YMMV / The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

• Adaptation Displacement: Tintin isn't a very familiar character to American audiences, so this film ended up being many Americans' first if not only introduction to Tintin.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Tintin a morally upstanding young man who is out to stop a villain from taking what isn't his or is he a Sociopathic Hero who only took up the cause because he was curious? And are he and Haddock Fire-Forged Friends or does he just see Haddock as The Load, treating him nicely when he's useful, and disparaging him and disregarding his feelings whenever Haddock's behavior irritates him?
• Americans Hate Tingle: As a European comic book, the film can be interpreted as a case of this, as the box office in North America left a lot to be desired.
• Animation Age Ghetto:
  • The movie had outcries over it being "too violent for children".
  • In the artbook, Jamie Bell (who plays Tintin) actually praised the cartoon for talking about more mature subject matter and getting him into the series in the first place.
• Award Snub:
  • The Academy Awards that year included a rare five nominees for Best Animated Feature, but none of them include this movie. They said it was ineligible because the film used motion-capture rather than being animated. And yet they won't nominate motion-captured roles for Best Actor/Actress because they claim it's too close to animation.
  • During the opening skit of the 84th Academy Awards, near the end where Billy Crystal, dressed as Tintin, riding a motorcycle, you can hear him then proclaiming "Should have been nominated!" We agree with you Billy.
  • It didn't help matters that Tintin was nominated and won in the same category at The Golden Globes.
• Awesome Art: There were some people who honestly thought this movie was live action. Let that sink in for a moment, there were people who honestly to god thought this movie was live action. To see that the movie could not only avoid the problem with the Uncanny Valley but SURPASS it and make the characters THAT convincing speaks volumes as to how awesome the animation and visual effects quality is.
• Awesome Music:
  • From the trailers, there's Sands of Time and Sword of Omens by Audiomachine.
  • From the soundtrack itself, there are many — the soundtrack emphasizes themes and motifs that run throughout the entire score, making the whole thing even more awesome when listened to as a set. Individually, there's "Sir Francis and the Unicorn", "Red Rackham's Curse and the Treasure" and "The Pursuit of the Falcon." Given that the one and only John Williams composed the score, this was inevitable.
• Complete Monster: Red Rackham was an infamous pirate who plagued the seas, robbing and besieging all in his path. Attacking The Unicorn for its treasure, Rackham gets most of the crew killed while taking the captain Sir Francis Haddock hostage. Threatening to murder the man's remaining crew while he watches, Rackham extorts the location of The Unicorn's treasure from Haddock, then kills the man's entire crew anyway by tying them up and feeding them to a swarm of sharks. Rackham then plans to torture and kill Haddock, and when Haddock manages to escape and leave Rackham for dead, Rackham swears a curse on Haddock and his descendants, one that plagues the bloodline for decades to come.
• Fan Nickname: The shot of Tintin holding up Hergé's drawing of him in the 2011 film has been dubbed "Tinception" by fans.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: As an American adaptation of an European comic book, the film can be interpreted as a case of this, since most of the film's gross came from overseas. The movie was also very popular in one North American region - Quebec, due to Franco-Belgian Comics being a big part of its culture - where it was the highest-grossing movie of the year, even outgrossing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: During the final battle with Sakharine and Haddock using cranes, Sakharine swings the load on his crane to hit Haddock's control station from below. Fans of Casino Royale will get this one.
• Ho Yay: When Tintin trusts the Captain with their piece of the poem, the scene could be interpreted as nothing less than "You can't trust me with that!" "I'm sure I can. Just take it, and make me the happiest boy in Bagghar!"
• Moral Event Horizon: Red Rakham murdering Haddock's crew even after he promised to spare them. It's implied they were consumed by sharks.
• The Problem with Licensed Games: While the mainline home console and computer versions were a textbook example of the trope, the Gameloft-developed mobile phone releases averted this as reviewers praised it for making good use of smartphones' capabilities.
• Protection from Editors: Steven Moffat claims that Steven Spielberg "love bombed" him into writing the script and promised to shield him from studio interference.
• Signature Scene:
  • The long take Bagghar chase, which is praised for its choreography, effects, pacing, humor, and overall just for being a great example of how animation can work wonders for the action genre.
  • To a smaller extent, Haddock's motivational speech to Tintin about failure is fondly remembered for being a very Heartwarming Moment.
• Special Effect Failure: The human characters and most of the textures look almost live-action. The CGI fur for Snowy is much less convincing, making him stick out like a sore thumb.
• Spiritual Successor: With French/Belgian movie reviewers and Hergé himself seeing a lot in common between Indiana Jones and Tintin, and with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny turning out to be pretty divisive entries, many like to view it coming to full circle and spiritually consider The Adventures of Tintin the true additional Indiana Jones movie from Steven Spielberg.
• Tough Act to Follow: John Williams' orchestral score, while excellent in and of itself, gets flak from fans of older works, particularly the Ellipse/Nelvana series — whose main theme is particularly iconic. Also overlaps with They Changed It, Now It Sucks!.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Despite being based on the comics written by Hergé, the film is rated PG by the MPAA, itself very mature and violent. The film contains cases of cursing, drunkenness, smoking, gun violence and death on-screen. The animation can fall into the Unintentional Uncanny Valley due to the almost realistic faces of Tintin and Sakharine in contrast to the other characters who retain their cartoonish faces from the comics, some kids would find to The Adventures of Tintin as entertaining and creepy.

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