Treasure Island
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Movie Reviews of Treasure Island
Movie Review: Annoying
Summary: 3 Stars
First off, let me say that I'm grateful to Warners for bringing classics like this to DVD. I never tire of watching films from the 30s, to me the greatest decade in Hollywood.
However...for me this film suffers greatly from its two stars. Jackie Cooper is just plain annoying with his protruding lower lip (what my mother called "a kitchen shelf") and his "Gee whiz, bless my soul" interjections at the end of practically every scene, and above all his whining voice that sounds every bit like Judy Garland in THE WIZARD OF OZ. (Did MGM have an vocal coach assigned to child actors to ensure that they all sounded alike?) I think it would be a hoot to extract lines from one movie and swap them with the other...or create a scene between Dorothy Gale and Jim Hawkins.
The movie, while certainly well made, staggers back and forth between swashbuckling adventures and comedy of both high and low quality. Nigel Bruce has one characterization, whether he's in something like this or a Sherlock Holmes film. The supporting cast I found more entertaining than the stars. As for the pirates' singing, they sounded a bit too Norman Luboff or Fred Waring to be anything close to authentic.
But despite its flaws, I hope Warners Home Video continues to unearth and spruce up these classics.
Movie Review: A compete waste of money (review by teen daughter)
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is a complete waste of money. Let me list the let-downs. First of all, Jackie Cooper playing James Hawkins is WAY to young. In the unabridged series, James is about fourteen, or fifteen, not nine or ten. Jackie should not pooch his lip out, he looks like a baby. The Jim in the book is poor, so why was Jim in the movie dressed in rather expensive clothes? The movie was also very poorly written. It barely stuck to the real story, but had a lot of other stuff added in to "fill space". There were a lot of other characters that were not really supposed to be there, like the musician, and some people in Silver's pub. There are not supposed to be any carriages that ran over Pew. The so called "Sailors" were pathetic. Also, Mr. Hawkins never appeared in the move, and made it very empty in the beginning, and the ending was a total letdown. They never ported in Bristol again. Silver never gave Jim his parrot in the book, until you read, "Back To Treasure Island", which is two or three years later in Jim's life. Take my advice, and just stick to unabridged books, they won't let you down.