THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN in I-MAX 3-D, PG ( 1 hr & 47 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
show:  4:25 p.m.
costs:  $11.00 Ticket + $4.50 medium Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's Root Beer & Cherry ) Coke = $15.50
auditorium:  10
seat:  5th row, 4th seat

2nd Time:


where:  EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when:  Thursday, January 12th, 2012
show:  1:30 p.m.
costs:  $17.50 Ticket + $4.75 small Diet Coke + $9.45 lunch @ Tin Tin Chinese Buffet in Vacaville, CA, before the show ( + $1.55 Tip ) = $33.25
auditorium:  12, with the I-Max screen
seat:  6th row, 9th column


synopsis/overview:  Tintin buys a model of a 16th century battleship, the Unicorn, at an outdoor market and soon finds himself in the midst of an intriguing plan involving a long standing family curse and a long lost sunken treasure.

noteworthy scenes:  1.) Model ship; 2.) Marlinspike Hall; 3.) Reprobate; 4.) Pickpocket; 5.) Delivery; 6.) Karaboudjan Ship; 7.) Corks; 8.) "I assumed it was lock"; 9.) "Nothing is an accident"; 10.) Eyelids; 11.) Necessities; 12.) Lifeboat; 13.) Collection; 14.) Seaplane; 15.) "Wall of Death"; 16.) Fumes; 17.) Propeller; 18.) Sea battle; 19.) Sober; 20.) Secret cargo; 21.) The curse; 22.) The Milanese Nightingale Concert; 23.) "I can smell it on you"; 24.) The chase; 25.) Bagghar; 26.) Signal; 27.) Dueling shipyard cranes; 28.) Bottles; 29.) Coordinates; 30.) Globe; and 31.) "Unquenchable!"

favorite scenes:  I liked the Sea Battle scene.

I liked the Milanese Nightingale Concert scene.

I liked the Chase scene.

I liked the Dueling Shipyard Cranes scene.


1st audience reaction:  The audience liked it.

2nd  audience reaction:  N/A.  I was all by my lonesome ....

recommendation:  I liked this movie.  The computer animation in this one is very good.  Go see this movie with your little brats but be forewarned:  A couple of scenes might be unpleasant to the little brats.  But, then again, them little brats need something unpleasant every now and then!

spoiler alert!  Tintin looked too young, like a 14-year old boy.  A drunken fool for a captain?  No wonder the crew mutinied!  That bad guy should have been blown to smithereens when the ship blew-up.  They were in the desert under the blistering heat of the midday sun yet neither one ended-up with sunburn and blisters.  Why was an officer at the Nightingale concert sporting a Mohawk haircut?  That Mohawk haircut was out-of-place for that time period.  There is no way in the real world that a human voice can shatter a bullet-proof glass--but  I could be wrong because I haven't heard William Hung give it a try, yet!

fyi:  The animation in this movie is so good that it made me wonder why they did this movie in computer animation instead of in live action.  I mean, why go through all that trouble, expense and time when they could have pretty much achieved the same effects using live actors for the better part of the film?

Am I the only one who noticed that the short bespectacled rich Moroccan man resembled Steven Spielberg?

word of advice:  Do not assume.  Because, if you assume, you'll make an ASS of--look in the mirror--U and ME!

1st tidbits:  In the hallway, right after the movie, an Asian man asked one of his kids, "Did it look blurry to you?"  I responded with, Yes, it was blurry.  And, no, I'm not one of his kids!  LOL

2nd tidbits:  I wanted to see this in I-Max at the Fairfield cineplex on Wednesday, the 21st of December.  But I was gonna eat lunch first at Tin Tin Chinese Buffet in Vacaville, CA, before the movie because I wanted to do a Name Tie-In.  I forgot that this buffet is closed on Wednesdays now.  I read the sign posted at their door last Thanksgiving and, yet, I still completely forgot about it--I guess hunger and/or a voracious craving for Chinese buffet does that to my Memory brain cells.

And I would have to wait one and a half hours more just to catch the movie on I-Max.  So, I just drove back to Vallejo, CA, to watch this movie in 3-D, instead.

Unfortunately, the projectionist never bothered to check the focal setting on the projection, making the 3-D movie somewhat blurry.  And nobody in the audience, myself included, told management about it!  Heck, I assumed that some parent in the audience did; after all, the people with little brats in tow paid more to see the movie in 3-D and had that much more reason to get their money's worth on it than I did!

And I was gonna watch this Tintin movie in I-Max last week.  But you all know how that went!  ( Down the toilet bowl.  Ha, ha, ha. )