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Review: I don't advocate this much, but when you compare the novel and this movie, I would say go read the book. This book leaves out and alters so much of the story that it completely changes the meaning of the book. Omitting the Tom Sawyer sequence at the end is a complete crock. When Peter Jackson set out to make the Lord of the Rings, yes, he had to cut much out in order to not make 3 different four-hour long movies, but he didn't decide "Ok, let's change it from 'The Ring being destroyed' to 'Indians do a dance and then tell a story about how the White Man took his land'." Someone wrote that it shouldn't matter if it doesn't follow the book exactly. This is a case where it changed just about every possible aspect from the book just enough to be able to still call it Huck Finn. In fact, I could promise that just about the only two things from the book that were not altered in at least one blasphemous way were the title and the character's names.
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