Treasure Island
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Movie Reviews of Treasure Island
Movie Review: Great
Summary: 5 Stars
This item was shipped and received by the dates given when ordered. My middle school class enjoyed the movie after reading the book in an after-school club.Movie Review: Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Classic Disney import from England with excellent actors. A Treasure for everyone of every age.Movie Review: A classic yarn and movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Let me begin by saying that I am not a fan of Disney movies--live or animated--made after their 1982 classic TRON. None of the subsequent formulaic bilgewater has any relevance.
Treasure Island was released before another classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by four years but is classic story-telling at its best. With their well-timed incidental music and Technicolor tropical scenery, Treasure Island delivers on almost every level. Robert Newton's portrayal of the pegleg pirate Long John Silver is iconic and set the standard for buccaneer speech with his semi-Irish brogue until Johnny Depp started the Jack Sparrow staggering style in a recent Disney pirate trilogy. (I am sure you know of what I speak.) Newton's Silver has been the gold standard that virtually all pirate actors have used, even the sea captains on TV's The Simpsons and Family Guy.
Perhaps the only detraction I can offer is the scrunched face of actor Bobby Driscoll, whose facial contortions as young Jim Hawkins fill me with concern that he is in desperate need of a trip to the toilet. It is unfortunate that, despite his success as Peter Pan three years later, he died an unfortunate death alone and broken.
This is a fantastic movie that children only exposed to pirate stories from Pirates of the Caribbean or Veggie Tales should be able to enjoy and treasure!
Movie Review: Lots of fun
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw both this version and the classic Wallace Berry, Jackie Cooper version of Treasure island as a child in the 1950's. I have seen and owned copies of the Berry/Cooper version over the years and had thought that this would probably be a sanitized Disney remake. After hearing several reviewers praise this version, I purchased a copy from Amazon. What a joy. My wife, 22 year old son and his wife sat down with cokes and popcorn and were more pleased than we had any right to be. Wallace Berry is one of my favorite actors from silent and early talkie films and nobody plays Wallace Berry better than Wallace Berry. However, Robert Newton has to be the definitive Long John Silver while Bobby Driscoll makes a terrific Jim Hawkins. The rest of the cast while not as distinguished as in the earlier version were excellent in each of their roles. Wish Disney had not taken the liberty with the ending, but other than that, very true to Stevenson's book. Picture and sound quality were excellent. Highly recommended.Movie Review: Grand film making in the Disney tradition
Summary: 4 Stars
Even though I like the TNT version of Treasure Island (Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Pete Postlethwaite) better, the Disney version set the standard with exotic locales, surprisingly good action, and the definitive Long John Silver by Robert Newton whose face registers all the calculations and weighing of odds that are vivid in the book by R.L. Stevenson. Maybe the Disney brand is so burned into the collective consciousness that's it hard to critique but the film does offer great production values and elicits all the great memories of childhood when one knew that a young kid could save his friend's lives, get rich, and return home a hero.