Plot: TinTin, boy reporter, buys a model boat, but suddenly people are trying to buy it, and then steal it. The boat has a secret inside left by Francis Haddock who built it. Soon bad guy Sakharine has the boat, and is sailing across the world to solve the mystery. TinTin and Haddock's son try to find him, and solve the mystery. There are a large number of twists each punctuated by an action scene like a getting ship wrecked, a pirate fight, getting stranded in the desert, climbing on the wings of a plane, and more.
Worse, the animation of Tintin is in the uncanny valley, which means its human replicas are too realistic to be viewed as drawings, and too fake to be real -- the result is disturbing and it repeated disrupts the movie illusion -- at least for me. The term goes back to 1906, and Freud wrote about it. It might be better to use these close CGI human replicas as villains only since the psyche seems quickly creeped out by them.
The plot is complicated, but not too hard to follow. There is some comic relief. I think the number of drunked sea captain jokes is so high as too be offensive. I don't think kids should be exposed to this much drinking.
On the bright side the music was good. The 3D was OK.
The worst part was that it was just no fun. Unlike the best comic book movies, there was no social message or interesting characters. This was the shallowest of comic heros in a poor adaptation. It shows that Steven Spielberg does not always make good movies.
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