| 88 |
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.
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| 80 |
Time
Richard Corliss
Take a while to get their vehicle to sail and soar. But when it does, this Planet is a treasure.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Surrender and enjoy the spectacle.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Boasts the purest of Disney raptures: It unites the generations, rather than driving them apart.
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| 80 |
Chicago Reader
Bill Stamets
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island becomes a rousing SF adventure in this animated Disney feature.
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| 78 |
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."
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| 75 |
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.
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| 75 |
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.
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| 75 |
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.
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| 75 |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
As family films go, this one offers an engaging and exciting 90 minutes.
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| 75 |
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.
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| 75 |
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.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
C.W. Nevius
The Disney cartoon roots are in there somewhere, but this is an oil painting come to life.
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| 75 |
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.
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| 70 |
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.
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| 67 |
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.
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| 63 |
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.
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| 63 |
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.
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| 63 |
USA Today
Claudia Puig
An innovative -- if only moderately entertaining -- spin on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island.
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| 63 |
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.
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| 60 |
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.
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| 60 |
Variety
Andy Klein
The film's total appeal may be undercut by a script that rarely feels inspired.
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| 58 |
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.
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| 50 |
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.
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| 50 |
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.
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| 42 |
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.
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| 40 |
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.
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| 30 |
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.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
Laura Sinagra
Despite more betrayal and loyalty than a Chris Carabba box set, there's no real good or evil here.
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| 20 |
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.
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