Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
1961 ‘Tintin et le Mystère de la Toison d'or’ Directed by Jean-Jacques Vierne
Synopsis
Tintin and Captain Haddock try to discover what is so desirable about their old and apparently worthless ship.
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I missed this on BBC2 on the Bank Holiday last week because I was away, but I sky+d it and am rather glad to say I did.
It's not a great film at all, not by any stretch, but the faithfulness with which it approaches the source material is something to applaud. In that respect its very similar to that other utterly truthful but satisfactorily misfiring comic/cartoon adaptation Robert Altman's Popeye. Indeed both films share the way the actors look just like their drawn counterparts. Visually it's a real treat, aurally it is significantly less so; the dubbing is very poor.
An interesting curio that captures the source as well as the time it was created in; it is both…
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Really pleased I stumbled across this on BBC2 because I didn't even know there had been a live action version of Tintin.
The film manages to capture the look of the characters but the terrible dubbing (some of the sound effects don't even match the action) is really distracting and makes it difficult to watch. I never understood why people complain about subtitles when dubbing like this is much worse.
There isn't really much to recommend apart from satisfying a curiosity of seeing a live action version.
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Oh Goodness BBC2 - you have surpassed yourself
This was utter nonsense - I'm surprised they didn't use an existing TIntin story.... also, the fact that it is set in the 60's means that the costumes of the principle characters look very strange and out of place.
Saying that though, it pulls off the same feat as Popeye - by making the actors really look like their fictional counterparts.
Terrible dubbing too.
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I missed this on BBC2 on the Bank Holiday last week because I was away, but I sky+d it and am rather glad to say I did.
It's not a great film at all, not by any stretch, but the faithfulness with which it approaches the source material is something to applaud. In that respect its very similar to that other utterly truthful but satisfactorily misfiring comic/cartoon adaptation Robert Altman's Popeye. Indeed both films share the way the actors look just like their drawn counterparts. Visually it's a real treat, aurally it is significantly less so; the dubbing is very poor.
An interesting curio that captures the source as well as the time it was created in; it is both…
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Really pleased I stumbled across this on BBC2 because I didn't even know there had been a live action version of Tintin.
The film manages to capture the look of the characters but the terrible dubbing (some of the sound effects don't even match the action) is really distracting and makes it difficult to watch. I never understood why people complain about subtitles when dubbing like this is much worse.
There isn't really much to recommend apart from satisfying a curiosity of seeing a live action version.
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Well, that was a weird one. Also kinda proves that if you go live action with Tintin you shouldn't slavishly copy everything.
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Oh Goodness BBC2 - you have surpassed yourself
This was utter nonsense - I'm surprised they didn't use an existing TIntin story.... also, the fact that it is set in the 60's means that the costumes of the principle characters look very strange and out of place.
Saying that though, it pulls off the same feat as Popeye - by making the actors really look like their fictional counterparts.
Terrible dubbing too.
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I needed seven sessions to finish this movie — and over these several months I have in a way grown fond of it. Obviously produced with a very small budget (it shows), and not based on an original Tintin comic (it shows), but charming nevertheless. I found it much too long for the simplistic script, but your kids may be less critical.