Treasure Planet


Treasure Planet is a 2002 American animated science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002. It is the 43rd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. The film is a science fiction adaptation of Robert Louis Stevensons adventure novel Treasure Island and was the first film to be released simultaneously in regular and IMAX theaters. The film employs a novel technique of handdrawn 2D traditional animation set atop 3D computer animation.

Set in the future, the films prologue depicts Jim Hawkins as a fiveyearold voiced by Austin Majors reading a storybook in bed. Jim is enchanted by stories of the legendary pirate Captain Flint and his ability to appear from nowhere, raid passing ships, and disappear in order to hide the loot on the mysterious Treasure Planet. Twelve years later, Jim Joseph GordonLevitt has grown into an aloof and alienated teenager, long abandoned by his father. He is shown begrudgingly helping his mother Sarah Laurie Metcalf run The Benbow Inn and deriving amusement from solar surfing a hybrid of skysurfing and windsurfing atop a board attached to a solar sailpowered rocket, a pastime that frequently gets him in trouble.One day, a spaceship crashes near the inn. The dying pilot, Billy Bones Patrick McGoohan, gives Jim a sphere and tells him to beware the cyborg. Shortly thereafter, a gang of pirates raid and burn the inn. Jim, his mother, and their doglike friend Dr. Delbert Doppler David Hyde Pierce barely escape. While at Dopplers study, Jim realizes that that sphere turns out to be a holographic projector, showing a map that leads to the location of Treasure Planet. ........

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