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Rating:  -
I would give this review 3 1/2 stars if I could, but I've got to settle on a tentative 4. This is maybe the best family film based on Dicken's classic story of Oliver. With excessive characters and side-plots done away with in recrafting the main plot, it's less dense without being too fluffy, and it's gritty enough without being (as the novel is, at times) frighteningly violent. Most of the actors carry their parts well, except for the man who played as Bill Sykes, and the child actor who played as Oliver. Elijah Wood did good acting, with his facial expressions and body-language delivering the right emotions at the right time, and though his accent wasn't the most brilliant I've ever heard, he was entirely consistent in his usage of it, which is saying a lot! He fell short, due to misguided directing, of living up to the name of "Artful Dodger". It was very, very silly to have him leading around such a huge band of little theives. In real life, they would have made the police suspicious and been arrested within an hour . . . but that wasn't Wood's fault. In the book Fagin sent the boys out in either alone or in small groups. The Artful and Charley Bates were a twosome, and then when Oliver joined them they were a trio -- and the Artful always made sure they remained inconspicuous. As for Sykes, this movie's interpretation of him was so cartoonish it was all but laughable. Sykes in the book was less ranting and more cruely sarcastic, less of a raving hot-head and more coldly menacing. Though he often was hysterically violent, the creepy thing about him was that his *bite* was always worse than his *bark*. Fagin is a lost cause -- he is not Dicken's Fagin. But the actor carried well the part of the Fagin custom-made for this movie. The one thing that should definately have been changed was the potrayel of Oliver: the child actor who played him was as composed in all the filth and violence as a school-boy who just stepped off the bus.
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Wow! I'm speechless! What a great film! I was so happy to see this movie. Now for the characters... Richard Dreyfus made a great Fagin. He was very funny. Antoine Byrne was ssssssssssssooooooooooo great for Nancy. Totaly perfect. She made a splendid Nancy,and touched my heart. Oh my was she good! I've got to meet her! David O'Hara was so great and freaky,when he killed Nancy. I was frozen to the T.v. but it's just acting. Well now for Eligah Wood very well done. He was totally perfect for Dodger,just perfect! So was Oliver [Alex Trench] I was so glad when he got his freedom away from that horrible Mrs. Bumble! Well ta ta friends!
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First off I want to say that I'm a Elijah Wood fan so I have nothing against this gifted actor but I was very disappointed in this version of Oliver Twist and I hate to have to say this but I think he was not right for the part of Artful Dodger. Not only was his British accent poor but the way he looked in the movie in his costumes made me think he was posing for a painting like The Little Blue Boy Painting.
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Awfull,want to see a good version try Oliver 1967 (only available in UK)Or wait until September 05 yet another version is being released
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Charles Dickens has been served amply on film with all but two of his epic Novels (Dombey & Son and Barnaby Rudge) committed to at least one film. The Novella A Christmas Carol has had at least 20 treatments, and close behind it is Oliver Twist. Unfortunately, the Disney TV Oliver Twist does not serve Dickens well, having obliterated most of the delicate balance that the Novel maintains to have credibility. Well, we do forgive and overlook certain things with a classic, but the only contribution this film makes is the performance of Elijah Wood in a very different interpretation of Jack Dawkins, the Artful Dodger.
The film lacks many main and important characters-Mr. Bumble, the Beetle being the most prominent. Some characters, like Mrs. Corney, are transposed into new roles to cover for missing characters. Disney's London is representational and Fagin's boys are not even sympathetic. Dickens created a world where the orphan is the victim of the environment-the baby farm, the workhouse, the fence, the courts, and prison. Oliver, Jack Dawkins, Bill Sikes and Fagin are the four stages of the fall into depravity at society's hands. Then, why, in this film don't we give a flip about Oliver? He doesn't even appear to be in danger. Maybe because the writers thought Oh, well, everyone knows this story. So let's just give them the parts they want to see and forget the rest. Unfortunately, the beef is removed and the broth has evaporated.
Richard Dreyfuss gives us a caricature of Fagin-rarely threatening, never the tyrannical Jew that Dickens despised and scapegoated and, above all, let's him get away scot-free at the end. In the novel, Fagin goes to the gallows. But we mustn't show the kiddies that! Fagin's character never grows. In addition, Bill Sikes is never as psycho as Dickens portrayed him. David O'Hara presents us with a stage villain, who is more greed than certifiable. Alex Trench as Oliver walks through his role much like David Copperfield does. Except, Dickens' David Copperfield is one of literature blandest creations. Oliver is a harrowing role-purity under complete and utter assault. Not here folks.
Elijah Wood, as the Artful Dodger, is the only actor who both entertains and performs, developing the character to its fullest. Unfortunately, since none of that character's arc is really Dickensian, it serves to heighten the fault with both script and the other performances, That leaves us with a frame for an Elijah Wood showcase.
The sinister plot line that involves Oliver's true heritage is so obliterated in the film that the relationships between Mr. Brownlow and Oliver are actually stated as Grandson and Grandfather. There is no lurking Edward in the background. Rose is a sweet sister like figure instead of Oliver's aunt, haunted by the nightmare of her childhood. Even Mrs. Bedwin, a wonderful Dickens creation, becomes a minor housekeeper with two lines and a tea tray. Nancy, played by Antoine Byrne, is not half so good as she could be and none of the tense emotions that split her between lover and motherhood are presented. I guess we're suppose to have read the book and assume that they are there.
So, what do we have in Disney's Oliver Twist? A thin remnant and bastardized story line from the original-washed faces, both the streets of London and its urchins, a merry old Fagin, a stage murderer, some milk toast ancillaries and a powerful Artful Dodger, who upstages the rest of the cast. Except for a glimpse of Elijah Wood's first adult performance and the intelligence of his stylings, stick to the older OT's-Dickie Moore and Jackie Cooper. C-
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