The new Tintin film is visually dazzling, but dazzle is not always the highest virtue in film-making, writes Charles Moore.
This review is late because I had not intended to write it at all. One look at
the publicity stills for Steven Spielberg’s computer-animated film
version of Hergé’s creation had convinced me that I would hate it. The film
renderings of the characters looked like grotesque parodies of human beings,
rather than the peaceful, beautifully drawn cartoons of the master. Research
among fellow Tintin-lovers showed that this reaction was widely shared.
Our son, however, who is a much more learned Tintinologist than I, took a
different view. Although the film was “far from perfect”, he said, it was
“fully in the spirit of the original” and clearly composed by people who
loved it: I should go. So, in order to prove that I am not in the 47 per
cent of the adult population who regard the young as rude and frightening, I
put on my 3D glasses, and went.
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