Alrighty. Treasure Planet! Today will be the last double-post since I will now have caught up on the missed days. Today's reviews will also be rather short, which might be a slight trend for the next batch of movies.
Treasure Planet is a rather odd mix of CGI, Hand-Drawn, Sci-Fi and old-fashioned time periods. While the overall film isn't all that bad, there are just a lot of things present on screen that could be a bit distracting. Such as, why are old-fashioned sailing ships still used if the technology is advanced enough to fly? Why do the characters dress the way they do? Not a whole lot is given for answers, so it could be written off as 'Steampunk' rather loosely (depending on how much you personally classify it as this.).
This film continues the trend of our main characters not singing their songs and instead has them playing in the background, or at least...the whole single song we get during the film. The animation looks pretty good, both hand-drawn and CGI. The biggest nitpick I can find in the humour department is a flatulence joke which once again aims more toward the younger kids.
The characters provide a rather wide range. We get some great characters such as Jim and John Silver, who are helped by their father/son relationship arc, then we reach characters like BEN. Oh BEN.....he is probably right up there with Buck in terms of sheer annoyance. The only reason this rather annoying robot is more tolerable is because he does not show up until the last portion of the film.
Enjoyable, perhaps a little under rated, but at the same time we have so many bigger and greater films out there which tend to cast large shadows on the films from the 2000's onwards.
3/5
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