(I always wonder if these things skip a generation three lifetimes seems an awfully long time to spend plotting revenge.) Tintin will need one to fight Ivanovich Sakharine (Daniel Craig), an old-school villain whose ancestors have apparently been fighting with HaddockвЂ™s forebears for centuries. ThereвЂ™s a sweet spot of inebriation, however, that makes him a redoubtable ally. Haddock, voiced by Andy Serkis, is of little use when either falling-down drunk or stone-cold sober. On board, Tintin meets a kindred spirit in Captain Haddock, a fellow prisoner and a walking (well, lurching) defence of high-functioning alcoholism. Snowy manages to tag along, of course whereвЂ™s a boy without his dog? Eventually, his stubbornness results in his being kidnapped and imprisoned on an actual ocean-going vessel. A couple of shady shipophiles try to part him from his new acquisition, but Tintin isnвЂ™t having any of that. It begins with Tintin purchasing an old model sailing ship in a flea market. ) The adventure - and they donвЂ™t call it The Adventures of Tintin for nothing - is a rollicking, Indiana Jones type of affair involving pirates, pickpockets, policemen, sunken treasure, wild chases, coded messages and something called the Milanese Nightingale, a MacGuffin if ever I heard of one. (Ostensibly Belgian, heвЂ™s voiced by 25-year-old Jamie Bell in his native English accent.) The dog is Snowy, an white fox terrier whoвЂ™s either the smartest or second-smartest dog on film this year. The boy is Tintin, an enterprising journalist of uncertain nationality, youthful but of indeterminate age. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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