The 43rd Disney animated movie, Treasure Planet

Today, we’ll be talking about our childhood movies and one of the wellknown movies created by Dreamwork. Treasure planet is about a young rebel boy, Jim Hawkins who causes troubles after his dad left him and his mom when he was a kid. He used to read a children book about the legendary pirate, Captain Nathaniel Flint who steals treasures and vanished without a trace but was said his treasure could be found in the hidden planet called treasure planet. He and his mom’s old friend, Dr. Delbert Doppler who was ecstatic to join him on their first journey together to find Treasure Planet and met Captain Amelia who is the captain of the ship they’ll be sailing.

He find out that when he grow older that the treasure planet is real when the dying pirate handed him the map of treasure planet and promised to his mom to get treasures to rebuild their house that was destroyed by a group of pirates which he didn’t know that the new friend he made when he’s going on adventure was a pirate who’s looking for treasure.

He met a suspicious cyborg creature man, Long John Silver or Mr. Silver. Silver surprisingly help Jim through their journey in the ship to do chores and how to sail the ship. Unfortunately, their bond were ruined when Jim find out Silver’s plan to take over the ship to find treasure with his pirate crew who were in disguise with him all along. Silver knew that he had a soft spot on Jim but denied it to his pirate crew and don’t have a heart to hurt a young kid who he sees him as himself when he was young. It isn’t long before Silver manages to find Jim out, and the pirates finally sabotage the ship and mutiny, forcing Jim, Doppler, and Amelia to abandon deck and accidentally leave the map on board after Morph plays a trick on them.

The trio’s longboat is shot down with a plasma cannon by one of the mutineers, and they crash land onto Treasure Planet during their escape. Amelia is badly injured and needs a place to rest. Whilst exploring the forests of Treasure Planet, Jim meets B.E.N. (Bio-Electrical Navigator), a whimsical robot, driven mad by 100 years of isolation, who claims to have lost much of his memory due to his memory chip being removed. Nevertheless, he provides them with a place to stay where Doppler cares for the wounded captain

However, the maniacal pirates corner the group from outside and Silver attempts to make a deal with Jim for the map, which Jim rejects. Using a secret passage, Jim, Morph, and B.E.N. hijack a longboat to fly back to their ship - where Scroop is keeping guard - in an attempt to retrieve the map. Unfortunately, after B.E.N. encounters some trouble with the onboard electrics while trying to disable the laser cannons, Scroop becomes aware of the trio’s presence and instantly attacks.

Meanwhile, B.E.N. accidentally disables the artificial gravity system causing them all to go floating upwards into space. Luckily, Jim manages to grab the ship’s mast, whereas Scroop gets horribly tangled in the pirates’ flag. As he tries to free himself, the flag is severed from the mast, and Scroop floats away into space to his doom. The map is then found, and the group returns to their hideout, only to be captured by Silver and his gang, who have already tied up Doppler and Amelia.

Jim is forced to use the map to lead the pirates to where Flint’s treasure is stored. As it transpires, the map is also a key to a vast portal that can lead to any place in the universe, including the center of Treasure Planet, where the loot is. While the pirates occupy themselves in hoarding the treasure, Jim finds B.E.N.’s memory circuit in the hand of Captain Flint’s skeleton, and upon getting his memory restored, B.E.N. remembers that Flint had rigged the planet to blow up should anyone come for his treasure. Jim tells the robot to help Delbert and the Captain while he hotwires the late Flint’s ship.

Silver, seeing the planet and the treasure are not far from being blown up, boards the now working, treasure-filled ship to leave with some loot, but Jim stops him at sword point. Before either can react to the other, both Silver and Jim are thrown off balance by a heavy explosion. Silver manages to grab onto the end of the ship, but Jim is left dangling off the edge of a cliff. Forced to choose between his treasure and his surrogate son, Silver abandons the ship and saves Jim just in time, while Flint’s ship is destroyed by the planet’s self-destruct.

The two race back to Captain Amelia’s ship, the Legacy, and attempt to leave the exploding planet. However, one of the rocket thrusters is badly damaged, and the ship doesn’t have enough power to leave the planet’s atmosphere. Jim, remembering the portal, convinces the crew to turn towards it so he can shift their course to take them back to Montressor that way to still escape the planet’s destruction. A reluctant Amelia instructs Dr. Doppler to follow Jim’s orders and, making a makeshift solar surfer from scrap metal and a spare rocket thruster with Silver’s help, Jim races towards the portal. However, the thruster loses power seconds before he can reach it. In a desperate attempt, Jim scrapes the thrusters against the cliff edge to spark a last bit of energy from it and changes the portal’s destination to the Montressor Spaceport, allowing them to escape back to Montressor just in time. As the crew celebrates his success, Jim finds Silver, who was trying to sneak off the ship to avoid hanging or incarceration for his part in the mutiny.

Although Jim has a chance to blow the whistle on the rogue sailor, he instead allows him safe passage off the ship. In return, Silver gives Jim Morph to look after, with the instruction that Morph keep an eye on Jim for him and reminds him of his potential for greatness. After a quick embrace, the two-part company, but not before Silver throws some of the treasure he salvaged to Jim, so his and his mom’s home, The Benbow can be rebuilt. Jim returns home to his mother, and sometime later, the Benbow is grandly rebuilt. A party is thrown to celebrate the opening which a lot of customers and family friends attend. Doppler and Amelia are now married and the proud parents of four children (three girls and one boy); B.E.N. has taken up a job in the kitchen, and Jim has joined the Royal Interstellar Academy following a recommendation by Amelia. Breaking away from the dancing for a moment. Jim looks out the window and remembers Silver, confident that the pirate’s words about him were true. An image of Silver in the clouds of the night sky shines down on Jim.

“I think the movie is great to watch when I was a kid but unfortunately, people voted Treasure Planet as one of Disney’s worst failures due to the crowded movie release schedule, lack of marketing, unclear target audience, the departure from the traditional Disney style, a lack of emotional connection, and negative reviews. I still think it’s one of the best movies I’d ever watch a long time ago to this day” the editor of the magazine said.

“Learn how to draw. It’s the basis of what we [animation directors] do. Keep a sketchbook. Try making a very simple little film. Try and tell a story clearly and entertainingly. Study the way people move and animate move. Observe all you can, and try and capture that simply in a few lines on paper..”