Twelve Films At Christmas - 12

And so to the last doings of the Christmas season, with a film I seem to recall I enjoyed rather more when first I encountered it - The Adventures of Tintin: the Secret of the Unicorn. I have to declare an almost vested interest in this one - I love Herge's source cartoon books and we have twenty-one beautifully framed prints from those books adorning our stairway. Don't get me wrong, this is by no means a bad film, but in all the motion-capture chaos (not helped by Spielberg having fallen for the false god of 3D technology) some of the delightful wit of the source is lost. Nice try, could do better. 64/100.