In fact with a dose of Crab with the Golden Claws mixed in for good measure, courtesy of writers Steve Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish. (Rather than then going into Red Rackham's Treasure the next project announced is Prisoners of the Sun.) There's a most satisfying cameo of Hergé at the start but otherwise this is a straight re-telling, beautifully animated with some great sequences like Snowy's chasing of kidnapped Tintin, lovely forties design. The climactic battle between two cranes though is typically sledgehammer Hollywood, though at least they skilfully retold the scene where drunken Haddock relives his battle with the pirate - one of the original's better moments. And I wonder why Snowy isn't talking?
Featuring the voices of Jaime Bell, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg & Nick Frost, Daniel Mays, Toby Jones, Andy Serkis. With the usual team Spielberg collaborators of Williams and Khan.
Animated at Weta Digital, Peter Jackson's New Zealand studio
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