Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Celebrity Home Enter
• VHS Release Date: April 11, 1989
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301269500
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #409,361 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awsome!, March 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Les Miserables [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of the best movies I have ever watched so far! it was clearly well thought out, since the actors and actresses were all perfect in their place. It's a movie for the whole family, and a great moral value! Everyone should see this movie!!!!!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Les Miserables Lite, March 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Les Miserables [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The writers of this movie obviously had no clue as to the motivations of Hugo's characters. This was clearly a poor slapping-together of charicatures. Rush's Javert comes across as a cardboard villain, with utterly no nobility or honor. This isn't the Javert Hugo created. Neeson's Valjean is better crafted, but still lacks the greatness of the character in the book. This movie also ignores the social messages of the novel and seems to lack a clear focus. And where are Enjorlas, Eponine, the Thenardiers? For a much better-acted and better conceived version that covers the same ground as this one, see the Frederic March/Charles Laughton 1935 version. The 1998 version should be forgotten

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Read the book instead!, March 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Les Miserables [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I was truly not impressed with this film after reading the epic novel by Victor Hugo. It did not convey the same spirit and ideas that Hugo was trying to portray. The novel is made up of five volumes. Three fourths of this film was spent on the first volume, and Cosette's adult life seemed almost an afterthought. The musical was infinitely better. One positive note -- Liam Neeson's portrayal of Jean Valjean was rather good.