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Treasure Planet
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Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray
Director: Ron Clements
Rated: PG
RunTime: 95 Minutes
Release Date: November 2002
Genres: Animation, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
Review by Susan Granger
3½ stars out of 4
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Swashbuckling "Treasure Island" serves as inspiration for this raucous
adventure into infinity. As the story begins, Jim Hawkins (voiced by Joseph
Gordon-Levitt) is a fatherless 15 year-old living on the planet Montressor,
riding his solarsurfer, and searching for his place in the universe. Just after
an alien, Billy Bones, warns him about a cutthroat cyborg, pirates destroy his
mother's Benbow Inn. So Jim and his mom seek refuge with doddering Dr. Delbert
Doppler (voiced by David Hyde Pierce), a wealthy astrophysicist, and discover a
chest containing a holographic map to Treasure Planet, where the legendary
Captain Flint hid the "loot of a thousand worlds." Determined to help his mother
rebuild the Inn, Jim and Doppler set off for Crescentia spaceport to board a
galleon, the RLS Legacy (named for "Treasure Island" author Robert Louis
Stevenson), and meet its crew. There's the feline Captain Amelia (voiced by Emma
Thompson); her first officer, Mr. Arrow (voiced by Roscoe Lee Brown); the crafty
half-human, half-cyborg cook, John Silver (voiced by Brian Murray); and Morph,
Silver's mischievous shape-shifting pet. Traveling through the Etherium on
sun-powered solar sails, they encounter Orcus Galactici (giant flying whales),
plus other exotic phenomena, along with much skullduggery. Scurvy, scheming
Silver becomes Jim's surrogate father - until there's a mutiny and Jim
crash-lands on Treasure Planet, where he finds a wisecracking Bio-Electronic
Navigator, B.E.N. (voiced by Martin Short), and an amazing discovery. Visually
rich with amazing depth, the animation combines highly expressive hand-drawings
with the latest in CG technology - plus John Rzeznick's songs. On the Granger
Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Treasure Planet" is an exciting, imaginative 9. Go for
it!
Copyright © 2002 Susan Granger
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