A low point in Disney feature animation
Added 7/13/2009
Even more of a lowpoint for Disney animation than their troubled 70s-early 80s films, it's hard to think of a worse animated feature from the studio than Treasure Planet. It's one of those pitches that sounds like a really bad idea when you hear it - a sci-fi version of Treasure Island with galleons as spaceships and a cyborg Long John Silver - but which, when you see it, turns out to be even worse than it looked.
It's from that period at the beginning of the century when Disney started to be running scared of the competition, changing their plans based purely on what their rivals were doing. Having turned Kingdom of the Sun, a half-completed epic drama into all-out comedy The Emperor's New Groove to compete with DreamWorks' Road to El Dorado, they then developed two animated adventures to counter the renewed threat of Don Bluth and his surprisingly good but hugely unsuccessful Titan AE. While Atlantis worked well enough until it reached its destination and fell foul of clumsy anime/New Age clichés, Treasure Planet never even gets off the starting blocks. It's colourful and very expensive looking without ever being particularly visually appealing, while despite a story by Pirates of the Caribbean writers, there's little wit here (a few verbal gymnastics from Emma Thompson's feline captain aside). Suspension of disbelief is a major problem - just how does everyone breathe in space? - but even bigger is the way the film confuses haste for excitement, in a constant rush that never allows it to create interesting characters or credible worlds as it races from one CGi heavy sequence to another, constantly throwing in uninvolving set pieces that are supposed to make you go WOW! but are more likely to evoke yawns as it trudges mechanically through a thousand animation clichés. Small wonder its failure sounded the death knell for traditional 2-dimensional animation at Disney
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Treasure Planet
Added 5/9/2009
This was a really cute movie, and has an awesome Goo Goo Dolls song in it. I purchased it for my 4 year old after he saw the preview for it on another movie we have.
The reason I didn't give it five stars is because my son was not happy with it. I think they showed all the good action shots on the preview and it took to long to get to them in his opinion. I, myself liked the movie a lot, though.
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Enjoyable Movie
Added 4/13/2009
Treasure Planet is one hour and thirty-five minutes and was released on November 27, 2002. The Disney movie is an update version of Treasure Island with a mixture of old and new technology. The movie revolves around a teenage boy named Jim Hawkins; whose father abandoned him years ago and secretly yearns for a father figure. One evening a spaceship crashes near the inn. A turtle like creature emerges from the ship calling himself Billy Bones. He tells Jim pirates are after his treasure. Once inside, Billy Bones give Jim an orb package and warns him of the cyborg. Just a few seconds later a gang of pirates arrives and tear the inn apart looking for the orb. Jim, his mother, and Dr. Delbert Doppler manage to escape before they are capture. They arrive at the home of Dr. Doppler and Jim opens the package and discovers that the orb is a map of the universe and a map to Treasure Planet and Captain Flint's treasure. Dr. Doppler hires a crew and ship and the two set sail for a treasure hunt. Captain Amelia makes Jim a Cabin Boy and assigns him to John Silver, the ship's cook and a cyborg. Jim suspects John Silver is the cyborg. Originally John and Jim wanted nothing to do with each other, but during the course of the movie John sort of become the father figure Jim is looking for. During a black hole storm First Mate Mr. Arrow is lost to a black hole when his life line is cut by Scroop, but Jim blames himself because he was put in charge of securing the life lines. RLS Legacy reaches Treasure Planet a mutiny takes place. Jim, Captain Amelia, and Dr. Doppler crash land on the planet. Once on the planet, Jim shows Amelia that the map is safe, but when he takes it out of his pocket it is actually Morph. Amelia is injured during the landing and tells Jim to scout ahead to find shelter. Jim and Morph run into B.E.N. B.E.N. claims to have literally lost his memory. B.E.N. invites them to take shelter in his place. Later that evening B.E.N., Morph, and Jim escape through a back to and head back to the ship to get the map. The trio recover the map and head back to the hideout and find John Silver and his gang has capture Amelia and Doppler and are about to kill them when John cannot get the orb to work. Finally he strikes up a deal and the prisoners all go with the pirates. Jim finds Captain Flint hideout and the treasure, but in doing unknowingly so set off a destruct signal. Jim and B.E.N. are at Captain Flint ship when Jim finds B.E.N. and put it back on. B.E.N., with his memory restored tells Jim why Flint took it off in the first place. He did so no one would find his treasure and if they did would set off a plant self destruct signal. It is a race to get off the planet. Jim, B.E.N., and John arrive back at the ship; however the ship is damaged and does not lack the fire power to get off the planet. Jim tells Doppler to turn the ship around because he is heading for the orb to set the portal to his home world. Everybody makes it out of the explosion alive and Jim helps John to escape. John leaves Jim with some treasure so his mom can rebuild her inn. Captain Amelia and Dr. Delbert Doppler get married, Jim's mom opens a new inn, and Jim makes his mom proud of him. I am giving Treasure Planet an AAAA++++ for the use of combining 2D animation with 3D computer animation.
1. Play
2. Bonus Material
A) Intergalactic Space Adventures
B) Visual Commentary
C) Deleted Scenes
D) Behind the Scenes
3. Scene Selection
4. Set Up
5. Sneak Peaks
A) Finding Nemo
B) Brother Bear
C) Atlantis: Milo's Return
D) Stitch: The Movie
E) Bionicle
F) The Lion King
G) George of the Jungle 2
H) Castle in the Sky
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A Great Family Film
Added 3/29/2009
My family watched this movie and we all loved it. It is funny, and has a ton of action which is great for the kids, and it shows the growth of a young boy into a man, which is an important idea for kids to learn, even if they learn it from a cartoon. This is very losely based on the Treasure Island story, but it is futuristic, and I think that they pull the story off very well. They voice actors were a great choice, and I think that this is overall one of my favorite fantasy cartoons to date. The use of pirates in the future was done quite well, and they kept the older elements of sword play while adding robots, aliens, and flying ships. This is definitly high on my list of must see movies.
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This is a Great Disney Movie, Father & Son story, superb!
Added 3/16/2009
A fun Disney movie, I was really surprised how good it was since it is an overlooked movie from Disney. Well I bought it and my 8 year old daughter has watched it 4 times now. It may be a father & son movie but it has a lot of fun characters, kids should dig the whole pirate theme. Buy it!
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A low point in Disney feature animation
Added 7/13/2009
Even more of a lowpoint for Disney animation than their troubled 70s-early 80s films, it's hard to think of a worse animated feature from the studio than Treasure Planet. It's one of those pitches that sounds like a really bad idea when you hear it - a sci-fi version of Treasure Island with galleons as spaceships and a cyborg Long John Silver - but which, when you see it, turns out to be even worse than it looked.
It's from that period at the beginning of the century when Disney started to be running scared of the competition, changing their plans based purely on what their rivals were doing. Having turned Kingdom of the Sun, a half-completed epic drama into all-out comedy The Emperor's New Groove to compete with DreamWorks' Road to El Dorado, they then developed two animated adventures to counter the renewed threat of Don Bluth and his surprisingly good but hugely unsuccessful Titan AE. While Atlantis worked well enough until it reached its destination and fell foul of clumsy anime/New Age clichés, Treasure Planet never even gets off the starting blocks. It's colourful and very expensive looking without ever being particularly visually appealing, while despite a story by Pirates of the Caribbean writers, there's little wit here (a few verbal gymnastics from Emma Thompson's feline captain aside). Suspension of disbelief is a major problem - just how does everyone breathe in space? - but even bigger is the way the film confuses haste for excitement, in a constant rush that never allows it to create interesting characters or credible worlds as it races from one CGi heavy sequence to another, constantly throwing in uninvolving set pieces that are supposed to make you go WOW! but are more likely to evoke yawns as it trudges mechanically through a thousand animation clichés. Small wonder its failure sounded the death knell for traditional 2-dimensional animation at Disney
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Treasure Planet
Added 5/9/2009
This was a really cute movie, and has an awesome Goo Goo Dolls song in it. I purchased it for my 4 year old after he saw the preview for it on another movie we have.
The reason I didn't give it five stars is because my son was not happy with it. I think they showed all the good action shots on the preview and it took to long to get to them in his opinion. I, myself liked the movie a lot, though.
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Enjoyable Movie
Added 4/13/2009
Treasure Planet is one hour and thirty-five minutes and was released on November 27, 2002. The Disney movie is an update version of Treasure Island with a mixture of old and new technology. The movie revolves around a teenage boy named Jim Hawkins; whose father abandoned him years ago and secretly yearns for a father figure. One evening a spaceship crashes near the inn. A turtle like creature emerges from the ship calling himself Billy Bones. He tells Jim pirates are after his treasure. Once inside, Billy Bones give Jim an orb package and warns him of the cyborg. Just a few seconds later a gang of pirates arrives and tear the inn apart looking for the orb. Jim, his mother, and Dr. Delbert Doppler manage to escape before they are capture. They arrive at the home of Dr. Doppler and Jim opens the package and discovers that the orb is a map of the universe and a map to Treasure Planet and Captain Flint's treasure. Dr. Doppler hires a crew and ship and the two set sail for a treasure hunt. Captain Amelia makes Jim a Cabin Boy and assigns him to John Silver, the ship's cook and a cyborg. Jim suspects John Silver is the cyborg. Originally John and Jim wanted nothing to do with each other, but during the course of the movie John sort of become the father figure Jim is looking for. During a black hole storm First Mate Mr. Arrow is lost to a black hole when his life line is cut by Scroop, but Jim blames himself because he was put in charge of securing the life lines. RLS Legacy reaches Treasure Planet a mutiny takes place. Jim, Captain Amelia, and Dr. Doppler crash land on the planet. Once on the planet, Jim shows Amelia that the map is safe, but when he takes it out of his pocket it is actually Morph. Amelia is injured during the landing and tells Jim to scout ahead to find shelter. Jim and Morph run into B.E.N. B.E.N. claims to have literally lost his memory. B.E.N. invites them to take shelter in his place. Later that evening B.E.N., Morph, and Jim escape through a back to and head back to the ship to get the map. The trio recover the map and head back to the hideout and find John Silver and his gang has capture Amelia and Doppler and are about to kill them when John cannot get the orb to work. Finally he strikes up a deal and the prisoners all go with the pirates. Jim finds Captain Flint hideout and the treasure, but in doing unknowingly so set off a destruct signal. Jim and B.E.N. are at Captain Flint ship when Jim finds B.E.N. and put it back on. B.E.N., with his memory restored tells Jim why Flint took it off in the first place. He did so no one would find his treasure and if they did would set off a plant self destruct signal. It is a race to get off the planet. Jim, B.E.N., and John arrive back at the ship; however the ship is damaged and does not lack the fire power to get off the planet. Jim tells Doppler to turn the ship around because he is heading for the orb to set the portal to his home world. Everybody makes it out of the explosion alive and Jim helps John to escape. John leaves Jim with some treasure so his mom can rebuild her inn. Captain Amelia and Dr. Delbert Doppler get married, Jim's mom opens a new inn, and Jim makes his mom proud of him. I am giving Treasure Planet an AAAA++++ for the use of combining 2D animation with 3D computer animation.
1. Play
2. Bonus Material
A) Intergalactic Space Adventures
B) Visual Commentary
C) Deleted Scenes
D) Behind the Scenes
3. Scene Selection
4. Set Up
5. Sneak Peaks
A) Finding Nemo
B) Brother Bear
C) Atlantis: Milo's Return
D) Stitch: The Movie
E) Bionicle
F) The Lion King
G) George of the Jungle 2
H) Castle in the Sky
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