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(- 2002 -)

Original Title Treasure Planet Director Ron Clements Genre Adventure, Animation, Family, Sci-Fi Released 2002-11-5 MPAA Rating Rated PG for adventure action and peril. Rated 6.6

Plot Summary

A futuristic twist on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Treasure Planet follows restless teen Jim Hawkins on a fantastic journey across the universe as cabin boy aboard a majestic space galleon. Befriended by the ship's charismatic cyborg cook, John Silver, Jim blossoms under his guidance and shows the makings of a fine shipmate as he and the alien crew battle a supernova, a black hole, and a ferocious space storm. But even greater dangers lie ahead when Jim discovers that his trusted friend Silver is actually a scheming pirate with mutiny on his mind.

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Roscoe Lee Browne as Mr. Arrow (voice) , Corey Burton as Onus (voice) , Dane A. Davis as Morph (voice) , Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jim Hawkins (voice) , Tony Jay as Narrator (voice) , Austin Majors as Young Jim (voice) , Patrick McGoohan as Billy Bones (voice) , Laurie Metcalf as Sarah (voice) , Brian Murray as John Silver (voice) , David Hyde Pierce as Doctor Doppler (voice) , Martin Short as B.E.N. (voice) , Emma Thompson as Captain Amelia (voice) , Michael McShane as Hands (voice) (as Micheal McShane) , Michael Wincott as Scroop (voice) , Jack Angel as Additional Voice (voice)

IMDB User Comments

Better than average, but typical Disney (Slight spoilers) Caught Disney's latest at a trade preview this weekend and found it enjoyable. There have been critics of its un-scientific elements: ships with 'solar sails' travelling through space as if the void was breatheable, the peculiar arrangement of the heavens and so on. But I didn't find these liberties distracting in what is clearly a clever fantasy, and a lot of the fun is to be had from discovering exactly how the studio has redone Stevenson's classic. The central relationship is worked very well. Confronted with one of the most colouful figures in fiction, Disney have made Silver into an excellently characterised cyborg whose facial appearance owes more to Wallace Beery than Robert Newton's more famous interpretation of the role. His scenes with the boy are standouts. Silver's parrot has become a small, red, metamorphosing alien, while Ben Gunn is less dangerous than in the book, a batty robot. The flatulent alien-seaman is rather juvenile, and perhaps shows a failure of imagination, but kids will love it. More controversial is Emma Thompson, whose Brit accent may be 'authentic' but rather sticks out as a tough, no-nonsense sea salt of a captain. Patrick McGoohan voices the short lived Billy Bones (his first Disney work?), while Frasier's David Hyde Pierce is amiable as the bumbling Doctor Doppler. Jim Hawkins, another one of Disney's orphans, finds a new father in Silver who at the end smiles down at him munificently from the clouds in a way reminiscent of The Lion King's 'our father who art in heaven'. The film mixes computer generated back grounds with the traditional cell animation to good effect. The main disappointment, IMHO, is in the last third of the picture, where the Treasure Planet (a place which vaguely recalls that of the Krell's Altair-4 in Forbidden Planet) is barely explored when once arrived at, and matters are wrapped up rather too cursorily. Howard's score is good, although Disney still can't resist adding a rather uninspiring song to the mix, rather than going the whole hog and resetting the original shanties. I'd recommend this although some of the scenes may a bit scary for younger children.

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