MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Matt Greene 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.

ehrh7295 Huckleberry FinThis story starts off in pre-civil war era. Huckleberry Fin is a great story produced by the legend Samuel Clemens also known as Mark Twain. The excellent actor Elijah Wood plays Huckleberry Fin, Elijah is more known for his later years for being the star in Lord of the Rings. Huck's main buddy Jim is played Courtney B. Vance. These two are together most of the story and they go on a comedic adventure that leads to a little trouble at times. The story unfolds nicely into a drama filled ending.Let's start this story from the beginning where Huck's drunk of a father Pap kidnaps him from his foster parents to take the trust fund his mother left him. Huck escapes from his Pap's cabin by faking his death and accidentally meets up with Jim, who is a runaway slave, at Jackson's Island. Since men of the town think Huck is dead they assume the runaway slave Jim killed him. During this time period it isn't much of the fact that he supposedly killed Huck more of the fact that he is a runaway slave which was a very large penalty at this time. Then from Jackson's island Huck and Jim's satire adventure begins.Now that Huck and Jim are on their adventure it starts to become this great story. Elijah Wood's acting was phenomenal. Even at such a young age he puts on an excellent show. This movie really showed Elijah's strengths of humor and a strong attitude. These are showed when Widow Douglas dresses him up and he runs away throwing his clothes off and messing up his freshly cleaned hair. Courtney B. Vance did a fantastic job with his ambitious mind to be free slave and his frightening of getting caught. He truly shows these skills once Huck floats across the river top turn in Jim for being a runaway slave. At this time, Jim leaves the raft and is about to take off then Huck uses satire and lies about his family being deathly ill on the raft which probably saves Jim's life and helps these two become closer. The costume design for this movie fits the pre civil war era perfectly. Most middle lower class wore roughed up dress clothes like Huck during most of the movie. Since Jim was a slave and a runaway slave at that he wore these torn up clothes that no one would want to be caught dead in during our time period, but this all changes once Jim is set free from slavery. Then he acquires some puffy dress clothes that the upper class would wear during this time period. I have seen many a lot of movies in all my years of being a movie critic and this is one of the best in its class. Elijah wood did such an amazing job to make this movie such a great production. If you plan on seeing this movie you should read the book first or learn a little on Mark Twain's writing style. This will you understand this film and make your overall experience better while watching this film. I will give this movie 4 ½ popcorns out of 5. This movie made me laugh, really get involved in the story, and tear up a little. The director and producer did a fantastic job to create such a great story.

mumm8890 Huckal Barry Finn Movie ReviewHukal Barry Finn is a movie of a young boy's adventure on his own and the problems he faces on the way. This movie takes place in early America when slavery was popular in the south. The young boy goes by the name of Huck (played by Elijah Wood) who later meets up with a slave named Jim (played by Courtney B. Vance). Huck is kidnapped and abused by Pap Finn (played by Ron Perlman). Before he was kidnapped Huck stayed and was parented by Widow Douglas (played by Dane Ivey). On Huck and Jim's adventure to the free states they face problems like Jim being recaptured as a slave and both of them being held captive by two con artist.Huck lives in a small town with Widow Douglas but is miserable. Huck is in his room one night when his pap comes to kidnap him. Huck is at his pap's cabin when pap goes to town to get a few goods. While pap is gone Huck tries to fake his own death to escape form Pap. Huck then runs to Jackson Island and meets up with Jim, a runaway slave. They decide to get on a raft and head to the free states but to do that they must go south first. When they are floating down the river the two con artists invade their raft. Because Huck is so young and Jim is a slave they had no choice but to listen to the two con artists and do as they say. They decide to dress up and act like two brothers from England and rob a rich family of their dead "brother's" riches. There is when Jim is captured and put in jail. Huck is determined to get Jim out of jail and on to the free states.This movie takes place in the older setting, so there is not much you can really do in the aspect of editing. All the movie needs and has is soft background music to transition from seen to seen. The music just makes the scene changes smoother so it does not seem like it jumps from scene to scene too quickly. Without the music the movie would have no emotion, would seem unprofessional, and would be rather boring. The actors in the movie can really seem to get into what they're doing. There is more that could have happened with the emotion of slavery. But over all they have seemed to get the fact that the movie was taken a while back and understand how to apply that to the acting. Over all I see the movie as a good movie if you wanted to see what the past was like. This movie is in no way an entertaining movie. This movie is slow movie and does not have much going on that will get the viewer really involved in it. If I were to rate this movie I would rate it two out of five stars.Matt Mummert American Literature Student 3rd Block: Mr. Mauzy's Class Written May 23, 2012

quin2195 "The Adventures of Huck Finn" Review This movie is about a boy named Huckleberry Finn who is kidnapped by his dad. His mom had given his dad a trust fund, but was not able to receive it until Huck was 17. Huck did not like is "Pa", as he called him, and was afraid of him. Huck escaped from his dad and met up with his friend, Jim, who is a black slave. The two go on different adventures dealing with several conflicts in their social era.At the beginning of the movie, you see Huck being kidnapped by his father. His father is a drunk and does not seem to care about Huck. While Huck's Pa is out, he plans out his fake death and runs away from his father's house. He then finds his friend Jim, who is a black slave, and start their journey down the Mississippi. They first stop on Jackson Island to sit down and set up camp. They are quickly run off the island because someone had spotted their campfire. Racing down the river, they find a different town to stop in. They realize that they need food and figure out a way how to get it. Huck dresses up as a little girl and pretends to be needy. He walks into a stranger's house and tries to steal food from them. When the stranger realizes that Huck is a boy, he runs away from the house back towards the river. He notices a wanted poster for $400 with Jim's picture on it for the murder of Huck. Knowing the truth about Huck, they continue anyway down the river. Going through various other towns, they meet up with the King and the Duke. This event changes their whole journey and they are now forced to follow them. The two men try to inherit money from an unknown family pretending to bet the heirs to the fortune of a death in the family. When the family realizes that they are not the real heirs, they tar and feather them and Huck and Jim escape. They start running away until Huck gets shot and falls. Jim brings them both back into town which causes Jim to get captured for hanging. The girls of the unknown family save Huck and Jim and help Huck get better.The acting is this movie plays a big role in how this story plays out. The characters feelings towards the other characters show the kind of connection and foretell how the characters will make their decisions on their friends. For instance, Huck and Jim's relationship shows that they stick together no matter what. When asked if Huck had seen a slave, he said that he had not seen one to save Jim. Also, when Huck found a new family and was selfish for what he was given, he left Jim to become a slave for the family, until, he saw that they had whipped his partner in crime. He leaves the family and saves his friend. Jim returns the favor at the end of the movie by saving him and bringing him back to safety after they had shot Huck.Another great aspect of this movie is the overall setting. The setting of 1800s would play a big role in Jim's character because he was a slave. They were not allowed to be out and about, let alone with a white boy. This shows the connection as well by showing even though Jim was a slave, Huck still had his back. The scene when the King and the Duke get tar and feathered also shows the setting of this movie because we do not tar and feather anybody anymore. Some of the dialects used in the movie were good clues as to what time line they were in as well.My overall reaction to this film is that it is a great lesson to be learned from it. The story shows friendship and non-discrimination between races. I feel like the movie shows a realistic boys dream of going around the world adventuring. The main thing I like about this movie is that the main characters always find each other and always stick together and I give this movie 2 thumbs up.