Sure we understand that the holiday season is a big one for US movie theaters, but why must you taunt us by opening the amazing The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn in virtually every other market first? Ah well, we will suffer through this torment with grace UNTIL DECEMBER 21st, and enjoy these wonderful features in our quiet US corner.

We’ll start with a new trailer that knocked our socks off:

Here’s a terrific making-of featurette with Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, and more:

And here’s a longer version with some overlap from the featurette above, but a lot of additional info including a bit with Simon Pegg. Ignore the October release date, that’s for those lucky Europeans:

 

So, what do you think? Freakishly Great Movie, or Freakish Uncanny Valley? I’ve signed up for the Fandango Fan Alert so I can get my IMAX tickets as soon as they’re available.

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The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, produced by Peter Jackson, directed by Steven Spielberg, co-written by Steven Moffat, starring Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, and Daniel Craig, opens in the US on December 21, 2011.