Review of The Adventures of Tintin (2011) by Dylan D — 19 Dec 2013

The Adventures of Tintin defines light, family-appropriate cinema action and adventure on the grandest of scales. The movie's photorealistic animation, quality story, and good characters come together with little effort.

The Spielberg magic is evident even without a single natural life form to be seen in the end product, and John Williams' score is as rousing, playful, and full of adventurous spirit as always. Certainly, The Adventures of Tintin may only be a digital and re-imagined take on the world of Indiana Jones, but it works well enough on its own merits, with its own characters, its own ideas, and its own rhythm, though certainly the connections -- all the way to the setting and the names appearing under "director" and "composer" on the billing block -- are impossible to miss.

The Adventures of Tintin brings back the classic goodhearted, safe Adventure film, made by people who love movies and care as much about heart, plot, and characters as they do sensationalism, all of which this movie offers in abundance.