Silver forces Jim to use the map, directing them to a portal that opens on any location in the universe, which Jim realizes is how Flint conducted his raids. They obtain the map, but upon returning they are caught by Silver, who already captured Doppler and Amelia.
Scroop attacks them but gets drifted into space. and Morph return to the ship in an attempt to recover the map. The pirates corner the group there using a back-door, Jim, B.E.N. While exploring Treasure Planet's forests, the fugitives meet B.E.N., an abandoned robot, who has literally lost his primary memory and invites them to his place for shelter. The fugitives are shot down during their escape, injuring Amelia. Thinking Jim has the map, Silver targets to kill Jim, but hesitates, allowing them to escape. Jim, Doppler, Amelia and Morph abandon the ship, but Morph has left the map behind. Amelia mourns the loss of Arrow, and suspects Jim of failing to secure the lifelines, while in fact Arrow's line was cut by a ruthless insectoidcrew member named Scroop.Īs the ship reaches Treasure Planet, Jim overhears the crew and soon discovers they are indeed pirates led by Silver, and a mutiny erupts. The burst of shock waves and maximum engine power enable Amelia to pilot the ship to safety. The supernova then devolves into a black hole and Mr.
Jim, while securing lifelines of all crew members, saves Silver from falling just in time. Despite Jim's mistrust of Silver, they soon form a tenuous father-son relationship.ĭuring the voyage, the ship encounters a supernova. Jim is sent down to work in the galley, where he is supervised by Silver and his shape-shifting pet, Morph. The crew is a motley bunch, secretly led by the half-robot cook John Silver, whom Jim suspects is the cyborg he was warned about. The ship is commanded by the feline Captain Amelia along with her stone-skinned and disciplined first mate, Mr. At Doppler's study, Jim finds that the sphere is a holographic projector containing a star map that leads to the location of Treasure Planet.ĭoppler commissions a ship called the RLS Legacy, on a mission to find Treasure Planet. Jim, his mother, and their dog-like friend Dr. After this, a gang of pirates raid and burn the inn. The dying pilot, Billy Bones, gives Jim a sphere and tells him to "beware the cyborg". One day, a spaceship crashes near the inn. He reluctantly helps his mother Sarah run the family's Benbow Inn, and derives amusement from "Alponian solar cruising", skysurfing atop a rocket-powered sailboard. Twelve years later, having been abandoned by his father when he was still young, Jim has grown into an aloof and isolated troublemaker. On the planet Montressor, a young Jim Hawkins is enchanted by stories of the legendary pirate Captain Nathaniel Flint and his ability to appear from nowhere, raid passing ships, and disappear in order to hide the loot on the mysterious "Treasure Planet". It was nominated for the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Despite positive critical reception it failed at the box office, costing $140 million to create while earning $38 million in the United States and Canada and just shy of $110 million worldwide.
The musical score was composed by James Newton Howard, while the songs were written and performed by John Rzeznik. Treasure Planet features the voices of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Martin Short, Roscoe Lee Browne, Emma Thompson, Laurie Metcalf, and Patrick McGoohan(in his final film role). The film was co-written, co-produced and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, who had pitchedthe concept for the film at the same time that they pitched another Disney animated feature, The Little Mermaid (1989). It employs a novel technique of hand-drawn 2D traditional animation set atop 3D computer animation. It is at least the second retelling of the story in an outer space setting, following the 1987 Italian miniseries Treasure Island in Outer Space. The film is a science fiction adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel Treasure Island and was the first film to be released simultaneously in regular and IMAX theaters. It is the 43rd Disney animated feature film. Brother Bear (2003) Treasure Planet is a 2002 American animated science fiction action adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002.