#tintin and the lake of sharks

[all-action-all-picture]

The Ships of Tintin - Not a ship but Calculus's Submarine from Red Rackham's Treasure. It shows up again, with Captain Haddock taking the controls, in the adaptation of Tintin and the Lake of Sharks.

Red Rackham's Treasure originally appeared in serialised format in Belgium in 1943 before being released as a collection in 1944.

Tintin and the Lake of Sharks was a 1972 animated film.

[patheticprogrammingperson]

Now, you may be thinking, I’ve gone through all the Tintin books, what now?

Well, it’s very simple, there is another “Tintin” book, and I say “Tintin”, as it was not written by Hergé, Tintin and The Lake of Sharks, the book adaptation of the animated film.

Now, I have a rather strong dislike of this, party because of the lazy nature of the adaptation, and partly because it is rather far from a regular Tintin book in terms of content.

So, before I go onto my next ill-advised, multi-month long, string of reviews, have a throwback to my old way of reviewing, straight-ahead, with any semblance of structure

First off, a pearl gets stolen, but replaced with a fake, promptly spoiling the plot central to the plot, as all good literature does, but never mind about that, Tintin and Haddock are in Syldavia to visit Calculus, because there are only 5 countries, a few islands, and one moon in the Tintin-verse.

The Thom(p)sons appear, Haddock defaces a poster, and they get on a light aircraft, the pilot exposits about how the lake Calculus is living by is artificial, and a village was submerged in order to create it.

He them promptly jumps out the plane, which crashed, Tintin&Co barely survive, with the help of two random children, whom shall now be instrumental to the plot.

They get to Calculas’s place, where he shows off his 3d projector and they are then surveilled by aircraft, as Rastapopoulos preforms his homage to Dr Claw.

Snowy attacks a diver, here referred to a a frogman, severing a segment of fin, which Tin then uses to track down a underground lair full of treasures, assorted, which Tintin gets locked inside by the automatic door, meanwhile, the children from before are kidnapped by more frogs, whom leave behind a recording detailing the ransom of Calculus’s object-cloning machine, which just got shoehorned into the plot.

A bit of preparation is done, by which I mean rather a lot, and it arrives time for Tintin and the objective-cloning machine to be taken down to Rastapopoulos’s secret base under the lake, but, before Tintin can be paid in children, they escape, and steal a underwater tank.

Anyway, a whole mess of an action sequence later, Tintin and the children are locked in a room with rising water, when it reaches a certain height, a bomb will detonate.

Now, how on earth do they get out of this one?

Simple!

Tintin was attached to cheap pipe, which easily breaks, and they pick they lock, getting out of that room, and edit the base via airlock, the bomb goes off, chaos, and the submarine is forced to suffice because Rastapopoulos forgot to lower the periscope when going through a tight gap, getting him arrested, Bianca Castafiore shows up, and the book ends,

It is not Tintiny in the slightest, and I would not recommend it, either the book or film that spawned it

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972)

[guys-in-distress-database]

Entry #375: Tintin and the Lake of Sharks

Media: film (animation)

Character: Tintin

Type of restraints: chained

Location: around an hour in

So, this was an animated film made in the 70s that is not based on any preexisting Tintin comic. It was however created by a friend of Hergé and overseen by him, so it still has that connection. 

Unsurprisingly, Tintin gets into trouble (wow. shocker). Around an hour in, he is captured by Rastopopolous, who has him chained in a flooding room to kill him. It is rather unique by Tintin standards, as he is rarely chained and he is chained standing up with his hands separated. 

The film was also adapted into a comic, which just uses stills from the film as panels. 

[chiefladylightyay]

Tintin and the Lake of Sharks theme

[everyanimatedmovie]

208. Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972)

6/10

The animation in this Tintin movie isn't bad, the writing is fairly clever, and in the first twenty minutes there was one song that I thought was pretty good, though the voice actor was not a good singer. The acting is actually the worst part of this movie (my copy was dubbed into English.) The voices aren't quite right, and they use bad takes frequently. Other than that, it is definitely watchable.

[theendofthefilm]

Tintin et le Lac aux Requins

Raymond Leblanc Belgium & France, 1972

[tintin-is-my-life]

Tintin x Rastapopoulos ~ Rastin ~

[animatedfilmoftheday]

Today’s animated film is: “Tintin and the Lake of Sharks” (1972)

“Tintin is sent to guard an absent-minded professor in a Balkan country, but a local criminal tries to lure him away by kidnapping two children. The professor, however, has invented a machine that can duplicate anything.”

[keitheaverage]

:n)

[inktheblot]

this is my jam

[theboyreporter]

Storyboards by studio members for Belvision's animated feature Tintin and the Lake of Sharks, the only animated feature not based on any of the comics.

[keitheaverage]

I have this wonderful(?) headcanon that after the events of "The Lake of Sharks," Niko and Nushka decide that they want to be cool, crime-fighting reporters like their big brother Tintin, so in the years following they get inspired and learn to fight, and then as teens/adults travel the world and become badasses in their own right

think like Hansel and Gretel, but with guns

[pomeguts]

captain..