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A golden tale updated. (Now Playing).(Movie Review)
From: The American Enterprise
Date: 20021201
Author:Larsen, Josh
How do you extol the value of hard work and personal sacrifice to today's kids without boring them to tears? The same way Robert Louis Stevenson did in the early 1880s: by weaving moral instruction into a rousing adventure tale. In fact, why not just borrow Stevenson's original story, adding plenty of modern touches to keep things fresh?
That's what Disney has done with Treasure Planet, a free yet thematically faithful animated adaptation of Stevenson's classic adventure novel, Treasure Island. As the title indicates, this version isn't set on the high seas of the eighteenth ...
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