Well, here you go: After a light drizzle of poster curios and shadowy stills comes the heavy rain of this new, full-length UK trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. And it really does have everything: Intrigue! Humor! Planes! Explosions! Dogs! And an ensemble of actors doing their best to salvage the uneasy relationship between cutting-edge mo-cap and characters just exaggerated enough not to be totally creepy.
That "uncanny valley" rift is one we've cited here previously as among mo-cap's most consistent dangers (not including the embarrassment of meeting Clint Eastwood in a full-body leotard); it's largely credited with contributing to the downfall of Robert Zemeckis's ImageMovers, and I'm not totally sold on it in this context either. But most everything else seems impressive, from the settings and the action to the vocal convictions of Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. And it's Spielberg, so hey. Benefit of the doubt goes without saying.
[via Dark Horizons]