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''The Adventures of Tintin'' is a 2011 animated/motion capture film by Creator/StevenSpielberg based on the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' comic series, animated in MotionCapture [[AllCGICartoon CGI]] by Creator/PeterJackson's [[Creator/{{WETA}} Weta Digital]].
Tintin (Creator/JamieBell) is taken onboard a ship, the ''Karaboudjan'' by Sakharine (Creator/DanielCraig), who believes he holds one of the scrolls leading to the lost treasure of the ''Unicorn'', hidden away in three identical replicas of the ship. With the help of the ''Karaboudjan'''s Captain Haddock (Creator/AndySerkis), Tintin escapes the ship and begins his quest to find the three scrolls before Sakharine. The movie combines the plots of ''Recap/TintinTheSecretOfTheUnicorn'' and ''Recap/TintinTheCrabWithTheGoldenClaws''.
Not to be confused with the 1990s animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{The Adventures of Tintin|1991}}''.
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!!''The Adventures of Tintin'' provides examples of:
* AccidentalPun: In the tie-in videogame. Some of the bosses are literally giant flying heads. The Finnish term for a boss fight is "Päävastus", which literally translates into "head opponent".
* AdaptedOut: In the original comic, the Bird brothers were the villains. Here, they're completely absent and the role of villain goes to Sakharine.
* AdaptationAmalgamation: While this film is set as an adaptation of the Secret of the Unicorn comic, the story borrows elements from ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'' as well. In particular, Tintin being kidnapped and imprisoned on the Kariboujan, the introduction of Captain Haddock, and their crashing of a seaplane and subsequent trek through the Sahara Desert together is all lifted from that story.
* AdaptationalBadass:
** In the video game adaptation of the film, Thomson and Thompson have an attack where they [[SpinToDeflectStuff spin their canes fast enough to deflect fireballs at enemies]].
** Captain Haddock, especially in comparison to his original appearance in ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'', where he causes more trouble than he solves. In this movie [[spoiler:he climbs out the seaplane in midflight and refuels it with his Alcohol-laden belch, takes part in the crazy motorcycle chase for the parchments, and fights the BigBad in a crane duel.]] In fact the climatic battle almost entirely belongs to Haddock, with Tintin's main contribution being [[spoiler:saving the parchments from being burnt at the last minute.]]
** Sakharine as well, originally little more than a background character. In the movie, he is a much more vicious fighter, complete with SwordCane.
* AdaptationalDumbass: Downplayed with Thomson and Thompson. While they aren't exactly the smartest or most competent characters in the comics, they were capable of catching and arresting both the Bird Brothers and Aristides Silk in ''The Secret of the Unicorn'' after a lot of hard work and embarrassing failures. Here, they're so vacuous that they end up entering Silk's house, yet somehow don't realize he’s the pickpocket despite noticing the ''shelves of wallets'' he has until they find the one belonging to Tintin. They also don't help much at all with catching Saccharine, only placing him under arrest after he's defeated by Tintin and Haddock.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Not that it was a point of any real suspense in the comics, but Haddock's first name (Archibald) was not known until the final completed story, ''Tintin and the Picaros''. In the film, Haddock introduces himself right away with his full name.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Barnaby. In the comic, he works for the villains and, while he turns on them, it's out of a petty grievance rather than remorse. In the film, he is an InterpolSpecialAgent who warns Tintin about the villain and is shot by goons working for him. Interestingly, this is a reversal of the comic, in which Sakharine is attacked by Barnaby, who wants the scroll in his ''Unicorn'' model (which Sakharine didn't know existed).
** Downplayed with [[spoiler:Omar Ben Salaad]], who's an innocent extra in this movie and a drug-smuggling boss in the comic. So he could still be a villain, just one who was the victim of another villain.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Ivan Sakharine is a much more malevolent character than he was in the comics, where he played little more than a bit part as the unlucky owner of the second Unicorn model, who Haddock even invites to his maritime gallery at the end of the ''Unicorn'' arc and apparently donated his model ship to him. Ironically, he was one of the only characters who Tintin accuses mistakenly of being a villain. Having no background whatsoever, he originally had no grudge against or even connection to [[spoiler:Captain Haddock]] (nor did the Bird Brothers, for what it's worth: generational vengeance is not exactly a feature of the Tintin comics). Interestingly and very surprisingly, the LicensedGame based on the movie actually uses the Bird brothers from the comic as the villains instead of Sakharine.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange:
** Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, in the comics, is annoying but harmless, and [[PetTheDog is implied to be nice enough to offer one of his ships to Captain Haddock's maritime gallery]]. In the movie, he is a vengeful and vindictive BigBad.
** Barnaby in the comics was a spy for the villains who turned informer, and they shot him to keep him from revealing their activities. The film adapts him into a well-meaning Interpol agent [[GoodAllAlong who tries to warn and help Tintin]], although Tintin doesn't realize this until after Barnaby is shot by Sakharine's henchmen.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Haddock's {{Unusual Euphemism}}s tend to grow into this when he's particularly excited or -- more often -- angry. This is something carried over from the comics.
-->'''Haddock:''' Billions of blistering blue barnacles!\\
Ten thousand thundering typhoons!
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Tintin, mixed with an IntrepidReporter.
* TheAlcoholic: Captain Haddock. PlayedForLaughs ''and'' PlayedForDrama!
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: The page image comes from the comic the movie is based on... and yes, that scene does make it into the movie. Along with multiple instances of this.
* AlcoholIsGasoline: Tintin and Captain Haddock are flying a sea plane through a thunderstorm, unfortunately they are almost out of fuel. In a last desperate gambit, Tintin suggests Haddock pour the medicinal spirits in the planes first aid kit into the fuel tank, hoping it will enable them to fly just a bit further and give them the opportunity to land. Unfortunately, [[TheAlcoholic Haddock]] had already drunk them. Inspired by Tintin's comment their running on fumes, he instead forces himself to belch into the tank, his breath already being established to be laced with booze. Sure enough it proves so potent it not just restarts the engine but causes it to catch fire.
* AnachronismStew: The date of the movie is somewhat difficult to determine; no matter what, the use of the term "third world" and references to INTERPOL are definitely out of place (see "ArtisticLicenseHistory") and the cars just complicate matters (see "TheThirties"), as do most of the guns.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: The film ends with [[spoiler:Tintin and Haddock discovering a clue to the location of the ''Unicorn'', where the rest of Rackham's treasue would be hidden]].
* AnimatedCreditsOpening: Similar to Spielberg's previous film ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'', with multiple references to the other Tintin books.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** At one point Bianca mentions this is her first time visiting the third world. The term "third world" originated during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar in the 1950s, while this film takes place in the 30s.
** Thompson and Thomson make a mention of both the FBI and INTERPOL. While the former existed as of 1935, most people would have referred to it by its old name, the Bureau of Investigations (BOI) out of habit; likewise, though the International Criminal Police Commission was created in 1923, it did not change its name to INTERPOL until 1956.
* AscendedExtra: Ivan Sakharine. In the comic, he is a rather minor, non-villainous character, a harmless ship model collector who mostly serves as a RedHerring. In the film, he is [[BigBad the main antagonist]] [[spoiler:and the descendant of Red Rackham]].
* AsideGlance: Snowy looks straight at the audience at least twice, and even winks! This might be a nod to the comics, where he could talk, but only the reader could "hear" him.
* BadassCape: Red Rackham has one that's ''[[IncendiaryExponent on fire]]'' in his first fight with Sir Francis Haddock. He weaponizes it by brandishing the burning cape in Haddock's face to disorient him.
* BadassLongcoat: See the poster above. Allan also has one.
* BeardOfEvil: Sakharine, with his pointy goatee. The artists apparently referenced Rasputin when working on his movie design, which makes sense -- his comic design was already pretty Rasputin-y. [[spoiler:The redesign helps him resemble Red Rackham a little more.]] His slicked-back, distinguished look vs. Haddock's unkempt look is very much a case of GoodHairEvilHair.
* BestialityIsDepraved: During the scene where Tintin tries to recover some keys from a sleeping man, Haddock explains about some of his former crewmen. One of them was a shepherd once, but he was kicked out because of his "animal husbandry".
%%* BigBad: Sakharine
* BilingualBonus: At one point, Sakharine is addressed by Castafiore as "Monsieur Shuggair Addeitiff", the French word for "additive". Saccharine is... wait for it... an additive used in place of... sugar.
** Haddock calls Sakharine a "sassenach", a Scottish Gaelic pejorative for an English person.
* BizarreBeverageUse:
** At one point, Sakharine's goons knock Captain Haddock out with a bottle of alcohol.
** When Captain Haddock [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunkenly lights a fire on a rowboat]], he then tries to put it out with whisky, but [[IgnorantAboutFire that just blows it up]].
* BloodlessCarnage: The Pirate flashback is chockful of sword and gun killings, all without a single red stain, save for the sword wound Rackham receives -- and even ''then'' it's not really bleeding much. Averted with Barnaby's death.
* BloodStainedLetter: A dying man highlights letters on a newspaper using his bloody fingerprints to spell out the name of the ''Karaboudjan''.
* BoisterousBruiser: Captain Haddock
* BraveScot: Unlike previous adaptations of ''Tintin'', Andy Serkis chooses to give Captain Haddock a Scottish accent.
* CaptainObvious: During a conversation with Haddock when Tintin first met him.
-->'''Tintin:''' You're the captain?\\
'''Haddock:''' Of course I'm the captain. Who else could I be?
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Mentioned in this exchange when Tintin and Haddock first meet, when the drunken captain mistakes the young man for an assassin:
-->'''Haddock:''' So you thought you could sneak in behind me and catch me with my trousers down, eh?!\\
'''Tintin:''' I'd rather you kept your trousers on, if it's all the same to you.
* CharacterExaggeration: The movie tends to exaggerate the traits of some characters and the ''Tintin'' comics in general, which tend to be more low-key than the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' series (which the movie was commonly compared to).
* ChaseScene: One of the more spectacular ones in recent memory.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Shortly after the two meet, Tintin is taken aback by Captain Haddock's horrible breath. Later on, [[spoiler:after Snowy and Haddock consume a bottle of medicinal alcohol that Tintin wanted to use as fuel substitute for their crashing plane, this comes in handy as Haddock's breath alone contains enough alcohol to kick the plane into overdrive.]]
** As Castafiore takes center stage, there is a conspicuous number of glass objects in nearly every cut. These are all then [[spoiler:broken by Castafiore's [[GlassShatteringSound impressive voice]], including the bullet-proof glass cabinet containing the model of The Unicorn]].
* ChekhovsSkill:
** A minor, yet hilarious one. Early on, Haddock's breath is established to smell strongly of whiskey. When Tintin and Haddock are flying towards Bagghar in a seaplane [[spoiler:with almost no fuel, Haddock drinks a whole bottle of medicinal alcohol and ''belches'' into the plane's fuel tank to give it an extra boost.]]
** Snowy's knack for finding holes in brick walls [[spoiler:leads Tintin and Haddock to the bricked up portion of the cellar where they find Sir Francis' treasure.]]
* CirclingBirdies: Diegetic birdies, no less! They escaped from a cage.
* CompositeCharacter:
** The film version of Sakharine is a combination of several characters from the comic. He has the appearance and some of the scenes of Sakharine in the comic, but his ownership of Marlinspike and his AdaptationalVillainy are inherited from the absent Bird brothers and his employment of Allan is a trait from the comic's Omar Ben Salaad. The part about [[spoiler:him being Red Rackham's descendant]] seems to be from a humorous scene from ''Red Rackham's Treasure'' involving several people who claim to be [[spoiler:descended from Rackham]].
** Barnaby is a composite of Barnaby from ''Secret of the Unicorn'' and Dawes from ''The Crab With the Golden Claws''. He even combines their names.
* CoolBoat: The ''Unicorn''. "Finest ship that ever sailed the seven seas!"
* CouldntFindAPen: Barnaby is gunned down by the bad guys and highlights letters on a newspaper with [[BloodStainedLetter his own blood.]] Tintin reads the highlighted letters, which spell out "''Karaboudjan''". Not that he has any time or need to figure out what it meant; as he's then immediately kidnapped and sent to a ship which is named that.
* CreatorCameo:
** A particularly heartwarming one at that. The late Creator/{{Herge}} appears at the beginning of the film as a caricaturist who Tintin pays to draw his likeness, while drawing him [[HaveWeMet Hergé comments that Tintin looks familiar]] and then reveals his finished work: a portrait of the [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} comic book version of Tintin]].
** One of the pirates in Red Rackham's ship looks similar to Hergé as well.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Captain Haddock seems to often cause more trouble for Tintin than he solves, but it's obvious he can more than handle himself in any given situation. As an example, late in the film Haddock is attacked by three soldiers, and he flails around angrily a bit, leading us to expect slapstick takedowns or just [[EpicFail failure]]. Next we see him he throws three punches and knocks them all out.
* DeathByAdaptation: Barnaby Dawes, unlike the comic, doesn't recover from his bullet injuries.
* DefiantToTheEnd: In an attempt to get Tintin to give up, Sakharine ties Haddock and Snowy to some weights and [[SadisticChoice threatens to drop them into the ocean unless Tintin backs down.]] In addition to insisting that Tintin not do it, Haddock never stops insulting Sakharine to his face the whole time, even though he's at his mercy. When Sakharine finally drops him to make his point, he even makes sure he gets one last shot in before he hits the water.
-->'''Haddock :''' You two-timing troglodyte! You simpering son of a pug-faced profiteer! (''Sakharine drops him'') ''Fathead!''
* DemotedToExtra: With Ivan Sakharine's [[AscendedExtra ascendancy to the role of]] BigBad, Omar Ben Salaad -- a drug-running strongman from ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'' -- is reduced to a mere plot-advancer, as proprietor of the third ''Unicorn'' model.
* {{Determinator}}:
** Tintin, in spades. This causes a sort of chain -- by leading him on this amazing adventure and never giving up, Tintin inspires Haddock to stop drowning his sorrows and become a determinator as well, and so Haddock in turn re-inspires Tintin to take up the fight again when everything looks bleakest.
** Notably, Haddock becomes a determinator almost immediately after getting his memory of Francis Haddock's tale back.
** Francis is clearly a determinator of his own, willing to ''blow up his own ship'' to stop Rackham, and Haddock is [[GenerationXerox just like his ancestor.]]
* DiabolicalMastermind: Sakharine
* DirectorTrademark:
** Spielberg's favorite shot to use, the reflection shot, shows up conspicuously often in the movie, in a razor, in glasses, in a water bubble...
** Another one of Spielberg's trademarks are beams of light, notably when Tintin is searching Marlinspike Hall and the flashlight beams of the crew of the ''Karaboudjan''.
** Writer Trademark as well -- Edgar Wright wanted to use a gag in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' where Scott holds up a drawing of Ramona from the comics, but this only made it into the promotional materials for the film. He finally gets to use it here.
* TheDragon: Allan to Sakharine.
%%* DramaticThunder
* DrunkenMaster: Captain Haddock recalls what his grandfather told him after going back to drinking.
* DyingCurse: [[spoiler:Red Rackham curses Sir Francis Haddock as he sinks with the blown-up ''Unicorn'' declaring, "{{We will meet again}}, Haddock! In another time! In another ''life''!"]]
* EpicTrackingShot: The above-mentioned chase sequence. Sure it's done in CGI, but seriously, ''wow.''
* EurekaMoment: When Tintin thinks the bad guys have won, Captain Haddock gives him an inspirational speech about never giving up, and a chance phrase gives Tintin an idea about how to regain the upper hand.
* EvilFormerFriend: Haddock's crew betrayed him to Sakharine, who offered them a large amount of money.
* FamedInStory: As demonstrated in the opening scene in the market, Tintin is apparently well known enough from his previous exploits that average people can recognize him by sight.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath:
** Barnaby Dawes is gunned down by Sakharine's goons, which is brutal enough for a PG-rated film, but he even uses his blood stains to spell out a message that becomes a major plot point.
** There's also Captain Francis stabbing, shooting and slicing up dozens of pirates, albeit bloodlessly.
** Red Rackham coldly executes the Francis' crew after promising to spare them, by dropping them into the water while tied up, where they are implied to be eaten by sharks.
* FatherToHisMen: Implied with Sir Francis Haddock. He is completely unflinching in the face of Red Rackham's threat to kill him unless he gives up his secret cargo, but gives in once Rackham threatens to kill his men in his stead. When Rackham goes back on his deal and kills the men anyway, Haddock is aghast.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Sakharine
* {{Flynning}}:
** Sir Francis Haddock's duel with Red Rakham. {{Justified}} since Rakham is more interested in putting out Haddock's PowderTrail, and Haddock is therefore more focused on preventing him from doing that.
** In the climax, Captain Haddock and [[spoiler:Sakharine]] do this [[spoiler:''[[ExaggeratedTrope with cranes]]'']].
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** "When you hit a wall, you push through it."
** [[spoiler: Notice what color Sakharine wears throughout the entire movie. And his character design just screams Rasputin, with a very [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Alternate Universe Spock-esque]] beard.]]
** see There Are No Coincidences
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Sakharine, again.
* FourthWallPortrait: Inverted. Tintin's portrait in the beginning of the film resembles his original cartoon design while he himself has an extremely realistic one.
* FriendsRentControl: Tintin owns a surprisingly upscale apartment for someone who works as a reporter. Then again, considering the recognition he gets (mentioned above) just when he goes out shopping, it's entirely possible that he's had several previous adventures that have made him rather high-profile, with corresponding pay.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
** Snowy, often; particularly in the desert, when he appears in the background with a giant bone from ''nowhere''.
** Right after Thomson and Thompson pull the pickpocket out from the CirclingBirdies moment, the old lady whom the pickpocket crashed into strikes a man with her cane whom she seems to think was groping her.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Haddock and Sakharine with their ancestors.]]
* GlassShatteringSound: Castafiore's voice. At first, Tintin doesn't know what Haddock and Snowy are complaining about. Then she hits a really high note and shatters not only everyone but Sakharine's glasses but also [[spoiler:the bulletproof case holding the third model ship.]] Oh, and the chandeliers, and the crystal ware, and the shiek's glasses too.
* GravityIsAHarshSeamstress: During the motorcycle scene, Captain Haddock collides with a clothesline and spends the rest of the chase wearing a pink dress.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Done for a RuleOfThree.
* HadTheSillyThingInReverse: Captain Haddock takes aim at the villain with a bazooka ... and promptly takes out the dam behind them. Attentive viewers could see this coming, as the scope was shown to be on the outside when he was taking aim. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Snowy can be seen trying to warn Haddock of this]].
* HamToHamCombat: Haddock and Sakharine. You can practially smell the bacon frying. [[spoiler:Same goes for their ancestors.]]
* HeroicDog: Snowy
* HostageForMacGuffin: Both Sakharine [[spoiler:and his ancestor]] seem fond of this trope.
** In the video game, it's Allan who forces Tintin to hand over the scrolls in exchange for Haddock's life.
* IdenticalGrandson: As in the comic, Haddock looks and acts exactly like his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock. In addition, [[spoiler:Red Rackham]] is given an Identical Descendant in the form of [[spoiler:Sakharine]] and one of Sir Francis's crew members looks exactly like Nestor, which probably isn't a coincidence. Unlike the comic, the film makes an attempt to justify this by bringing up the possibility of the characters being the literal ''reincarnations'' of their ancestors.
* IgnorantAboutFire: When Tintin and Haddock are in a rowboat, the latter lights a fire, but because [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy he is drunk and not thinking clearly]], he sets the boat's floor itself on fire. Tintin tells him to put the fire out, but he uses whisky, which just makes it explode.
* IKnowMortalKombat: Upon entering and making use of a plane:
--> '''Haddock:''' You know what you're doing, eh?\\
'''Tintin:''' Relax, I interviewed a pilot once!
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Tintin. He hits the lever on a searchlight while running and later brings down a plane with a single pistol shot.
-->'''Tintin:''' Bad news, Captain -- we've only got ONE bullet.\\
'''Haddock:''' So, what's the good news?\\
'''Tintin:''' (''[[DramaticGunCock cocks pistol]]'') [[BadassBoast We've got one bullet.]]
* InkSuitActor: It's not confirmed, but a couple of reviewers have commented that [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gJr-xhqiDHk/T3l0oR0AH1I/AAAAAAAAB4c/tnOdYIWkeXQ/s1600/tumblr_m1rcvgJkLe1r4h2oko1_500.jpg Sakharine looks uncannily]] [[http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/5926824_f520-291x300.jpg like Steven Spielberg himself]]. At least one critic thinks he made himself the villain because people will naturally blame him for any changes to the comic. In truth, he looks more like Daniel Craig with glasses and a long beard.
* InterestingSituationDuel:
** Sir Francis Haddock and Red Rackham have a SwordFight while trying to light/extinguish a PowderTrail.
** At the climax of the movie, Captain Haddock and Sakharine duel with ''docking cranes!''
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Tintin, who is a young adult, and Captain Haddock, a man at least in his late thirties to forties.
* ItMakesSenseInContext: In-universe. Haddock tells Tintin that one of the crewmen of the ''Karaboudjan'' has no eyelids. He semi-explains that a card game was involved before telling Tintin that he "had to be there".
* LargeHam:
** Andy Serkis as Haddock.
** [[EvilIsHammy Sakharine]] is also worth of mention.
* LastOfHisKind: Captain Archibald Haddock is the last of the Haddocks, as all other bloodlines have failed. Lampshaded by Archibald Haddock himself of all people.
* {{Leitmotif}}: All of the major characters have distinctive themes associated with them -- Tintin, Snowy, Cpt. Haddock, Sir Francis and the ''Unicorn'', Red Rackham, even Thomson and Thompson. The most prominent by far is the ''Unicorn'' theme, which recurs many times -- being soft and ominous whenever the mystery is hinted at and surging to the fore with a full orchestra when a major breakthrough happens.
* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: Tintin's escape from one room on the ''Karaboudjan''.
* MacGuffinMelee: The ChaseScene has the scrolls, all three of them, pass between Tintin, Haddock, Sakharine, Snowy and Sakharine's hawk several times before it's all over.
* MadeOfIron: Tintin, Haddock and even Snowy. They come out unscathed from fistfights, crashes and falls that would have severely injured or killed almost everyone else.
* MatchCut: Boatloads of them, especially involving boats and ships.
** When Haddock is hallucinating in the desert, the Unicorn comes sailing across the sand dunes, which transform beautifully into a stormy sea, cutting to the sea battle.
** The vast sea on which Captain Haddock is rowing turns into a little puddle, cutting to Monsieur Silk.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler:The {{Reincarnation}} angle behind Haddock and Sakharine's rivalry. Haddock appears to have some extremely vivid visions of the battle on the Unicorn and Red Rakham's death, implying that he's "remembering" his past life. In his final moments, Rakham also curses Sir Francis so they will continue their fight in "another time" and "another life". On the other hand, Haddock could just be figuring things out and the flashbacks are a visualization of his realization through what he knows about the story of the Unicorn. Things are further muddied by Haddock's flashbacks showing Sir Francis's first mate look ''[[{{Foreshadowing}} exactly]]'' like Nestor, who is later revealed to be a secret ally to the Haddock family.]]
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Often. This is especially evident during the Bagghar chase, where sharp-eyed viewers might notice that several seemingly innocous elements are briefly visible in the background before suddenly becoming important -- like the tank that crashes into the hotel.
* MeaningfulEcho: "You hit a wall, you push through it."
* MillionToOneChance: When Tintin shoots down a plane with one bullet.
* MistakenForInsane: In "Tintin in Tibet", when Snowy runs wild, the monks think he must be insane.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Red Rackham walking down to meet Sir Francis Haddock when the ''Unicorn'' is burning.
* MythologyGag: Lots of {{Continuity Nod}}s to the comics in the animated credits sequence, on newspaper clippings in Tintin's apartment and in Omar Ben Salaad's palace and elsewhere:
** Hergé has already drawn the Bird Brothers (original villains in ''Secret'') and Professor Alembick (one of Tintin's traveling partners in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'') at his cartoon booth in the market.
** ''Tintin in the Congo'': A shield on the marketplace where Tintin buys the ''Unicorn'' and his outfit in Bagghar.
** ''Tintin in America'': The newspaper clipping about him rounding up a gang. Sakharine's SwordCane resembles that used by the unnamed [[BaldOfEvil bald villain]] in this album as well.
** ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'': A newspaper clipping in his apartment.
** ''The Blue Lotus'': A newspaper clipping in his apartment, as well as a vase similar to the one Tintin hid in at one point in the album.
** ''The Broken Ear'': A bigger version of the statue is in Omar Ben Salaad's palace. The statue also hits someone's head in the opening credits.
** ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'': A newspaper clipping in his apartment, and a sign outside a building with Syldavia's Coat of Arms.
*** The purple dress Castafiore wears to perform in, as well as the composition of the shot where Castafiore is singing for Ben Salaad and his guests, comes straight from the scene in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' where she performs for the Syldavian court.
** ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'': A statue of a crab with Golden Claws in a fountain in Omar Ben Salaad's palace and a crate of cans show up in the harbour, which Snowy uses to trip up some goons. The entire movie sequence between Tintin's kidnapping and his arrival in Bagghar (minus captain Haddock's dream about his ancestor) is directly taken from ''The Crab with the Golden Claws''. Ben Salaad himself was, of course the original villain (and therefore Allan's boss).
** ''The Seven Crystal Balls'': The opening credits are about Tintin chasing a guy with a crystal ball. The Siamese cat that appears to belong to one of Tintin's neighbors is also lifted from the one that takes up residence in Marlinspike Hall (and proceeds to fight with Snowy) in this comic.
** ''Destination Moon'' / ''Explorers on the Moon'': The rocket is shown in the credits sequence and the anti-gravity sequence with the alcohol occurs in the film itself, transferred to a free-falling airplane.
** ''The Land of Black Gold'': The red Jeep that Sakharine and his goons were riding in during that chase scene.
** ''The Castafiore Emerald'': A poster for Bianca Castafiore's concert has an emerald placed near her name. The red dress Castafiore wears on the cover appears in her first scene in the movie.
** A train switchboard displayed in the opening credits lists several of the places Tintin visited in the comics.
** The newspaper on which Barnaby scrawls in blood is ''Le Petit Vingtième'', the same paper in which Tintin began as a strip cartoon.
** There is a sign marking the cattle that Snowy must jump through as belonging to Cutts the Butcher -- whose calls are mistakenly and incessantly directed to Marlinspike Hall in the comics.
** Sakharine's plan to use Castafiore's voice to shatter the bulletproof glass may be an oblique reference to the ultrasonic weapon from ''The Calculus Affair''.
** And his use of a trained bird may be an oblique reference to ''The Castafiore Emerald''. The gypsies were accused of using a trained monkey, and Tintin pointed out how improbable this was, but the thief ''did'' turn out to be a bird.
** During the final credits, one of the first songs used in the film is titled ''Loch Lomond'', another of the Captain's favorite whiskeys.
** In the opening credits sequence, there's a brief shot of Tintin and Snowy running in front of a spotlight, clearly a nod to the Nelvana animated adaptation.
** The villain running with the crystal ball in the opening sequence sort of resembles recurring villain Rastapopoulos.
** The scene with Castafiore features an audience with members whom resemble characters from the original books, including Shiek Bab El Ehr and Piotr Skut.
** There are several gallons of paint and other materials on the infamous step in Marlinspike Hall that never seemed to get fixed in ''The Castafiore Emerald''.
** The ancient statue/secret door in ''Flight 714'' also appears in the opening credits.
** In the scene where Hergé is drawing Tintin at the beginning of the movie, there are drawings of characters from the comic series. One of them is Didi, Mr. Wang's son from ''The Blue Lotus''.
** Haddock being caught in the plane's propeller and ejected with his clothes shredded mirrors a scene in the comic ''Red Rackham's Treasure'' where this happens to him with one of Prof. Calculus' devices.
** In Omar Ben Salaad's palace, there is an abstract sculpture identical to one found in Tapiocopolis in ''Tintin and the Picaros''.
* TheNameIsBondJamesBond
--->"Haddock. Archibald Haddock."
* NewspaperThinDisguise: Thompson and Thomson are seen holding a stakeout at a Belgian marketplace with a set of eyeholes for each of the twins.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** At the start of the movie, Tintin just wanted the model ship because it was a rare find and a nice piece of history. Sakharine, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood unable to believe that Tintin isn't another treasure hunter,]] repeatedly schemes to steal it in increasingly criminal ways that [[{{Determinator}} only inflame Tintin's curiosity.]] And even then, when Tintin hits a dead end and can't figure out what "Karaboudjan" refers to, he sends goons to promptly kidnap him and take him straight to the ship with that name.
** When Tintin and Haddock are stranded out in the middle of the ocean with no food or water, Sakharine sends in a plane to kill Tintin and bring Haddock back. Tintin and Haddock promptly hijack the plane and use it to get out of the mess alive.
* NoodleIncident: Haddock remarks that one of his crewmen lost his eyelids during a rather memorable card game.
* OhNoNotAgain: Tintin's landlady, Mrs. Finch, has this reaction to finding out that a man has been gunned down on their doorstep.
* OldRetainer: The film's version of Nestor appears to be this to the Haddocks.
* TheOner: [[spoiler:The Bagghar chase sequence]].
* OnlyAModel: The model of the ''Unicorn''.
* PaletteSwap: In the co-op missions for the video game based on the film, Tintin and Haddock are a team, as are Thomson and Thompson. Snowy, instead of being excluded, teams up with a black-furred version of himself [[NonIndicativeName who is still named Snowy.]]
* LeParkour: Tintin tends to slide around a lot more than in the comics.
* PowderTrail: Sir Francis Haddock sets it off, Red Rackham snuffs it out, repeat, repeat...
* PragmaticAdaptation: In the original comics, Red Rackham's treasure is just the contents of a small chest. Today, that does not look impressive at all and certainly not enough to set Capt. Haddock for life with a large estate to keep up as well. So in the film, the treasure in the ''Unicorn'' takes up nearly ''the entire hold'' of the ship and was probably doubling as its ballast while it was there. The choice was almost certainly made for the sake of visual impressiveness, rather than to match the inflation -- even a small handful of 18th century gold coins in mint condition would be worth millions of dollars. The contents of the hold would make Captain Haddock the richest man in the world, even matching the loss of rarity value for the said coins!
* PrecisionFStrike: Tintin says that Sir Francis would be "damned" if he let Red Rackam have the treasure.
* {{Qurac}}: The Sultanate of Bagghar.
* RageBreakingPoint: Tintin calling Haddock's ship a "drunken tub" angered him enough to take his first real action against his mutinous crew and knock one of them out.
* RagnarokProofing: Sir Francis Haddock's ''parchment slips''. Those little centuries-old bits of paper go through a ton of abuse during the chase scene, going as far as ''bearing the full weight of Snowy'' as he tries to wrestle them away from Sakharine's hawk in midair. It's a wonder those things were still in one piece, let alone ''readable''.
* RedOniBlueOni: Haddock and Sakharine. Almost ColorCodedCharacters but it's reversed. Haddock who always wears blue is wild and prone to anger while the cool and collected Sakharine is [[spoiler:descended from ''Red'' Rackham]].
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Sakharine is the descendant of Rackham.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Sakharine doesn't just want the gold, but to avenge his ancestor by killing Haddock in a duel.]]
* SandIsWater: Invoked in one scene where Tintin and Captain Haddock are in a desert when Haddock tells Tintin about his ancestor as he looks out over the sand dunes. Cue a virtually seamless transition between the dunes and a ship sailing on the ocean waves.
* ScareTheDog: Snowy barks a Rottweiler twice his size into submission.
* SeadogBeard: [[{{Catchphrase}} Thundering typhoons!]] Do you think we could have a proper Tintin movie if Captain Archibald Haddock didn't have one of these?
* SelfPlagiarism:
** There is an action sequence with Tintin driving a motorcycle with Haddock in the sidecar, a probable reference to ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' (which was partially shot on sets designed for a live-action ''Tintin'' movie).
** Tintin's hair parts the water like the fin of a certain great white monster... Speaking of ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', Bruce the shark appears hanging from the crew's quarters.
** Captain Haddock yells "Geronimo" before leaping into action, a catchphrase of [[Series/DoctorWho the Eleventh Doctor]] (Creator/StevenMoffat was one of the writers).
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Tintin finding the coordinates for the rest of Rackham's treasure.]]
* SerkisFolk: Arguably the best-looking example yet. It even has Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock.
* SexForServices: It is implied that Sakharine slept with Bianca Castafiore: "Allow me to introduce my ''escort'': Monsiuer Shuggair Addeitiff. He's been very [beat] ''passionate'' in his support of this concert." The brief but distinctly uncomfortable look on Sakharine's face as she says it reveals even more....
* ShoutOut: Captain Haddock's reaction to seeing Snowy is a reference to Franchise/SherlockHolmes: "the giant rat of Sumatra" was mentioned as one of the many cases Watson never actually wrote up. This also doubles as a reference to one of Peter Jackson's earliest films, ''Film/BrainDead''.
* SignatureMove: Red Rackham had a distinctive taunt-like swishing movement of his sword that he performed whenever he won a bout and/or was waiting for his opponent to get back on their feet. He does it several times in the flashbacks to his battles with Francis Haddock, and [[spoiler:in the final battle, Sakharine shows that he inherited it.]]
* SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler:Sakharine has a score to settle with Haddock that began with their ancestors]].
* SleepsWithBothEyesOpen: A bad guy sleeps with his eyes open, not out of training, but because he lost his eyelids. [[NoodleIncident In a card game]].
-->'''Captain Haddock''': [[ItMakesSenseInContext You had to be there]]!
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Like its source material, the film exemplifies this trope. It has only a handful of female characters, and only two of them (Tintin's landlady Mrs. Finch and opera singer Bianca Castafiore) have names, dialogue, or any importance to the plot.
* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: Demonstrated as the seaplane from the ''Karaboudjan'' finds Tintin and the captain adrift in the lifeboat.
* StealthPun: The official artbook has a concept painting of the inside of the ''Karaboudjan'' where a mermaid masthead from another ship has been tied to one of the support beams. There have been [[VisualPun lamps installed on her breasts]]... [[DontExplainTheJoke so, she has nice headlights]].
* StickyFingers: Aristide Silk, the pickpocket, has an unusual obsession with wallets; he has a whole room full of the wallets he stole. Thompson and Thomson barely get the hint and he had to shout out that he is a thief.
* StubbornHair: Tintin opens the movie attempting to pat down his signature hair spike in the front, only for it to stand up again.
* SwordCane: Sakharine has one, which he threatens Tintin with on board the ''Karaboudjan''.
* SwordFight: Both Red Rackham and Sir Francis, and [[spoiler:their two descendants]].
* TakeNoPrisoners: Red Rackham sails under a blood red pennant, which -- as Haddock notes in his storytelling -- meant a fight with him is a fight to the death, no prisoners taken and no quarter given. Later, Rackham pretends to be willing to show mercy to the crew if Haddock gives up his hidden cargo, then [[YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo has them all killed anyway.]]
* TallTale: Haddock's story of the taking of the ''Unicorn''.
* TapOnTheHead: Happens so frequently, including in the opening credits, that you start to wonder why a few characters don't have brain damage already.
* TelevisionGeography: The film is set in a country which has the pound as its currency and a historical King Charles II, but several shops have French signs and cars drive on the right side of the road. (This is carried over from the English translation of the comic, which was originally set in Belgium and used francs and Louis XIV.) Other dubs of the movie revert these to francs and Louis XIV too.
* ThereAreNoCoincidences: "Do you think it was an accident I took Haddock's ship, Haddock's crew, Haddock's treacherous first mate? Nothing is an accident."
* TheThirties: The style of the cars, clothes, planes, etc. Also a newspaper clipping mentioning the events of ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' gives the explicit date of 1938. Also, the bad guys' weapons are of evidently [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German]] origin. Interestingly enough, the official artbook tags the movie's date as [[TheForties 1949]], but the [[AnachronismStew models of some of the cars]] go as late as [[TheFifties 1953]]. The film's art director notes this was done because there were no new cars made during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, let alone cool ones. The tanks in Bagghar are of a definitely post-[=WW2=] design.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Thomson and Thompson.
* TitleDrop: Done preemptively when Tintin mentions ''Red Rackham's treasure'' at the end.
* TomTheDarkLord: You wouldn't take a man named "Sakharine" seriously... until you saw him, at least. Lampshaded by Hadock calling him "The sour faced man with the sugary name."
* UnreliableExpositor: At one point Haddock inserts his own alcoholism into the story of the ''Unicorn'' until Tintin gets him to focus.
* VisualGag: Quite a few as the source material is also big on them.
** Early in the movie, the Thom(p)sons are peering out of holes they cut into a newspaper: Each one has cut his holes in an ad on the paper that feature an item that not only lines up with where their noses mustaches would be, but matches the shape of said individual moustache (A broom for Thompson and a toilet plunger for Thomson).
** During Haddock's TallTale of the taking of the ''Unicorn'', Red Rackham's much smaller ship gets caught in the ''Unicorn''[='s=] rigging, swinging back and forth like a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_ship_%28ride%29 Pirate Ship theme park ride]].
* WhamShot: At the end of the duel between Sir Francis and the Red Rackham, Red Rackham's mask comes off showing that [[spoiler:his face is the same as Sakharine, revealing him as Rackham's descendant]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: When Tintin is escaping the hold, he pushes on a crate that roars like a lion, but then falls silent. What was in there?
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Averted with Tintin; after he escapes, Sakharine orders his men to kill Tintin even though he might have valuable information. But he insists that Haddock not be killed. It's only later we find out why.
* XRaySparks: Seen briefly when Haddock is hit by lightning.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Sakharine alludes to this trope while interrogating Tintin ("Consider just how useful you ''are'' to me") but the latter escapes before he can actually make good on the threat.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Sir Francis was forced to reveal the treasure's location in exchange for his crew's lives. Rackham had them killed anyway.
* ZillionDollarBill: Sir Francis' treasure.
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''The Adventures of Tintin'' is a 2011 animated/motion capture film by Creator/StevenSpielberg based on the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' comic series, animated in MotionCapture [[AllCGICartoon CGI]] by Creator/PeterJackson's [[Creator/{{WETA}} Weta Digital]].
Tintin (Creator/JamieBell) is taken onboard a ship, the ''Karaboudjan'' by Sakharine (Creator/DanielCraig), who believes he holds one of the scrolls leading to the lost treasure of the ''Unicorn'', hidden away in three identical replicas of the ship. With the help of the ''Karaboudjan'''s Captain Haddock (Creator/AndySerkis), Tintin escapes the ship and begins his quest to find the three scrolls before Sakharine. The movie combines the plots of ''Recap/TintinTheSecretOfTheUnicorn'' and ''Recap/TintinTheCrabWithTheGoldenClaws''.
Not to be confused with the 1990s animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{The Adventures of Tintin|1991}}''.
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!!''The Adventures of Tintin'' provides examples of:
* AccidentalPun: In the tie-in videogame. Some of the bosses are literally giant flying heads. The Finnish term for a boss fight is "Päävastus", which literally translates into "head opponent".
* AdaptedOut: In the original comic, the Bird brothers were the villains. Here, they're completely absent and the role of villain goes to Sakharine.
* AdaptationAmalgamation: While this film is set as an adaptation of the Secret of the Unicorn comic, the story borrows elements from ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'' as well. In particular, Tintin being kidnapped and imprisoned on the Kariboujan, the introduction of Captain Haddock, and their crashing of a seaplane and subsequent trek through the Sahara Desert together is all lifted from that story.
* AdaptationalBadass:
** In the video game adaptation of the film, Thomson and Thompson have an attack where they [[SpinToDeflectStuff spin their canes fast enough to deflect fireballs at enemies]].
** Captain Haddock, especially in comparison to his original appearance in ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'', where he causes more trouble than he solves. In this movie [[spoiler:he climbs out the seaplane in midflight and refuels it with his Alcohol-laden belch, takes part in the crazy motorcycle chase for the parchments, and fights the BigBad in a crane duel.]] In fact the climatic battle almost entirely belongs to Haddock, with Tintin's main contribution being [[spoiler:saving the parchments from being burnt at the last minute.]]
** Sakharine as well, originally little more than a background character. In the movie, he is a much more vicious fighter, complete with SwordCane.
* AdaptationalDumbass: Downplayed with Thomson and Thompson. While they aren't exactly the smartest or most competent characters in the comics, they were capable of catching and arresting both the Bird Brothers and Aristides Silk in ''The Secret of the Unicorn'' after a lot of hard work and embarrassing failures. Here, they're so vacuous that they end up entering Silk's house, yet somehow don't realize he’s the pickpocket despite noticing the ''shelves of wallets'' he has until they find the one belonging to Tintin. They also don't help much at all with catching Saccharine, only placing him under arrest after he's defeated by Tintin and Haddock.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Not that it was a point of any real suspense in the comics, but Haddock's first name (Archibald) was not known until the final completed story, ''Tintin and the Picaros''. In the film, Haddock introduces himself right away with his full name.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Barnaby. In the comic, he works for the villains and, while he turns on them, it's out of a petty grievance rather than remorse. In the film, he is an InterpolSpecialAgent who warns Tintin about the villain and is shot by goons working for him. Interestingly, this is a reversal of the comic, in which Sakharine is attacked by Barnaby, who wants the scroll in his ''Unicorn'' model (which Sakharine didn't know existed).
** Downplayed with [[spoiler:Omar Ben Salaad]], who's an innocent extra in this movie and a drug-smuggling boss in the comic. So he could still be a villain, just one who was the victim of another villain.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Ivan Sakharine is a much more malevolent character than he was in the comics, where he played little more than a bit part as the unlucky owner of the second Unicorn model, who Haddock even invites to his maritime gallery at the end of the ''Unicorn'' arc and apparently donated his model ship to him. Ironically, he was one of the only characters who Tintin accuses mistakenly of being a villain. Having no background whatsoever, he originally had no grudge against or even connection to [[spoiler:Captain Haddock]] (nor did the Bird Brothers, for what it's worth: generational vengeance is not exactly a feature of the Tintin comics). Interestingly and very surprisingly, the LicensedGame based on the movie actually uses the Bird brothers from the comic as the villains instead of Sakharine.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange:
** Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, in the comics, is annoying but harmless, and [[PetTheDog is implied to be nice enough to offer one of his ships to Captain Haddock's maritime gallery]]. In the movie, he is a vengeful and vindictive BigBad.
** Barnaby in the comics was a spy for the villains who turned informer, and they shot him to keep him from revealing their activities. The film adapts him into a well-meaning Interpol agent [[GoodAllAlong who tries to warn and help Tintin]], although Tintin doesn't realize this until after Barnaby is shot by Sakharine's henchmen.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Haddock's {{Unusual Euphemism}}s tend to grow into this when he's particularly excited or -- more often -- angry. This is something carried over from the comics.
-->'''Haddock:''' Billions of blistering blue barnacles!\\
Ten thousand thundering typhoons!
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Tintin, mixed with an IntrepidReporter.
* TheAlcoholic: Captain Haddock. PlayedForLaughs ''and'' PlayedForDrama!
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: The page image comes from the comic the movie is based on... and yes, that scene does make it into the movie. Along with multiple instances of this.
* AlcoholIsGasoline: Tintin and Captain Haddock are flying a sea plane through a thunderstorm, unfortunately they are almost out of fuel. In a last desperate gambit, Tintin suggests Haddock pour the medicinal spirits in the planes first aid kit into the fuel tank, hoping it will enable them to fly just a bit further and give them the opportunity to land. Unfortunately, [[TheAlcoholic Haddock]] had already drunk them. Inspired by Tintin's comment their running on fumes, he instead forces himself to belch into the tank, his breath already being established to be laced with booze. Sure enough it proves so potent it not just restarts the engine but causes it to catch fire.
* AnachronismStew: The date of the movie is somewhat difficult to determine; no matter what, the use of the term "third world" and references to INTERPOL are definitely out of place (see "ArtisticLicenseHistory") and the cars just complicate matters (see "TheThirties"), as do most of the guns.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: The film ends with [[spoiler:Tintin and Haddock discovering a clue to the location of the ''Unicorn'', where the rest of Rackham's treasue would be hidden]].
* AnimatedCreditsOpening: Similar to Spielberg's previous film ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'', with multiple references to the other Tintin books.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** At one point Bianca mentions this is her first time visiting the third world. The term "third world" originated during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar in the 1950s, while this film takes place in the 30s.
** Thompson and Thomson make a mention of both the FBI and INTERPOL. While the former existed as of 1935, most people would have referred to it by its old name, the Bureau of Investigations (BOI) out of habit; likewise, though the International Criminal Police Commission was created in 1923, it did not change its name to INTERPOL until 1956.
* AscendedExtra: Ivan Sakharine. In the comic, he is a rather minor, non-villainous character, a harmless ship model collector who mostly serves as a RedHerring. In the film, he is [[BigBad the main antagonist]] [[spoiler:and the descendant of Red Rackham]].
* AsideGlance: Snowy looks straight at the audience at least twice, and even winks! This might be a nod to the comics, where he could talk, but only the reader could "hear" him.
* BadassCape: Red Rackham has one that's ''[[IncendiaryExponent on fire]]'' in his first fight with Sir Francis Haddock. He weaponizes it by brandishing the burning cape in Haddock's face to disorient him.
* BadassLongcoat: See the poster above. Allan also has one.
* BeardOfEvil: Sakharine, with his pointy goatee. The artists apparently referenced Rasputin when working on his movie design, which makes sense -- his comic design was already pretty Rasputin-y. [[spoiler:The redesign helps him resemble Red Rackham a little more.]] His slicked-back, distinguished look vs. Haddock's unkempt look is very much a case of GoodHairEvilHair.
* BestialityIsDepraved: During the scene where Tintin tries to recover some keys from a sleeping man, Haddock explains about some of his former crewmen. One of them was a shepherd once, but he was kicked out because of his "animal husbandry".
%%* BigBad: Sakharine
* BilingualBonus: At one point, Sakharine is addressed by Castafiore as "Monsieur Shuggair Addeitiff", the French word for "additive". Saccharine is... wait for it... an additive used in place of... sugar.
** Haddock calls Sakharine a "sassenach", a Scottish Gaelic pejorative for an English person.
* BizarreBeverageUse:
** At one point, Sakharine's goons knock Captain Haddock out with a bottle of alcohol.
** When Captain Haddock [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunkenly lights a fire on a rowboat]], he then tries to put it out with whisky, but [[IgnorantAboutFire that just blows it up]].
* BloodlessCarnage: The Pirate flashback is chockful of sword and gun killings, all without a single red stain, save for the sword wound Rackham receives -- and even ''then'' it's not really bleeding much. Averted with Barnaby's death.
* BloodStainedLetter: A dying man highlights letters on a newspaper using his bloody fingerprints to spell out the name of the ''Karaboudjan''.
* BoisterousBruiser: Captain Haddock
* BraveScot: Unlike previous adaptations of ''Tintin'', Andy Serkis chooses to give Captain Haddock a Scottish accent.
* CaptainObvious: During a conversation with Haddock when Tintin first met him.
-->'''Tintin:''' You're the captain?\\
'''Haddock:''' Of course I'm the captain. Who else could I be?
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Mentioned in this exchange when Tintin and Haddock first meet, when the drunken captain mistakes the young man for an assassin:
-->'''Haddock:''' So you thought you could sneak in behind me and catch me with my trousers down, eh?!\\
'''Tintin:''' I'd rather you kept your trousers on, if it's all the same to you.
* CharacterExaggeration: The movie tends to exaggerate the traits of some characters and the ''Tintin'' comics in general, which tend to be more low-key than the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' series (which the movie was commonly compared to).
* ChaseScene: One of the more spectacular ones in recent memory.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Shortly after the two meet, Tintin is taken aback by Captain Haddock's horrible breath. Later on, [[spoiler:after Snowy and Haddock consume a bottle of medicinal alcohol that Tintin wanted to use as fuel substitute for their crashing plane, this comes in handy as Haddock's breath alone contains enough alcohol to kick the plane into overdrive.]]
** As Castafiore takes center stage, there is a conspicuous number of glass objects in nearly every cut. These are all then [[spoiler:broken by Castafiore's [[GlassShatteringSound impressive voice]], including the bullet-proof glass cabinet containing the model of The Unicorn]].
* ChekhovsSkill:
** A minor, yet hilarious one. Early on, Haddock's breath is established to smell strongly of whiskey. When Tintin and Haddock are flying towards Bagghar in a seaplane [[spoiler:with almost no fuel, Haddock drinks a whole bottle of medicinal alcohol and ''belches'' into the plane's fuel tank to give it an extra boost.]]
** Snowy's knack for finding holes in brick walls [[spoiler:leads Tintin and Haddock to the bricked up portion of the cellar where they find Sir Francis' treasure.]]
* CirclingBirdies: Diegetic birdies, no less! They escaped from a cage.
* CompositeCharacter:
** The film version of Sakharine is a combination of several characters from the comic. He has the appearance and some of the scenes of Sakharine in the comic, but his ownership of Marlinspike and his AdaptationalVillainy are inherited from the absent Bird brothers and his employment of Allan is a trait from the comic's Omar Ben Salaad. The part about [[spoiler:him being Red Rackham's descendant]] seems to be from a humorous scene from ''Red Rackham's Treasure'' involving several people who claim to be [[spoiler:descended from Rackham]].
** Barnaby is a composite of Barnaby from ''Secret of the Unicorn'' and Dawes from ''The Crab With the Golden Claws''. He even combines their names.
* CoolBoat: The ''Unicorn''. "Finest ship that ever sailed the seven seas!"
* CouldntFindAPen: Barnaby is gunned down by the bad guys and highlights letters on a newspaper with [[BloodStainedLetter his own blood.]] Tintin reads the highlighted letters, which spell out "''Karaboudjan''". Not that he has any time or need to figure out what it meant; as he's then immediately kidnapped and sent to a ship which is named that.
* CreatorCameo:
** A particularly heartwarming one at that. The late Creator/{{Herge}} appears at the beginning of the film as a caricaturist who Tintin pays to draw his likeness, while drawing him [[HaveWeMet Hergé comments that Tintin looks familiar]] and then reveals his finished work: a portrait of the [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} comic book version of Tintin]].
** One of the pirates in Red Rackham's ship looks similar to Hergé as well.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Captain Haddock seems to often cause more trouble for Tintin than he solves, but it's obvious he can more than handle himself in any given situation. As an example, late in the film Haddock is attacked by three soldiers, and he flails around angrily a bit, leading us to expect slapstick takedowns or just [[EpicFail failure]]. Next we see him he throws three punches and knocks them all out.
* DeathByAdaptation: Barnaby Dawes, unlike the comic, doesn't recover from his bullet injuries.
* DefiantToTheEnd: In an attempt to get Tintin to give up, Sakharine ties Haddock and Snowy to some weights and [[SadisticChoice threatens to drop them into the ocean unless Tintin backs down.]] In addition to insisting that Tintin not do it, Haddock never stops insulting Sakharine to his face the whole time, even though he's at his mercy. When Sakharine finally drops him to make his point, he even makes sure he gets one last shot in before he hits the water.
-->'''Haddock :''' You two-timing troglodyte! You simpering son of a pug-faced profiteer! (''Sakharine drops him'') ''Fathead!''
* DemotedToExtra: With Ivan Sakharine's [[AscendedExtra ascendancy to the role of]] BigBad, Omar Ben Salaad -- a drug-running strongman from ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'' -- is reduced to a mere plot-advancer, as proprietor of the third ''Unicorn'' model.
* {{Determinator}}:
** Tintin, in spades. This causes a sort of chain -- by leading him on this amazing adventure and never giving up, Tintin inspires Haddock to stop drowning his sorrows and become a determinator as well, and so Haddock in turn re-inspires Tintin to take up the fight again when everything looks bleakest.
** Notably, Haddock becomes a determinator almost immediately after getting his memory of Francis Haddock's tale back.
** Francis is clearly a determinator of his own, willing to ''blow up his own ship'' to stop Rackham, and Haddock is [[GenerationXerox just like his ancestor.]]
* DiabolicalMastermind: Sakharine
* DirectorTrademark:
** Spielberg's favorite shot to use, the reflection shot, shows up conspicuously often in the movie, in a razor, in glasses, in a water bubble...
** Another one of Spielberg's trademarks are beams of light, notably when Tintin is searching Marlinspike Hall and the flashlight beams of the crew of the ''Karaboudjan''.
** Writer Trademark as well -- Edgar Wright wanted to use a gag in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' where Scott holds up a drawing of Ramona from the comics, but this only made it into the promotional materials for the film. He finally gets to use it here.
* TheDragon: Allan to Sakharine.
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* DrunkenMaster: Captain Haddock recalls what his grandfather told him after going back to drinking.
* DyingCurse: [[spoiler:Red Rackham curses Sir Francis Haddock as he sinks with the blown-up ''Unicorn'' declaring, "{{We will meet again}}, Haddock! In another time! In another ''life''!"]]
* EpicTrackingShot: The above-mentioned chase sequence. Sure it's done in CGI, but seriously, ''wow.''
* EurekaMoment: When Tintin thinks the bad guys have won, Captain Haddock gives him an inspirational speech about never giving up, and a chance phrase gives Tintin an idea about how to regain the upper hand.
* EvilFormerFriend: Haddock's crew betrayed him to Sakharine, who offered them a large amount of money.
* FamedInStory: As demonstrated in the opening scene in the market, Tintin is apparently well known enough from his previous exploits that average people can recognize him by sight.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath:
** Barnaby Dawes is gunned down by Sakharine's goons, which is brutal enough for a PG-rated film, but he even uses his blood stains to spell out a message that becomes a major plot point.
** There's also Captain Francis stabbing, shooting and slicing up dozens of pirates, albeit bloodlessly.
** Red Rackham coldly executes the Francis' crew after promising to spare them, by dropping them into the water while tied up, where they are implied to be eaten by sharks.
* FatherToHisMen: Implied with Sir Francis Haddock. He is completely unflinching in the face of Red Rackham's threat to kill him unless he gives up his secret cargo, but gives in once Rackham threatens to kill his men in his stead. When Rackham goes back on his deal and kills the men anyway, Haddock is aghast.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Sakharine
* {{Flynning}}:
** Sir Francis Haddock's duel with Red Rakham. {{Justified}} since Rakham is more interested in putting out Haddock's PowderTrail, and Haddock is therefore more focused on preventing him from doing that.
** In the climax, Captain Haddock and [[spoiler:Sakharine]] do this [[spoiler:''[[ExaggeratedTrope with cranes]]'']].
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** "When you hit a wall, you push through it."
** [[spoiler: Notice what color Sakharine wears throughout the entire movie. And his character design just screams Rasputin, with a very [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Alternate Universe Spock-esque]] beard.]]
** see There Are No Coincidences
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Sakharine, again.
* FourthWallPortrait: Inverted. Tintin's portrait in the beginning of the film resembles his original cartoon design while he himself has an extremely realistic one.
* FriendsRentControl: Tintin owns a surprisingly upscale apartment for someone who works as a reporter. Then again, considering the recognition he gets (mentioned above) just when he goes out shopping, it's entirely possible that he's had several previous adventures that have made him rather high-profile, with corresponding pay.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
** Snowy, often; particularly in the desert, when he appears in the background with a giant bone from ''nowhere''.
** Right after Thomson and Thompson pull the pickpocket out from the CirclingBirdies moment, the old lady whom the pickpocket crashed into strikes a man with her cane whom she seems to think was groping her.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Haddock and Sakharine with their ancestors.]]
* GlassShatteringSound: Castafiore's voice. At first, Tintin doesn't know what Haddock and Snowy are complaining about. Then she hits a really high note and shatters not only everyone but Sakharine's glasses but also [[spoiler:the bulletproof case holding the third model ship.]] Oh, and the chandeliers, and the crystal ware, and the shiek's glasses too.
* GravityIsAHarshSeamstress: During the motorcycle scene, Captain Haddock collides with a clothesline and spends the rest of the chase wearing a pink dress.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Done for a RuleOfThree.
* HadTheSillyThingInReverse: Captain Haddock takes aim at the villain with a bazooka ... and promptly takes out the dam behind them. Attentive viewers could see this coming, as the scope was shown to be on the outside when he was taking aim. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Snowy can be seen trying to warn Haddock of this]].
* HamToHamCombat: Haddock and Sakharine. You can practially smell the bacon frying. [[spoiler:Same goes for their ancestors.]]
* HeroicDog: Snowy
* HostageForMacGuffin: Both Sakharine [[spoiler:and his ancestor]] seem fond of this trope.
** In the video game, it's Allan who forces Tintin to hand over the scrolls in exchange for Haddock's life.
* IdenticalGrandson: As in the comic, Haddock looks and acts exactly like his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock. In addition, [[spoiler:Red Rackham]] is given an Identical Descendant in the form of [[spoiler:Sakharine]] and one of Sir Francis's crew members looks exactly like Nestor, which probably isn't a coincidence. Unlike the comic, the film makes an attempt to justify this by bringing up the possibility of the characters being the literal ''reincarnations'' of their ancestors.
* IgnorantAboutFire: When Tintin and Haddock are in a rowboat, the latter lights a fire, but because [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy he is drunk and not thinking clearly]], he sets the boat's floor itself on fire. Tintin tells him to put the fire out, but he uses whisky, which just makes it explode.
* IKnowMortalKombat: Upon entering and making use of a plane:
--> '''Haddock:''' You know what you're doing, eh?\\
'''Tintin:''' Relax, I interviewed a pilot once!
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Tintin. He hits the lever on a searchlight while running and later brings down a plane with a single pistol shot.
-->'''Tintin:''' Bad news, Captain -- we've only got ONE bullet.\\
'''Haddock:''' So, what's the good news?\\
'''Tintin:''' (''[[DramaticGunCock cocks pistol]]'') [[BadassBoast We've got one bullet.]]
* InkSuitActor: It's not confirmed, but a couple of reviewers have commented that [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gJr-xhqiDHk/T3l0oR0AH1I/AAAAAAAAB4c/tnOdYIWkeXQ/s1600/tumblr_m1rcvgJkLe1r4h2oko1_500.jpg Sakharine looks uncannily]] [[http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/5926824_f520-291x300.jpg like Steven Spielberg himself]]. At least one critic thinks he made himself the villain because people will naturally blame him for any changes to the comic. In truth, he looks more like Daniel Craig with glasses and a long beard.
* InterestingSituationDuel:
** Sir Francis Haddock and Red Rackham have a SwordFight while trying to light/extinguish a PowderTrail.
** At the climax of the movie, Captain Haddock and Sakharine duel with ''docking cranes!''
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Tintin, who is a young adult, and Captain Haddock, a man at least in his late thirties to forties.
* ItMakesSenseInContext: In-universe. Haddock tells Tintin that one of the crewmen of the ''Karaboudjan'' has no eyelids. He semi-explains that a card game was involved before telling Tintin that he "had to be there".
* LargeHam:
** Andy Serkis as Haddock.
** [[EvilIsHammy Sakharine]] is also worth of mention.
* LastOfHisKind: Captain Archibald Haddock is the last of the Haddocks, as all other bloodlines have failed. Lampshaded by Archibald Haddock himself of all people.
* {{Leitmotif}}: All of the major characters have distinctive themes associated with them -- Tintin, Snowy, Cpt. Haddock, Sir Francis and the ''Unicorn'', Red Rackham, even Thomson and Thompson. The most prominent by far is the ''Unicorn'' theme, which recurs many times -- being soft and ominous whenever the mystery is hinted at and surging to the fore with a full orchestra when a major breakthrough happens.
* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: Tintin's escape from one room on the ''Karaboudjan''.
* MacGuffinMelee: The ChaseScene has the scrolls, all three of them, pass between Tintin, Haddock, Sakharine, Snowy and Sakharine's hawk several times before it's all over.
* MadeOfIron: Tintin, Haddock and even Snowy. They come out unscathed from fistfights, crashes and falls that would have severely injured or killed almost everyone else.
* MatchCut: Boatloads of them, especially involving boats and ships.
** When Haddock is hallucinating in the desert, the Unicorn comes sailing across the sand dunes, which transform beautifully into a stormy sea, cutting to the sea battle.
** The vast sea on which Captain Haddock is rowing turns into a little puddle, cutting to Monsieur Silk.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler:The {{Reincarnation}} angle behind Haddock and Sakharine's rivalry. Haddock appears to have some extremely vivid visions of the battle on the Unicorn and Red Rakham's death, implying that he's "remembering" his past life. In his final moments, Rakham also curses Sir Francis so they will continue their fight in "another time" and "another life". On the other hand, Haddock could just be figuring things out and the flashbacks are a visualization of his realization through what he knows about the story of the Unicorn. Things are further muddied by Haddock's flashbacks showing Sir Francis's first mate look ''[[{{Foreshadowing}} exactly]]'' like Nestor, who is later revealed to be a secret ally to the Haddock family.]]
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Often. This is especially evident during the Bagghar chase, where sharp-eyed viewers might notice that several seemingly innocous elements are briefly visible in the background before suddenly becoming important -- like the tank that crashes into the hotel.
* MeaningfulEcho: "You hit a wall, you push through it."
* MillionToOneChance: When Tintin shoots down a plane with one bullet.
* MistakenForInsane: In "Tintin in Tibet", when Snowy runs wild, the monks think he must be insane.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Red Rackham walking down to meet Sir Francis Haddock when the ''Unicorn'' is burning.
* MythologyGag: Lots of {{Continuity Nod}}s to the comics in the animated credits sequence, on newspaper clippings in Tintin's apartment and in Omar Ben Salaad's palace and elsewhere:
** Hergé has already drawn the Bird Brothers (original villains in ''Secret'') and Professor Alembick (one of Tintin's traveling partners in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'') at his cartoon booth in the market.
** ''Tintin in the Congo'': A shield on the marketplace where Tintin buys the ''Unicorn'' and his outfit in Bagghar.
** ''Tintin in America'': The newspaper clipping about him rounding up a gang. Sakharine's SwordCane resembles that used by the unnamed [[BaldOfEvil bald villain]] in this album as well.
** ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'': A newspaper clipping in his apartment.
** ''The Blue Lotus'': A newspaper clipping in his apartment, as well as a vase similar to the one Tintin hid in at one point in the album.
** ''The Broken Ear'': A bigger version of the statue is in Omar Ben Salaad's palace. The statue also hits someone's head in the opening credits.
** ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'': A newspaper clipping in his apartment, and a sign outside a building with Syldavia's Coat of Arms.
*** The purple dress Castafiore wears to perform in, as well as the composition of the shot where Castafiore is singing for Ben Salaad and his guests, comes straight from the scene in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' where she performs for the Syldavian court.
** ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'': A statue of a crab with Golden Claws in a fountain in Omar Ben Salaad's palace and a crate of cans show up in the harbour, which Snowy uses to trip up some goons. The entire movie sequence between Tintin's kidnapping and his arrival in Bagghar (minus captain Haddock's dream about his ancestor) is directly taken from ''The Crab with the Golden Claws''. Ben Salaad himself was, of course the original villain (and therefore Allan's boss).
** ''The Seven Crystal Balls'': The opening credits are about Tintin chasing a guy with a crystal ball. The Siamese cat that appears to belong to one of Tintin's neighbors is also lifted from the one that takes up residence in Marlinspike Hall (and proceeds to fight with Snowy) in this comic.
** ''Destination Moon'' / ''Explorers on the Moon'': The rocket is shown in the credits sequence and the anti-gravity sequence with the alcohol occurs in the film itself, transferred to a free-falling airplane.
** ''The Land of Black Gold'': The red Jeep that Sakharine and his goons were riding in during that chase scene.
** ''The Castafiore Emerald'': A poster for Bianca Castafiore's concert has an emerald placed near her name. The red dress Castafiore wears on the cover appears in her first scene in the movie.
** A train switchboard displayed in the opening credits lists several of the places Tintin visited in the comics.
** The newspaper on which Barnaby scrawls in blood is ''Le Petit Vingtième'', the same paper in which Tintin began as a strip cartoon.
** There is a sign marking the cattle that Snowy must jump through as belonging to Cutts the Butcher -- whose calls are mistakenly and incessantly directed to Marlinspike Hall in the comics.
** Sakharine's plan to use Castafiore's voice to shatter the bulletproof glass may be an oblique reference to the ultrasonic weapon from ''The Calculus Affair''.
** And his use of a trained bird may be an oblique reference to ''The Castafiore Emerald''. The gypsies were accused of using a trained monkey, and Tintin pointed out how improbable this was, but the thief ''did'' turn out to be a bird.
** During the final credits, one of the first songs used in the film is titled ''Loch Lomond'', another of the Captain's favorite whiskeys.
** In the opening credits sequence, there's a brief shot of Tintin and Snowy running in front of a spotlight, clearly a nod to the Nelvana animated adaptation.
** The villain running with the crystal ball in the opening sequence sort of resembles recurring villain Rastapopoulos.
** The scene with Castafiore features an audience with members whom resemble characters from the original books, including Shiek Bab El Ehr and Piotr Skut.
** There are several gallons of paint and other materials on the infamous step in Marlinspike Hall that never seemed to get fixed in ''The Castafiore Emerald''.
** The ancient statue/secret door in ''Flight 714'' also appears in the opening credits.
** In the scene where Hergé is drawing Tintin at the beginning of the movie, there are drawings of characters from the comic series. One of them is Didi, Mr. Wang's son from ''The Blue Lotus''.
** Haddock being caught in the plane's propeller and ejected with his clothes shredded mirrors a scene in the comic ''Red Rackham's Treasure'' where this happens to him with one of Prof. Calculus' devices.
** In Omar Ben Salaad's palace, there is an abstract sculpture identical to one found in Tapiocopolis in ''Tintin and the Picaros''.
* TheNameIsBondJamesBond
--->"Haddock. Archibald Haddock."
* NewspaperThinDisguise: Thompson and Thomson are seen holding a stakeout at a Belgian marketplace with a set of eyeholes for each of the twins.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** At the start of the movie, Tintin just wanted the model ship because it was a rare find and a nice piece of history. Sakharine, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood unable to believe that Tintin isn't another treasure hunter,]] repeatedly schemes to steal it in increasingly criminal ways that [[{{Determinator}} only inflame Tintin's curiosity.]] And even then, when Tintin hits a dead end and can't figure out what "Karaboudjan" refers to, he sends goons to promptly kidnap him and take him straight to the ship with that name.
** When Tintin and Haddock are stranded out in the middle of the ocean with no food or water, Sakharine sends in a plane to kill Tintin and bring Haddock back. Tintin and Haddock promptly hijack the plane and use it to get out of the mess alive.
* NoodleIncident: Haddock remarks that one of his crewmen lost his eyelids during a rather memorable card game.
* OhNoNotAgain: Tintin's landlady, Mrs. Finch, has this reaction to finding out that a man has been gunned down on their doorstep.
* OldRetainer: The film's version of Nestor appears to be this to the Haddocks.
* TheOner: [[spoiler:The Bagghar chase sequence]].
* OnlyAModel: The model of the ''Unicorn''.
* PaletteSwap: In the co-op missions for the video game based on the film, Tintin and Haddock are a team, as are Thomson and Thompson. Snowy, instead of being excluded, teams up with a black-furred version of himself [[NonIndicativeName who is still named Snowy.]]
* LeParkour: Tintin tends to slide around a lot more than in the comics.
* PowderTrail: Sir Francis Haddock sets it off, Red Rackham snuffs it out, repeat, repeat...
* PragmaticAdaptation: In the original comics, Red Rackham's treasure is just the contents of a small chest. Today, that does not look impressive at all and certainly not enough to set Capt. Haddock for life with a large estate to keep up as well. So in the film, the treasure in the ''Unicorn'' takes up nearly ''the entire hold'' of the ship and was probably doubling as its ballast while it was there. The choice was almost certainly made for the sake of visual impressiveness, rather than to match the inflation -- even a small handful of 18th century gold coins in mint condition would be worth millions of dollars. The contents of the hold would make Captain Haddock the richest man in the world, even matching the loss of rarity value for the said coins!
* PrecisionFStrike: Tintin says that Sir Francis would be "damned" if he let Red Rackam have the treasure.
* {{Qurac}}: The Sultanate of Bagghar.
* RageBreakingPoint: Tintin calling Haddock's ship a "drunken tub" angered him enough to take his first real action against his mutinous crew and knock one of them out.
* RagnarokProofing: Sir Francis Haddock's ''parchment slips''. Those little centuries-old bits of paper go through a ton of abuse during the chase scene, going as far as ''bearing the full weight of Snowy'' as he tries to wrestle them away from Sakharine's hawk in midair. It's a wonder those things were still in one piece, let alone ''readable''.
* RedOniBlueOni: Haddock and Sakharine. Almost ColorCodedCharacters but it's reversed. Haddock who always wears blue is wild and prone to anger while the cool and collected Sakharine is [[spoiler:descended from ''Red'' Rackham]].
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Sakharine is the descendant of Rackham.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Sakharine doesn't just want the gold, but to avenge his ancestor by killing Haddock in a duel.]]
* SandIsWater: Invoked in one scene where Tintin and Captain Haddock are in a desert when Haddock tells Tintin about his ancestor as he looks out over the sand dunes. Cue a virtually seamless transition between the dunes and a ship sailing on the ocean waves.
* ScareTheDog: Snowy barks a Rottweiler twice his size into submission.
* SeadogBeard: [[{{Catchphrase}} Thundering typhoons!]] Do you think we could have a proper Tintin movie if Captain Archibald Haddock didn't have one of these?
* SelfPlagiarism:
** There is an action sequence with Tintin driving a motorcycle with Haddock in the sidecar, a probable reference to ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' (which was partially shot on sets designed for a live-action ''Tintin'' movie).
** Tintin's hair parts the water like the fin of a certain great white monster... Speaking of ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', Bruce the shark appears hanging from the crew's quarters.
** Captain Haddock yells "Geronimo" before leaping into action, a catchphrase of [[Series/DoctorWho the Eleventh Doctor]] (Creator/StevenMoffat was one of the writers).
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Tintin finding the coordinates for the rest of Rackham's treasure.]]
* SerkisFolk: Arguably the best-looking example yet. It even has Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock.
* SexForServices: It is implied that Sakharine slept with Bianca Castafiore: "Allow me to introduce my ''escort'': Monsiuer Shuggair Addeitiff. He's been very [beat] ''passionate'' in his support of this concert." The brief but distinctly uncomfortable look on Sakharine's face as she says it reveals even more....
* ShoutOut: Captain Haddock's reaction to seeing Snowy is a reference to Franchise/SherlockHolmes: "the giant rat of Sumatra" was mentioned as one of the many cases Watson never actually wrote up. This also doubles as a reference to one of Peter Jackson's earliest films, ''Film/BrainDead''.
* SignatureMove: Red Rackham had a distinctive taunt-like swishing movement of his sword that he performed whenever he won a bout and/or was waiting for his opponent to get back on their feet. He does it several times in the flashbacks to his battles with Francis Haddock, and [[spoiler:in the final battle, Sakharine shows that he inherited it.]]
* SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler:Sakharine has a score to settle with Haddock that began with their ancestors]].
* SleepsWithBothEyesOpen: A bad guy sleeps with his eyes open, not out of training, but because he lost his eyelids. [[NoodleIncident In a card game]].
-->'''Captain Haddock''': [[ItMakesSenseInContext You had to be there]]!
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Like its source material, the film exemplifies this trope. It has only a handful of female characters, and only two of them (Tintin's landlady Mrs. Finch and opera singer Bianca Castafiore) have names, dialogue, or any importance to the plot.
* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: Demonstrated as the seaplane from the ''Karaboudjan'' finds Tintin and the captain adrift in the lifeboat.
* StealthPun: The official artbook has a concept painting of the inside of the ''Karaboudjan'' where a mermaid masthead from another ship has been tied to one of the support beams. There have been [[VisualPun lamps installed on her breasts]]... [[DontExplainTheJoke so, she has nice headlights]].
* StickyFingers: Aristide Silk, the pickpocket, has an unusual obsession with wallets; he has a whole room full of the wallets he stole. Thompson and Thomson barely get the hint and he had to shout out that he is a thief.
* StubbornHair: Tintin opens the movie attempting to pat down his signature hair spike in the front, only for it to stand up again.
* SwordCane: Sakharine has one, which he threatens Tintin with on board the ''Karaboudjan''.
* SwordFight: Both Red Rackham and Sir Francis, and [[spoiler:their two descendants]].
* TakeNoPrisoners: Red Rackham sails under a blood red pennant, which -- as Haddock notes in his storytelling -- meant a fight with him is a fight to the death, no prisoners taken and no quarter given. Later, Rackham pretends to be willing to show mercy to the crew if Haddock gives up his hidden cargo, then [[YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo has them all killed anyway.]]
* TallTale: Haddock's story of the taking of the ''Unicorn''.
* TapOnTheHead: Happens so frequently, including in the opening credits, that you start to wonder why a few characters don't have brain damage already.
* TelevisionGeography: The film is set in a country which has the pound as its currency and a historical King Charles II, but several shops have French signs and cars drive on the right side of the road. (This is carried over from the English translation of the comic, which was originally set in Belgium and used francs and Louis XIV.) Other dubs of the movie revert these to francs and Louis XIV too.
* ThereAreNoCoincidences: "Do you think it was an accident I took Haddock's ship, Haddock's crew, Haddock's treacherous first mate? Nothing is an accident."
* TheThirties: The style of the cars, clothes, planes, etc. Also a newspaper clipping mentioning the events of ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' gives the explicit date of 1938. Also, the bad guys' weapons are of evidently [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German]] origin. Interestingly enough, the official artbook tags the movie's date as [[TheForties 1949]], but the [[AnachronismStew models of some of the cars]] go as late as [[TheFifties 1953]]. The film's art director notes this was done because there were no new cars made during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, let alone cool ones. The tanks in Bagghar are of a definitely post-[=WW2=] design.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Thomson and Thompson.
* TitleDrop: Done preemptively when Tintin mentions ''Red Rackham's treasure'' at the end.
* TomTheDarkLord: You wouldn't take a man named "Sakharine" seriously... until you saw him, at least. Lampshaded by Hadock calling him "The sour faced man with the sugary name."
* UnreliableExpositor: At one point Haddock inserts his own alcoholism into the story of the ''Unicorn'' until Tintin gets him to focus.
* VisualGag: Quite a few as the source material is also big on them.
** Early in the movie, the Thom(p)sons are peering out of holes they cut into a newspaper: Each one has cut his holes in an ad on the paper that feature an item that not only lines up with where their noses mustaches would be, but matches the shape of said individual moustache (A broom for Thompson and a toilet plunger for Thomson).
** During Haddock's TallTale of the taking of the ''Unicorn'', Red Rackham's much smaller ship gets caught in the ''Unicorn''[='s=] rigging, swinging back and forth like a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_ship_%28ride%29 Pirate Ship theme park ride]].
* WhamShot: At the end of the duel between Sir Francis and the Red Rackham, Red Rackham's mask comes off showing that [[spoiler:his face is the same as Sakharine, revealing him as Rackham's descendant]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: When Tintin is escaping the hold, he pushes on a crate that roars like a lion, but then falls silent. What was in there?
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Averted with Tintin; after he escapes, Sakharine orders his men to kill Tintin even though he might have valuable information. But he insists that Haddock not be killed. It's only later we find out why.
* XRaySparks: Seen briefly when Haddock is hit by lightning.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Sakharine alludes to this trope while interrogating Tintin ("Consider just how useful you ''are'' to me") but the latter escapes before he can actually make good on the threat.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Sir Francis was forced to reveal the treasure's location in exchange for his crew's lives. Rackham had them killed anyway.
* ZillionDollarBill: Sir Francis' treasure.
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''The Adventures of Tintin'' is a 2011 animated/motion capture film by Creator/StevenSpielberg based on the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' comic series, animated in MotionCapture [[AllCGICartoon CGI]] by Creator/PeterJackson's [[Creator/{{WETA}} Weta Digital]].
Tintin (Creator/JamieBell) is taken onboard a ship, the ''Karaboudjan'' by Sakharine (Creator/DanielCraig), who believes he holds one of the scrolls leading to the lost treasure of the ''Unicorn'', hidden away in three identical replicas of the ship. With the help of the ''Karaboudjan'''s Captain Haddock (Creator/AndySerkis), Tintin escapes the ship and begins his quest to find the three scrolls before Sakharine. The movie combines the plots of ''Recap/TintinTheSecretOfTheUnicorn'' and ''Recap/TintinTheCrabWithTheGoldenClaws''.
Not to be confused with the 1990s animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{The Adventures of Tintin|1991}}''.
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!!''The Adventures of Tintin'' provides examples of:
* AccidentalPun: In the tie-in videogame. Some of the bosses are literally giant flying heads. The Finnish term for a boss fight is "Päävastus", which literally translates into "head opponent".
* AdaptedOut: In the original comic, the Bird brothers were the villains. Here, they're completely absent and the role of villain goes to Sakharine.
* AdaptationAmalgamation: While this film is set as an adaptation of the Secret of the Unicorn comic, the story borrows elements from ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'' as well. In particular, Tintin being kidnapped and imprisoned on the Kariboujan, the introduction of Captain Haddock, and their crashing of a seaplane and subsequent trek through the Sahara Desert together is all lifted from that story.
* AdaptationalBadass:
** In the video game adaptation of the film, Thomson and Thompson have an attack where they [[SpinToDeflectStuff spin their canes fast enough to deflect fireballs at enemies]].
** Captain Haddock, especially in comparison to his original appearance in ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'', where he causes more trouble than he solves. In this movie [[spoiler:he climbs out the seaplane in midflight and refuels it with his Alcohol-laden belch, takes part in the crazy motorcycle chase for the parchments, and fights the BigBad in a crane duel.]] In fact the climatic battle almost entirely belongs to Haddock, with Tintin's main contribution being [[spoiler:saving the parchments from being burnt at the last minute.]]
** Sakharine as well, originally little more than a background character. In the movie, he is a much more vicious fighter, complete with SwordCane.
* AdaptationalDumbass: Downplayed with Thomson and Thompson. While they aren't exactly the smartest or most competent characters in the comics, they were capable of catching and arresting both the Bird Brothers and Aristides Silk in ''The Secret of the Unicorn'' after a lot of hard work and embarrassing failures. Here, they're so vacuous that they end up entering Silk's house, yet somehow don't realize he’s the pickpocket despite noticing the ''shelves of wallets'' he has until they find the one belonging to Tintin. They also don't help much at all with catching Saccharine, only placing him under arrest after he's defeated by Tintin and Haddock.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Not that it was a point of any real suspense in the comics, but Haddock's first name (Archibald) was not known until the final completed story, ''Tintin and the Picaros''. In the film, Haddock introduces himself right away with his full name.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Barnaby. In the comic, he works for the villains and, while he turns on them, it's out of a petty grievance rather than remorse. In the film, he is an InterpolSpecialAgent who warns Tintin about the villain and is shot by goons working for him. Interestingly, this is a reversal of the comic, in which Sakharine is attacked by Barnaby, who wants the scroll in his ''Unicorn'' model (which Sakharine didn't know existed).
** Downplayed with [[spoiler:Omar Ben Salaad]], who's an innocent extra in this movie and a drug-smuggling boss in the comic. So he could still be a villain, just one who was the victim of another villain.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Ivan Sakharine is a much more malevolent character than he was in the comics, where he played little more than a bit part as the unlucky owner of the second Unicorn model, who Haddock even invites to his maritime gallery at the end of the ''Unicorn'' arc and apparently donated his model ship to him. Ironically, he was one of the only characters who Tintin accuses mistakenly of being a villain. Having no background whatsoever, he originally had no grudge against or even connection to [[spoiler:Captain Haddock]] (nor did the Bird Brothers, for what it's worth: generational vengeance is not exactly a feature of the Tintin comics). Interestingly and very surprisingly, the LicensedGame based on the movie actually uses the Bird brothers from the comic as the villains instead of Sakharine.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange:
** Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, in the comics, is annoying but harmless, and [[PetTheDog is implied to be nice enough to offer one of his ships to Captain Haddock's maritime gallery]]. In the movie, he is a vengeful and vindictive BigBad.
** Barnaby in the comics was a spy for the villains who turned informer, and they shot him to keep him from revealing their activities. The film adapts him into a well-meaning Interpol agent [[GoodAllAlong who tries to warn and help Tintin]], although Tintin doesn't realize this until after Barnaby is shot by Sakharine's henchmen.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Haddock's {{Unusual Euphemism}}s tend to grow into this when he's particularly excited or -- more often -- angry. This is something carried over from the comics.
-->'''Haddock:''' Billions of blistering blue barnacles!\\
Ten thousand thundering typhoons!
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Tintin, mixed with an IntrepidReporter.
* TheAlcoholic: Captain Haddock. PlayedForLaughs ''and'' PlayedForDrama!
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: The page image comes from the comic the movie is based on... and yes, that scene does make it into the movie. Along with multiple instances of this.
* AlcoholIsGasoline: Tintin and Captain Haddock are flying a sea plane through a thunderstorm, unfortunately they are almost out of fuel. In a last desperate gambit, Tintin suggests Haddock pour the medicinal spirits in the planes first aid kit into the fuel tank, hoping it will enable them to fly just a bit further and give them the opportunity to land. Unfortunately, [[TheAlcoholic Haddock]] had already drunk them. Inspired by Tintin's comment their running on fumes, he instead forces himself to belch into the tank, his breath already being established to be laced with booze. Sure enough it proves so potent it not just restarts the engine but causes it to catch fire.
* AnachronismStew: The date of the movie is somewhat difficult to determine; no matter what, the use of the term "third world" and references to INTERPOL are definitely out of place (see "ArtisticLicenseHistory") and the cars just complicate matters (see "TheThirties"), as do most of the guns.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: The film ends with [[spoiler:Tintin and Haddock discovering a clue to the location of the ''Unicorn'', where the rest of Rackham's treasue would be hidden]].
* AnimatedCreditsOpening: Similar to Spielberg's previous film ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'', with multiple references to the other Tintin books.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** At one point Bianca mentions this is her first time visiting the third world. The term "third world" originated during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar in the 1950s, while this film takes place in the 30s.
** Thompson and Thomson make a mention of both the FBI and INTERPOL. While the former existed as of 1935, most people would have referred to it by its old name, the Bureau of Investigations (BOI) out of habit; likewise, though the International Criminal Police Commission was created in 1923, it did not change its name to INTERPOL until 1956.
* AscendedExtra: Ivan Sakharine. In the comic, he is a rather minor, non-villainous character, a harmless ship model collector who mostly serves as a RedHerring. In the film, he is [[BigBad the main antagonist]] [[spoiler:and the descendant of Red Rackham]].
* AsideGlance: Snowy looks straight at the audience at least twice, and even winks! This might be a nod to the comics, where he could talk, but only the reader could "hear" him.
* BadassCape: Red Rackham has one that's ''[[IncendiaryExponent on fire]]'' in his first fight with Sir Francis Haddock. He weaponizes it by brandishing the burning cape in Haddock's face to disorient him.
* BadassLongcoat: See the poster above. Allan also has one.
* BeardOfEvil: Sakharine, with his pointy goatee. The artists apparently referenced Rasputin when working on his movie design, which makes sense -- his comic design was already pretty Rasputin-y. [[spoiler:The redesign helps him resemble Red Rackham a little more.]] His slicked-back, distinguished look vs. Haddock's unkempt look is very much a case of GoodHairEvilHair.
* BestialityIsDepraved: During the scene where Tintin tries to recover some keys from a sleeping man, Haddock explains about some of his former crewmen. One of them was a shepherd once, but he was kicked out because of his "animal husbandry".
%%* BigBad: Sakharine
* BilingualBonus: At one point, Sakharine is addressed by Castafiore as "Monsieur Shuggair Addeitiff", the French word for "additive". Saccharine is... wait for it... an additive used in place of... sugar.
** Haddock calls Sakharine a "sassenach", a Scottish Gaelic pejorative for an English person.
* BizarreBeverageUse:
** At one point, Sakharine's goons knock Captain Haddock out with a bottle of alcohol.
** When Captain Haddock [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunkenly lights a fire on a rowboat]], he then tries to put it out with whisky, but [[IgnorantAboutFire that just blows it up]].
* BloodlessCarnage: The Pirate flashback is chockful of sword and gun killings, all without a single red stain, save for the sword wound Rackham receives -- and even ''then'' it's not really bleeding much. Averted with Barnaby's death.
* BloodStainedLetter: A dying man highlights letters on a newspaper using his bloody fingerprints to spell out the name of the ''Karaboudjan''.
* BoisterousBruiser: Captain Haddock
* BraveScot: Unlike previous adaptations of ''Tintin'', Andy Serkis chooses to give Captain Haddock a Scottish accent.
* CaptainObvious: During a conversation with Haddock when Tintin first met him.
-->'''Tintin:''' You're the captain?\\
'''Haddock:''' Of course I'm the captain. Who else could I be?
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Mentioned in this exchange when Tintin and Haddock first meet, when the drunken captain mistakes the young man for an assassin:
-->'''Haddock:''' So you thought you could sneak in behind me and catch me with my trousers down, eh?!\\
'''Tintin:''' I'd rather you kept your trousers on, if it's all the same to you.
* CharacterExaggeration: The movie tends to exaggerate the traits of some characters and the ''Tintin'' comics in general, which tend to be more low-key than the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' series (which the movie was commonly compared to).
* ChaseScene: One of the more spectacular ones in recent memory.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Shortly after the two meet, Tintin is taken aback by Captain Haddock's horrible breath. Later on, [[spoiler:after Snowy and Haddock consume a bottle of medicinal alcohol that Tintin wanted to use as fuel substitute for their crashing plane, this comes in handy as Haddock's breath alone contains enough alcohol to kick the plane into overdrive.]]
** As Castafiore takes center stage, there is a conspicuous number of glass objects in nearly every cut. These are all then [[spoiler:broken by Castafiore's [[GlassShatteringSound impressive voice]], including the bullet-proof glass cabinet containing the model of The Unicorn]].
* ChekhovsSkill:
** A minor, yet hilarious one. Early on, Haddock's breath is established to smell strongly of whiskey. When Tintin and Haddock are flying towards Bagghar in a seaplane [[spoiler:with almost no fuel, Haddock drinks a whole bottle of medicinal alcohol and ''belches'' into the plane's fuel tank to give it an extra boost.]]
** Snowy's knack for finding holes in brick walls [[spoiler:leads Tintin and Haddock to the bricked up portion of the cellar where they find Sir Francis' treasure.]]
* CirclingBirdies: Diegetic birdies, no less! They escaped from a cage.
* CompositeCharacter:
** The film version of Sakharine is a combination of several characters from the comic. He has the appearance and some of the scenes of Sakharine in the comic, but his ownership of Marlinspike and his AdaptationalVillainy are inherited from the absent Bird brothers and his employment of Allan is a trait from the comic's Omar Ben Salaad. The part about [[spoiler:him being Red Rackham's descendant]] seems to be from a humorous scene from ''Red Rackham's Treasure'' involving several people who claim to be [[spoiler:descended from Rackham]].
** Barnaby is a composite of Barnaby from ''Secret of the Unicorn'' and Dawes from ''The Crab With the Golden Claws''. He even combines their names.
* CoolBoat: The ''Unicorn''. "Finest ship that ever sailed the seven seas!"
* CouldntFindAPen: Barnaby is gunned down by the bad guys and highlights letters on a newspaper with [[BloodStainedLetter his own blood.]] Tintin reads the highlighted letters, which spell out "''Karaboudjan''". Not that he has any time or need to figure out what it meant; as he's then immediately kidnapped and sent to a ship which is named that.
* CreatorCameo:
** A particularly heartwarming one at that. The late Creator/{{Herge}} appears at the beginning of the film as a caricaturist who Tintin pays to draw his likeness, while drawing him [[HaveWeMet Hergé comments that Tintin looks familiar]] and then reveals his finished work: a portrait of the [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} comic book version of Tintin]].
** One of the pirates in Red Rackham's ship looks similar to Hergé as well.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Captain Haddock seems to often cause more trouble for Tintin than he solves, but it's obvious he can more than handle himself in any given situation. As an example, late in the film Haddock is attacked by three soldiers, and he flails around angrily a bit, leading us to expect slapstick takedowns or just [[EpicFail failure]]. Next we see him he throws three punches and knocks them all out.
* DeathByAdaptation: Barnaby Dawes, unlike the comic, doesn't recover from his bullet injuries.
* DefiantToTheEnd: In an attempt to get Tintin to give up, Sakharine ties Haddock and Snowy to some weights and [[SadisticChoice threatens to drop them into the ocean unless Tintin backs down.]] In addition to insisting that Tintin not do it, Haddock never stops insulting Sakharine to his face the whole time, even though he's at his mercy. When Sakharine finally drops him to make his point, he even makes sure he gets one last shot in before he hits the water.
-->'''Haddock :''' You two-timing troglodyte! You simpering son of a pug-faced profiteer! (''Sakharine drops him'') ''Fathead!''
* DemotedToExtra: With Ivan Sakharine's [[AscendedExtra ascendancy to the role of]] BigBad, Omar Ben Salaad -- a drug-running strongman from ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'' -- is reduced to a mere plot-advancer, as proprietor of the third ''Unicorn'' model.
* {{Determinator}}:
** Tintin, in spades. This causes a sort of chain -- by leading him on this amazing adventure and never giving up, Tintin inspires Haddock to stop drowning his sorrows and become a determinator as well, and so Haddock in turn re-inspires Tintin to take up the fight again when everything looks bleakest.
** Notably, Haddock becomes a determinator almost immediately after getting his memory of Francis Haddock's tale back.
** Francis is clearly a determinator of his own, willing to ''blow up his own ship'' to stop Rackham, and Haddock is [[GenerationXerox just like his ancestor.]]
* DiabolicalMastermind: Sakharine
* DirectorTrademark:
** Spielberg's favorite shot to use, the reflection shot, shows up conspicuously often in the movie, in a razor, in glasses, in a water bubble...
** Another one of Spielberg's trademarks are beams of light, notably when Tintin is searching Marlinspike Hall and the flashlight beams of the crew of the ''Karaboudjan''.
** Writer Trademark as well -- Edgar Wright wanted to use a gag in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' where Scott holds up a drawing of Ramona from the comics, but this only made it into the promotional materials for the film. He finally gets to use it here.
* TheDragon: Allan to Sakharine.
%%* DramaticThunder
* DrunkenMaster: Captain Haddock recalls what his grandfather told him after going back to drinking.
* DyingCurse: [[spoiler:Red Rackham curses Sir Francis Haddock as he sinks with the blown-up ''Unicorn'' declaring, "{{We will meet again}}, Haddock! In another time! In another ''life''!"]]
* EpicTrackingShot: The above-mentioned chase sequence. Sure it's done in CGI, but seriously, ''wow.''
* EurekaMoment: When Tintin thinks the bad guys have won, Captain Haddock gives him an inspirational speech about never giving up, and a chance phrase gives Tintin an idea about how to regain the upper hand.
* EvilFormerFriend: Haddock's crew betrayed him to Sakharine, who offered them a large amount of money.
* FamedInStory: As demonstrated in the opening scene in the market, Tintin is apparently well known enough from his previous exploits that average people can recognize him by sight.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath:
** Barnaby Dawes is gunned down by Sakharine's goons, which is brutal enough for a PG-rated film, but he even uses his blood stains to spell out a message that becomes a major plot point.
** There's also Captain Francis stabbing, shooting and slicing up dozens of pirates, albeit bloodlessly.
** Red Rackham coldly executes the Francis' crew after promising to spare them, by dropping them into the water while tied up, where they are implied to be eaten by sharks.
* FatherToHisMen: Implied with Sir Francis Haddock. He is completely unflinching in the face of Red Rackham's threat to kill him unless he gives up his secret cargo, but gives in once Rackham threatens to kill his men in his stead. When Rackham goes back on his deal and kills the men anyway, Haddock is aghast.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Sakharine
* {{Flynning}}:
** Sir Francis Haddock's duel with Red Rakham. {{Justified}} since Rakham is more interested in putting out Haddock's PowderTrail, and Haddock is therefore more focused on preventing him from doing that.
** In the climax, Captain Haddock and [[spoiler:Sakharine]] do this [[spoiler:''[[ExaggeratedTrope with cranes]]'']].
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** "When you hit a wall, you push through it."
** [[spoiler: Notice what color Sakharine wears throughout the entire movie. And his character design just screams Rasputin, with a very [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Alternate Universe Spock-esque]] beard.]]
** see There Are No Coincidences
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Sakharine, again.
* FourthWallPortrait: Inverted. Tintin's portrait in the beginning of the film resembles his original cartoon design while he himself has an extremely realistic one.
* FriendsRentControl: Tintin owns a surprisingly upscale apartment for someone who works as a reporter. Then again, considering the recognition he gets (mentioned above) just when he goes out shopping, it's entirely possible that he's had several previous adventures that have made him rather high-profile, with corresponding pay.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
** Snowy, often; particularly in the desert, when he appears in the background with a giant bone from ''nowhere''.
** Right after Thomson and Thompson pull the pickpocket out from the CirclingBirdies moment, the old lady whom the pickpocket crashed into strikes a man with her cane whom she seems to think was groping her.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Haddock and Sakharine with their ancestors.]]
* GlassShatteringSound: Castafiore's voice. At first, Tintin doesn't know what Haddock and Snowy are complaining about. Then she hits a really high note and shatters not only everyone but Sakharine's glasses but also [[spoiler:the bulletproof case holding the third model ship.]] Oh, and the chandeliers, and the crystal ware, and the shiek's glasses too.
* GravityIsAHarshSeamstress: During the motorcycle scene, Captain Haddock collides with a clothesline and spends the rest of the chase wearing a pink dress.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Done for a RuleOfThree.
* HadTheSillyThingInReverse: Captain Haddock takes aim at the villain with a bazooka ... and promptly takes out the dam behind them. Attentive viewers could see this coming, as the scope was shown to be on the outside when he was taking aim. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Snowy can be seen trying to warn Haddock of this]].
* HamToHamCombat: Haddock and Sakharine. You can practially smell the bacon frying. [[spoiler:Same goes for their ancestors.]]
* HeroicDog: Snowy
* HostageForMacGuffin: Both Sakharine [[spoiler:and his ancestor]] seem fond of this trope.
** In the video game, it's Allan who forces Tintin to hand over the scrolls in exchange for Haddock's life.
* IdenticalGrandson: As in the comic, Haddock looks and acts exactly like his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock. In addition, [[spoiler:Red Rackham]] is given an Identical Descendant in the form of [[spoiler:Sakharine]] and one of Sir Francis's crew members looks exactly like Nestor, which probably isn't a coincidence. Unlike the comic, the film makes an attempt to justify this by bringing up the possibility of the characters being the literal ''reincarnations'' of their ancestors.
* IgnorantAboutFire: When Tintin and Haddock are in a rowboat, the latter lights a fire, but because [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy he is drunk and not thinking clearly]], he sets the boat's floor itself on fire. Tintin tells him to put the fire out, but he uses whisky, which just makes it explode.
* IKnowMortalKombat: Upon entering and making use of a plane:
--> '''Haddock:''' You know what you're doing, eh?\\
'''Tintin:''' Relax, I interviewed a pilot once!
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Tintin. He hits the lever on a searchlight while running and later brings down a plane with a single pistol shot.
-->'''Tintin:''' Bad news, Captain -- we've only got ONE bullet.\\
'''Haddock:''' So, what's the good news?\\
'''Tintin:''' (''[[DramaticGunCock cocks pistol]]'') [[BadassBoast We've got one bullet.]]
* InkSuitActor: It's not confirmed, but a couple of reviewers have commented that [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gJr-xhqiDHk/T3l0oR0AH1I/AAAAAAAAB4c/tnOdYIWkeXQ/s1600/tumblr_m1rcvgJkLe1r4h2oko1_500.jpg Sakharine looks uncannily]] [[http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/5926824_f520-291x300.jpg like Steven Spielberg himself]]. At least one critic thinks he made himself the villain because people will naturally blame him for any changes to the comic. In truth, he looks more like Daniel Craig with glasses and a long beard.
* InterestingSituationDuel:
** Sir Francis Haddock and Red Rackham have a SwordFight while trying to light/extinguish a PowderTrail.
** At the climax of the movie, Captain Haddock and Sakharine duel with ''docking cranes!''
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Tintin, who is a young adult, and Captain Haddock, a man at least in his late thirties to forties.
* ItMakesSenseInContext: In-universe. Haddock tells Tintin that one of the crewmen of the ''Karaboudjan'' has no eyelids. He semi-explains that a card game was involved before telling Tintin that he "had to be there".
* LargeHam:
** Andy Serkis as Haddock.
** [[EvilIsHammy Sakharine]] is also worth of mention.
* LastOfHisKind: Captain Archibald Haddock is the last of the Haddocks, as all other bloodlines have failed. Lampshaded by Archibald Haddock himself of all people.
* {{Leitmotif}}: All of the major characters have distinctive themes associated with them -- Tintin, Snowy, Cpt. Haddock, Sir Francis and the ''Unicorn'', Red Rackham, even Thomson and Thompson. The most prominent by far is the ''Unicorn'' theme, which recurs many times -- being soft and ominous whenever the mystery is hinted at and surging to the fore with a full orchestra when a major breakthrough happens.
* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: Tintin's escape from one room on the ''Karaboudjan''.
* MacGuffinMelee: The ChaseScene has the scrolls, all three of them, pass between Tintin, Haddock, Sakharine, Snowy and Sakharine's hawk several times before it's all over.
* MadeOfIron: Tintin, Haddock and even Snowy. They come out unscathed from fistfights, crashes and falls that would have severely injured or killed almost everyone else.
* MatchCut: Boatloads of them, especially involving boats and ships.
** When Haddock is hallucinating in the desert, the Unicorn comes sailing across the sand dunes, which transform beautifully into a stormy sea, cutting to the sea battle.
** The vast sea on which Captain Haddock is rowing turns into a little puddle, cutting to Monsieur Silk.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler:The {{Reincarnation}} angle behind Haddock and Sakharine's rivalry. Haddock appears to have some extremely vivid visions of the battle on the Unicorn and Red Rakham's death, implying that he's "remembering" his past life. In his final moments, Rakham also curses Sir Francis so they will continue their fight in "another time" and "another life". On the other hand, Haddock could just be figuring things out and the flashbacks are a visualization of his realization through what he knows about the story of the Unicorn. Things are further muddied by Haddock's flashbacks showing Sir Francis's first mate look ''[[{{Foreshadowing}} exactly]]'' like Nestor, who is later revealed to be a secret ally to the Haddock family.]]
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Often. This is especially evident during the Bagghar chase, where sharp-eyed viewers might notice that several seemingly innocous elements are briefly visible in the background before suddenly becoming important -- like the tank that crashes into the hotel.
* MeaningfulEcho: "You hit a wall, you push through it."
* MillionToOneChance: When Tintin shoots down a plane with one bullet.
* MistakenForInsane: In "Tintin in Tibet", when Snowy runs wild, the monks think he must be insane.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Red Rackham walking down to meet Sir Francis Haddock when the ''Unicorn'' is burning.
* MythologyGag: Lots of {{Continuity Nod}}s to the comics in the animated credits sequence, on newspaper clippings in Tintin's apartment and in Omar Ben Salaad's palace and elsewhere:
** Hergé has already drawn the Bird Brothers (original villains in ''Secret'') and Professor Alembick (one of Tintin's traveling partners in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'') at his cartoon booth in the market.
** ''Tintin in the Congo'': A shield on the marketplace where Tintin buys the ''Unicorn'' and his outfit in Bagghar.
** ''Tintin in America'': The newspaper clipping about him rounding up a gang. Sakharine's SwordCane resembles that used by the unnamed [[BaldOfEvil bald villain]] in this album as well.
** ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'': A newspaper clipping in his apartment.
** ''The Blue Lotus'': A newspaper clipping in his apartment, as well as a vase similar to the one Tintin hid in at one point in the album.
** ''The Broken Ear'': A bigger version of the statue is in Omar Ben Salaad's palace. The statue also hits someone's head in the opening credits.
** ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'': A newspaper clipping in his apartment, and a sign outside a building with Syldavia's Coat of Arms.
*** The purple dress Castafiore wears to perform in, as well as the composition of the shot where Castafiore is singing for Ben Salaad and his guests, comes straight from the scene in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' where she performs for the Syldavian court.
** ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'': A statue of a crab with Golden Claws in a fountain in Omar Ben Salaad's palace and a crate of cans show up in the harbour, which Snowy uses to trip up some goons. The entire movie sequence between Tintin's kidnapping and his arrival in Bagghar (minus captain Haddock's dream about his ancestor) is directly taken from ''The Crab with the Golden Claws''. Ben Salaad himself was, of course the original villain (and therefore Allan's boss).
** ''The Seven Crystal Balls'': The opening credits are about Tintin chasing a guy with a crystal ball. The Siamese cat that appears to belong to one of Tintin's neighbors is also lifted from the one that takes up residence in Marlinspike Hall (and proceeds to fight with Snowy) in this comic.
** ''Destination Moon'' / ''Explorers on the Moon'': The rocket is shown in the credits sequence and the anti-gravity sequence with the alcohol occurs in the film itself, transferred to a free-falling airplane.
** ''The Land of Black Gold'': The red Jeep that Sakharine and his goons were riding in during that chase scene.
** ''The Castafiore Emerald'': A poster for Bianca Castafiore's concert has an emerald placed near her name. The red dress Castafiore wears on the cover appears in her first scene in the movie.
** A train switchboard displayed in the opening credits lists several of the places Tintin visited in the comics.
** The newspaper on which Barnaby scrawls in blood is ''Le Petit Vingtième'', the same paper in which Tintin began as a strip cartoon.
** There is a sign marking the cattle that Snowy must jump through as belonging to Cutts the Butcher -- whose calls are mistakenly and incessantly directed to Marlinspike Hall in the comics.
** Sakharine's plan to use Castafiore's voice to shatter the bulletproof glass may be an oblique reference to the ultrasonic weapon from ''The Calculus Affair''.
** And his use of a trained bird may be an oblique reference to ''The Castafiore Emerald''. The gypsies were accused of using a trained monkey, and Tintin pointed out how improbable this was, but the thief ''did'' turn out to be a bird.
** During the final credits, one of the first songs used in the film is titled ''Loch Lomond'', another of the Captain's favorite whiskeys.
** In the opening credits sequence, there's a brief shot of Tintin and Snowy running in front of a spotlight, clearly a nod to the Nelvana animated adaptation.
** The villain running with the crystal ball in the opening sequence sort of resembles recurring villain Rastapopoulos.
** The scene with Castafiore features an audience with members whom resemble characters from the original books, including Shiek Bab El Ehr and Piotr Skut.
** There are several gallons of paint and other materials on the infamous step in Marlinspike Hall that never seemed to get fixed in ''The Castafiore Emerald''.
** The ancient statue/secret door in ''Flight 714'' also appears in the opening credits.
** In the scene where Hergé is drawing Tintin at the beginning of the movie, there are drawings of characters from the comic series. One of them is Didi, Mr. Wang's son from ''The Blue Lotus''.
** Haddock being caught in the plane's propeller and ejected with his clothes shredded mirrors a scene in the comic ''Red Rackham's Treasure'' where this happens to him with one of Prof. Calculus' devices.
** In Omar Ben Salaad's palace, there is an abstract sculpture identical to one found in Tapiocopolis in ''Tintin and the Picaros''.
* TheNameIsBondJamesBond
--->"Haddock. Archibald Haddock."
* NewspaperThinDisguise: Thompson and Thomson are seen holding a stakeout at a Belgian marketplace with a set of eyeholes for each of the twins.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** At the start of the movie, Tintin just wanted the model ship because it was a rare find and a nice piece of history. Sakharine, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood unable to believe that Tintin isn't another treasure hunter,]] repeatedly schemes to steal it in increasingly criminal ways that [[{{Determinator}} only inflame Tintin's curiosity.]] And even then, when Tintin hits a dead end and can't figure out what "Karaboudjan" refers to, he sends goons to promptly kidnap him and take him straight to the ship with that name.
** When Tintin and Haddock are stranded out in the middle of the ocean with no food or water, Sakharine sends in a plane to kill Tintin and bring Haddock back. Tintin and Haddock promptly hijack the plane and use it to get out of the mess alive.
* NoodleIncident: Haddock remarks that one of his crewmen lost his eyelids during a rather memorable card game.
* OhNoNotAgain: Tintin's landlady, Mrs. Finch, has this reaction to finding out that a man has been gunned down on their doorstep.
* OldRetainer: The film's version of Nestor appears to be this to the Haddocks.
* TheOner: [[spoiler:The Bagghar chase sequence]].
* OnlyAModel: The model of the ''Unicorn''.
* PaletteSwap: In the co-op missions for the video game based on the film, Tintin and Haddock are a team, as are Thomson and Thompson. Snowy, instead of being excluded, teams up with a black-furred version of himself [[NonIndicativeName who is still named Snowy.]]
* LeParkour: Tintin tends to slide around a lot more than in the comics.
* PowderTrail: Sir Francis Haddock sets it off, Red Rackham snuffs it out, repeat, repeat...
* PragmaticAdaptation: In the original comics, Red Rackham's treasure is just the contents of a small chest. Today, that does not look impressive at all and certainly not enough to set Capt. Haddock for life with a large estate to keep up as well. So in the film, the treasure in the ''Unicorn'' takes up nearly ''the entire hold'' of the ship and was probably doubling as its ballast while it was there. The choice was almost certainly made for the sake of visual impressiveness, rather than to match the inflation -- even a small handful of 18th century gold coins in mint condition would be worth millions of dollars. The contents of the hold would make Captain Haddock the richest man in the world, even matching the loss of rarity value for the said coins!
* PrecisionFStrike: Tintin says that Sir Francis would be "damned" if he let Red Rackam have the treasure.
* {{Qurac}}: The Sultanate of Bagghar.
* RageBreakingPoint: Tintin calling Haddock's ship a "drunken tub" angered him enough to take his first real action against his mutinous crew and knock one of them out.
* RagnarokProofing: Sir Francis Haddock's ''parchment slips''. Those little centuries-old bits of paper go through a ton of abuse during the chase scene, going as far as ''bearing the full weight of Snowy'' as he tries to wrestle them away from Sakharine's hawk in midair. It's a wonder those things were still in one piece, let alone ''readable''.
* RedOniBlueOni: Haddock and Sakharine. Almost ColorCodedCharacters but it's reversed. Haddock who always wears blue is wild and prone to anger while the cool and collected Sakharine is [[spoiler:descended from ''Red'' Rackham]].
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Sakharine is the descendant of Rackham.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Sakharine doesn't just want the gold, but to avenge his ancestor by killing Haddock in a duel.]]
* SandIsWater: Invoked in one scene where Tintin and Captain Haddock are in a desert when Haddock tells Tintin about his ancestor as he looks out over the sand dunes. Cue a virtually seamless transition between the dunes and a ship sailing on the ocean waves.
* ScareTheDog: Snowy barks a Rottweiler twice his size into submission.
* SeadogBeard: [[{{Catchphrase}} Thundering typhoons!]] Do you think we could have a proper Tintin movie if Captain Archibald Haddock didn't have one of these?
* SelfPlagiarism:
** There is an action sequence with Tintin driving a motorcycle with Haddock in the sidecar, a probable reference to ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' (which was partially shot on sets designed for a live-action ''Tintin'' movie).
** Tintin's hair parts the water like the fin of a certain great white monster... Speaking of ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', Bruce the shark appears hanging from the crew's quarters.
** Captain Haddock yells "Geronimo" before leaping into action, a catchphrase of [[Series/DoctorWho the Eleventh Doctor]] (Creator/StevenMoffat was one of the writers).
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Tintin finding the coordinates for the rest of Rackham's treasure.]]
* SerkisFolk: Arguably the best-looking example yet. It even has Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock.
* SexForServices: It is implied that Sakharine slept with Bianca Castafiore: "Allow me to introduce my ''escort'': Monsiuer Shuggair Addeitiff. He's been very [beat] ''passionate'' in his support of this concert." The brief but distinctly uncomfortable look on Sakharine's face as she says it reveals even more....
* ShoutOut: Captain Haddock's reaction to seeing Snowy is a reference to Franchise/SherlockHolmes: "the giant rat of Sumatra" was mentioned as one of the many cases Watson never actually wrote up. This also doubles as a reference to one of Peter Jackson's earliest films, ''Film/BrainDead''.
* SignatureMove: Red Rackham had a distinctive taunt-like swishing movement of his sword that he performed whenever he won a bout and/or was waiting for his opponent to get back on their feet. He does it several times in the flashbacks to his battles with Francis Haddock, and [[spoiler:in the final battle, Sakharine shows that he inherited it.]]
* SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler:Sakharine has a score to settle with Haddock that began with their ancestors]].
* SleepsWithBothEyesOpen: A bad guy sleeps with his eyes open, not out of training, but because he lost his eyelids. [[NoodleIncident In a card game]].
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Like its source material, the film exemplifies this trope. It has only a handful of female characters, and only two of them (Tintin's landlady Mrs. Finch and opera singer Bianca Castafiore) have names, dialogue, or any importance to the plot.
* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: Demonstrated as the seaplane from the ''Karaboudjan'' finds Tintin and the captain adrift in the lifeboat.
* StealthPun: The official artbook has a concept painting of the inside of the ''Karaboudjan'' where a mermaid masthead from another ship has been tied to one of the support beams. There have been [[VisualPun lamps installed on her breasts]]... [[DontExplainTheJoke so, she has nice headlights]].
* StickyFingers: Aristide Silk, the pickpocket, has an unusual obsession with wallets; he has a whole room full of the wallets he stole. Thompson and Thomson barely get the hint and he had to shout out that he is a thief.
* StubbornHair: Tintin opens the movie attempting to pat down his signature hair spike in the front, only for it to stand up again.
* SwordCane: Sakharine has one, which he threatens Tintin with on board the ''Karaboudjan''.
* SwordFight: Both Red Rackham and Sir Francis, and [[spoiler:their two descendants]].
* TakeNoPrisoners: Red Rackham sails under a blood red pennant, which -- as Haddock notes in his storytelling -- meant a fight with him is a fight to the death, no prisoners taken and no quarter given. Later, Rackham pretends to be willing to show mercy to the crew if Haddock gives up his hidden cargo, then [[YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo has them all killed anyway.]]
* TallTale: Haddock's story of the taking of the ''Unicorn''.
* TapOnTheHead: Happens so frequently, including in the opening credits, that you start to wonder why a few characters don't have brain damage already.
* TelevisionGeography: The film is set in a country which has the pound as its currency and a historical King Charles II, but several shops have French signs and cars drive on the right side of the road. (This is carried over from the English translation of the comic, which was originally set in Belgium and used francs and Louis XIV.) Other dubs of the movie revert these to francs and Louis XIV too.
* ThereAreNoCoincidences: "Do you think it was an accident I took Haddock's ship, Haddock's crew, Haddock's treacherous first mate? Nothing is an accident."
* TheThirties: The style of the cars, clothes, planes, etc. Also a newspaper clipping mentioning the events of ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' gives the explicit date of 1938. Also, the bad guys' weapons are of evidently [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German]] origin. Interestingly enough, the official artbook tags the movie's date as [[TheForties 1949]], but the [[AnachronismStew models of some of the cars]] go as late as [[TheFifties 1953]]. The film's art director notes this was done because there were no new cars made during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, let alone cool ones. The tanks in Bagghar are of a definitely post-[=WW2=] design.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Thomson and Thompson.
* TitleDrop: Done preemptively when Tintin mentions ''Red Rackham's treasure'' at the end.
* TomTheDarkLord: You wouldn't take a man named "Sakharine" seriously... until you saw him, at least. Lampshaded by Hadock calling him "The sour faced man with the sugary name."
* UnreliableExpositor: At one point Haddock inserts his own alcoholism into the story of the ''Unicorn'' until Tintin gets him to focus.
* VisualGag: Quite a few as the source material is also big on them.
** Early in the movie, the Thom(p)sons are peering out of holes they cut into a newspaper: Each one has cut his holes in an ad on the paper that feature an item that not only lines up with where their noses mustaches would be, but matches the shape of said individual moustache (A broom for Thompson and a toilet plunger for Thomson).
** During Haddock's TallTale of the taking of the ''Unicorn'', Red Rackham's much smaller ship gets caught in the ''Unicorn''[='s=] rigging, swinging back and forth like a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_ship_%28ride%29 Pirate Ship theme park ride]].
* WhamShot: At the end of the duel between Sir Francis and the Red Rackham, Red Rackham's mask comes off showing that [[spoiler:his face is the same as Sakharine, revealing him as Rackham's descendant]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: When Tintin is escaping the hold, he pushes on a crate that roars like a lion, but then falls silent. What was in there?
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Averted with Tintin; after he escapes, Sakharine orders his men to kill Tintin even though he might have valuable information. But he insists that Haddock not be killed. It's only later we find out why.
* XRaySparks: Seen briefly when Haddock is hit by lightning.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Sakharine alludes to this trope while interrogating Tintin ("Consider just how useful you ''are'' to me") but the latter escapes before he can actually make good on the threat.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Sir Francis was forced to reveal the treasure's location in exchange for his crew's lives. Rackham had them killed anyway.
* ZillionDollarBill: Sir Francis' treasure.
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* AdaptationAmalgamation: While this film is set as an adaptation of the Secret of the Unicorn comic, the story borrows elements from ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'' as well. In particular, Tintin being kidnapped and imprisoned on the Kariboujan, the introduction of Captain Haddock, and their crashing of a seaplane and subsequent trek through the Sahara Desert together is all lifted from that story.
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* AdaptationalDumbass: Downplayed with Thomson and Thompson. While they aren't exactly the smartest or most competent characters in the comics, they were capable of catching and arresting both the Bird Brothers and Aristides Silk in ''The Secret of the Unicorn'' after a lot of hard work and embarrassing failures. Here, they're so vacuous that they end up entering Silk's house, yet somehow don't realize he’s the pickpocket despite noticing the ''shelves of wallets'' he has until they find the one belonging to Tintin. They also don't help much at all with catching Saccharine, only placing him under arrest after he's defeated by Tintin and Haddock.
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* MistakenForInsane: In "Tintin in Tibet", when Snowy runs wild, the monks think he must be insane.
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** Barnaby. In the comic, he works for the villains and, while he turns on them, it's out of a petty grievance rather than remorse. In the film, he is an InterpolSpecialAgent who is shot by goons working for Sakharine. Interestingly, this is a reversal of the comic, in which Sakharine is attacked by Barnaby, who wants the scroll in his ''Unicorn'' model (which Sakharine didn't know existed).
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** Barnaby. In the comic, he works for the villains and, while he turns on them, it's out of a petty grievance rather than remorse. In the film, he is an InterpolSpecialAgent who warns Tintin about the villain and is shot by goons working for Sakharine.him. Interestingly, this is a reversal of the comic, in which Sakharine is attacked by Barnaby, who wants the scroll in his ''Unicorn'' model (which Sakharine didn't know existed).
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** [[spoiler:Omar Ben Salaad]], who's an innocent extra in this movie and a drug-smuggling boss in the comic. So he could still be a villain, just one who was the victim of another villain.
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* RageBreakingPoint: Tintin calling Haddock's ship a "drunken tub" angered him enough to take his first real action against his mutinous crew and knock one of them out.
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* BizarreBeverageUse:
** At one point, Sakharine's goons knock Captain Haddock out with a bottle of alcohol.
** When Captain Haddock [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunkenly lights a fire on a rowboat]], he then tries to put it out with whisky, but [[IgnorantAboutFire that just blows it up]].
** At one point, Sakharine's goons knock Captain Haddock out with a bottle of alcohol.
** When Captain Haddock [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunkenly lights a fire on a rowboat]], he then tries to put it out with whisky, but [[IgnorantAboutFire that just blows it up]].
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* LastOfHisKind: Captain Archibald Haddock is the last of the Haddocks, as all other bloodlines have failed. Lampshaded by Archibald Haddock himself of all people.
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* IgnorantAboutFire: When Tintin and Haddock are in a rowboat, the latter lights a fire, but because [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy he is drunk and not thinking clearly]], he sets the boat's floor itself on fire. Tintin tells him to put the fire out, but he uses whisky, which just makes it explode.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Ivan Sakharine is a much more malevolent character than he was in the comics, where he played little more than a bit part as the unlucky owner of the second Unicorn model. Ironically, he was one of the only characters who Tintin accuses mistakenly of being a villain. Having no background whatsoever, he originally had no grudge against or even connection to [[spoiler:Captain Haddock]] (nor did the Bird Brothers, for what it's worth: generational vengeance is not exactly a feature of the Tintin comics). Interestingly and very surprisingly, the LicensedGame based on the movie actually uses the Bird brothers from the comic as the villains instead of Sakharine.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Ivan Sakharine is a much more malevolent character than he was in the comics, where he played little more than a bit part as the unlucky owner of the second Unicorn model.model, who Haddock even invites to his maritime gallery at the end of the ''Unicorn'' arc and apparently donated his model ship to him. Ironically, he was one of the only characters who Tintin accuses mistakenly of being a villain. Having no background whatsoever, he originally had no grudge against or even connection to [[spoiler:Captain Haddock]] (nor did the Bird Brothers, for what it's worth: generational vengeance is not exactly a feature of the Tintin comics). Interestingly and very surprisingly, the LicensedGame based on the movie actually uses the Bird brothers from the comic as the villains instead of Sakharine.
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* CouldntFindAPen: Barnaby is gunned down by the bad guys and highlights letters on a newspaper with [[BloodStainedLetter his own blood.]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence Rated PG, everyone!]]
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* CouldntFindAPen: Barnaby is gunned down by the bad guys and highlights letters on a newspaper with [[BloodStainedLetter his own blood.]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence Rated PG, everyone!]]Tintin reads the highlighted letters, which spell out "''Karaboudjan''". Not that he has any time or need to figure out what it meant; as he's then immediately kidnapped and sent to a ship which is named that.
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* SelfPlagiarism:
** There is an action sequence with Tintin driving a motorcycle with Haddock in the sidecar, a probable reference to ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' (which was partially shot on sets designed for a live-action ''Tintin'' movie).
** Tintin's hair parts the water like the fin of a certain great white monster... Speaking of ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', Bruce the shark appears hanging from the crew's quarters.
** Captain Haddock yells "Geronimo" before leaping into action, a catchphrase of [[Series/DoctorWho the Eleventh Doctor]] (Creator/StevenMoffat was one of the writers).
** There is an action sequence with Tintin driving a motorcycle with Haddock in the sidecar, a probable reference to ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' (which was partially shot on sets designed for a live-action ''Tintin'' movie).
** Tintin's hair parts the water like the fin of a certain great white monster... Speaking of ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', Bruce the shark appears hanging from the crew's quarters.
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* ShoutOut:
** There is an action sequence with Tintin driving a motorcycle with Haddock in the sidecar, a probable reference to ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' (which was partially shot on sets designed for a live-action ''Tintin'' movie).
** Captain Haddock's reaction to seeing Snowy is a reference to Franchise/SherlockHolmes: "the giant rat of Sumatra" was mentioned as one of the many cases Watson never actually wrote up. This also doubles as a reference to one of Peter Jackson's earliest films, ''Film/BrainDead''.
** Tintin's hair parts the water like the fin of a certain great white monster... Speaking of ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', Bruce the shark appears hanging from the crew's quarters.
** There is an action sequence with Tintin driving a motorcycle with Haddock in the sidecar, a probable reference to ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' (which was partially shot on sets designed for a live-action ''Tintin'' movie).
** Captain Haddock's reaction to seeing Snowy is a reference to Franchise/SherlockHolmes: "the giant rat of Sumatra" was mentioned as one of the many cases Watson never actually wrote up. This also doubles as a reference to one of Peter Jackson's earliest films, ''Film/BrainDead''.
** Tintin's hair parts the water like the fin of a certain great white monster... Speaking of ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', Bruce the shark appears hanging from the crew's quarters.
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** There is an action sequence with Tintin driving a motorcycle with Haddock in the sidecar, a probable reference to ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' (which was partially shot on sets designed for a live-action ''Tintin'' movie).
**ShoutOut: Captain Haddock's reaction to seeing Snowy is a reference to Franchise/SherlockHolmes: "the giant rat of Sumatra" was mentioned as one of the many cases Watson never actually wrote up. This also doubles as a reference to one of Peter Jackson's earliest films, ''Film/BrainDead''.
** Tintin's hair parts the water like the fin of a certain great white monster... Speaking of ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', Bruce the shark appears hanging from the crew's quarters.''Film/BrainDead''.
** There is an action sequence with Tintin driving a motorcycle with Haddock in the sidecar, a probable reference to ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' (which was partially shot on sets designed for a live-action ''Tintin'' movie).
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* AlcoholIsGasoline: Tintin and Captain Haddock are flying a sea plane through a thunderstorm, unfortunately they are almost out of fuel. In a last desperate gambit, Tintin suggests Haddock pour the medicinal spirits in the planes first aid kit into the fuel tank, hoping it will enable them to fly just a bit further and give them the opportunity to land. Unfortunately, [[TheAlcoholic Haddock]] had already drunk them. Inspired by Tintin's comment their running on fumes, he instead forces himself to belch into the tank, his breath already being established to be laced with booze. Sure enough it proves so potent it not just restarts the engine but causes it to catch fire.
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* BestialityIsDepraved: During the scene where Tintin tries to recover some keys from a sleeping man, Haddock explains about some of his former crewmen. One of them was a shepherd once, but he was kicked out because of his "animal husbandry". [[{{Squick}} He's holding a struggling rat in that scene.]]
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* BestialityIsDepraved: During the scene where Tintin tries to recover some keys from a sleeping man, Haddock explains about some of his former crewmen. One of them was a shepherd once, but he was kicked out because of his "animal husbandry". [[{{Squick}} He's holding a struggling rat in that scene.]]
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** Writer Trademark as well -- Edgar Wright wanted to use a gag in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen where Scott holds up a drawing of Ramona from the comics, but this only made it into the promotional materials for the film]]. He finally gets to use it here.
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* InkSuitActor: It's not confirmed, but a couple of reviewers have commented that [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gJr-xhqiDHk/T3l0oR0AH1I/AAAAAAAAB4c/tnOdYIWkeXQ/s1600/tumblr_m1rcvgJkLe1r4h2oko1_500.jpg Sakharine looks uncannily]] [[http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/5926824_f520-291x300.jpg like Steven Spielberg himself]]. At least one critic thinks he made himself the villain [[ScapegoatCreator because people will naturally blame him]] [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks for any changes to the comic.]] In truth, he looks more like Daniel Craig with glasses and a long beard.
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* InkSuitActor: It's not confirmed, but a couple of reviewers have commented that [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gJr-xhqiDHk/T3l0oR0AH1I/AAAAAAAAB4c/tnOdYIWkeXQ/s1600/tumblr_m1rcvgJkLe1r4h2oko1_500.jpg Sakharine looks uncannily]] [[http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/5926824_f520-291x300.jpg like Steven Spielberg himself]]. At least one critic thinks he made himself the villain [[ScapegoatCreator because people will naturally blame him]] [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks him for any changes to the comic.]] comic. In truth, he looks more like Daniel Craig with glasses and a long beard.
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* TheThirties: The style of the cars, clothes, planes, etc. Also a newspaper clipping mentioning the events of ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' gives the explicit date of 1938. Also, the bad guys' weapons are of evidently [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German]] origin. Interestingly enough, the official artbook tags the movie's date as [[TheForties 1949]], but the [[AnachronismStew models of some of the cars]] go as late as [[TheFifties 1953]]. The film's [[WordOfGod art director]] notes this was done because there were no new cars made during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, let alone cool ones. The tanks in Bagghar are of a definitely post-[=WW2=] design.
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* TheThirties: The style of the cars, clothes, planes, etc. Also a newspaper clipping mentioning the events of ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' gives the explicit date of 1938. Also, the bad guys' weapons are of evidently [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German]] origin. Interestingly enough, the official artbook tags the movie's date as [[TheForties 1949]], but the [[AnachronismStew models of some of the cars]] go as late as [[TheFifties 1953]]. The film's [[WordOfGod art director]] director notes this was done because there were no new cars made during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, let alone cool ones. The tanks in Bagghar are of a definitely post-[=WW2=] design.
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* FatherToHisMen: Implied with Sir Francis Haddock. He is completely unflinching in the face of Red Rackham's threat to kill him unless he gives up his secret cargo, but gives in once Rackham threatens to kill his men in his stead. When Rackham goes back on his deal and kills the men anyway, Haddock is aghast.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler:The {{Reincarnation}} angle behind Haddock and Sakharine's rivalry. Haddock appears to have some extremely vivid visions of the battle on the Unicorn and Red Rakham's death, implying that he's "remembering" his past life. In his final moments, Rakham also curses Sir Francis so they will continue their fight in "another time" and "another life". On the other hand, Haddock could just be figuring things out and the flashbacks are a visualization of his realization through what he knows about the story of the Unicorn. Things are further muddied by Haddock's flashbacks showing Sir Francis's first mate look ''[[{{Foreshadowing}} exactly]]'' like Nestor, who is later revealed to be a secret ally to the Haddock family.]]
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** Shortly after the two meet, Tintin is taken aback by Captain Haddock's horrible breath. Later on, [[spoiler:after Snowy and
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** Sir Francis Haddock's duel with Red Rakham. {{Justified}} since Rakham is more interested in putting out Haddock's PowderTrail, and Haddock is therefore more focused on preventing him from doing that.
** In the climax, Captain Haddock and [[spoiler:Sakharine]] do this [[spoiler:''[[ExaggeratedTrope with cranes]]'']].
** Sir Francis Haddock's duel with Red Rakham. {{Justified}} since Rakham is more interested in putting out Haddock's PowderTrail, and Haddock is therefore more focused on preventing him from doing that.
** In the climax, Captain Haddock and [[spoiler:Sakharine]] do this [[spoiler:''[[ExaggeratedTrope with cranes]]'']].
