FIRST TIME WATCHING (I think): Treasure Planet

Man, over 20 years later and this movie still makes me tear up every time. Love the early 2000s music and the nostalgic feeling.

If you enjoyed this, You should watch Black Sails. It's a TV series about the Treasure Island but it centers around Captain Flint and the pirates more. Like a prequel. It has nothing to do with the animated movie other than the characters being based on the same source material. But its really good!

man i love this early 2000 music

First time watch and omg… 5 stars

Dude! Nat, I love that hat!

(minor spoiler maybe) In Handmaid's Tale S3E13, when Mr. Lawrence is reading to the children in the basement by candlelight, what he's reading is Treasure Island.

Grew up watching this movie and it’s a film me and my brother and my dad really bonded with and love passionately, so happy you enjoyed this so much! It is a movie i try to rewatch often because it always warms my heart. For the music the songs that were very early 2000s were performed and written by the leader singer for The Goo Goo Dolls, so very of that era lol Also someone else said this but Titan A.E. Is a similarly animated sci-fi movie and is also very fun and came out around this same time as Treasure Planet

It's such an amazing movie

I love this film!! :D The world-building is so great and the characters are so rich and fun. Definitely one of my comfort movies, and I love the music too, James Newton Howard makes some wonderful scores! In case you didn't notice, the directors were John Musker and Ron Clements who also did the The Great Mouse Detective (the movie that saved Disney Animations), the Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and Moana. This was one of their passion projects and after their success they were finally able to make it! This was right when 3D animation and CGI was coming up as well which is why this was a mix of both. Unfortunetly, the studio wanted to go more toward 3D so this movie wasn't marketed well despite it being a great film. So glad it's making a come back and that you enjoyed it! :D

You should watch Brother Bear

if you want another underrated animated film with a similar feel, (more to the sci-fi side than fantasy side but otherwise similar feel) I adore Titan-AE, its another movie like this one that blew my mind as a kid with the visual style of it

Another interesting thing is Treasure Island could be considered to be in a shared universe with Peter Pan because the authors of both books Robert Louis Stevenson and JM Barrie were pen pals. Stevenson based Silver on his friend and mentor William Ernest Henley. Henley was also a friend of Barrie and He based Wendy off Henley’s late daughter Margret who couldn’t pronounce her Rs and so when she said friendly it came out as “fwendy” and that’s how he got the name “Wendy Darling”. If you read Peter Pan there’s a reference to Long John Silver when they say Captain Hook is “the only man the old sea-cook ever feared”. Also extra trivia the actor played Peter Pan in the Disney animated film also played Jim in the 1950 treasure Island.

"He's too young, he needs to work." You could have been my mother just then.

Honestly gotta agree this film is highly underrated. It’s still not my favourite adaptation of the story that honour goes to The Muppets Treasure Island which has some of the best songs of any Muppet movie and Tim Curry playing Silver and hamming it up to the highest levels. Actually funny because this film is the 3rd time Disney have told this story since they also did the Muppets version and the 1950 film. The primal novel is also great since the modern iconography of pirates in pop culture missing leg, talking parrot etc actually come from Long John Silver in the original novel.

I missed the Star Trek reference my first time watching but I got it here. When Dillbert says “Damn it Jim I’m an astrologer not a doctor” that’s a flip on Dr McCoy from Star Treks catchphrase “Damn it Jim I’m a Doctor not a (insert profession)”.

Am I tripping or did Disney+ cut scenes?

banger

Happy Feature Friday Nat. We're tipping our hats to you too today 🤠😊 You've definitely earned some animated goodness after all the recent content Nat 🤗