The Adventures Of Tin Tin

I often complain about movies that promise me one thing and deliver another. Like I order pizza and instead receive a casserole. However, this time I was given what I was promised. Not some pseudo visionary bull, but an action filled tale from Steven Spielberg that puts on the Indian Jones clothes and takes off running in them. Now, again, I have complained about other movies that blatantly rip of other movies. Tin Tin does it without trying to be more than it is. Tin Tin is a reporter who gets caught up in an adventure involving a feud going back hundreds of years, and embarks on a trek to find a long lost treasure.
After seeing this, in IMAX might I add, I never want to have to gripe about special effects ever again. Tin Tin looks good. Really good. At many parts the CGI is so good that I forget I am watching an animated feature. The only one that throws me off is Tin Tin himself.  He often looks cartoony, but seeing how that is the origin of this tale I cannot complain that much. I just really appreciate this quality when just a few weeks ago I saw Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol where the CGI was garbage and even the stable scenes were blurry. So such attention to detail goes a long way and helps me buy in to this reality I am being sold.
The voice acting is nothing to be scoffed at either. Jamie Bell a young cat, who I know basically nothing about, has actually done quite a bit of voice acting. He is the voice of Tin Tin and brings good youth and feeling to the character. Andy Serkis, who I do know, is a very good voice actor. He is Tin Tin's companion Captain Haddock. Haddock is a drunk old sailor who joins up with Tin Tin because of his love of adventure... and booze. Daniel Craig does such a good job as the villain Sakharine that I had no idea that it was him. Nick Frost and Simon Pegg also deserve a mention, if for nothing more than I enjoy the crap out of these guys.
There are plenty of action sequences and gun play to satisfy. It follows the Indy path again. It gives you a bit of research, then explosions/chases/fighting, then more story.
One thing that was super obvious to me was the John Williams score. You may know him from a few of the tiny films he has done like: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, E.T. His distinct and every epic sound is evident throughout the film.
The one gripe I have is in the very cartoony moments of the movie. They are few, but with this movie being so realistic and Jones like when they do happen they stick out like a sore thumb. One such scene is When Haddock get caught in a plain propeller and spun around it several times, then thrown out of it. There are a couple of those moments that kill me.
Over all Tin Tin in IMAX 3D was really enjoyable. It good looking, funny, and action filled. It is wonderful as an homage to the Indiana Jones film that we know and love so much. Nothing new just a formula that in my opinion works for my entertainment.