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The series gets a good kick in the pants from Pixar director Brad Bird The Incredibles and the set-pieces are fairly astonishing. Apart from the crash, bash, wallop I found it almost impossible to care for either the characters, their predicament or — by the end — even the planet they were attempting to save.
I have a soft-spot for the Alvin and the Chipmunks films but Chipwrecked really should have skipped the big screen and gone straight to video. Grown-ups have a few options, too, this Christmas. In this film Di Gregorio himself plays Giovanni, bossed around by his wife, his mother and his daughter.
His best friend suggests he take mistress — like all red-blooded Italian males. Maybe the beautiful neighbour whose dog he walks? The film treats Thatcher like the greatest Englishman ever — a cross between Boadicea and Churchill — but fails to adequately portray the toxic nature of her politics and the damge she did to her society and the nation she professed to love.
The strange new star Melancholia is going to pass very close to Earth. Everyone should see it and — as an antidote to the Christmas season — it might as well be now. Besides Tintin is meant to be the tabula rasa, the blank slate into which the viewers project their selves. Use of humour. Not having seen Alvin 3, I can't be absolutely sure but judging by the reviews the humour was dire. Tintin on the other hand, while not always as funny as Herge's albums, still had some excellent moments of humour.
Girl power. The Chipettes aren't characters, they're just love interests for the chipmunks. Tintin doesn't have many female characters but at least it doesn't have pointless female characters, that's even more insulting. Camera placement. No dice.
Spielberg filmed Tintin as he would film a live-action but he let loose in some scenes where you couldn't do them in real life. It's his prerogative. It's not entirely Herge-ian but I don't think it broke the movie. Character vs non-character. No doubt Tintin isn't very interesting as a character, it's the supporting characters that flesh out his world. Also, Alvin 3 is no Shakespeare. Again, Tintin is tabula rasa.
Imagine you're Tintin and you'll have no problems with that part of the movie. So a short movie makes a better one? Tintin is longer but it has more of a story to tell, certainly one more worth telling.
The eyes, the eyes. The dead eyes problem doesn't feature in Tintin. They have been fixed. I'm not sure how some people 'see' them and most don't but I thought the eyes in Tintin were highly expressive and helped lend soul to the movie. It's stupid to compare the two movies, they're very different properties. This article isn't a high-point in Australian journalism. XDD American audiences might be critically challenged on high quality animation nowadays, but any sane person can see that virtually ANY modern-day animated feature beats that God-awful Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise!
I'm not laughing at you; I'm laughing at the author of that article. First of all, what is their "fair measure". I've taken plenty of classes on film. I can tell you that there is no completely objective way to measure how good a film is.
Motion Capture - The chipmunks were animated, not mo cap. The humans were not animated. They were doing cartoonish animals. Tintin was trying to achieve a look of the real world while still feeling a bit cartoonish. It used mo cap well to do it. Creating an Alternate World - Once again, it's a matter of goal. Schembri's an idiot. Just another attention seeking squawk with not one iota of intelligence behind it. Isn't he the guy that loved big stan,, rambo part ,star wars, transformers and every other mindless commercial piece of rubbish?
Perhaps that's all he is capable of understanding? He's also viciously homophobic while trying to deny it and throwing up PC politically correct red herrings to try and justify his peculiar form of bigotry. He is a nasty little man indeed and as Stephan Elliott so adequately said "He writes with nothing but hate".
B eing completely talentless and a failure will do that to you! Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Search for:.
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