The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

Steven Spielberg is undoubtedly one of the most influential personalities in the film industry. He is also one of the best directors in Hollywood. He has produced a lot of movies and also won The most Prestigious Academy Awards for the Best Director.

The Adventure of Tin tin is another feather in his cap. This movie uses a brilliant new technique of filming, Motion Capture Animation (like the Na'vi tribe of Avatar). This will be a series like Harry potter and i am sure the Tin tin fans can expect more to come.

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The movie starts with Tintin buying a model ship (unicorn) from a Market for a pound and does not know that it contains a part of the clue to discover the sunken treasure which was in the Secret Cargo of a ship named Unicorn. Mr. Sakharine is a collector of model ships comes in search of this one and offers Tintin whatever price he asks for. Tintin then realises that this ship has something in it and denies the offer made. Mr.Sakharine already owns One ship and has 1 part of the clue. The last Ship (3rd clue) is with an Arab merchant Omar Ben Salaad. These clues put together can be solved only by a haddock and can help find the treasure hidden by Sir Francis Haddock and who has left clues in 3 model ships(Ancestor of Captain Haddock), The captain of the ship Unicorn. The Adventure begins here and Sakharine and Tintin along with Snowy and Haddock go down to Bagghar to get this. As we all know, with lot of action packed sequences, tintin manages to unfold the hidden location which happens to be Marlinspike Hall. When Tintin and Haddock reach the location, they manage to find only a part of the treasure (A hat full of gold coins) and a clue to the location of Sunken Unicorn where the rest of the treasure is. The movie ends here and all we expect is A Sequel. :-)

The movie is released with both 2D and 3D versions. 3D version would be apt only if you take your kid along, else, not necessary. You might as well wait for a blueray print to come out. Not something which you will miss watching unless you are a Tintin fan. The background score of this movie is not racey and sometimes puts you to sleep. I yawned atleast 10 times in the 1st hour.
There is absolutely nothing stunning. If people say its awesome, stunning, well directed, well made blah blah blah its just because its a "Steven Spielberg" direction.

Rating: 3.5/5

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Ra.One – A Masala Superhero

As i am writing this review, I am thinking, if SRK has actually seen this movie himself before concluding that it is fit to be released? Will directors just narrate the story (cream of it) to producers to win their confidence and then show their true colours by giving a terrible screenplay? What happened SRK? Why such a movie? Being in Film industry for close to 20 years, the last thing i expected from you was such a disastrous Magnum opus

Yes, I am talking about Ra.One. Phew!! This is all i did after watching it fully. The movie starts off well with a dream. A kid's dream of seeing his father as a superhero. Doesn't that sound great? Yes!! It does. Every kid's role model would be his/her father. There is nothing wrong in a kid who likes to see his father as a superhero. SRK (Shekar Subramaniam) is a geek from Tamilnadu (oh yeah! Unbelievable, i know) who develops computer games (of course not a freelancer, works for a company in UK) and wants to impress his son by doing something remarkable but fails miserably in every attempt. He finally develops a game (very similar to tekken) in which villain Ra.One has more power than a hero G.One. His son is impressed and wants to play that game. He plays it and goes on to a level which is not achieved even by the developers, Level 3. Yes, the game with just 3 levels in the modern day era. When Lucifer, the pseudo name chosen by his son reaches the last level, Ra.One who was defeated by Lucifer in 2 of the 3 levels wants to win this. How? By killing him. Now, the game is stopped and Ra.One comes out of the game and starts searching for Lucifer and to kill him. The actual Game starts now. Shekar Subramaniam is killed when he tries to cover his son and calls himself Lucifer in front of Ra.One. This is where G.One gets a life and comes and saves Lucifer in the 1st attempt to kill him. G.One's grand entry was not grand at all :-(. It's OK. It was interesting until this happened and the director puts in a lot of expectation in one's mind until this. Even i did have loads of expectations and was waiting to see some kick ass action.

While the 1st half is interesting, Few things which i would like to mention. SRK tries to eat noodles with curd and uses his hand instead of a fork. SRK, i guess you should do your homework more, Were you trying to show that tamilians or South Indians do this? If yes, you are wrong. South Indians are not dumb to eat noodles with curd, may be you mistook vermicelli to be noodles. We do not add curd, we eat it with chutney. Curd is added and fed to kids only if the dish (not noodles) is spicy.
Your Tamil was terrible. You could have very well avoided it than speaking. It sounded like you were trying to ridicule the "madrasis"

Did i see some action after the Intermission? Indeed NO! I did not. All i saw was some desi masala movie (typical KJo stuff) types and of course poor jokes cracked. eeeks!!
You get to know that Shahrukh has quit smoking (i guess so), tells you the outcome of smoking and how many people are killed and of course his sexual orientation is seriously another question in my mind. Is he a Gay? may be that is the reason he chose the "G".One for his character. SRK has got in Priyanka Chopra, sanjay Dutt and Rajnikanth to act in this movie. Why not Karan Johar?? isn't he your close friend Shahrukh? I also found a role for him in the film which would have suited him well. The airport security who checks you. :-D. Why did he bring in Rajnikanth or i will put it this way, why did Rajnikanth even act in your movie? Reason - Shahrukh gave away the name "ROBOT" which was registered with Red chillies after a phone call request from Rajni Sir. news spread like fire saying "Rajni was indebted to Shahrukh". Now, Its Payback time. Rajni gives a 1 minute cameo appearance and clears his debt.
Was observing karva chauth so important when you are trying to save a child from a villain? come on!! Action movies are not meant to be this way. For god sake, get this masala crap out and do some serious thinking. We expected a Hollywood style movie.
Okay, All said and done, Ra.One and G.One reach the 3rd level and fight it out and finally Ra.One is killed. His poor Jokes continue even during this fight.
What was meant to be a action packed movie ended up being a desi masala mix with some action in it. Visual Effects were good. Not worth 1 year of post production though. If this is all you can give after 1 year of PP, then i might as well choose Enthiran which has similar job done in just 1 month.

Enthiran (Tamil) a.k.a robot(hindi) is 100 times better.

"Condom Condom" instead of Konjam Konjam was cheap.
"C*nt C*nt... Control" was as dirty as it can get.

This movie is Indeed SRK's midlife crisis showing his cheaper side and awful sense of humour and of course his superhero misfit.

Thanks for taking time in reading this guys.

Remember, THE BEST IS YET TO COME.

Cheers,
Vivek...