The Adventures of Huck Finn - DisneyCember

It's said to be the great American novel, so where does Doug stand on the film version from the guy who directed The Mummy movies? Let's take a look at The Adventures of Huck Finn on a new DisneyCember.

The Adventures of Huck Finn is a 1993 American adventure film written and directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Jason Robards and Robbie Coltrane. Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Buena Vista Pictures, it is based on Mark Twain's 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and focuses on at least three-fourths of the book.


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[ChannelAwesome]

What did everyone think of The Adventures of Huck Finn?

[themediaangel]

“It helps that Elijah Wood pretty much has anime eyes.”
That’s the PERFECT way to describe it.

[sefalimahanti]

Elijah Wood is also one of the extremely few child stars who grew up to be decent human beings, and have a great career simultaneously.

[carsonfowler]

“I’m not exactly a great filmmaker myself”
After following this guys career for a decade and going back and forth on whether or not he’s self aware, this was really nice to hear him say himself

[wstine]

Huck: “All right then, I’ll go to hell. And I'll drop this ring in it while we're there."

[SilverShion]

I almost forgot Elijah Wood was in Back to the Future 2.
He's not even 40 and has been acting for over 30 years.

[ThemeParkAvenue]

On the twenty-second Disneycember, my critic gave to me:
Twenty-two freed slaves
Twenty-one crazy ghosts
Twenty cool characters
Nineteen zombies dancing
Eighteen warriors battling
Seventeen pet actors
Sixteen speaking roles
Fifteen experiments
Fourteen Aliens singing
Thirteen X-Men films
Twelve Narration scenes
Eleven mice-a-squeaking
Ten wacky stories
Nine cliched genres
Eight X-men fighting
Seven on IMDB
Six Flynn-Fletchers
FIVE BLAND NEW PLANETS!
Four magic elves
Three wasted hours
Two best buds
And a pigeon in a pear tree

[mccoyboy_kev]

"Ron Pearlman
Anne Heche
....Pete"

Hell yeah, PETE!!!

[HarmonyBunny]

For a frikkin' *child, * he's not that bad of an actor

[ironcladnomad]

You wanted a Huck Finn movie directed by Kubrick? Exactly how much therapy did you want Elijah Wood to have to go through?

[mas]

It feels like forever since I’ve seen this one. Kind of shocked it’s taken this long for us to do a quickie review for it, but I suppose it is deeper in the vault than other Disney films (but not as deep as a certain song further South).

I just remember how this film was so memorable back when I was under, it would be shown during class after we read Huck Finn. Not a perfect adaptation but still did the book some good.

[OlleForsberg]

I totally love the score in this movie. Sounds so golden age of western adventure movies.

[LowellLucasJr.]

Elijah Wood and Macaulay Caulkin were the 2 revered kid actors in the 90s. No wonder they were casted in The Good Son! Man that movie messed me up!

[monstermash]

I'm not sure where else to say this, but thank god for the content creators on Youtube. In a small way, or at least for me personally, these guys are heroes. So a big shout out to Stuckmann, Doug, Jeremy Jahns, the AVGN, and the upcoming greats too. It's obvious that Youtube doesn't make it easy for them, with monetization problems, copyright issues, and so on, but they've held strong for over a decade and that's Commendable. Now that we're finally ready to put this year behind us, these people bringing us their hot takes, being funny, or insightful has definitely made the year easier. Here's to the future everyone.

[YOSHIERIDER]

That speech is one of my favorite things ever written. It so perfectly encapsulates most of the themes and morals of the story, with a dramatic irony that Huck wouldn't understand, but the reader can.

[wstine]

Rob: "The charts say that Huck Finn is a great story. But, what if added a subplot where he had to carry a ring?"

[yoda]

As a natural blood relative of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain); I actually enjoyed this interpretation. He was the type of man that was wise beyond his years but also enjoyed life to the point he would actually sit down with you and tell you stories by the fireplace. He actually tought one of my grandmothers how to write stories and to stick to your guns on not changing what you feel the most heartfelt in that story. My grandmother in turn tought me the same things.

[nickdegugs]

Sometimes I wonder how controversial it was when people noticed they changed the ending from book to movie. I think the movie ending was much more realistic. What are the odds that Miss Watson would’ve given Jim his freedom in her will AND she’d happen to die when he got recaptured. Having Jim go back to being a slave also emphasizes the sacrifice he had to make to save Huck which parallels the risk that Huck had to take to save him, it paints Jim in a much greater light.

[sarahsims]

Man, I haven't seen this one in years; for me, this is like the most definitive version of that story.

[mityakiselev]

I knew the guy in the hat looked familiar, holy shit. I only know Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid from Harry Potter. It's weird, I often find familiar faces in movies and can't quite recognize who is it or where else they've played. Elijah Wood tho... I knew immediately it was him, he's got such a unique face