Treasure Planet
1 rating since posting on Tuesday, November 14, 2006
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in Sacramento
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Vincent
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I've always thought Walt Disney had potential ever since I use to watch all of his cartoons back in the 90's as a kid, with Darkwing Duck, Ducktales, and Goof Troop being my all time favorites and I only use to like Aladdin because of the setting of the cartoon, plus you can't deny the fact that Jaifar is a maniac villain with a crazy bird that never shuts up. Im not really into Disney's animated films, these days they are doing everything in 3D and sadly 3D doesn't work well with Disney, they are more suitable for 2D animations. Today I got the chance to watch Treasure Planet and I am going to tell you what the movie is all about. Plot: As a boy, Jim Hawkins was enchanted by stories of the legendary pirate Captain Flint and his ability to appear from nowhere, raid passing ships, and disappear, hiding the loot on a "treasure planet". As a young man, abandoned by his father, Jim has become alienated, begrudgingly helping his mother run an inn, then getting his only thrills from "solar surfing", a variant of windsurfing atop a rocket, which pastime that frequently gets him arrested. One day, a ship crashes near the inn. The dying pilot gives Jim a sphere and tells him to "beware the cyborg". The sphere turns out to be a projector, showing a map that Jim realizes leads to Treasure Planet (the film's equivalent of Flint's Fist). Shortly thereafter, a gang of pirates raids and torches the inn, with Jim, his mother, and their friend Dr. Doppler barely escaping. Doppler commissions a ship on a secret mission to find Treasure Planet. The crew is a motley bunch, led by cook John Silver, who Jim suspects is the cyborg he was warned about. Jim is sent down to work in the galley and despite his mistrust of Silver, they bond, forming a tenuous sort of father-son relationship. Later, Jim comes to realize the crew are pirates and Silver their captain, and that they plan a mutiny. As the ship reaches Treasure Planet, the mutiny begins. Jim, Doppler, and Captain Amelia escape to the surface, but what Jim thought was the map is actually Silver's shape-shifting pet, Morph. They meet an abandoned robot, B.E.N. (based on Ben Gunn), who invites them to his house to care for the wounded Amelia who was injured during the escape. The pirates corner the group here, but using a back-door, Jim and B.E.N. return to the ship and recover the real map. Upon their return, they and the map are captured by Silver, who has already captured Doppler and Amelia. With Jim forced to use the map, the group finds their way to a metaphysical portal that leads anywhere in the universe, thus explaining how Flint could conduct his raids. The treasure is at the center of the planet, accessible only via the portal. In fact, the so-called Treasure Planet is in fact a large, complex space-station built by unknown architects and commandeered by Captain Flint. In the stash of treasure, Jim finds a missing part of B.E.N's brain, which causes him to remember that the stash is booby-trapped and the planet is set to self-destruct. In the ensuing catastrophe, Silver finds himself torn between holding onto a literal boat-load of gold and saving Jim, who hangs from a precipice after a fall. Silver saves Jim, and the group escapes to their original ship. It cannot clear the planet in time, so Jim fashions a surfer out of sheet metal and a broken rocket, flies down and operates the portal so that he and the ship can fly through the portal to safety halfway across the galaxy. Escaping the destruction of Treasure Planet, the surviving members of the pirate crew are tied up and prison-bound. Silver has snuck below deck, where Jim finds him preparing his escape. Jim lets him go, and Silver tosses him a handful of jewels and gold to pay for rebuilding the inn. The film ends with a party at the rebuilt inn, showing Doppler and Amelia now married with children, and Jim a military cadet. He looks to the skies and sees an image of Silver in the clouds. This was a fantastic movie that used both 2d And 3D animations, which is extremelly rare in films because it is somthing you don't see in animated movies. . - Vincent , posted 11/14/06 |
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