarah MarrsI found TinTin an unfulfilling experience at the movies. |
| Easy Reader (California)Neely SwansonA film with as much heart as it has humor, the action and pacing never flag and you will find yourself laughing out loud one moment and grabbing the arm rest the next. |
| INDY WeekCraig D. LindseyWith The Adventures of Tintin, Steven Spielberg remembers that even if you make a movie that isn't about that much, at least make it an exciting, awe-inspiring movie about not that much. |
| E! OnlineLuke Y. ThompsonThis Tintin is a fun, zippy adventure well under two hours, and Serkis' Haddock is a marvel. |
| SFX MagazineAlec WorleyTintin never registers on an emotional level, but this doesn't make it any less of a cinematic marvel. |
| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea ChaseWhat Snow White was to the advancement of hand-drawn animation into a genuine art form, so is The Adventures of Tintin is to animation derived from motion capture and generated from a computer. |
| SSG SyndicateSusan GrangerSteven Spielberg's terrific, fun-filled, state-of-the-art photorealistic 3-D motion-capture animation, laying groundwork for a sequel to be directed by Peter Jackson. |
| San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliSuch are the timeless joys of the books (and now the movie), this sparkling absurdity and knack for buckling swash under the worst of circumstances. |
| Urban CinefileAndrew L. UrbanAstonishing is the only word for the motion capture-delivered world of Tintin, a splendid adventure that has all the classic elements |