Amazon.com video review:
Huckleberry Finn's age has been scaled down in this 1993
Disney film in order to accommodate star Elijah Wood's young years at
the time. But that's not the only concession
Mark Twain's great American
novel must make to Disney revisionism. Wood's Huck, as adapted for
the screen by writer-director Stephen Sommers, is all rascal and only
nominally a philosopher, which takes a lot of the soul out of Twain's
extraordinary story about Huck's enlightenment while traveling with
the slave Jim (Courtney B. Vance) along the Mississippi river. Big
chunks of the journey are also minimized in significance, and not just
for the sake of storytelling economy. Jason Robards Jr. and Robbie
Coltrane brighten things up, but overall this is an unnecessarily
simplified version of an important story. --Tom Keogh
