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Article: Though it shivers few timbers, `Treasure Planet' sails onto DVD.(The Seattle Times)
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- May 6, 2003
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Byline: Mark Rahner
My first theory about this week's batch: Some things just don't mix.
"Treasure Planet" (Disney, PG) gave Uncle Walt quite a flesh wound, costing $140 million and making a lousy $38 million in the States. See, it's a pirate cartoon set in space. Robert Louis Stevenson's classic. Revamped to look like a video game.
There's an impressive blend of traditional and computer animation, Young Jim Hawkins is a rocket-skateboarder and Long John Silver a cyborg sporting a multitool robotic arm that would make Veg-O-Matic hawker Ron Popeil weep with envy.
Literal-mindedness makes me want to run people through with a cutlass, ...