The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin [lez?av??ty? d? t??t??]) is a series of 24 comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé. The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. By 2007, a century after Hergé's birth in 1907, Tintin had been published in more than 70 languages with sales of more than 200 million copies, and had been adapted for radio, television, theatre, and film. The series first appeared in French on 10 January 1929 in Le Petit Vingtième (The Little Twentieth), a youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle (The Twentieth Century). The success of the series saw the serialised strips published in Belgium's leading newspaper Le Soir (The Evening) and spun into a successful Tintin magazine. In 1950, Hergé created Studios Hergé, which produced the canonical versions of ten Tintin albums. The series is set during a largely realistic 20th century. Its hero is Tintin, a courageous young Belgian reporter and adventurer. He is aided by his faithful dog Snowy (Milou in the original French edition). Other protagonists include the brash and cynical Captain Haddock and the intelligent but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus (French: Professeur Tournesol), as well as the incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson (French: Dupont et Dupond) and the opera diva Bianca Castafiore. The series has been admired for its clean, expressive drawings in Hergé's signature ligne claire ("clear line") style. Its well-researched plots straddle a variety of genres: swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy, mysteries, political thrillers, and science fiction. The stories feature slapstick humour, offset by dashes of sophisticated satire and political or cultural commentary.

Production: Paramount
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 21 wins & 60 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
PG
Year:
2011
107
$75,300,000
Website
1,549 Views

Captain Haddock:
[wakes up from his drunkenness and notices Snowy, jumps] Ahhhhh! A giant rat of Sumatra. [sees Tintin stumbling into his room through the window; brandishes a bent pipe, thinking he's an intruder] So, you think you can sneak up behind me, and catch me wi' my trousers down, huh?

Tintin:
[dodging Haddock's blows] I would rather keep your trousers on, if it's all the same to you.

Captain Haddock:
I know you're here. You're one of them!

Tintin:
Sorry?

Captain Haddock:
He sent you here to kill me!

Tintin:
Look, I don't know who you are!

Captain Haddock:
That was his plan, to bump me off! Murder me in my bed by a baby-faced assassin![Snowy bites his ankle, tries to shake him off] Arrgh!

Tintin:
Assassin? Look, you've got it all wrong! [Captain Haddock and Tintin stops fighting] I was kidnapped by a gang of thugs. [drops rod]

Captain Haddock:
[cries comically] Oh, the filthy swine! He's turned the whole crew against me!

Tintin:
Who?

Captain Haddock:
The sour-faced man with the sugary name. He's bumped them all off, every last of'em.

Tintin:
Sakharine!

Captain Haddock:
Nobody takes MY ship!

Tintin:
You're the captain?

Captain Haddock:
Of course, I'm the captain. Who else can I be? [Tintin shushes him] I've been locked in this room for days, with only whiskey to sustain my mortal soul. [Tintin reveals door is not locked, looks at Haddock exasperatingly] Oh...I assumed it was locked.

Tintin:
Well, it's not. Now you must excuse me, if they find me here, they'll kill me. We have to keep moving, try to find my way off this drunken tub [leaves Haddock's room with a bang of the door].

Captain Haddock:
[taken aback] Tub?!

Tintin:
We have to get to Bagghar ahead of Sakharine.

Captain Haddock:
I know. I know! Why?

Tintin:
[referring to Sheik Omar Ben Salaad] Because he has the 3rd model ship.

Captain Haddock:
How do you know?

Tintin:
[pulls out brochure] The Sheik collects old ships. [points to picture of the Unicorn] And this is the prize of his collection.

Captain Haddock:
Blistering blue barnacles, that is the Unicorn!

Tintin:
Captain, do you see the distortion around the model?

Captain Haddock:
Uh-huh. Aye.

Tintin:
It means that Ben Salaad exhibits it in a bullet-proof glass case in his palace.

Captain Haddock:
And Sakharine's going there to steal it.

Tintin:
Yes, he has a secret weapon: the Milanese Nightingale. But that won't be enough to solve the mystery, and that is why Sakharine needs you. That's why he made you his prisoner. There is something he needs you to remember.

Captain Haddock:
I don't follow you.

Tintin:
[sighs] I read it in a book... [sits back down] ...that only a true Haddock can discover the secret of the Unicorn. [pause]

Captain Haddock:
I don't remember anything about anything.

Tintin:
But you must know about your ancestors. Sir Francis. It's your family legacy.

Captain Haddock:
My memory's not what it used to be.

Tintin:
Well, what did it used to be?

Captain Haddock:
I've forgotten.

Tintin:
Captain, can you get us to Bagghar?

Captain Haddock:
What sort of a stupid question is that? [gets up] Give me those oars! I'll show you some real seamanship, laddie! I'll not be doubted by some pipsqueak tuft of ginger and his irritating dog. I am master and commander of the seas! I know these waters better than the warts on my mother's face. [notices Tintin and Snowy unconscious] Look at the pair of them, fast asleep. Typical landlubbers, eh? No stamina these days. Nevermind. I'll get you there, Tintin.

Aristides:
Thank you so much. No need to come in, I'll be quite all right.

Thomson:
No, but we insist.

Thompson:
Better safe than sorry. It's the least we can do.

Thomson:
There we are.

[Thomson and Thompson have discovered Aristides Silk's collection of stolen wallets]

Thompson:
Good grief, what's all this?

Aristides:
It's my...collection?

Thomson:
What a lot of wallets.

Aristides:
I-I can't help it. It started with coin purses and sort of went on from there, really.

Thompson:
You ought to be careful. Haven't you heard? There's a pickpocket about.

Thomson:
Yes, he'd love this. Can you imagine?

Aristides:
What do you mean "pickpocket"?

Thompson:
Oh, a master criminal. A bag-snatching purse-pilfering wallet-lifting sneak thief.

Aristides:
I'm not a bad person! I'm a kleptomaniac.

Thompson:
[to Thomson] A what?

Thomson:
It's a fear of open spaces.

Thompson:
Poor man, no wonder he keeps his wallets in the living room.

Aristides:
Wallets, I-I just can't resist the lovely little things. It's a-It's a harmless habit, really.

Thompson:
Good heavens, Thomson! Look at this! His name's Thomson too!

Thomson:
[chuckles] What a coincidence!

Thompson:
No, Thomson. This is Thomson without a P, as in "psychic".

Thomson:
No no no, it's Thompson with a P, as in "psychiatrist".

Aristides:
[showcasing the wallets he stole] Look at this one. A green one I managed to pick this from a pickpocket actually pickpocketing at the time. A-And this one...

Thomson:
No, you had it wrong. There is a P in "psychic".

Thompson:
I am not your sidekick. You are mine.

Aristides:
Smell it, won't you [sniffs a wallet] Piggy leather.

Thomson:
How dare you!

Thompson:
How dare you! I met you first.

Thomson:
I met you first.

Thompson:
No you didn't.

Thomson:
Yes I did..

Thompson:
No you did not!

Thomson:
Yes I did!

[Thomson and Thompson continue to bicker until Aristides throws wallets at both of them]

Aristides:
Listen up! I can't stand it anymore. Alright, I'll come quietly. Take them. Take them! TAKE THEM ALL!

Thompson:
Stop it! Pull yourself together man! We can't take your wallets. Do we look like thieves?

Thomson:
[pulls out Tintin's wallet] Good heavens, Thompson. This looks familiar. Can't be.

Thompson:
[holds Tintin's wallet] It is.

Both:
Tintin!


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