The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)

You won't be disappointed!

Strong and Moving!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It's a Disney kid's film that is often appealing to that audience through goofy music, simple emotions and light humor. However, it's also surprisingly dark in its themes and overtly violent in its action. The combination of Disney and Twain just don't quite rub together well...however, Wood is perfectly cast, Vance connects with each of his scenes with great heart, and Sommers does a good job of bringing this world to us. Tonally illogical? Sure...but otherwise, not half bad.

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN This movie was set in the 1800's in St. Pitturgburghs Mississippi. It is about a boy named Huckleberry Finn (played by Elijah Wood), who lives a very rebellious life. He had a slave friend named Jim (played by Courtney B. Vance), who escaped. Huck and Jim set on a journey to Kayrow to try and free Jim, so he can raise money to get his family out of slavery. In the beginning of the movie Pap Finn (played by Ron Perlman) was a drunkard who tried to kill Huck, but he ending up dying on a boat later in the story. Huck however, faked his death caused by Pap so no one would know his identity, while he was on the road. During Huck and Jims journey they meet Duke (played by Robbie Coltrane) and King, they were thief's that were on the run from stealing a lot, the Duke and King (played by Jason Rebarbs) capture both Huck and Jim and force them to with them to get Mary Jane Wilks (played by Anne Heche) fathers money as they pretended that they where the brothers of Peter Wilks, if they refused, they would in Jim as he was accused of being a murderer and a runaway slave. Later in the story, the village actually finds out that Duke and King are impostors, so Huck uses this chance to free Jim as he was arrested during this event. As Huck and Jim running away from the village, Huck gets shot. They capture Jim again but Mary Jane sets them free because she knows Huck and Jim are on the run for a good reason. In the end Miss Watson (played by Mary Louise Wilson) wish came true, Jim became a free man but Huck still continued his rebellious life, which Widow Douglas (played by Dana Luey) was not very happy about. One aspect of filmmaking that I want to talk about is the costume and set design. It corresponded well to when and where the movie was set. The poor dressed like the poor and the rich like the rich in those actual times. Costume and set design is very important in this movie because it shows the audience of the movie when and where the movie was set, also it gives the audience a feel of how life was back then. The stereotypes I would like to talk about are the actual use of realism in the movie. Every character in the movie has a last name apart from Jim, this is because he is a slave, another stereotype is that Jim is a tall, black strong man who is inferior to a small, short white kid, and this is a stereotype because adults are not inferior kids, but Jim is to Huck. Another stereotype is that Jim performs some magic tricks in the beginning of the movie, and this was surprising for others because they thought slaves could not be taught anything else but to work. I really enjoyed this movie, it had funny, sad, adventurous, heart pumping and thrilling moments, I recommend it to other classes because of the morals it teaches, I give this movie 7.5/10. David Lawanson.

In the film The Adventures of Huck Finn made in 1993 is the story of a boy who does as he pleases and has one true friend, his slave. The film is based in the time period of the mid 1800's and is a comedy/drama. Prominent stars of the film include Elijah Wood as Huckleberry Finn and Courtney B. Vance as Jim.Huck Finn is the son of a drunken man who lives with two older women who are sisters, Miss Watson and Widow Douglas. His father kidnaps him from them and then takes him back to his place, his father leaves and Huck realizes this is his only chance to escape and do what he wants to do. He reunites with his old slave Jim, and they venture off to different adventures. They come across trouble here and there and meet interesting different type of people, despite the troubles they come across they make it because they have each other. They both learn a lot from one another and live happily ever after.The way that Mark Twain characterized the characters relates well to the time of setting because with the dialect he gives them it gives you a feel of how people talked back in time. Some of the characters had a southern accent based on where they were from and it was apparent they were southern and Twain did a good job of incorporating that in there.The costumes in the film pertained to the time of the film well because for the people who were poor, looked poor by wearing filthy clothing and the wealthy has nice oxford shirts with khaki's. And as in the film, when Huck was with Miss Watson and Widow Douglas they gave him the best of clothes, but when he would venture off on his own he wore clothing similar to rags. As for the slaves in the film, they wore basic clothes that looked old and dirty, and that's exactly what would be imagined for that time.For the film being in an old setting the message that slavery is bad still relays to real life today, and because of that I think the film was well done. I recommend this film for potential viewers because it has a lot of messages that people can relate to. I would give this film 3.5 stars.

During CA this year, my class watched The Adventures Of Huck Finn. The movie takes place in the 1800s. I think the movie was classified more as a drama than any other genre. Even though it had some comedy parts. The movie Huckleberry Finn is about a little boy that gets kidnapped by his abusive drunk of a father. Throughout the movie Huck tries to set his friend, that's a slave, free. At one point they come across this thief's stash of gold. They pretended that they were sent from London and were high class people. Soon people started realizing that they weren't who they said that they were. So the thief's went after Huck and his friend. I thought that the set and the costume design matched the story line really well. It wasn't like most movies where they don't have the same hairstyles and clothes as they did back in the 1800s. Also I thought that the background music matched the action scenes really well. In the movie the characters used realism by talking the same way that people did in that time. They also used realism by the way they dressed. In the background they showed realism by using real people and real places. My personal opinion on the movie was that it was terrible. The story was dry and it wasn't very interesting. I wouldn't suggest this movie to any high school student. I would rate this movie 2 out of 10. Alyssa Hanes American Literature Student 3rd block, Mr.Mauzey Written May 22, 2012