Tintin and Haddock (and Snowy) eventually escape from the Karaboudjan in a lifeboat. Haddock has been supplied with whiskey by first mate Allan ( Daniel Mays), who is working for Sakharine, and the captain is permanently drunk, and doesn't know what's happening on board his ship. On board, Tintin escapes and meets the ship's nominal captain, Haddock ( Andy Serkis). Later, Tintin is shot at, then abducted by accomplices of Sakharine, and imprisoned on the SS Karaboudjan. Tintin puts the scroll in his wallet, only to have his wallet stolen by Silk. Tintin visits Sakharine in Marlinspike Hall, where he learns that there are two model ships. Meanwhile, incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson ( Nick Frost and Simon Pegg) are on the trail of a pickpocket, Aristides Silk ( Toby Jones). Snowy spots it but is unable to alert Tintin. As it breaks, a parchment scroll slips out of the ship's mast.

Tintin takes the ship home, but it is broken during a fight between Snowy and a neighbor's cat.

Tintin buys a model of a three-masted sailing ship, the Unicorn, on the cheap, but is then immediately accosted by the sinister Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine ( Daniel Craig), and the mysterious figure of Barnaby (Joe Starr), who both try to buy the model from Tintin, without success. Tintin ( Jamie Bell), a young journalist, and his dog Snowy are browsing in an outdoor market in a European town (scene starts off with a cameo of Hergé doing Tintin's portrait). If you feel like the contents are inappropriate, please contact an administrator and share your concerns. Spielberg, whose love of the Tintin comics is rooted in his childhood, may look at the hero’s blankly innocent freckled face and see a character who strikes a Proustian chord in him, but personally, I’ve barely even glanced at a Tintin comic, and what I saw looked more like The Adventures of Rubber Boy and Captain Boring.Warning: This section of the article may contain spoilers. Is this the “uncanny valley” - the much-discussed phenomenon whereby motion-capture characters look just human enough so that what’s missing from their eyes is subtly disquieting? Or is it simply that, as written, there’s nothing much of interest going on in Tintin, Haddock, or anyone else? The movie has some of the hollow frenetic virtuosity of Cars 2: It’s all busy action, all surface, all show. I’m not one of those people with a knee-jerk disdain for motion capture (I enjoyed The Polar Express and loved Jim Carrey in A Christmas Carol), but in Tintin, the technique that renders all that movement so flowing and frictionless also makes the characters come off as if their souls were made of sponge.

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