It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Why isn't "Adventures Of Title" a trope yet? Seriously, I see that title everywhere. This was a good movie for me, but it wasn't that good. It's mostly because I wish they would have had more Mark Twain stories that we're familiar with. Then again, it was kind of nice to learn about ones I was not familiar with. The stop motion effects are the highlight.I remember seeing the part with Satan the angel on the Internet years ago. That's easily the best part of the movie. This film tells the story of how Huckleberry Finn, Tom Swayer, and Becky Thatcher stumbled onto Mark Twain's airship. Mark Twain was a critic of religion, but the stories here didn't seem anti-religious. The Adam and Eve one was more funny than anything else. It has some interesting morals to it too.

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a strange clay animation, but this takes the cake for all around strangeness. Mark Twain on a crazy, science fiction hot air balloon with some of his characters on board, and his goal is to collide with Halley's Comet. It's weirder than it sounds, and makes even less sense too. The animation is what makes this watchable, and the lack of coherent plot brings it down greatly.Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn go into town to find that local writer Mark Twain is going into the sky in a hot air balloon that looks more like a giant blimp. They sneak on board, along with their friend Becky Thatcher, and Mark Twain tells them his plan to hit Halley's Comet. He also tells them several stories, the most prominent being Twain's take on Adam and Eve. This might be the only claymated anthology movie, and let's hope not too many more are made. This didn't work at all as a feature length film because of it's anthology set up. It feels like a jumbled, disjointed television program.The animation looks good. It's some of the most detailed animation I've ever seen. The characters all look unique and have such expressive faces. Everything is very smooth, and for it's time, and even for now, this was some great animation.It seems the casting directors looked hard, and they found the perfect, most natural sounding voices. Where some cartoons suffer from unnatural sounding characters, this movie has very realistic voices. The voices are so natural and not over the top at all, they mix in well with the spectacular animation to give a surrealistic atmosphere, that seems very real, but at the same time quite askew, as one would expect a film about Mark Twain in a magical balloon would be.So, what was the point of this movie? It must have been to teach children about the written works of Mark Twain, but what child would want to sit through this? Sure, it looks good, but it's a bunch of random stories little children would find boring, and the actual plot of Sawyer and Finn on board Mark Twain's balloon is just bizarre. Some scenes are downright scary. The scariest scene in the movie deals with the kids going into a dark room with a creepy character who spoke through a mask who goes by the name of Satan. Satan destroys worlds, and the kids become confused and scared, which is the same reaction as the audience. It's hard to tell who this was made for. It appeals to no one, but that might be due to the quality of the script.I hated the end theme song about heroes. What a horrible song to end the movies. It's cheesy and very 80's, and doesn't go along with a cartoon taking place in 1910. It would have fit better on Teen Wolf than this.Overall, what we have here is a very odd movie about Mark Twain and some of his characters traveling and telling stories. The animation is top notch, but the plot (or there lack of) is next to none. This features the scariest animated scene ever, and is a truly bizarre psychedelic trip through 1910 (Never thought I'd say that!).My rating: ** 1/2 out of ****. 85 mins. Rated G.

This movie is a wonderful treat for any age. A child can grow up with this movie and see it differently as he/she matures. As a great fan of Mark Twain, I can say this movie has never disappointed me.It has a wonderful storyline and the claymation makes for better than average animation. There are some truly dark parts in this movie that young children will not understand, but that adults may find disturbing.I have watched this movie many times and have never tired of it. There are few movies I have watched more than once. The script is so well developed from all the material that Twain wrote, that I have been continuously impressed at its depth. The broad outline of the story is based on the fact that Samuel Clemens was born and died in successive passes of Halley's Comet. Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher are along on a ride on an airship invented by Mark Twain. Portions of Twain's stories are presented as "chapters" in the overall storyline.The sad part is the unavailability of the movie. It was released on video tape, but now there are only a few used tapes for sale. I vote for release on DVD so the movie could reach a wider audience. I will certainly buy multiple copies to give as presents to all the Twain fans I know.

This is an amazing piece of animation and script. The script is taken almost entirely from the works of Mark Twain, especially some of his lesser known pieces of satire. The whole sequence on Adam and Eve is the best. The "Mysterious Stranger" segment is particularly dark and brooding. Vinton has done an excellent and clever job of mixing real events in Twain's life, the fact that he was born and died with the appearing of Haley's Comet, and events and characters from his "fictional" life, the characters of Tom Sawyer. A masterpiece for devotees of Mark Twain and those who know little but want to know more. We can only hope that it will be released soon. The is no artistic reason to lock it away in a vault. I first saw it 15 years ago on an overnight movie program on a local TV station. I have regretted not being able to see it again except on a poor quality video tape I made of the show.