‘Tintin’ And The Death Of Motion-capture Animation (MediaPost)

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by Tom Siebert
December 29, 2011

Hollywood has done a dynamite job p!ssing all over my beloved childhood heroes the past couple years. If Frank Miller’s charmless, inept and gratuitously violent “Sin City”-ification of Will Eisner’s seminal Sunday comic series “The Spirit” wasn’t bad enough, AMC’s despicable betrayal of Patrick McGoohan’s presciently paranoid spy series “The Prisoner” actually left me feeling furious that such a precious and beloved cult property could have been so carelessly handed over to hacks who didn’t even grasp the central point and message of its creators.

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s big-budget adaptation of the Belgian cartoonist Hergé’s long-running (1929-1976) European graphic novel series “The Adventures of Tintin” isn’t quite as bad as either of those creative abortions, but it’s still a crushing disappointment for a four-decade Tintin fan who’s been eagerly awaiting the family film since it was announced in 2007.

Bob Andelman is the author or co-author of 12 books, including Mind Over Business with Ken Baum, The Consulate with Thomas R. Stutler, The Profiler with Pat Brown, Built From Scratch with the founders of The Home Depot, The Profit Zone with Adrian Slywotzky, Mean Business with Albert J. Dunlap, and Will Eisner: A Spirited Life. Click here to see Bob Andelman’s Amazon Central author page. He is a member in good standing of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (member page).