The Adventures of Tintin

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As embarrassing as it might be for someone with my job to admit it, I've never read Tintin, the classic comic series by Belgian artist Hergé. It's always been described to me not only as a masterpiece, but as exactly the kind of genre-busting all-ages adventure story that I love, but it's just been one of those gaps in my comics knowledge that I've never gotten around to filling...

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As much as people around the globe dig Hergé's classic Tintin comics, not even the pedigree of director Steven Spielberg, producer Peter Jackson and writers Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish can fully sell Tintin fans on historically creepy-looking motion capture CG animation. MSN's...

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Motion capture computer generated animation is pretty unsettling as a general rule, but I have to admit, Steven Spielberg's cinematic adaptation of Hergé's Tintin series is looking more and more natural. Yahoo Movies UK has a new trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn that gives fans their first decent introduction to the film's cast. At la...