The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)

Purely Joyful Movie!

From my favorite movies..

Excellent but underrated film

Brilliant and touching

This was spectacular! Love the art of claymation and especially when it's well done like this. There were surprisingly many emotions expressed through the characters' facial expressions and a great music score to enhance the mood of every scene. Especially the darker segments like the nihilistic Mysteious Stranger. Love how disturbing it is, but still in a thoughtprovoking way. In general, the whole adventure gives you a lot to think about. Mark Twain and the characters of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer and Becky have some engaging conversations about his journey to go out with Haley's comet which makes a beautiful ending. It was a pleasure watching this journey through different works of Mark Twain, especially the one about Adam and Even which was amusing and made me smile several times. And, of course, The Mysterious Stranger made a creepy tale with a disturbing yet engaging nihilistic view of humanity. I like when animated movies go into such territories. Go watch it if this provoked your interest. I hope it will get more praise for its artistic value.

This movie is great on so many different levels. It delves into both the popular and overlooked works written by Mark Twain. All of the stories are explored in great depth, making it both entertaining to watch and can be educational at the same time. There is not a single moment in this movie where you wonder if it is worth watching, it encapsulates the audience with its great wit and fun story telling.This film also pays homage to my favourite literary work of all time, "No.44, The Mysterious Stranger" and does it great justice in the process. I cannot emphasize how good this film is using words, because it exceeds all of my expectations each time I watch it.

This film was one of my favourites as a child, and has remained so for many and various reasons. The Claymation in the film is second-to-none, with objects and characters continually reshaping themselves in a most psychedelic fashion. The story is fantastic, and weaves together several of Mark Twain's lesser known tales using a fantastically depicted frame story of his most famous characters (Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Becky Thatcher) stowing away on Twain's balloon in which he intends to meet Halley's comet, there in the year of his birth and the year of his death. (Quote: "There go those two unaccountable freaks, they came in together and they must go out together") This movie is not just visually superb, it brings its viewer through the story with all the emotions that a great movie should bring to its viewer. From joy in the touching antics of 'Our Ancestor Adam' from the 'Diary of Adam and Eve' section through some brilliantly evocative quotes spoken by the fantastically animated 'Twain' to the eerie and fearful intensity that comes when the central characters meet 'An Angel', this movie has true and unconventional value.I would recommend this to everyone, but as I'd like it to remain one of cinema's rare hidden gems, don't watch it unless you're ready to be amazed...

This is a movie that I watched a lot as a kid, having taped it off (I presume) HBO. It's one of those movies that stays with you. I haven't seen it since I was in grade school, but, watching it now, I'm not sure if I forgot even a second of it. It was the first feature film made entirely with clay. Mark Twain plans to fly his airship to meet up with Halley's Comet. Three of his most famous characters, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, stow away on the ship. When discovered, Twain makes them his crew. On the ship, they are told some of Twain's stories, and here plenty of his famous witticisms (almost all of Twain's dialogue is made up of his nuggets of wisdom). The movie starts off pretty slow, and some of the comedy early on is only moderately amusing. However, as it moves on, the film becomes darker, discovering the cynicism and sadness that exists in the works of Mark Twain. The most memorable sequence has the children meeting Satan, inspired by the posthumously published work The Mysterious Stranger. My other favorite segment is from The Diaries of Captain Stormfield, where a man arrives at an alien version of Heaven. Thanks go to the Onion's A.V. Club for pointing out that this was released on DVD a while back. I never would have caught that myself.