Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's The Adventures of Tintin gets two posters and a teaser trailer.

I may be in the minority, but I rather enjoy the look and feel of motion-capture animation.  I loved The Polar Express and Beowulf and rather liked A Christmas Carol (I have not seen Mars Needs Moms).  And, let's be honest, few things look better in 3D than motion-capture animation.  So the idea of Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson playing in what was once primarily Robert Zemeckis's sandbox is a tantalizing concept.  And while the teaser is just that, it does show off a splendidly vivid and real looking environment with the promise of old-school adventure.  Spielberg is about to embark on 'act three' of his remarkable career, capping a stellar 1993-2008 run that brought us such modern classics as Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, and Munich, to say nothing of rock-solid entertainments such as Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can.  I can somewhat defend Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,  The Lost World: Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds if need be, but only The Terminal and maybe Amistad count as pure-whiffs.  Anyway, it may be fashionable to bash Spielberg because of his popularity and his role in bringing about more populist mainstream entertainment, but I can think of no other director aside from perhaps Alfred Hitchcock who has so successfully entertained the masses with filmmaking of such high quality.  As for Peter Jackson, he only created the single best live-action trilogy in cinema history, and followed it up with a ripping King Kong remake, so this is certainly an interesting partnership. The Adventures of Tintin comes out on December 23rd, and I shall be there with bells on in IMAX 3D.  The dynamic posters (domestic then international) are after the jump.

Scott Mendelson