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Old 05-07-03, 07:47 AM
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Treasure Planet - quick thoughts

Hi all,

This was a blind buy by great word of mouth reviews so I thought I would take a chance on it. I was not disappointed at all.

I thought the movie and the story has a similar feel as Atlantis, the Lost Continent (btw, a great movie). There was some cool action sequences and the story kept my attention throughout. The animation was incredible. The colors were so vibrant and lively.

I highly recommend this.
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I'll add my recommendation to yours! Excellent film. It's been in constant play in my home since last tues.
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I agree: it's a fun movie and a great dvd. I really think this flopped at the box office because of poor marketing and not because it's a less-than-good movie. I think it's one of the more underrated recent Disney animated films.
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this movie is a ripoff of "Nasicaa". i believe it was another Miyazaki Hayao film.
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I'm not really sure how a movie based on a classic novel can be much of a ripoff.
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I loved Treasure Planet at the theatre and the dvd is top notch. The picture and sound quality is excellent. The extras aren't that plentiful, but they are entertaining... but the movie more than makes up for anything else that is lacking!

MATT

p.s. ripped off from Miyazaki....HARDLY.
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Opinions are divided:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=289128

But for me, this was one of the best Disney animated movies ever. Loved it.
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Although David Hyde Pierce has a great voice for cartoons, his character here reminded me way too much of Niles.

Other than that, loved the animation, the characters, and how they presented the story.
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Anyone know why exactly this is PG? My kids are still pretty little and only have the "G" Disneys...
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The only thing i can think of is the action and some of the 'deaths' of a few characters.
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What crap! I liked nothing about it.
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Let me first say that I loved this film, as I do most of the Disney fare...

Originally posted by tinlunlau
this movie is a ripoff of "Nasicaa". i believe it was another Miyazaki Hayao film.
No, no, no... people say that Atlantis was a rip-off of Nadia of the Blue Water...

According to Amazon's description, the only similarity I see is that one has a glider and the other has a windsurfing board.

In Nausicaä, as in most of his work, Miyazaki centers his narrative on a strong young woman who struggles to create peace in a world torn by war. Readers of Homer's The Odyssey will recall that Nausicaä is the name of the Phoenician princess who healed Odysseus when he washed up on her shores. Miyazaki took that character as the inspiration for his Princess Nausicaä, but their worlds could not be further apart. Underscoring the book's deep ecological messages, Miyazaki's Nausicaä is a passionate defender of the natural world, and her ability to commune with the creatures of the forest appears almost magical. As a princess, she is testing the waters of leadership as her father languishes on his deathbed. As a citizen of the Valley of Wind, she has mastered reading the shifting wind currents and air pockets as she navigates the skies in her glider.

Readers learn at the beginning of her tale that the Earth has become a hostile place. Environmental crises have made the forest--known as the Sea of Corruption--into a kingdom of spores and giant insects called Ohmu. The remaining humans huddle in the valleys and sheltered cities while holding on to the remnants of technologies long-since rendered mysterious. Now, the Imperial family has begun a massive campaign to extend its hold on the remaining pockets of civilization. However, intrigue between the reigning Princess Kushana and her brothers suddenly place Nausicaä and her people at the center of a civil conflict that could extinguish the last people on earth.
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Originally posted by Goldberg74
No, no, no... people say that Atlantis was a rip-off of Nadia of the Blue Water...
It seems to me that both Atlantis and Nadia are more similar to Laputa: Castle in the Sky, and that all three are directly influenced by Jules Verne.
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Originally posted by Saxofonix
...But for me, this was one of the best Disney animated movies ever. Loved it.
I have to agree with this statement. I loved it. A great re-creation of the Disney original with a little twist.
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Treasure Planet goes down as a big winner in my book ! Best blind buy I've made in a long time.

I'm a pretty big fan of pirate/swashbuckler type films and thought they did a very good job of incorporating the genre into a sci-fi/futuristic setting. Naturally, I'm a fan of Disney's live-action version of Treasure Island too. The sci-fi setting of Treasure Planet was just the right twist to freshen the tale for viewers like me. I enjoyed the song (Goo Goo Dolls) montage and though it was well-placed in the film. Morph and the first kitchen scene with Long John Silver were other plus points. Though I found the introduction of the Ben Gun character to be a bit jarring at first, things got back on track quickly thereafter. Anyway, nice to see that the film has its fans.
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Originally posted by uteotw
Anyone know why exactly this is PG? My kids are still pretty little and only have the "G" Disneys...
I have yet to rent this film (will do so this week) but I have no idea why the MPAA has rated the past couple of Disney films PG. Dinosaur, Atlantis, Lilo and Stitch, and Treasure Planet have all been PG. And I have seen the other three and I am still scratching my head to see why they are PG. I mean The Hunchback of Notre Dame TO ME is the most PG rated of all of those films and it was G. Oh well I'm sure its nothing to worry about.
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Altantis was rather violent for a Disney film. I think a PG is fair for that one.
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If you thought PG was fair for Atlantis then you would probably think PG is fair for TP. I loved this movie and my 4 year old son loved it. Great story, well thought out characters, great action, and awesome animation. Two more thumbs up!
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Originally posted by tinlunlau
this movie is a ripoff of "Nasicaa". i believe it was another Miyazaki Hayao film.
You mean Nausicaa? Yeah, right. Sure, I don't like Disney - its more that I just don't like their stuff (why must every movie have a marketable comic relief sidekick and bust out with a song every half an hour) than I think that they're an evil empire out to strangle the life out of their entertainment - but they're blameless here.

Nausicaa is NOTHING like Treasure Planet. Not even close. Not even in the same ball park. Hell, it's not even the same sport! The only thing the films have in common is that they are animated. That's it. The characters, the themes, the design, the plot - nothing alike.

(The film? I won it in a contest, so I didn't have anything riding on the disc one way or the other. I was pleasantly surprised - a very solid movie with little singing and no marketable characters)

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