Although available on a DVD of excellent quality, one cannot say the same about the movie itself. Although the storyline is easy enough to follow, its rather jumbled account of underwater larceny in a remote Swiss chalet fails to hold the interest. The characters remain stubbornly one-dimensional from first to last, and the "surprise", sudden introduction of a "comic" villain from a previous Tintin adventure does not help either. In fact, the script is way overloaded with slapstick episodes. The players vary from the overly enthusiastic (the chief villain) to the conspicuously bland (Tintin himself). True, despite everything — including its animation techniques that vary from agreeably watchable to save money elementary — the movie is often reasonably engaging, even though the promise of its earlier scenes (the plane perched on the edge of a cliff) fails to materialize.

Echoing most of the reviews here, if you are a fan of tintin you will find everything wrong with this film. Haddock's voice is quite grating and makes any scene with him irritating. The animation can go from decent to "what the shrek am i watching" in a short time span. The man issue with the animation is the clash of Herge's character style mixing with the studio's rendition of people. Some parts just do not look like it relates to tintin. What annoyed me a lot was Professor Calculus and the magical hearing aid, he is supposed to be deaf. It doesn't stay true much at all to the comics, despite this particular adventure. It's like someone skimmed a volume, defecated on all the character's special quirks, resealed the package and presented this garbage as a movie. I give it 2 stars instead of 1 just because some parts were hysterically bad that i forgave it. Most scenes with the Thompsons were funny, so not all the characters were butchered. But if you are a huge fan of the cartoon and comics, don't take this film seriously.

I really enjoyed this movie. I saw it when I was a kid and had a chance to see it again with my daughter. The story is quite nice. There is a lot of action and humor. The pace is good and setting is nicely done. The story is original with a lot of references to the books.I don't know about the voices in English, but the French voices are excellent.Even if the story is a little more "simple" than what you will find in the books you have to remember that in the 70's, cartoons were made mostly for children. There was rarely 2 levels to a story, one for children and one for adults as it is so common (and fun) today. Still the story here is sufficiently well done to be entertaining for adults.Finally, Hergé himself worked on the movie. So I guess he must have found this close enough to the world of Tintin to be made.

'Tintin et le rac aux requins' is not based on one of the books of Herge. Greg (also a maker of comics) wrote the story for this film. He didn't do a really bad job, but there are no surprises or (very) funny scenes in the scenario. It is a simple film about Tintin going on adventure with his dog Bobbie and Haddock, the captain. On the way to the prof. (called Tournesol in the original French version) they meet the two stupid detectives (called Dupont et Dupond in the original French version). The prof. has invented something and Tintin and Haddock (this is their real French name) have to protect it from Rastapopoulos, a bad villain who is never scary or something that would make him a real villain.There are no surprises, jokes or something else this film could and should be remembered for. And the worst of all: Greg came up with two annoying kids who are trying to help Tintin in his 'quest' to beat Rastapopoulos.If you really want to enjoy yourself: read the books of Tintin made by Herge, because they ARE funny, full of surprises and they DO have things one could and should remember!!!