"The Adventures of Tintin" * * * Motion capture has been used everywhere from "The Polar Express" to "Avatar." But in his first foray into animation, director Steven Spielberg uses the technology to achieve something that could be described as cartoonish photo-realism -- the images look like impossibly beautiful hand-drawn photographs -- and then frees his camera from all earthly constraints. The results are extraordinary in "Tintin," the first in an intended series of films drawn from the comic books by the Belgian artist Hergé. The story isn't all that engaging, which makes the film feel more than a little frivolous, but there isn't a moment in the movie when you're not staring at the...
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