Rating: 
Summary: Not as good as it could have been
Review: The animation is excellent in some parts, but mediocre in other parts. The story line is bland and at times you wonder what the story line is. It is boring unless you are eight years old. There is humor, but it is not as nearly as funny as I expected from the commercials. I didn't enjoy this movie as much as I thought I would. I highly recommend reading "Treasure Island" if you like this movie, though. :)
Rating: 
Summary: Superb
Review: Animation was fantastic! Storyline was fantastic! Musical score was fantastic!
Jeeze, I know its just an animated film, but the 'special effects' were also wonderfull! Loved this movie from begining to end. You can tell a lot of love, heart and soul went into this movie!
Rating: 
Summary: Where is Ben Gunn?
Review: Treasure Planet is a traditional Disney fare. They're trying, and the visuals are fine. Where they fail is the story - their traditional weakness. It's oversimplified and some important features of the great book are gone. In particular, I love the character of Ben Gunn, and it upset me that he got turned into Jim's companion the Disney way - a little cute creature for comic relief. Didn't even keep his name - the toy robot is simply called B.E.N., and all humanity is drained from the character. [...]
Rating: 
Summary: SEE TREASURE ISLAND INSTEAD
Review: I had high hopes for TREASURE PLANET. I knew the $140 million animated epic bombed on its theatrical release($38 million gross) but I figured it was probably just bad advertising and promotion. and the DVD would reveal itself as a gem. I was wrong. This is a bizarro adaptation of Stevenson's Treasure Island. It mixes futuristic sci-fi elements with 18th century props. The idea of adapting Treasure Island into a set-in-the-future race to a Treasure Planet is a good one, but co-directors Ron Clements and John Musker's ill-conceived execution of this concept derails early on. These guys missed the boat by light years by trying to force a pointless retro future look and numerous, tired Disney formulas into their vanity production. Admittedly, the images are often stunning, but that alone does not a picture make. ...
Rating:
Summary: Noteworthy for its vocal casting!
Review: Disney bastardized its earlier classic "Flubber" with the pathetic remake, so, I suppose the company tried to do the same with this updated reworking of the Stevenson classic that the studio had so superbly adapted in the 1950's. "Treasure Planet", while boasting some magnificent animation, doesn't hold the interest of those beyond the age of 10. It's almost like watching an offshoot of "Titan, A.E", taking place in a parallel timeline. Great casting of the actors providing the voices is the film's only saving grace. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, Emma Thompson, the great Patrick McGoohan, the distinctive Roscoe Lee Browne, and the always-dependable Tony Jay as "the narrator" bring life to routine storytelling.
Rating:
Summary: Am I gushing about this movie? You bet I am!
Review: Young Jim Hawkins (voice by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) grew up reading about pirates, and dreaming of finding the fabulous lost treasure of Captain Flint, the greatest pirate ever. When a dying sailor gives Jim a special "map", Jim and family friend Doctor Doppler (David Hyde Pierce) set off to find it. But, the crew of their ship looks more than a little bit untrustworthy, and none of them more so than the cook, John Silver (Brian Murray). Sailing through mind-blowing dangers, Jim encounters more adventures than he could ever have imagined, and finds a treasure more valuable than gold. I must admit that I did not see this movie in the theatre; I was that sure that it was going to be a bad movie. Well, I am kicking myself now! This movie is great! The combination of eighteenth century pirates and technology was handled masterfully, and it produces an exciting and visually breathtaking movie! Am I gushing about this movie? You bet I am! This is a great movie that you and your children will all love. (My kids thought that Morph was the best part of the whole movie.) Get it!
Rating:
Summary: 4 stars for being enjoyable despite not my type of film
Review: I could probably count the number of animated films I've watched on one and a half hands; I'm just not that keen on animation, or sci-fi, for that matter. So when the kids I was baby-sitting wanted to share their new favorite movie with me I wasn't really expecting much real enjoyment. I was in for a surprise. The over-all story was good, even if I'm not so crazy about wierd space creatures or violence. But it was really rather intelligent, perhaps thanks to the influence of Stevensen. I also loved the British touch Emma Thompson brought to her character(the types of films she's in is more in my line than Disney). I was certain it was her voice, and was delighted to see my recognition was correct at the end. Anyway, I still think the things kids are watching these days are way too violent and scary, and there were scenes I would think a little too intense for young ones, but there actually is enough in the film to keep someone like me amused. The characterizations were really well done, even if some of the story-line was a little thin in places. I only give it 4 stars because it still isn't my style of film, and however good isn't going to convert me to scf-fi or animation.:-)
Rating:
Summary: Surpisingly good; among Disney's best
Review: Well, from the look of the trailers I have to say this film looked like it would really stink. Then I decided to rent it and I must say, it's among Disney's best films. From the people who brought you ALADDIN, TREASURE PLANET (fairly well adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island") is an immensely entertaining film set in a futuristic space-based world, where Jim Hawkins teams up with a group of the oddest creatures ever - including cyborg Long John Silver - to find a lost treasure hidden somewhere on an undiscovered planet. Good voice acting, a very nice soundtrack and some extremely cool animation add to the fun; I must say it's very, very good, surprisingly good compared to the bad trailers. Overall, I highly recommend that you take a journey to the TREASURE PLANET as quick as you can!
Rating:
Summary: For The Kids But A Super Production
Review: * The simple title of Disney's TREASURE PLANET says exactly
what this movie is about: it's a space-fantasy remake of
Robert Louis Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND. In terms of the
script, TREASURE PLANET plays the same relationship to
Stevenson's classic as, say, Disney's JUNGLE BOOK plays to
Kipling's original, though TREASURE PLANET doesn't have
musical numbers and takes a stylistic lead from the STAR
WARS cantina scene. This is not necessarily a bad thing as such, nor is the
fact that the story here is engineered for kids, being somewhat
sentimental and moralistic and pandering a bit by making
Jim Hawkins a teenaged slacker who is an ace "solar surfer"
(think extreme-sports snowboarder zipping through the skies).
The story still snaps along nicely and is quite digestible
for adults who can take their "Cutesey" internal control and
turn the tolerance level up to "HIGH". However, if the story is fairly mechanical, the production
job is lavish in the extreme, a visual equivalent of a
triple-scoop banana split with hot fudge, almonds, whipped
cream, and a cherry on top. There's tons of details,
rendered in a combination of traditional animation and
computer graphics, and so much is thrown at the viewer that
it is hard to sort it all out, much less retain it all. It is admittedly somewhat arguable that this is a virtue,
since some people will probably find the visuals too
"busy", cluttered, and confusing, but I liked it quite a
bit, and I'd certainly like to at least page through an
artwork book from this movie. Incidentally, voice acting in this movie is good, and
includes such bright lights as Emma Thompson, David Hyde
Pearce, Martin Short, and a cameo by Patrick McGoohan
(who, if he didn't show up in any of the many remakes of
TREASURE ISLAND, should have). I think most kids would really like this movie (and there
is little violence and few "rudities" in it to concern
fussy parents). As far as adults go, TREASURE PLANET's
not really memorable, but given the proper expectations
going in it remains quite watchable and perfectly
amusing.
Rating:
Summary: Extremely good!!
Review: This movie is incredible! Not only were the graphics and CGI through the roof, but the stroy is incredible too. Jim is a dreamer that just wants to be himself and please his mother, though at the same time is trying to recover from the loss of his father. When he meets Silver, Jim takes a whole new outlook on himself. He learns that he can be more than what he is now. A very powerful and incredible movie and I would recommend it to anyone!!
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