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.

• David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

  An incoherent, interminable mess...

• Tom Block, culturevulture.net

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

• Greg Dean Schmitz, Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies

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

• Edvins Beitiks, San Francisco Examiner

  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.

• Mike Gregory, Reel.com

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

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