Nevertheless, the film became the scapegoat for so-called 2D animation being on its way out the door, and even today the press will still refer to it as one of “Disney’s duds.” and a combination of hand-drawn animation and CGI to create Long John Silver. This was a little bogus, as Treasure Planet had plenty of computer animation in it, complete with a fully digital character in the marooned robot B.E.N. A common narrative at the time was that a reason for the film’s financial failure was that it was done in what was then referred to as “traditional” animation.
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And though the studio had been enjoying a very good year, with both Lilo and Stitch and the actually really good Peter Pan sequel Return to Never Land turning in respectable profits, Treasure Planet became the only movie anyone in the entertainment media wanted to talk about. There may be no other Disney animated movie–with the possible exception of The Black Cauldron–that has become more synonymous with the word “bomb” than the 2002 science-fiction epic that took Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and sent it into outer space.
So, stop me if you’ve heard this one, but Treasure Planet wasn’t exactly a box office hit when it opened on this day 15 years ago.
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