Simply Perfect

best movie i've ever seen.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The setting of this story is in a small town in Mississippi. it is an adventure film with some comedy mixed in with it. it was during the civil war era, when blacks were still being used for slavery. Some of the stars were Elijah wood as Huck, Courtney B. Vance as Jim, and Ron Perlman as pap Finn. Elijah Wood or Huck is a thirteen year old boy who comes from a poor background and has been raised up to this point, by his uneducated, uncivilized, drunkard father. The story takes place in Mississippi during pre-civil war times. Widow Douglas and Miss Watson have taken him in and are attempting to civilize him. Courtney B. Vance or Jim is a black slave that ends up running away with Huck when he runs away because he caused his fake death to get away from his father. Jim is caring, One of Miss Watson's household slaves. Jim is superstitious and occasionally sentimental, but he is also intelligent, practical, and ultimately more of an adult than anyone else in the movie. Huck's father, the town drunk is a wreck when he appears at the beginning of the movie, with disgusting, ghostlike white skin and tattered clothes. but he sure did act like he cared when he went looking for Huck's fake killer after Huck had put pig blood all over and trashed his pap's house to make it look like someone had brutally murdered him. and that is when the whole adventure begins, when he runs away with Jim he finally has a way to to leave without having to worry about anyone looking for him. he is finally free to do what he wants. i choose to discuss acting as my aspect of filmmaking, because i think that it is a very well done act. when Huck had gotten shot but he acted like he was fine when Jim asked him why he was being so slow, another example is when he told that big long lie and the doctor did not believe him and he just thought he was a good liar. My overall reaction to the film is that it was a very well thought out and well wrote movie that always had new surprises planned for the viewer. I think that the quality of the movie was really good it had funny parts to it and a few sad parts. the graphics were pretty good and i think that it would be a great movie for a family looking for something to do to watch. I give it 4 out of 5 stars.

Michael Kuhn 5/23/12 My view of Huckleberry FinnThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain during the realism era. The story kicks off with Huck Finn (main character, very mischievous) messing around with some other boys when he sees his Pap's shoe print. This really scares him and he runs to tell his friend Jim. Jim is a slave that is about thirty-five years old and he tells Huck that he should go and hide from his Pap. Huck runs off to his house where he lives with two older women who appear to be his foster parents. His pap comes later that night and kidnaps Huck so Huck fakes his death and runs to a deserted Island called Jacksons Island and it turns out that his friend Jim ran away to become he was going to be sold, and so the adventure began.Huck and Jim were discovered on the Island shortly afterward and grabbed a few supplies as they made their way out of the town. On the way to Cairo (a fictional city where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi) they ran into a few issues. Huck and Jim were traveling mainly at night so it was hard to tell where they were going and to see. One night a ship ran over their raft and they were forced to climb aboard. They decided to loot the ship for supplies and Jim came across Huck's Pap, but he was dead. He decided not to tell Huck because he was afraid the he would run back to their town if he did. They boarded another raft and set off towards Cairo once again. They traveled further south and ran into a couple of strangers who told them they were south of Cairo. They traveled with the strangers to St Petersburg where the townspeople were waiting for the arrival of two brothers to listen to the will of a rich man in the city. The strangers claimed that they were the brothers and inherited all the money but are later discovered to be frauds.The acting in this film was spot on. I think the director made an excellent choice for all the characters, especially the leads. I don't know how the characters relate to the characters in the book but I reckon they are similar. Huck reminds me of a kid who causes a lot of trouble and it shows perfectly in the first scene of the movie when he gets in a fight with the other boy.I really liked the plot of this story. It was funny and adventurous but also showed some really good morals. Jim showed us just because everyone is doing something that doesn't make it right. Huck is adventurous and funny throughout the whole movie. The story flowed very nicely and didn't waste time with useless information and got straight to the point.I was surprised that I actually learned something from a silly Disney movie. The lesson that was taught in the story was very valid and important to everyday life. For example just because everyone in high school drinks and parties every weekend doesn't make it right so I think everyone can learn a lesson by watching the movie. My rating on the film would be five out of five stars because the acting, script and plot were all excellent. I'm glad that I watched this movie and plan on reading the book soon!

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

"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.