On A Marche Sur La Lune

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Summary: The seond half of Tintin's greatest adventure (in French)
Review: "On a Marche Sur La Lune" ("Explorers on the Moon," 1954) picks up right where "Objectif Lune" left off, with Tintin and his friends unconscious in a rocket hurtling for the moon. What makes "On a Marche Sure La Lune" so fascinating is the documentary detail that Hergé infuses into the story. I cannot think of a 1950s science fiction film that predicts as accurately what happened when Apollo 11 went to the moon a decade and a half later. One of the chief charms of Hergé's artwork has always been the way his caricature drawings of Tintin and friends are contrasted by the realistic backgrounds, and this artistic style achieves its apex when we see the spaceship approaching the moon. "On A Marche sur la Lune" would work as a straight-forward first man on the moon type story, but, of course, in Hergé's capable hands it becomes so much more. Taken together with "Objectif Lune," this has got to constitute Tintin's greatest adventure.

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Summary: The seond half of Tintin's greatest adventure (in French)
Review: "On a Marche Sur La Lune" ("Explorers on the Moon," 1954) picks up right where "Objectif Lune" left off, with Tintin and his friends unconscious in a rocket hurtling for the moon. What makes "On a Marche Sure La Lune" so fascinating is the documentary detail that Herg? infuses into the story. I cannot think of a 1950s science fiction film that predicts as accurately what happened when Apollo 11 went to the moon a decade and a half later. One of the chief charms of Herg?'s artwork has always been the way his caricature drawings of Tintin and friends are contrasted by the realistic backgrounds, and this artistic style achieves its apex when we see the spaceship approaching the moon. "On A Marche sur la Lune" would work as a straight-forward first man on the moon type story, but, of course, in Herg?'s capable hands it becomes so much more. Taken together with "Objectif Lune," this has got to constitute Tintin's greatest adventure.