MIT Lecture Series Committee

Rated PG
107 minutes

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format: 35mm

The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Director Steven Spielberg kicks off the big-screen Tintin trilogy with this computer-animated, motion-capture adaptation of Herge's beloved Tintin comic strip. Produced by Spielberg, Peter Jackson, and Kathleen Kennedy, the first installment in the series finds adventure-seeking Belgian reporter Tintin (voiced by Jamie Bell) and surly Captain Haddock (voiced by Andy Serkis) racing to recover a treasure that was lost at sea four centuries ago. Meanwhile, the malevolent Red Rackham (voiced by Daniel Craig) is determined to beat them to it. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Toby Jones provide additional voices for a film written by Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, and Steven Moffat. [www.allrovi.com]

The Adventures of Tintin comes at you in a whoosh, like a volcano full of creative ideas in full eruption...it hits home for the kid in all of us who wants to bust out and run free.
      -- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. Read this review.