With the release of “The Adventures of Tintin” upon us, The Guardian makes the case for why you should love motion-capture cinema.

Here’s one reason:

“Eerie Resemblance
Characters should look a bit – but not quite – like those playing them. Results vary: Grendel’s mother in Beowulf is a good Angelina Jolie, but Tom Hanks in The Polar Express looked like a haunted pillow filled with raisins.”

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