The Adventures of Tintin

Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg

Directed by Stephen Spielberg

Rating: B+

Tintin (Bell) is a reporter with quite the talent for investigating. Rackham (Craig) is on the hunt for buried treasure and takes Captain Haddock (Serkis) as hostage. Haddock's ancestor is responsible for the buried treasure and has given clues as to where it is. Tintin helps Haddock escape and they both travel around the globe with Rackham not far behind.

The Adventures of Tintin is a fun movie to watch. Not only that but there are so many reasons to go see it! First of all, read the cast list. Tintin has an impressive list of celebrity voices. Second, Stephen Spielberg is the director. Just look at how many great movies he's directed and been involved with: E.T., Jaws, Jurassic Park, Super 8. Third, the animation in Tintin is incredible. It is styled so realistically that audience members aren't sitting in there seats watching pure animation (like Shrek). Instead, viewers almost forget that it isn't real people doing the stunts but characters. That is one of the best parts of animation; you can get away with more crazy stunts than you can in real life. For example, in one scene Tintin is flying a plane that runs out of gas. Captain Haddock then gets out of the plane, sits in front of the windshield and burps into the engine. That can't happen in real life.

Many people might misjudge The Adventures of Tintin because they have never heard of it before. On the contrary, many people in French speaking countries (or grew up around French people) will have heard of it. Tintin was a comic book created by Herge in 1929. In fact, Spielberg even premiered The Adventures of Tintin in French speaking countries a few days before its release in the United States.

Don't let the theatrical trailer fool you. The Adventures of Tintin is definitely worth seeing and is fun for all ages.