"The Adventures of Tintin" are a series of classic comic books created by  the Belgian artist Georges Remi , who wrote under the pen name of Herge. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century while "War Horse" is a children's fiction novel by Michael Morpurgo.
It was first published in Great Britain and has been, very
successfully, adapted to the stage in England and the United States.

The movie version of Tintin was released in Europe and has already made over $250 million. Both film versions were released in the United States for Christmas with Tintin taking in $46,000 in first two weeks while the War Horse tally was $45,000.

Aside from the above both films were directed by Steven Spielberg and they are as different as
night and day. War Horse is an exciting, beautifully photographed, full
of breath taking scenes, and first rate acting, while everything that could be wrong in a film is wrong in Tintin.

"The Adventures of Tintin"
are a takeoff of Spielberg's own "Raiders of the Lost Ark" but done in
the manner of "The Polar Express" and like that film the actors are
wooden, lifeless. Tintin's dog, Snowy, looks and acts like he is on a toy shelf ready to be bought.
Though the voice of Daniel Craig is used for the villain, Sakharine, he looks like Mr. Spielberg, which is nothing against him. Jamie Bell, playing Tintin, comes across as a puppet trying to act like a human. There is no warmth, emotion from any of the actors and even the animals, plus Snowy, there is a Parisian cat and a pit-bull, who didn't even come close to what Joey the horse conveys in War Horse.

Lawrence
Kasdan, the writer of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" should certainly get
co-credit for this screenplay written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and
Joe Cornish. I don't know if the books by Herge resemble this film at
all but I did expect Harrison Ford to appear any minute.

As
in most 3D films there is an extra charge to 'rent' the glasses, like
you can refuse them, but all of Spielberg's modern movie techniques just don't work and would have probably done better as a straight animated film.

With
the exception of a 10-15 minute desert mirage sequence there really is
nothing worth seeing and, yet, because of the success overseas I am sure
there will be a sequel.