Review - Treasure Planet
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forvrin and kawakaze, as one can guess Treasure Planet is a science fantasy adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island with Long John Silver's part being played by a cyborg. Good points: competent voice acting, very good animation with a good blending of CGI and traditional styles, flying ships! Bad points: Weak plot, general Disnyfication, poor blending of 17th C and quasi-futuristic technologies. My Grade: C-
The treasure of the legendary pirate, Captain Flint is on Treasure Planet, when the mutineer finally almost find the treasure, they find a gateway first. A gate that allows instantaneous transport of anyplace in the known universe, but all they want is the treasure . . . Ignore that the gate is the most amazing piece of treasure ever.
When they finally get to the treasure, stored at the heart of treasure planet they trigger Captain Flint's booby trap to protect his treasure . . . a laser trip wire that causes the entire planet to explode! Wow, glad they did not have any rats, rockfalls or malfunctions that might have set it off.
Both of the above represent massive failures of imagination of the writers for me.
forvrin and kawakaze, as one can guess Treasure Planet is a science fantasy adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island with Long John Silver's part being played by a cyborg. Good points: competent voice acting, very good animation with a good blending of CGI and traditional styles, flying ships! Bad points: Weak plot, general Disnyfication, poor blending of 17th C and quasi-futuristic technologies. My Grade: C-The treasure of the legendary pirate, Captain Flint is on Treasure Planet, when the mutineer finally almost find the treasure, they find a gateway first. A gate that allows instantaneous transport of anyplace in the known universe, but all they want is the treasure . . . Ignore that the gate is the most amazing piece of treasure ever.
When they finally get to the treasure, stored at the heart of treasure planet they trigger Captain Flint's booby trap to protect his treasure . . . a laser trip wire that causes the entire planet to explode! Wow, glad they did not have any rats, rockfalls or malfunctions that might have set it off.
Both of the above represent massive failures of imagination of the writers for me.