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Poster review: Tintin

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A nearly perfect poster. Color palette, layout, oh-so-gorgeous rendering on the title. My only complaint is that the billing block type feels too horsey.

Our hero is obscured enough that it's too early to tell if this look is going to drown in the uncanny valley along with The Polar Express, but for now it looks like it may be right on.

Snowy has been knocked out of the damn park, no matter what the people end up looking like.

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