Review of Treasure Planet (2002) by The-Lords A — 04 Sep 2011

I still remember how much I was really excited for this film before it came out. I was actually home-schooled at the time so my mom assigned us to all read Treasure Island together before we could see this movie. And boy did I have fun when we saw this film on thanksgiving.

Plot: an alienated teenager named Jim Hawkins constantly gets into trouble by the authorities while still trying to help his mother run her inn after his father left them. one night, a spaceship crashes near the inn and the dying pilot gives Jim a sphere and warns him about a cyborg before dying. Shortly afterword, some pirates attack and burn down the inn. Jim and his mother take shelter at their friend Dr. Doppler's house where Jim discovers that the sphere is a map to the legendary Treasure Planet and thus he and Doppler hire a ship and a crew in search of "the loot of a thousand worlds".

This is a very clever film. if anything, you have to at least love the film just because of their creativity with technology, creatures, worlds, and so on. That aside, the characters are fun, and the story is nice.

Characters:

Jim Hawkins: I really liked Jim. The concept of being a trouble-maker after a parent dies or leaves may be old but even then you have to like his cleverness as a hero. If anything, I especially like his Solar Surfing...I WANT A SOLAR SURFER!!! Those things look so freaking cool, I really wish I could get one and do all those moves that Jim does throughout that film...so yeah i'm a little jealous there...but you still have to like him even if you...really...really want to solar surf and can only see him do it in this film.

John Silver: I loved Silver. If not for his personality, then definitely for his cyborg arm. I won't go on in blabbering about how it's super cool and all that like I just did about Jim's surfer, so well jut leave it at knowing that.

Dr. Doppler: he was fairly funny. I liked his relationship with the captain and it actually was just after recently seeing this film again how I noticed one of his lines was a Star Trek reference.

Scroop: They gave Scroop a really good menacing voice. And I enjoyed his fight with Jim.

Morph: Morph was awesome. some of his formations where cute, I liked how when Silver tells him to keep and eyes on Jim so he totally makes his eyes really big, and it was funny whenever we was repeating what someone just said something. One of my favorite forms is when he cries and turn into a puddle. that was cute and clever.

Music: I really like the score to this film. And like many people I really enjoy the song "I'm still here". While I am unable to listen to music due to having Hyperakusis, I still would wish I can find this song and download it. It's just a really good song.

And that is my review for Treasure Planet. It's a very excellent film, a little underrated but not by much. And it's all around a fun film to enjoy.