I thoroughly enjoyed it. I went into it with much trepidation, as I'm a huge Tintin fan and I was dreadfully worried the spirit of it would be ruined. That unease was soon vanquished with the opening credits, where I had a grand time trying to spot all the references to the other books (sure I missed a number), as well as the beginning with Herge doing Tintin's portrait in the comic book style. But yeah, it was packed with references all over the place, it was great. It was a great mash up of the two stories, and this comes from someone who generally hates it when any details in Tintin are changed. But yeah, some things still bugged me in that regard, like making Mr. Saccharine the antagonist, and yet it worked quite well with embellishment and stuff.

Visually it was amazing. I really like the style, and I like how the caricatures of the characters were reminiscent of how they looked in 2D cartoon form. At times I did think, yeah, too much uncanny valley for my liking. But you can't get over how detailed everything was, it looked really cool. It's all certainly an improvement on the motion capture work done on Polar Express.

Voicing was quite good, I was blown away by the whole Saccharine character (Daniel Craig) in general. Tintin (Jamie Bell) was that perfect boyish blandness needed for him, not unlike the TV series. Andy Serkis was great as usual as Haddock, gosh he's versatile. Thompson twins were good, great combo of Pegg and Frost there. Also I forgot Castafiore (Kim Stengel) was meant to be in this film, so that was a nice surprise, and her role was, as usual, pretty hilarious.

Did not think much of Saccharine being into falconry though.

Music was good, usual John Williams fair. Nothing particularly inspiring though.

Anyway, yeah, thoroughly enjoyed it, and any Tintin fan shouldn't be disappointed, particularly with the few titbits of other books referenced all over the place. I do believe you don't have to be a fan to like this film, it's a good fast paced story that people should like, and more importantly, inspire people to read the books. But not to the extent that they ruin it with renewed 21st popularity, please. Been responsible for lame-ifying good things in the past...Golden Compass anyone?