I am blown away by how well researched, multifaceted and rhetorically presented your essay on the background to Treasure Planet is.

This movie deserved so much more. It's iconic.

This was one of my favorite movies growing up. Thanks for bringing its background into focus sfdebris, it truly is an under-rated Disney gem.

It's funny how Disney has made both of the best Treasure Island films and both are so incredibly underrated for their era. Treasure Planet was such a mature and universally relatable tale, while Muppet Treasure Island had an all-star cast that included Tim Curry as Long John Silver, a soundtrack better than a Muppet Movie had any right to have, and was ironically, the more gruesome of the two takes, actually depicting period accurate torture (through the lens of slapstick humor, of course) and is one of the only times I can think of where a Disney villain actually tried to use a gun on the protagonist. The muppet version also had the less sympathetic version of Long John, who was more convincing of a cut-throat, but far less convincing of a father figure to Jim, culminating in the aforementioned drawing of a gun on Jim while escaping and the ultimate comeuppance of the ship sinking and winding up stranded on the island. In Treasure Planet, Jim straight up assists with the escape and they part on as good, if not better terms than their previous friendship, with Long John truly falling into that role of father figure Jim needed, while MTI had Captain Smollet fill more of that father figure role.

The older I get the more I prefer this movie over the more fairy tale-like Disney classics I liked when I was a kid. I wish I had been old enough to appreciate it when it was in cinema, but I've since bought the DVD AND rented it a few times beforehand. I wish there had been a sequel or - even better - an animated show. A Jules Verne-like universe would have been an AWESOME playground for sci-fi stories.

It's cool and creative that the Treasure Island in Disney adaptation is in steampunk science fiction genre adaptation and look like both a steampunk and pirate theme version of Star Wars, there could also be steampunk science fiction genre adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and be named "20,000 Light Years in the Outer Space" or "20,000 Light Years in the Galaxy".

I remember back when you first did Atlantis and alluded to your eventual look at this one. Glad its finally here. Im glad that Treasure Planet has become vindicated and reevaluated, especially given the current online discourse of Disney's current films and how so many damn people keep decrying how Disney is dying because of the current stuff. Do these damn people not know their history?

This is one of my favorite Disney movies, it's underrated as hell and I still love it.

Also keep in mind that Musker and Clements supposedly hated Katzenberg so much (apparently most Disney employees and animators hated the guy and Eisner was constantly having to apologize for his behavior) that they told James Woods stories about him, which was one of the main inspirations for Woods' performance as Hades in Hercules.

I went into Treasure Planet expecting to dislike it as a cheesey remake. I loved it! It’s a shame it didn’t do better box office.

I feel like those last gasps of 2d animation from disney are some of those most underrated disney stuff. man i miss 2D films in theatres. I feel like if I knew they'd become a rarity then I would of watched more of them, even the bad ones.

And given that this was Joseph Levitt’s first voice acting role, he did a very good job.

I remember when this came out, a video website I frequented at the time (I think it was called ifilm?) kept showing clips for it as I and my sibling were trying to watch clips for Chamber of Secrets. I was still absolutely in love with Atlantis (and I still am) and so I told my sibling right there and then that after seeing Harry Potter our next trip to the theatre had to be to see Treasure Planet. It was the first time I saw a movie in an empty theatre, and I sort of feel like my sibling didn't want to hurt my feelings and say that they weren't really into it. It also shook my confidence in things I had a passion for, I remember enjoying the movie but I didn't really talk about it at school or with anyone else until a couple years later when I saw it again at a friend's house.

People evidently did NOT like animated space movies in this era.

One of my favorite Disney movies…

Huh, I watched this flick for the first time just last night! Sometimes timing just works out great like that.

So many of these movies get shafted by backroom deals and bad timing.

Okay, raise your hand if it was this, Muppet Treasure Island and Return To Treasure Island.

Treasure Planet, or as I call it: The Patreon Pick.

Ah, nice to be reminded Disney Drama is nothing new.

Such an under appreciated gem In my opinion it was better than Atlantis (and way better than Pearl Harbor obviously) I think it probably just came out at the wrong time and didn't have enough of the studio backing behind it. (Competing against Shrek was obviously a death sentence)

Today I learned that I did not notice when this movie came out because whatever money could have been used to market it was wasted on an over-the-top marketing stunt for Pearl Harbour. ...do these people in the business ever actually watch their movies???

Disney was thinking about doing a Swan Lake movie? And they didn't do it!? Y'know what? We have the Barbie version.

Just tried to watch this and gave up about 30 minutes in. So much screen time spent without advancing the plot. It's like everyone just forgot they had any goals or anything they were trying to accomplish. Skipped forward 30 minutes, still felt like nothing was really happening, skipped to the end and watched the main character re-uniting with the hot mom. The end. Fine.

Disney hubris....the hell you aay

As if I couldn't hate Michael Bay more than I already do

I saw this for the first time recently. I'm not a fan. It's not bad, I liked the animation and some designs the most. Story and character didn't do a whole lot for me.