![]() ![]() It's true that the original creator’s subtlety is lost. ![]() In that respect, The Adventures of Tintin is as faithful an adaptation as one could expect, its cast endlessly tumbling head over heels through city street-car chases, pirate ships, and Arabian ports in search of lost treasure. Steven Spielberg’s Adventures of Tintin may at first be shocking for Tintin nostalgists, who, in their appreciation of Herge’s myriad literary references and charmingly literal sense of humor, forgot that the books were still often a mishmash of adventure genres, loaded with absurd, highly kinetic action, and illogical coincidences. What is it that’s so creepy about Tintin’s new face? Is it the unnerving experience of realizing, years after enjoying the Tintin comic books during childhood, that the Belgian journalist and sometimes detective is a weirdo who narrates his whole life to his dog and lives in a fully realized version of the Jump-to-Conclusions mat from Office Space? Possibly, but that’s likely just a sign of having become a mentally healthy grown up. ![]()
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