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Treasure Planet
Walt Disney Pictures


8.2

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Playstation 2 Treasure Planet

MPAA RATING: PG for adventure action and peril

Starring Roscoe Lee Browne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Hyde Pierce, Mona Marshall, Brian Murray, Johnny Rzeznik, Martin Short, and Emma Thompson and Michael Wincott

Disney's futuristic twist on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island."

GENRE(S):	Sci-fi
WRITTEN BY:	Rob Edwards Ron Clements (story) John Musker (story) Robert Louis Stevenson (novel Treasure Island)
DIRECTED BY:	Ron Clements John Musker
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: April 29, 2003 Video: April 29, 2003 Theatrical: November 5, 2002
RUNNING TIME:	95 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Disney's updated, animated version respects its source material while aiming at kids who grew up with extreme sports and edgy music.

Time Richard Corliss

Take a while to get their vehicle to sail and soar. But when it does, this Planet is a treasure.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Surrender and enjoy the spectacle.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

Boasts the purest of Disney raptures: It unites the generations, rather than driving them apart.

Chicago Reader Bill Stamets

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island becomes a rousing SF adventure in this animated Disney feature.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

The overall tone of this rocket-paced updating is exhilaratingly giddy, making it by far Disney’s best animated film since "Mulan."

Boston Globe Ty Burr

As literary desecrations go, this makes for perfectly acceptable, occasionally very enjoyable children's entertainment. You'll forget about it by Monday, though, and if they're old enough to have developed some taste, so will your kids.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

After a moment's adjustment, it works amazingly well, because the emotions that drive teenagers like Jim to seek their places in the firmament transcend eras, fashion, even animation styles.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

If Treasure Planet falls short of "Lion King's" classic status, it still proves there is plenty of room in animation for movies that aren't geared exclusively to 8-year-olds.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

As family films go, this one offers an engaging and exciting 90 minutes.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

With its polished mix of traditional and computer-generated cartooning, Treasure Planet doesn't exude the same suspense as the Disney original. You could say it's lighter on its feet -- but then there's less gravity in outer space, anyway.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

The Disney cartoon feature Treasure Planet is shot through with ingenuity. It outlandishly, cleverly moves Robert Louis Stevenson's seminal swashbuckler Treasure Island to outer space. The movie's affection for its source may be enough to get youngsters to crack open the original.

San Francisco Chronicle C.W. Nevius

The Disney cartoon roots are in there somewhere, but this is an oil painting come to life.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Ray Conlogue

This concoction, so bizarre to the adult mind, is actually a charming triumph where its intended under-12 audience is concerned.

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

Co-directors and writers John Musker and Ron Clements doll it up so marvelously you're sucked into the screen and forced to confront the fact that at their best, these filmmakers can make the two-dimensional astonishingly warm and full-bodied.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

There's no mistaking the fact that this hybrid misses the impact of the Disney classic, and even that of the excellent 1934 MGM version. Both of these films are surprisingly hard-edged and every bit as thrilling -- and scary -- as Stevenson's 1883 novel.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Has zest and humor and some lovable supporting characters, but do we really need this zapped-up version of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic? Eighteenth century galleons and pirate ships go sailing through the stars, and it somehow just doesn't look right.

Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder

Combining cutting-edge computer animation with traditional two-dimensional characters, Treasure Planet pops off the screen, reviving Stevenson's adventure with surprising accuracy.

USA Today Claudia Puig

An innovative -- if only moderately entertaining -- spin on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

The animation is also a hybrid: almost quaint-looking, traditionally animated characters plopped into elaborate, sometimes quite stunning computer-animated backgrounds.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

With much more success than last summer's formula-bound "Atlantis," Treasure Planet finds the common ground between classic Disney animation and newfangled action-adventure films.

Variety Andy Klein

The film's total appeal may be undercut by a script that rarely feels inspired.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

A handsome picture, with lots of nifty borrowings from the "Star Wars" galaxy, but it's never particularly compelling as a story or as a vehicle for emotions, and when it's over you have a feeling of still waiting for it to get started.

TV Guide Angel Cohn

The oddest thing about this movie isn't that the familiar characters have been transformed into aliens, or that dogs and cats possess human traits: It's the odd sight of futuristic fantasy in 18th-century dress.

LA Weekly Jon Strickland

Give writer-director team John Musker and Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules) credit for trying to update the formula and grow with the kids weaned on their earlier hits, though it's doubtful the "tweens" they’re aiming at here still embrace Disney, and little kids don't care about back story.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Quite honestly, you could nap for an hour and not miss a thing, but when the crew finally makes it to the glowing piles of booty at Treasure Planet's core, the film unleashes some pleasing visual fireworks. That's where it should have started, not ended.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

The genre's recent past has set the bar quite high, and Treasure Planet doesn't quite make it over.

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

Comes briefly to life, after many longeurs -- many large longeurs in IMAX -- with the discombobulated entrance of B.E.N., a dysfunctional, hyperverbal robot voiced by Martin Short.

Village Voice Laura Sinagra

Despite more betrayal and loyalty than a Chris Carabba box set, there's no real good or evil here.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

The delicate magic of, for instance, Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away," which Disney released earlier this fall, is absent from this brainless, mechanical picture.

The average user rating for this movie is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Maddie S. gave it a10:
I'm 14 and this is one of my favourite Disney films, like, EVER!!!!!!!!!!! the music is great (I hum it to myself all the time) and if Jim was real and went to my school none of the girls would ever leave him alone! (I'm not being creepy or anything, I'm just trying to say he looks cool.)

varne gave it a10:
OUTSTANDING, a Disney film to be remembered, once again Disney has created a film truly worth watching time and time again.

Samantha S. gave it a 10:
BEST. MOVIE. EVER. PERIOD.

Pat C. gave it a 3:
This was really a unique twist on the old pirate story. But so what? I will never be able to do the mental convolutions necessary to imagine Robert Louis Stevenson as writing a novel to facilitate video games. It has a couple of chuckles, but for the most part it is just plain bizarre.

Kelly gave it a 10:
Magical and touching, full of adventure. i loved it.

Sara gave it a 10:
I love this movie, I already have it. I got it the day it came out, on the 19th ^_^ I can't get enough of it. I don't understand why people don't like it. The story is great and the characters are ones to relate too. Captain Amelia is wonderfull, I don't think that haveing animal characters with human characteristics is a bad thing. It's cute, and captures a kid's mind. I'm 15 and I LOVE Disney movies, Lion King is my all time fav along with others, but Treasure Planet captured me and alot of my friends, so I think those who don't like it should see it again, they weren't paying attention or don't have an open mind.

Luke H. gave it a 10:
Never fails. A non-Japanese animator tries something original and the critics decide they'll hate it before they see it. This picture was beautifully animated and captures all of the adventure of the novel on which it was based. David Hyde Pierce and Martin Short are comic geniuses, the music was brilliant, and the film in general was great. I went to see it four times--it could've been more if the critics hadn't turned everyone off to it. (Oscar or bust!)

Treasure Planet Walt Disney Pictures

Treasure Planet
Walt Disney Pictures