Treasure Island

Treasure Island (1999)

  • 33% of critics liked it
    (12 reviews)

  • 56% of users liked it
    (472 ratings)

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

Unrated, 1 hr.
Directed By
Scott King
Written By
Scott King
Genres
Drama, Animation, Kids & Family, Art House & International, Special Interest
In Theaters
Jan 24, 1999 Wide
On DVD
Feb 11, 2003

Critic Reviews

  • Todd McCarthy, Variety

    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.

  • Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

    Climaxing with images shanghaied from Ugetsu and Dr. Strangelove, Treasure Island can be thin and underrealized.

  • Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle

    There is a dreamlike logic at work here, but viewers are expected to put the pieces together themselves.

  • Stephen Holden, New York Times

    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.

  • Tom Block, culturevulture.net

    ...all of the bad things that make up what we call 'independent film.'

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