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Rating:  - The Adventures of Huck Finn
I used this as part of a literature unit with my students and it followed the book very closely but not so closely that we couldn't make some interesting comparisons.
Rating:  - The Adventures of Huck Finn DVD
This is a great movie and follows the book very well. It moves quickly so you have to watch carefully to catch the one liners and scenes that match up with the book. It was a great movie, one that I couldn't stop watching! It is full of action and the acting is great and captivating! My high school English class loved it also!
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This was the best version I've seen yet, but I guess I'm getting sick of the story. Wood, the child star, was more like Fred Savage, as one reviewer stated, than the Huck Finn Twain described. But the kids in the audience when I saw it on the big screen seemed to like it.
Rating: - Excellent version- Elijah wood is superb
This is an amazing version of Huck Finn. Elijah Wood is with out a doubt the most adorable person, and perfect for this role. His acting is great, and he adds so much interest to the movie.
I am not the type of person to rent movies like this, but I must say this is an excellent movie, with humour(from wood), and also sadness. It is very entertaining, and I highly reccomend it to anyone interested.
I also strongly suggest that any review (hum hum) that does not have anything to do with the movie, gives a juvenile opinion on Elijah Wood, with unfriendly insults completely irrelevent to the movie, should be deleted.
In my opinion, and most people agree, Elijah is a great actor, who gives stunning performances, and should be applauded for all he has accomplished. Congrats Elijah, for all of your success, including this movie.
Rating: - Elijah Wood - A Perfect Huck Finn
From the first opening Clemensian Voice Over and the whimsical fight scene, Huck Finn brims with authenticity and focus. Sure, we've read the book and seen the many movie versions. But this one stands tall and comes to grips with Twain's not-so-juvenile hero as he grows along the river of life. Great allegory sublimates its symbols, so you take it like heroin, directly in the vein. And so it is with this film with a strong crop of performances and a sterling rendition by its star, Elijah Wood.
The spirit of any great literary masterpiece translated to film is not the details a la BBC and Masterpiece Theater, but the distillation of ideas and moods into enduring messages and iconic scenes. Huck Finn is Elijah Wood's first foray into the literary character venue, a venue that would eventually lead him to Frodo Baggins. He does not approach the role as "the lost child on the river," but as a growing cock-sure adolescent, more adult and intelligent for his age and station. His performance is rock solid, never flagging. He provides a variety of moods and is always maintaining a consistent arc with the material. No empty headed river rat here.
Courtney Vance teams with Wood to make a most Twainly Jim. Jim is not the typical slave-he's literary and allegorical. His pain is real, but never obfuscating the themes of the novel; and so it blossoms in the film. Jason Robards Jr and Robbie Coltrane impress as the infamous scoundrels that represent American hypocrisy, while Ron Perlman charges the role as Papp Finn with rugged villainy emblazoned on the ass of white river trash. Anne Heche subtly wisps through as Mary Jane Wilks. But it is Elijah Wood that naturally carries the film. Twain would have been proud to see his creation in the hands of this veteran actor.
Huck Finn keeps us laughing, almost weeping and gets us to think about the same things the original work got America to think about-so, much so as to get the book banned throughout the South. People "be a-feared `bout der truth!" But still, the truth is delivered through the antics and wisdom of a babe who finds his own faults forgiving and the world's most tolerable if taken with a "stretcher" or two. To this reviewer, Elijah Wood's portrayal of Huck Finn is definitive and this version of the novel, then in its centenary, is destined to become a classic. A+
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