The Adventures of Mark Twain
1985
6/10
I was scrolling thru my YouTube recommendations last month and the below video, for whatever reason was listed.
The title of the video and the preview scroll caught my attention quickly. I scrolled thru the comments and discovered it was a clip from this film. The clip is on some Way Out In Left Field shit. Lucifer drops some one liners that you would expect to hear from Spock in TOS. I was definitely curious after watching the clip and looked it up and saw it on tubi. I watched it last night on the road.
The film is in Claymation. The claymation is probably some of the best work you would probably see. I was highly impressed. It almost looks like it was computer animated until you realize it was made in the mid-80s. So it’s true claymation animation.
The stories thru-out are interpretations of various Mark Twains stories. The Lucifer clip above is from “The Chronicles of Young Satan”.
There are a couple of other stories interpreted for the film. A couple of them have religious aspects to them. I’m not sure if the film was trying to send a religious message cuz I didn’t see it.
The film plays out from start to finish very odd and weird. It somewhat comes off as a Stoner Flick on the level of the classic Beatles “The Yellow Submarine”. It’s supposed to be a children’s film, but it doesn’t come close to anything that I would let a child watch.
For the InCells, there is a story on Adam and Eve. The story depicts Adam as a complete moron and Eve as an intellectual. Some of the dialogue and visuals you will find offensive and disturbing if you hate and despise women.
I had never heard of this film or knew of its existence. It’s the first time I saw it.
Overall, I suspect this film is more enjoyable if you are drunk, buzzed or high as a kite on some psychedelic drug. I was sober and it came off interesting.
If you enjoy odd, weird and WTF content. You will enjoy this film.
tubi has a clean, HD remastered version.
Synopsis
In this claymation film, celebrated author Mark Twain (James Whitmore), displeased with the state of humanity, sets off in a hot-air balloon to meet his celestial destiny: Halley's Comet. Stowed away on the craft are beloved characters from Twain's stories -- Tom Sawyer (Chris Ritchie), Becky Thatcher (Michele Mariana) and Huckleberry Finn (Gary Krug). As Twain's balloon ascends ever higher to its ultimate goal, his literary creations try to persuade him of the essential goodness of man.
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were more powerful than the Transformers. I know the story, but the movie did a poor job detailing that part.
