The Adventures of Tintin

Episode 210: The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Theme: Comic Strip Movies Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis sprint — full speed, no brakes, no breathing allowed — through The Adventures of Tintin, a movie marriage of Raiders of the Lost Ark + The Polar Express + Turner & Hooch, all while pursuing The Elder Scrolls as cities flood, motorcycles burst through buildings, ravens commit grand larceny, and industrial cranes duel like giraffes fighting for dominance. It’s pure kinetic madness: exposition delivered mid–fire chase, a drunk captain who solves problems by belching into engines, and a journalist who never eats, sleeps, or expresses a single emotion other than mild curiosity.

Join your two favorite “did the plot just outrun us?” podcasters as they race through:

• Tintin and Snowy — the world’s most composed duo, even while dodging bullets, planes, pirates, and ravens the size of Ed Reed.

• Captain Haddock, the only man alive who becomes smarter the drunker he gets.

• Thompson & Thompson, Interpol’s finest… if “finest” means “managed to bumble all the way to Morocco.”

• Three unicorn model ships, three scrolls, zero logic, and 100% cartoon physics.

• A final crane battle so unhinged it makes Fast & Furious look like a Ken Burns documentary.

From canary hallucinations to desert hallucinations to “my entire family line has beef with yours” hallucinations, Oz and Curtis dissect a Spielberg/Jackson/Wright fever dream that never stops moving long enough for your brain to catch up.

Final Verdict

Oz — 6 Smart Dogs
Curtis — 63 Ed Reeds
Both — Still wondering how a “hidden basement room” has a full wall of exterior windows.