In an second attempt of reaching a more mature audience, being the first one the very underrated "Atlantis: The Lost Empire", comes from the hand of veteran directors John Musker and Ron Clements a new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's book "Treasure Island". But unlike Atlantis that had and entertaining story with fun characters, Treasure Planet is a very poor film.
The movie is long and boring, and I mean boring to no end. The so called action sequences -very well animated, I must admit- don't help to activate the mood, they just keep you wondering "When this it's going to end?".
The character of Jim Hawkins doesn't evolves from being a James Dean wannabe -and there's nothing worst than a wannabe- he completely lacks of the strength and the charisma that a main character supposedly has. Same goes for the character of John Silver, he's way too ambiguous, so much that you don't like but you don't dislike him, you just don't feel anything for him.
When I heard who was directing this and how much they fought for this movie, I was very hopeful to see a good animated experience, but this was a complete deception -and it's weird considering that Musker and Clements had directed good movies like "Beauty & Beast" and "Aladdin"-
I'm just glad that I saw this not in the theaters but when I rented it.
The movie is long and boring, and I mean boring to no end. The so called action sequences -very well animated, I must admit- don't help to activate the mood, they just keep you wondering "When this it's going to end?".
The character of Jim Hawkins doesn't evolves from being a James Dean wannabe -and there's nothing worst than a wannabe- he completely lacks of the strength and the charisma that a main character supposedly has. Same goes for the character of John Silver, he's way too ambiguous, so much that you don't like but you don't dislike him, you just don't feel anything for him.
When I heard who was directing this and how much they fought for this movie, I was very hopeful to see a good animated experience, but this was a complete deception -and it's weird considering that Musker and Clements had directed good movies like "Beauty & Beast" and "Aladdin"-
I'm just glad that I saw this not in the theaters but when I rented it.
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