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movie review - Treasure Planet

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2002.12.01

This is a Disney animated flick that takes Treasure Island into space. A space where people can breath the interstellar void and the absence of anti-gravity causes things to drift upward, but I suppose I digress. In all, it's an entertaining flick. While a touch overly sentimental, and certainly full of all of the usual Disneyisms (there's even a basket of Disney animal babies at the end) it manages to add a few interesting ideas to a story that's clearly aimed at kids.

Recommended.

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