TINTIN IS AWESOME.

It's been a couple of days since I published my last blog entry, but I'm going to be honest here, after I watched The Adventures of Tintin in 3D, I bought all of the Tintin comic books and have been sort of busy making my way through the 25 books. I have read them before but this time I wanted to own all of the comics in the series. Hergé is a brilliant writer. It's a pity he's dead, otherwise he definitely would've written more masterpieces. Anyways wow, just wow, that movie was mind blowing. Funny and intense at the same time. People don't know what they're taking about when they say, meh, that movie is just for kids. Are you kidding me? Haven't you read any of the Tintin comics in your life? Ever? The movie is definitely worth every penny. Captain Haddock is hilarious, a unique character I must say. The movie is basically about Tintin being curious about the commotion around the ship called The Unicorn. He heads out along with his dog snowy to investigate, since he was a reporter, he thought this would make an interesting story. Tintin finds out that this ship was sunk by Captain Haddocks ancestor and the ship carried a secret precious cargo, which happened to be the Kings fortune in gold and gems. The ship was attacked by pirates so Sir Francis Haddock, Captain Haddocks ancestor, decides to sink the ship to prevent the the gold from going into the wrong hands. As the years go by, Sakharine, a descendant of the pirate who was going to take over The Unicorn, decides to go after the treasure and to do that he must find the scrolls that lead to the location of this sunken treasure. The scrolls are hidden in 3 models of The Unicorn and Tintin happened to buy one of the models. He later finds the scroll hidden in the ship and keeps it. Sakharine trying to steal the model from Tintin and kidnapping him arises even more curiosity. Why did Sakharine want the scrolls so bad? Tintin first meets Haddock on the ship he was being transported on. Haddock was drunk and upset because Sakharine had turned the crew of his own ship against him. Tintin and haddock escape the ship together to look for the treasure since it's said that only a true Haddock can discover the location of the treasure and they eventually do, after all the gripping action scenes and getting their hands on the remaining scrolls. The movie sure does keep you on the edge of your seat. Jamie Bell voices Tintin, Andy Serkis voices Haddock and Daniel Craig voices Sakharine and they do a pretty good job. This movie is a must watch for all ages. It's interesting, gripping, suspenseful and exciting. The visuals are amazing especially in 3D. The characters are highly detailed. Animation has been taken to a whole new level. The movie was just amazing, well it's kind of expected since it's directed by Steven Spielberg. And I definitely recommend reading the comics as well if you haven read them already. They're worth a read.