TinTin: The Secret of the Unicorn

A good 3 weeks after its release in Belgium (worldpremiere),612.000 people have watched TinTin.
The 3D, motioncapture movie about the Belgium comic book hero Tin Tin created by Hérge, the movie itself was directed by Steven Spielberg (Jurrasic Parc, ET,...) and Peter Jackson (LoTR).

The story is based on 3 albums:
*The crab with the golden claws
*The Secret of the Unicorn
*The treasure of Red Rackham

The movie took element out of these 3 to form one story, that while completly diffrent from the Hérge works, is set in the same timeframe. The main reason they did it this way was to introduce an audiance to the characters, instead of auto ausiming that Cpt. Haddock and Tin Tin were friends since the beginning.

The movie honours the style of the comics and the time period it was set in, early 1940's.(Even Hérge makes a cameo in the film).

The movie is a great introduction to the universe of Tin Tin for those who don't know it, and one should definitely go and see it.It will be out around Christmas in the USA, after the movie it would be best to get an album or 2 from this great series.

A minus point I fin, is that the character of Sacharin is portrayed as a villain in the movie, while he to was a victim of a plot to get the treasure.