The point is that although I've definitely-maybe heard of a comic-strip character named Tintin, I don't know anything about him. But apparently this (literally) animated Belgian reporter is getting his very own big-screen story, a feature to be directed by Steven Spielberg and co-starring the can-do-no-wrong Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as detectives known as the Thompson Twins.

Never fear, these Thompson Twins have nothing to do with the '80s "Hold Me Now" dudes and dudette. But something that gives me a bit of concern is that Tintin isn't going to be old-school animated but motion-captured, a la the creepy-as-hell Tom Hanks nightmare The Polar Express from a few Christmases past.

Now, Beowulf also used that technology and admittedly made it work. But that movie was supposed to be a little frightening, right? Pegg and Frost should only be reanimated as zombies — one performance-capture gone awry that's as "lifelike" as Hanks and those freak train trolls, and I may be put off the British duo for good.