Animation Revelation Forum

Release Date: 12/21/11
Studio: Columbia/Paramount/Nickelodeon/Amblin/Wingnut
Director: Steven Spielberg
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Starring: Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Toby Jones

Plot Summary: Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Tintin and Sakharine...

COMMENTS?

LD Talkback #163 (being a part of the DALEK/SPIELBERG TALKBACK SERIES)

I'd move this to the Nickelodeon board, but I don't really think it matters.

Anyway, I really want to see this one, but I'm not sure if I'll get to just yet. It's funny that the two most well-regarded animated films this year are both Nickelodeon Studios projects, even if they're both heavy on mo cap.

Quote from: Avaitor on December 22, 2011, 11:54:41 AM
I'd move this to the Nickelodeon board, but I don't really think it matters.

The connection is a bit more strenuous than the usual Nickelodeon movies to boot.

Heard it was good according to the fam. Steven Moffat credited for part of the screenplay.