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Treasure Island (1999)

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This animated retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island centers around the youthful Jim Hawkins, whose accidental finding of an old map cues the advent of a dangerous treasure hunt marked by pirates, a series of physical obstacles, and a damsel in distress. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Feb 11, 2003

All Critics (17) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (8) | DVD (12)

No matter how bright many of its ideas may be, however, Treasure Island is far from satisfying, as such matters as narrative coherence and dramatic credibility have been treated as annoyances worthy of being ignored.

February 14, 2001 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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Climaxing with images shanghaied from Ugetsu and Dr. Strangelove, Treasure Island can be thin and underrealized.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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There is a dreamlike logic at work here, but viewers are expected to put the pieces together themselves.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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For all the ideas it tosses around -- and many of them are useful and painful correctives to our rose-colored fantasies -- Treasure Island is too crude a movie to muster much rhetorical clout.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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...all of the bad things that make up what we call 'independent film.'

September 18, 2001 Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | Comment
culturevulture.net

You may not like Treasure Island when you see it, but what you can't dismiss is that it's definitely not commercial.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies | Comment
Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies

Ought to bypass the theaters entirely and go straight to cult status, joining the likes of Night of the Living Dead and Plan 9 From Outer Space.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | Comment
San Francisco Examiner

Though it will surely confound mainstream audiences, it should prove something of a treasure for viewers prepared for a provocative and idiosyncratic work.

January 1, 2000 Comment
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A refreshing modern adaption to the novel with great acting, a good story and a great score and setting

October 28, 2010

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