Review of Treasure Planet (2002) by Brunovn00 — 01 Apr 2019

This is one of those few movies where I don't agree with the critical reception, why the mixed reviews? This movie is one of Disney's hidden gems, a truly underrated animated masterpiece that deserved way more appreciation back when it was released. The story is emotional, heartwarming, exciting, intense, it makes you laugh, cry, feel tension, it's the complete experience. This is an almost flawless movie.

The animation is gorgeous, the mix of heavy use of CGI and the 2D animation holds up surprisingly well even nowadays. Honestly looks better than some totally CGI Disney movies like Frozen.

Most of the characters have a well developed personality and the chemistry between Silver and Jim is geniune and heartwarming. There are many characters and most of them are pretty one-dimensional, sure, but the ones that are important to the plot are likable, memorable and charismatic. Jim, the protaginist has an arc, he's a little unlikable at first but his character grows and learns and we see someone completely different once the movie comes to an end. B.E.N. is honestly a little annoying comic relief that ruins the pacing and tone of the movie a little bit but he has very little screentime so I'm okay with that and it doesn't change my opinion of the movie.

The score and action sequences are amazing and exciting. The song "I'm still here" is one of my favorite Disney songs ever and just like this movie, it's pretty underrated.

A movie that was overshadowed by CGI movies that were growing in popularity, I guess it came at the wrong time in animation history, because this is truly an animated masterpiece. One of my favorite Disney movies ever and one of my favorite animated movies of all time.