The Adventures of Tintin

Steven Spielberg’s first foray into motion capture animation is not as awful as anything his pal Robert Zemeckis has done with the technology, but The Adventures of Tintin is just one long, interminable chase scene with very little of the pacing and visual imagery I expect from a Spielberg film.  It is nowhere near as bad as Hugo, his pal Marty Scorsese’s 3D debacle from this year, but it is a close second.  Who are these movies made for?  Do kids really want to sit through these long and frenetic movies?  Film like this feel more like demo films for the latest computer gimmicks or excuses for actors to experiment with this new performance style.  There is no center to this movie, no real content, story or theme and, worst of all, there is very little sense of adventure.  I have only a passing knowledge of the Hergé books, but my impression is they are fairly grounded in verisimilitude, whereas the film is as wildly unreal as most every other modern feature-length animation.