it not possible to watch this film objectively if you have read hugo masterpiece . the creator of this flop obviously have no understanding of the character and barely include many of them at all . eponine wasn not anywhere to be see and thenardier and gavroche and the priest be only token inclusion and the death of gavroche doesn not move u at all because we hardly know who he be . marius be change from a shy and reclusive young man into the dare leader of the revolution and cosette to a painful teenager . they couldn not even get valjean right a they do not understand that he would never slap cosette or smash javert head into a wall . the portrayal of javert and fantine be the only redeeming feature of this mess .