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Pretty Tintin won’t make new fans
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GIRL WITH THE DRAGON
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All Flash, No Heart
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: Directed
by Steven Spielberg. Screenplay by Steven
Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, based
on the books by Hergé. Music, John Williams.
Editor, Michael Kahn. Starring Jamie Bell,
Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick
Frost and Toby Jones. Paramount Pictures,
2011. PG. 107 minutes. 44211
H
ow did professional heartstring-
tugger Steven Spielberg and
Peter Jackson — a man who
said, “I read Tintin before I could read”
— manage to make a Tintin movie with
so little heart? Spielberg’s big, showy 3D
holiday fi lm is exactly the opposite of
Martin Scorsese’s: In Hugo, the technical
beauty steps aside for a lovely story with
quickly but effectively drawn characters.
In The Adventures of Tintin, the beauty
of the animation is compelling, yet it
can’t buoy up the story or its one-note
characters. Tintin (Jamie Bell) is intrepid;
Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis) is drunk;
Daniel Craig’s villainous Sakharine is ...
determined? Tintin’s always-adorable dog,
Snowy, has more charm and depth than
these human characters put together.
The Adventures of Tintin uses plot
elements from a few of Hergé’s books,
primarily The Secret of the Unicorn. It’s
not an origin story, though it does introduce
Tintin, already a famous boy reporter,
to Haddock. Tintin’s pals Thomson and
Thompson (Nick Frost and Simon Pegg)
show up, as does Bianca Castafi ore (Kim
Stengel). There are several visual references
to other Tintin adventures, all of which
are crammed into a whiz-bang story that,
despite crossing oceans and deserts, begins
to drag fairly early. The movie is a bit like
Raiders of the Lost Ark, minus any attempt
to get you emotionally invested. If it didn’t
work for me — who, as a kid, devoured
Hergé’s books in repeated readings — how
hollow must it feel to those just meeting
Tintin? You can’t coast on an audience’s
existing affection for a character when
there is no affection, and Tintin just isn’t a
household name in the U.S.
I’m not sure at whose feet to lay the
blame for Tintin’s blandness. Spielberg
has his fl aws, but he’s shown again and
again that he can hook audiences, whether
we’re cheering for Indiana Jones or tearing
up at the end of E.T. His writing team is
a cross-section of British talent: Edgar
Wright (Shaun of the Dead), Joe Cornish
(the stellar Attack the Block) and Steven
Moffat, the man behind the frustrating but
affecting recent seasons of Doctor Who.
Jamie Bell has the perfect voice for Tintin,
plucky and stubborn; the invaluable Andy
Serkis disappears into Haddock; and the
other characters have so little to do that it’s
diffi cult to credit or fault them for much.
The fi lm feels overpadded; a subplot
about a pickpocket is lifted straight
from the books, but adds nothing to
Tintin’s bustling story. At fi rst the style
is distracting, the images caught in an
awkward space between cartoon and live-
action. But it’s tricksy; after 15 minutes
or so, you may fi nd you’ve stopped
thinking about it, other than to admire how
realistically Tintin’s goofy hair blows in
the ocean breeze or to note how diffi cult
the elaborate action sequences would have
been had the fi lmmakers worked with real
people and real physics.
These are the things I want to be thinking
about after the fi lm, not during it, and this
is why Tintin fails: There’s nothing beyond
the lovely surface. Rather than caring what
happens, I cared — a little — about the
pretty waves, the painstaking attention to
detail, the deep, shadowy lighting, the way
the design refl ected and enhanced images I
remembered from the books. Everything’s
there on the screen, but to what end? If
Spielberg and Jackson hoped to induce a
new generation to fall in love with Tintin,
their fi lm falls far short. On the plus side,
you’ll probably get to see the trailer for the
fi rst of Jackson’s two Hobbit fi lms, which
succeeds in a few minutes in every way
Tintin fails in almost two hours. Here’s to
next year’s adventures.
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