The concept is interesting: Robert Louis Stevenson's classic
Treasure Island as a space-traveling future adventure. Some of the computer animation is handsome, and various amusing sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale, but overall the film never rises above mediocrity. As a toddler on the planet Montressor, Jim Hawkins (voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) was fascinated by the legend of Captain Flint, who supposedly hid his pirate loot on the mysterious Treasure Planet. As a teenager, Jim is a troublemaker whose causes no end of headaches for his mother, Sarah (Laurie Metcalf), who's run the Benbow Inn alone since her husband decamped. Then ...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG
Length:
95 mins