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'Tom and Huck' vs 'The Adventures Of Huck Finn'

posted 16 years ago by Ricochet84
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I liked Huck Finn better.

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[–] crutchys_guardian_angel 16 years ago

i liked tom and huck better but thats just my opinion

[–] wes_j19 16 years ago

tom and huck is a kid's movie. the adventures of huckleberry finn is a mixture between a kid's novel and an adult novel. it explores many more themes than the movie and is therefore much more insightful. the movie is very entertaining though.

[–] crutchys_guardian_angel 16 years ago

Yeah either way though neither of the two are closely related to the books anyway

[–] gkn_88 15 years ago

I`ve read both of the books and seen both of the movies. Huck Finn is more related to the book, but the movie took the spirit away from it - I find it boring. When I was little I found it scary and boring.

So my answer would be that I prefer Tom & Huck over The Adventures of Huck Finn. Definately.

[–] BigBadDolemite 11 years ago

When I was a kid my choice would've been Tom and Huck. Now its Huck Finn. Better script, better acting, better everything really.

[–] bartallenii 10 years ago

I always wondered why they didn't do Huck Finn as the proper sequel to this movie instead of recasting the role with Elijah Wood and doing a whole new movie.

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[–] ZeoRangerFive 10 years ago

I always wondered why they didn't do Huck Finn as the proper sequel to this movie instead of recasting the role with Elijah Wood and doing a whole new movie.

The Adventures of Huck Finn came first and then Tom & Huck, Elijah Wood was recast with Brad Renfro.

That being said, I have always liked Adventures of Huck Finn better, I just learned today that Tom & Huck was written & produced by Stephen Sommers, so I guess it was a sequel of sorts to Adventures of Huck Finn.

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[–] Freakflag1 (126) 6 years ago

Brad renfro did an amazing job as Huck.

[–] Mikey (423) 5 years ago

They wanted to cast Wood as Huck in this film as well, but he was busy making FLIPPER and couldn't do it. That is why Renfro got the part. I prefer Renfro's Huck to Wood's; Renfro has more edge and seems more dangerous, the way you could imagine Huck really being. I wonder if they rewrote the role to suit Renfro's "bad boy" image. The character certainly seems a lot different than the one Wood played in the previous film. It's hard to imagine Wood's sweet but mischievous Huck as being the same character from this film, where he is definitely not sweet.