"How could they do this to Tintin?" Ctd

Jonathan Jones asks if the purists have gone overboard:

Is the gulf between expert disgust and public enthusiasm further proof that critics are doomed? Or that modern culture is truly anti-intellectual and philistine? I think it is evidence of neither. I am sure the Tintin film really is infuriating if you are a Tintin fan, as many who write about it plainly are. But is everyone a Tintin fan? Is everyone that familiar with the quixotic idealism, richly absurd characters, and unique humour of these great comic books. Tintin fans, in short, may be overestimating how dearly these classics are held in the common heart. If this film had come out a decade ago I'd have seen it without any prejudices because I had never read a Tintin book.