Not Comics: Tintin Movie Sneaks In France To Positive Reviews

You can read a summary article here, or just start poking around: The Adventures Of Tintin played yesterday to a coterie of French-language film critics in advance of its October 22 opening, and most seemed to like what they saw. The obvious joke to make is that the approval of the French doubly dooms the movie in terms of its chances with US audiences -- a market where the film faces an uphill climb in terms of all-ages material and the general audience rejection of that sometimes creepy 3-D animation style that thus far has produced some of the most excruciating, ponderous cartoon movies in history. I've always seen the Tintin movie as a no-lose situation: if it's good, I would enjoy seeing a quality adaptation of that material. Those Tolkien films from a decade ago fairly beat out of my head the notion that movies need to be absolutely faithful to the source material for me to enjoy them. If it's bad, or just doesn't hit, the majority of the people involved have several lifetimes' worth of success each and won't have any of their careers altered in any significant way by one stinker. You also can't say the books haven't already found an audience.

For what it's worth, the majority of the pieces I read this morning were thumbs up on Andy Serkis' Captain Haddock and thumbs down on the Frost/Pegg team playing Thomson and Thompson.
 
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