TREASURE PLANET -- Ron Clement & John Musker, Dirs

©2001
studio: Walt Disney Video
production company: Walt Disney Pictures
cast: Roscoe Lee Browne, Corey Burton, Dane A. Davis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tony Jay
directors: Ron Clements & John Musker
screenplay: Ron Clements
(based on a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A Disney animated version of "Treasure Island". The only difference is that the film is set in outerspace with alien worlds and other galactic wonders.

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This was a Netflix film for my kids which barely held their interest. There is really nothing at all engaging about this film. The bad guys aren't quite bad enough and the good guys aren't quite good enough.

It of course featured a typical Disney "cute" character, which, as they often do, took away from what story they had left in this bastardized adaptation. It felt as though the studio was trying to show how many strange and creative aliens they were able to come up with, rather than developing a solid story. And so the story falters, and quite frankly even their variety of aliens pales next to sci-fi films of three decades past.

You probably haven't heard much hype on this film, and there's good reason. It's just not very good.