The Tintin Movie

So, the Tintin teaser trailer was released on May 16th, and ever since then, I haven't been able to stop thinking Tintin. I have watched the trailer about a million and six times now, and have analyzed every single thing there is in those one minute and twelve seconds of footage.
You can watch the trailer here.
I would embed the Youtube video here, but the one thats on there isn't as good as the IMDb one.
The Adventures of Tintin, which releases in the United States on the twenty-third of December, is a motion capture film directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy.
The film is an adaptation of The Crab with the Golden Claws (which is the book in which Tintin meets Captain Haddock and uncovers a gang of opium smugglers), The Secret of the Unicorn (in which Tintin learns that the Unicorn, a ship captained by one of Captain Haddock's ancestors contained a great deal of treasure and was, as a result, ransacked by the pirate Red Rackham) and Red Rackham's Treasure (in which Tintin and his friends set about on a treasure hunt to uncover the lost cargo of the Unicorn).
In the trailer, we catch a glimps of Thomson and Thompson, the two bumbling detectives, Snowy (who's cooler, Belgian name is Milou) and the villain, Ivan Ivanovtich Sakharine. Unfortunately, we do not see much of Captain Haddock, although based on this image, we can appreciate they've done justice to the character:

A lot of fans are disappointed in the fact that this film is using motion capture and not, by sticking to traditional animation, staying true to the art of the comic books.
Here I would like to argue that there was once a Tintin cartoon TV show that attempted to stay true to the original books, but didn't succeed. Because of the animation, a lot of the subliminal effects of the original artwork is lost (such as the element of surprise as you move from one still panel to the next), and the only way to retain the impact of still art in film is to create a whole new dimension that can translate through the two mediums.
Based on the trailer, I can see that Spielberg and Jackson have tried to do justice to Hergé's original artwork. Tintin still has that not-really-boy-but-not-yet-man look, as can be seen in this final frame of the trailer:

And here are Thomson and Thompson, as comically identical, and identical to their comic-book counterparts as well, standing behind the thief Silk:

And of course, the setting, with all its vintage cars and Old World charm is heart-wrenchingly authentic.
I am interested to see how Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish stay true to Hergé's style of writing while allowing the language to translate engagingly and realistically to the medium of film.
I read somewhere that Hergé was as much a fan of Spielberg as Spielberg was of him. Hergé has been cited as having said that if anyone could do justice to a Tintin film, it would be Steven Spielberg and no other. Let's hope this faith is realised.

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn Countdown: 215 days.