Nope, there were 3. Tintin, Mars Needs Moms and Happy Feet Two.
Oh yeah, I forgot about Happy Feet Two.
Tin Tin is actually doing OK now after a disappointing opening. It’s pulling some pretty good legs.
Perhaps it’s going to end up being a bit of a sleeper hit.
That could be true. It’ll probably collapse within the next week or so.
Yeah, I guess. I bet it’s probably spent more on advertising in the US than it’s made.
Happy Feet Two a mo-cap film…interesting and debatable! A catchphrase that applied to Happy Feet was “invested heavily in motion capture” or some such, but it was more CG-animation than mo-cap. Haven’t seen Happy Feet Two, but unless there are dancing penguins in every scene, maybe it’s a hybrid, not all-mo-cap like Tintin, et al.
Debatable, yes. But When Happy Feet won, it raised controversy amongst the Academy, no? 
Happy Feet even included live action.
It seemed like substantial use of the mo-cap tool was the controversial flash point there, rather than Pixar’s “100% animation” claim for Ratatouille. Personally, it comes down to the overall impression of the film. Happy Feet primarily looked and felt like a CG-animated movie, at least until the end part with the humans. Then there is the Mary Poppins Test–would that be a live-action film or an animated film? Perhaps the best answer is that blending of techniques yields a hybrid. But there seems to be consensus that Tintin and the “Zemeckis dead-eye films” are all-mo-cap movies. At the very least, there’s so much mo-cap in them that the overall impression is of motion capture.
Bottom line: It’s always fascinating to learn how others perceive films and categories thereof. Thank goodness for different viewpoints.
That I agree with, and I think that at the end of the day, technique maybe isn’t so important.
I totally agree with that. You should use the technique that better serves the film you’re making.
That’s why I think we should accept them all as long as the product is good.
Thinking about it, I can’t imagine The Adventures of Tintin any other way. Whilst 2D or CG animation would’ve been really charming, I just don’t think it would’ve been successful somehow. I know the comics have nice big bold colours and clear lines but to replicate it onto screen whilst fitting in all the realism about Tintin’s world would’ve been obscenely difficult I guess. With live action, some of the shots could’ve never been done, and there simply isn’t the same amount of freedom. I guess you could say that Tintin and the characters in the series are cartoon characters in a real world, but a hybrid, after The Smurfs…just…no.
Mocap is a nice in-between; all the freedom of animation and the realism of live-action.
That’s exactly what I mean by the choose technique being of service to the kind of film you want to make. Good analysis 
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Feel like being angry at The Smurfs now. I hate Hollywood sometimes, that film was awful. It’s bande-dessinee too, it’s on-topic! 
I didn’t even watched The Smurfs. That’s one of the films you can judge negatively before actually seeing them.
It’s full of product placement and corny jokes and Katy Perry references and toilet humour and it’s more focused on the humans than The Smurfs themselves and they are even interesting. It’s not even a good little kids film, I remember doing the Happy Meal toys and I had a mother come up to me and rant about how awful and boring it was and how Cars 2 and Kung Fu Panda 2 were better.
That I can agree with. It feels like how Dreamworks can get their jokes past the audiance.
I love how the humour in Tintin was almost entirely slapstick. Although it would’ve been hard to tactfully put pop culture jokes in a film set in the 30’s/40’s (?).
Just references to existing culture of the time.
I caught one: When Haddock first sees Snowy, he cries “The Giant Rat of Sumatra!”.
That is a reference to a mythic Sherlock Holmes case that was never told in any book, but referenced once.
Of course we’re probably among the 10% of the people who caught it because we’re huge Sherlock Holmes fans. We laughed a lot at that part and no one else did
From the trailers I’ve seen, Haddock’s drunk humor really doesn’t appeal to me.