粘土动画定格大作。以马克吐温与哈雷彗星的因缘为基点，讲述马克吐温与几位童鞋乘坐飞艇访问彗星的奇妙冒险。其中穿插了马克吐温若干作品的动画戏说：
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Mysterious Stranger
The Damned Human Race
The Diary of Adam and Eve (Letters from the Earth)
Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
这些作品本身便反映了马克吐温本人的经历，动画又掺进马克吐温本人的真实生活并灵活结合故事的主线。老少咸宜，幽默而富含人生哲理。在了解到美国幽默文学大师的的同时，也可以体会到文学在动画创作中的重要性。
作为Will Vinton工作室的主力的粘土动画技术在此片中发挥得淋漓尽致。其中又以人物的脸部表情细节，物体变形动画和场景特效细节最为惊艳。从老人头到面具脸到千面风琴，无中生有的植物生长动画，可以看到白头水花，涟漪的水流和瀑布。配合声效和对白，不逊色于如今的CG效果。

As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.

1950 film by John Huston

1970 American-Japanese war film

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.