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A Real Gem: Disney's Treasure Planet does justice to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.
From: Coast Weekly
Date: 20021204
Author:Anonymous
Disney here remakes one of its own with stupendous results that put much of the studio's recent animated output to shame (I'm talking to you, Emperor's New Groove). Robert Louis Stevenson's buccaneering classic hit a high water mark with Disney's pitch-perfect 1950 version starring crusty Robert Newton as the Long John Silver who stalked his unipedal way through kidhood dreams for at least a generation or two afterward. That this futuristic retelling of Treasure Island is as rollicking an adventure yarn as it is owes much, I suspect, to Disney's keen sense of the past and how to adapt it to ...
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