Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Review

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Release Date: 24th June 2009 - Australia


Production Companies
Dreamworks SKG (presents)
Paramount Pictures (presents)
Hasbro (in association with)
Di Bonaventura Pictures
Amblin Entertainment (Uncredited)
Platinum Dunes (Uncredited)

Distribution
Paramount Pictures Australia


Genre: Sci-Fi/Action

Rating: M

Runtime: 150 minutes

Budget: $210,000,000

Box Office Gross: $836,303,693 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary
While in his first year of college, Sam Witwicky discovers the truth about the Transformers' ancient origins. He must accept his destiny and aid Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in their fight against the Decepticons, who are becoming more powerful than ever and have a plan to destroy our world.


Cast

Humans
Shia LaBeouf - Sam
Witwicky
Megan Fox - Mikaela Banes
John Turturro - Seymour
Simmons
Ramon Rodriguez - Leo Spitz
Josh Duhamel - U.S. Army
Major William Lennox
Tyrese Gibson - USAF Master Sergeant Robert Epps
Kevin Dunn - Ron Witwicky
Julie White - Judy Witwicky
John Benjamin Hickey -
Theodore Galloway

Matthew Marsden - Special Air Service Forces

Andrew Howard - Special Air Service Forces

Michael Papajohn - Cal 
Glenn Morshower - General Morshower

Isabel Lucas - Alice
Deep Roy - Egyptian Guard

Rainn Wilson - Professor
Colan (Cameo)

Autobots
Peter Cullen - Optimus Prime (Voice)
Mark Ryan - Jetfire (Voice)
Tom Kenny - Skids (Voice)

Reno Wilson - Mudflap (Voice)
Jess Harnell - Ironhide (Voice)
Robert Foxworth - Ratchet (Voice)
Grey DeLisle - Arcee/
Chromia/Elita One (Voices)
Andre Sogliuzzo - Sideswipe (Voice)

Michael York - Prime #1 (Voice)

Kevin Michael Richardson -
Prime #2 (Voice)

Robin Atkin Downes - Prime #3 (Voice)

Decepticons
Tony Todd - The Fallen (Voice)
Hugo Weaving - Megatron (Voice)
Charles Adler - Starscream (Voice)
Frank Welker - Soundwave/
Reedman/Devastator (Voices)
Tom Kenny - Wheelie (Voice)

John Di Crosta - Doctor (Voice)

Calvin Wimmer - Wheelbot (Voice)

Kevin Michael Richardson - Skipjack (Voice)

Crew
Executive Producer/Director - Michael Bay

Writers - Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci

and Alex Kurtzman

Associate Producers - Matthew Cohan

and Michelle McGonagle

Associate Producer/First Assistant Director -

K.C. Hodenfield
Executive Producers - Steven Spielberg,
Brian Goldner and Mark Vahradian
Producers - Ian Bryce, Tom DeSanto,
Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Don Murphy
Co-Producer/Unit Production Manager - Allegra Clegg
Co-Producer/Second Unit Director (Uncredited)/

Stunt Coordinator - Kenny Bates
Casting Director - Denise Chaiman

Military Advisor - Harry Humphries
Production Designer - Nigel Phelps
Illustrators - Ryan Church, Steve Jung,

Ryan Meinerding, Josh Nizzi and Paul Ozzimo

Supervising Art Director - John Billington
Art Directors - Julian Ashby, Sean Haworth,
Naaman Marshall and Ben Procter

Art Director: East Coast/Desert Southwest

Units - Lauren E. Polizzi

Assistant Art Directors - Page Buckner,

Martha Johnston and Robert W. Joseph

Assistant Art Directors: East Coast/

Desert Southwest Units - Iain McFayden

and A. Todd Holland
Set Decorator - Jennifer Williams

Property Master - Andrew Petrotta
Costume Designer - Deborah Lynn Scott

Costume Supervisor - Lisa Lovaas

Department Head Makeup Artist - Edouard F. Henriques
Director of Photography - Ben Seresin

"A" Camera/Steadicam Operator - Jacques Joffret

"B" Camera Operator - Philippe Carr-Forester

Pursuit Camera Operator - Brooks P. Guyer

Aerial Director of Photography - David B. Nowell

Production Supervisor - Daren Hicks

Key Location Manager - Ilt Jones

Location Manager - Jonathan Hook

First Assistant Director - Bruce Moriarty

Second Assistant Directors - Chris Castaldi

and Hope Garrison

Second Assistant Directors: East Coast/

Desert Southwest Units - Steve Battaglia

and Jeff Okabayashi

Second Second Assistant Director - Marvin Williams
Second Unit Director (Uncredited)/Visual Effects
Supervisor - Scott Farrar

Aerial Coordinator/Pilot - Alan D. Purwin

Aerial Coordinator/Pilot: Egypt/Jordan/

Paris Units - Frédéric North

Transportation Coordinator - Randy Peters
Additional Stunt Coordinator - Bob Brown
Co-Stunt Coordinator - Troy Robinson
Special Effects Supervisor - John Frazier

Special Effects Coordinator - Jim Schwalm
Special Effects Coordinator: East Coast/

Desert Southwest Units - Bruno Van Zeebroeck

Animatronics Supervisors: KNB EFX Group -

Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger

Mechanical Supervisor: KNB EFX Group - Wayne Toth

Visual Effects Supervisor: Asylum -
Nathan McGuiness
Additional Visual Effects Supervisor -

Richard Kidd (Uncredited)
Visual Effects Supervisor: Digital Domain -
Matthew E. Butler

Associate Visual Effects Supervisor: ILM - Jeff White

Visual Effects Producer: ILM - Wayne Billheimer

Visual Effects Producer: Asylum - Elizabeth Hitt

Visual Effects Producer: Digital Domain - Julian Levi

Visual Effects Art Directors: ILM - Alex Jaeger

and Yanick Dusseault

Digital Production Supervisor: ILM - Jason Smith

Animation Supervisor: ILM - Scott Benza

Animation Supervisor: Digital Domain - Dan Taylor

Associate Animation Supervisor: ILM - Rick O'Connor

Lead Animators: ILM - Stephen Aplin,

Jean-Denis Haas, Greg Towner,

C. Michael Easton and Shawn Kelly

Character Animation Lead: Digital Domain -

Erik Gamache

Computer Graphics Supervisor: Digital Domain -

Paul George Palop

Pre-Visualization Supervisor - Steve Yamamoto

TD Supervisors: ILM - Gerald Gutschmidt,

David Hisanaga and Doug Sutton

Digital Artist Supervisors: ILM - Richard Bluff,

Dave Fogler, Steve Sauers, Timothy Brakensiek,

Ben O'Brien, Amy Shepard and Terry Chostner

Lead Digital Artists: ILM - Steve Braggs,

Neil Herzinger, Kaori Ogino, Thomas Fejes,

Robert Hoffmeister, Anthony Rispoli,

Rene Garcia, Polly Ing, Nigel Sumner,

Willi Geiger, François Lambert,

Meghan Thornton, Bryant Griffin, David Marsh,

Jeff Wozniak, John Hansen, Tory Mercer and

Scott Younkin

Digital Compositing Supervisor: ILM - Nelson Sepulveda

Compositing Supervisor: Digital Domain -

Lou Pecora

Plate Match Mover: ILM - Duncan Blackman

Visual Effects Plate Supervisor: Digital

Domain - Kelly Port

Editors - Roger Barton, Tom Muldoon,
Joel Negron and Paul Rubell

Additional Editor - Glen Scantlebury

Associate Editor - Calvin Wimmer

Supervising Sound Editors - Erik Aadahl

and Ethan Van der Ryan

Supervising Dialogue/ADR Editor - Mike Hopkins

Sound Effects Editors - Greg Ten Bosch,

John Marquis, Warren Hendriks and P.K. Hooker

Sound Effects Recordist - John P. Fasal

Dialogue Editors - Ulrika Akander

and Wayne Lemmer

Re-Recording Mixers - Greg P. Russell

and Gary Summers

Additional Recording Mixer - Greg Orloff

Foley Artists - John Roesch and Alyson Dee Moore

Music - Steve Jablonsky
Composer: Additional Music - Lorne Balfe

Additional Music Arrangements -

Matthew Margeson, John Sponsler and

Tom Gire

Ambient Music Design - Clay Duncan,

Howard Scarr and Andrew Kawczynski

Music Programmers - Ryeland Alison and Jay Flood
Writer/Performer: "New Divide" - Linkin Park
Music Consultant - Bob Badami

Music Recordist & Mixer - Alan Meyerson


Awards

2010 Academy Awards
Best Sound Mixing - Greg P. Russell,

Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson (Nominated)


Review
TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN has terrific action and CGI effects from Industrial Light & Magic, as well as more good Transformers. The plot and characterisation lacked energy, turning the movie into a cheesy mess. Owing to the writers' strike, the crew tried to complete the sequel as best they could. This instalment received heavy backlash from critics who weren't fond of its loudness, illogicality, and childishness.

The five things that were not quite right in this film include too much adult comedy, the other Transformers, such as the Arcee triplets, which were undeveloped, and the Fallen being an uninteresting and unnecessary replacement for our favourite Decepticon leader, Megatron, Devastator's two wrecking balls that looked like a private body part, and last but not least, the Autobot twins, Skids and Mudflap. I found the latter to be annoyingly racist stereotypes, as they both sound and act like two rapping African-American teenagers.

I'm glad the original G1 actor, Frank Welker, has returned to voice the Decepticon, Soundwave. However, Hugo Weaving still voices the Decepticon leader, Megatron.

To me and the other fans of the Transformers franchise, REVENGE OF THE FALLEN is not as enjoyable as the first movie (click here), but it would have been better if it had less crude humour. And the twins weren't there in the first place.

Star rating: (3/5) Average

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Men in Black Review

Men in Black

Release Date: 11th September 1997 - Australia


Production Companies

Amblin Entertainment

Columbia Pictures (presents)

MacDonald/Parkes Productions (in association with)

Distribution

Sony Pictures Releasing Australia


Genre: Sci-Fi/Comedy

Rating: M

Runtime: 98 minutes

Budget: $90,000,000

Box Office Gross: $589,390,539 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary

James Edwards, a brash NYPD detective, is recruited by a federal agent named K to join a top-secret agency called the Men in Black, which controls and observes alien activity on Earth, and serves as his new partner, Agent J. The two agents must stop an intergalactic terrorist from hatching his twisted scheme before it leads to the destruction of the Earth.

Cast

Tommy Lee Jones - Kevin

Brown/Agent K

Will Smith - James Darrell

Edwards III/Agent J

Vincent D'Onofrio - Edgar

the Bug

Linda Fiorentino - Dr. Laurel

Weaver/Agent L

Rip Torn - Chief Zed

Tony Shalhoub - Jack Jeebs
Siobhan Fallon Hogan - Beatrice
Mike Nussbaum - Gentle
Rosenberg the Arquillian
Jeweler
Carel Struycken - Arquillian
Sergio Calderón - Jose
Fredric Lehne - INS Agent Janus
Richard Hamilton - Dee

Tim Blaney - Frank the Pug
(Voice)

David Cross - Newton the
Morgue Attendant
Keith Campbell - Perp
John Alexander - Mikey

Norma Jean Groh - Mrs. Edelson

Ken Thorley - Zap-Em Man

Patrick Breen - Mr. Redgick

Becky Ann Baker - Mrs. Redgick

Sean Whalen - Passport Officer

Harsh Nayyar - News Vendor

Michael Willis - Cop in Morgue

Willie C. Carpenter - Police Inspector

Michael Goldfinger - NYPD Sergeant

Brad Abrell - Worm Guy (Voice)

Thom Fountain - Worm Guy (Voice)

Carl J. Johnson - Worm Guy (Voice)

Drew Massey - Worm Guy (Voice)

Sylvester Stallone - Alien on TV

Monitor (Cameo) (Uncredited)

Danny DeVito - Alien on TV Monitor

(Cameo) (Uncredited)

George Lucas - Alien on TV Monitor

(Cameo) (Uncredited)

Dionne Warwick - Alien on TV Monitor

(Cameo) (Uncredited)

Anthony Robbins - Alien on TV Monitor

(Cameo) (Uncredited)

Al Roker - Alien on TV Monitor (Cameo)

(Uncredited)

Isaac Mizrahi - Alien on TV Monitor

(Cameo) (Uncredited)

Barry Sonnenfeld - Alien on TV Monitor

(Cameo) (Uncredited)

Chloe Sonnenfeld - Alien on TV Monitor

(Cameo) (Uncredited)

Steven Spielberg - Alien on TV Monitor

(Cameo) (Uncredited)

Crew

Director - Barry Sonnenfeld

Based on the Malibu Comic - Lowell Cunningham

Screen Story/Screenplay - Ed Solomon

Executive Producer - Steven Spielberg

Producers - Laurie MacDonald and Walter F. Parkes
Co-Producer/Unit Production Manager -

Graham Place

Casting Directors - David Rubin and Debra Zane

Production Designer - Bo Welch

Illustrators - James Carson, Matt Codd,

Ricardo F. Delgado, Tim Flattery and

Jacques Rey

Art Director - Tom Duffield

Art Director: New York - Chris Shriver

Set Decorator - Cheryl Carasik

Property Master - Doug Harlocker
Costume Designer - Mary E. Vogt

Alien Makeup Effects - Rick Baker

Special Makeup Effects - David LeRoy Anderson

Director of Photography - Donald Peterman

Director of Photography: Main Title (Uncredited)/

Second Unit - Keith Peterman

Director of Photography: Second Unit,

New York - David M. Dunlap

Camera Operator - Stephen St. John

Camera Operators: New York - Florian Ballhaus

and Michael Caracciolo

First Assistant Director - John Cameron

First Assistant Directors: Second Unit -

Cara Giallanza and Chris Soldo

Second Unit Director/Visual Effects Supervisor -
Eric Brevig

Stunt Coordinator - Brian Smrz

Stunt Coordinator: Second Unit - Gregg Smrz

Special Effects Coordinator - Peter M. Chesney
Special Effects Supervisor - Kyle Ross Collinsworth

Animatronic Performance Supervisor - Tony Urbano

Practical Effects/Pyro Supervisor: Saucer Crash

Miniature and Blue Screen Unit - Geoff Heron
Visual Effects Supervisor: End Sequence - Scott Farrar

Visual Effects Producer: End Sequence - Denise Ream

Visual Effects Art Director: ILM - David Nakabayashi

Digital Effects Supervisors: ILM -

John Andrew Berton Jr., Carl N. Frederick

and Robert Marinic

Digital Effects Supervisors: End Sequence -

Patrick T. Myers and Ellen Poon

Digital Effects Sequence Supervisor: ILM -

Gerald Gutschmidt
Animation Supervisor - Rob Coleman

Computer Graphics Producer: VisionArt -

Joshua D. Rose

Digital Modeller Supervisor: ILM - Geoff Campbell

Creature Designers: ILM - Benton Jew

and Derek Thompson

Conceptual and Animatic Artists: ILM -

Jonathan Harb, Louis Katz and Jules Mann

Supervising Model Maker: Saucer Crash
Miniature and Blue Screen Unit - Steve Gawley
Chief Model Makers: Saucer Crash

Miniature and Blue Screen Unit - Rodney Morgan,

Lorne Peterson and Christopher Reed

Stage Manager: Saucer Crash Miniature and Blue

Screen Unit - Edward Hirsh

Motion Control Director of Photography:

Miniature Tunnel Unit - Martin Rosenberg

Director of Photography: Miniature Tunnel Unit -

Pat Sweeney

Additional Visual Effects: VCE - Peter Kuran

Film Editor - Jim Miller

Sound Effects Designer - Eugene Gearty

Sound Designers and Mixers: Alien Languages -

Van Ling and Chuck Michael

Re-Recording Mixer/Supervising Sound Editor -

Skip Lievsay

Re-Recording Mixers - Lee Dichter and Michael Barry

Foley Artist - Marko A. Contanzo

Music - Danny Elfman

Writer/Performer/Co-Producer (Song:

"Men in Black") - Will Smith

Music Recordist and Mixer - Shawn Murphy


Awards

1998 Academy Awards
Best Makeup - Rick Baker and David LeRoy Anderson (Won)

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Best Art Direction - Bo Welch and Cheryl Carasik

(Nominated)

Best Original Score - Danny Elfman (Nominated)


Review
Unlike many other science fiction movies, MEN IN BLACK is intelligent in its story and hilarious. The film is full of wit and draws similarities to Ghostbusters. Barry Sonnenfeld has directed a comic book adaptation that no other filmmaker has ever done. MEN IN BLACK has all the aspects, including the terrific action scenes, Rick Baker's alien makeup designs, and splendid visuals. I liked the acting pair of Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. Their performances solidify the movie with perfect chemistry. Danny Elfman's score is fascinating and fits the film's tone. The funny scenes include Agent K delivering a squid baby to the taxi driver's wife. Another amusing bit is a quote: "Oh, I'm sorry. Was that your auntie?" said K after he squished a bug that ticked off that giant cockroach alien.

It is a flesh-dropping, slimy action-comedy movie made exclusively for the sci-fi geek community. BREAKING NEWS!! I just announced that the third Men in Black film is now in cinemas in 2D and 3D. And it features new actors like Josh Brolin and Jermaine Clement.

Star rating: (5/5) Best Movie Ever

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WALL-E Review

WALL-E

Release Date: 18th September 2008 – Australia


Production Companies
Walt Disney Pictures (presents)
Pixar Animation Studios

Distribution
Walt Disney Studios Motion
Pictures Australia


Genre: Animation/Family/

Sci-Fi

Rating: G

Runtime: 98 minutes


Budget: $180,000,000

Box Office Gross: $527,402,840 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary
In the distant future, humanity will leave Earth after it becomes too heavily littered. After 700 years of collecting trash (as he was built for), the curious and lovable robot WALL-E falls in love for the first time with a sleek search probe named EVE.

It leads to a fantastic journey across the galaxy, where

WALL-E boards the Axiom and must help EVE, the pilot, and some malfunctioning robots to retrieve a plant and save Earth.

Voice Cast
Ben Burtt – WALL-E/M-O

Elissa Knight – EVE
Jeff Garlin – Captain
MacInTalk – AUTO
John Ratzenberger – John
Kathy Najimy – Mary
Sigourney Weaver – Axiom's Computer

Teddy Newton – Additional Voices

Pete Docter – Additional Voices

Lori Richardson – Additional Voices

Live-Action Cast
Fred Willard – Shelby Forthright, Bnl CEO


Crew
Original Story/Screenplay/
Director – Andrew Stanton
Original Story – Pete Docter
Screenplay/Story

Supervisor – Jim Reardon

Associate Producer – Thomas Porter
Executive Producer – John Lasseter
Producer – Jim Morris
Co-Producer – Lindsey Collins
Visual Consultants – Roger Deakins and Dennis Muren
Production Designer – Ralph Eggleston

Character Art Director – Jason Deamer

Sets Art Director – Anthony Christov

Shader Art Director – Bert Berry

Production/Storyboard Artist/Directing

Animator – Angus MacLane

Director of Photography: Camera – Jeremy Lasky
Director of Photography: Lighting –

Danielle Feinberg

Director of Photography: Live-Action –

Martin Rosenberg

Lighting Consultant – Sharon Calahan

Production Manager – Andrea Warren

Supervising Animators – Alan Barillaro

and Steven Clay Hunter

Character Supervisor – Bill Wise

Sets Supervisor – David Munier

Crowds Supervisor – Mark Thomas Henne

Supervising Technical Director – Nigel Hardwidge

Technical Pipeline Supervisor – John Warren

Effects Supervisor – David MacCarthy

Visual Effects Supervisor: ILM – Edward Hirsh

Visual Effects Supervisor: Pixar, Live-Action

Unit – Richard E. Hollander

Digital Production Supervisor: ILM – Patrick Tubach

Layout Supervisor: ILM – Brian Cantwell

Original Dialogue (Uncredited)/Re-Recording

Mixer/Sound & Character Voice Designer/

Sound Effects Recordist (Uncredited)/

Supervising Sound Editor & Mixer – Ben Burtt

Supervising Sound Editor – Matthew Wood

Assistant Supervising Sound Editor – Coya Elliott

Sound Effects Editors – Teresa Eckton,

Dustin Cawood and Al Nelson

Re-Recording Mixers – Tom Myers

and Michael Semanick

Foley Artists – Jana Vance and Dennie Thorpe

Foley Mixer – Frank Rinella

Film Editor – Stephen Schaffer

Second Film Editors – Axel Geddes,

Jason Hudak and Nicholas C. Smith

Additional Editing – Kevin Nolting

Direction: End Titles – Jim Capobianco

Music – Thomas Newman

Music Supervisor – Tom MacDougall

Executive Music Producer – Chris Montan

Music/Lyrics/Performer: Down to Earth –

Peter Gabriel


Awards

2009 Academy Awards
Best Animated Feature – Andrew Stanton (Won)
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Best Original Score – Thomas Newman (Nominated)
Best Original Song "Down to Earth" –

Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman (Nominated)
Best Sound Editing – Ben Burtt and

Matthew Wood (Nominated)

Best Sound Mixing – Tom Myers,

Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt (Nominated)
Best Original Screenplay – Andrew Stanton,
Jim Reardon and Pete Docter (Nominated)

Review
WALL-E is a charming, funny, exciting, beautiful, and cute CGI-animated film that's an outstanding achievement from Disney and Pixar. What affected me was its ecological message: Earth is suffering from an environmental catastrophe, forcing its population to abandon the cities and evacuate to a ship called The Axiom, which relies too heavily on technology. I enjoyed the captivating romantic relationship between the two robots, EVE and WALL-E, which is a focal point of the movie. Almost all of the film is silent, except for the characters' interactions, which provide the sound. However, it is only present in the movie's first half-hour.

The film is masterful in its vivid, cutting-edge animation with spectacular visuals. The excellent sound design is a breath of fresh air. Thanks to Ben Burtt of Star Wars fame, who even created the robotic voices, including WALL-E's, which he also provided. Thomas Newman's musical score is vivid and complements the sequences quite well.

WALL-E was one of my favourite films and is much better than the sci-fi family movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial because it combines elements such as its heartfelt story, environmental themes, minimal dialogue, and visual brilliance. The world in this film is unique and unlike any other I've seen. Like Disney's Lilo & Stitch, it succeeded during the sci-fi animation boom, where others tried and failed. I cannot think of a single negative thing about this animated hit. It's reflected in my star rating. In closing, it's an absolute must-see film.

Star rating: (5/5) Best Movie Ever

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Treasure Planet Review

Treasure Planet

Release Date: 26th December 2002 – Australia

Production Companies

Walt Disney Pictures (presents)

Walt Disney Feature Animation

Distribution

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Australia

Genre: Animation/Family/

Sci-Fi

Rating: PG

Runtime: 95 minutes

Budget: $140,000,000

Box Office Gross: $110,041,363 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary

A rebellious teenager, Jim Hawkins, is seen as a slacker with no future. One fateful night, he comes across a dying pirate who gives him a map that leads straight to Treasure Planet. Thus begins Jim's fantastic space voyage as he boards a majestic space galleon roaming the universe and becomes its cabin boy. He even finds a mentor in the ship's cyborg cook, John Silver, who teaches him the makings of a shipmate. Jim then realises that his new friend Silver is not who he seems; he is secretly a pirate seeking Treasure Planet and is plotting a mutiny.

Voice Cast

Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Jim Hawkins

Brian Murray – John Silver
David Hyde Pierce – Dr.

Delbert Doppler
Emma Thompson – Captain Amelia

Dane A. Davis – Morph

Martin Short – B.E.N

Tony Jay - Narrator

Austin Majors – Young Jim

Laurie Metcalf – Sarah Hawkins

Patrick McGoohan – Billy Bones

Roscoe Lee Browne – Mr. Arrow

Corey Burton – Onus
Michael Wincott – Scroop
Jack Angel – Grewnge/
Additional Voices
Rodger Bumpass –

Turnbuckle/Additional

Voices

Peter Cullen – Captain

Nathaniel Flint (Uncredited)

Crew

Producers/Animation Story/
Screenplay/Directors – Ron

Clements and John Musker
Adapted From the Novel "Treasure Island" – Robert Louis Stevenson

Animation Story – Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio

Screenplay – Rob Edwards

Associate Producer – Peter Del Vecho

Producer – Roy Conli

Casting Directors – Ruth Lambert and Mary Hildago

Production Designer/Story Artist – Frank Nissen

Production Designer –

Steven Olds

Art Director – Andy Gaskill

Associate Art Director – Ian

Gooding
Artistic Coordinator – Neil

Eskuri

Character Designers/Visual

Development Artists – Peter Clarke, Peter DeSeve, Craig Elliott, Buck Lewis, Rick Maki, Alex Nino, Michael Spooner and Rowland B. Wilson

Artistic Supervisor: Story –

Barry Johnson

Artistic Supervisor:

Layout – Razoul Azadani

Artistic Supervisor: Background – Dan Cooper

Supervising Animator: "Jim Hawkins" – John Ripa
Supervising Animator: "John Silver" – Glen Keane

Supervising Animator: "Doctor Doppler" – Sergio Pablos

Supervising Animator: "Captain Amelia" and

"Scroop" – Ken Duncan
Supervising Animator: "Morph" – Michael Show

Supervising Animator: "Sarah" – Jared Beckstrand
Supervising Animator: "Billy Bones" –

Nancy Bieman

Supervising Animators: "Silver's Crew" –

Adam Dykstra and Ellen Woodbury
Supervising Animator: "Onus" – Brian Ferguson
Supervising Animator: "Hands"/Animator:

"John Silver" – Marc Smith
Supervising Animator: "Mr. Arrow" –

T. Daniel Hofstedt
Supervising Animator: "Captain Flint & His

Crew" – John Pomeroy
Supervising Animator: "B.E.N." – Oskar Urretabizkaia

CGI Lead Animator: "Silver" – Eric Daniels

Artistic Supervisor: Clean-Up/Key Assistant

Animator: "Sarah" and Miscellaneous

Characters – Vera Pacheco

Artistic Supervisor: Visual Effects – Dave Tidgwell

Artistic Supervisor: Computer Graphics Imagery –

Kyle Odermatt

Editor – Michael Kelly

Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor –

Dane A. Davis

Foley Artists – Alyson Dee Moore

and John Roesch

Re-Recording Mixers – Mel Metcalfe,

Terry Porter and Dean A. Zupancic

Music/Orchestrator/Score Producer –

James Newton Howard

Original Songs – John Rzeznik

Executive Music Producer – Chris Montan

Music Production Supervisor – Tom MacDougall

Electronic Score Producer – James T. Hill

Score Recordist/Mixer – Shawn Murphy


Awards

2003 Academy Awards
Best Animated Feature – Ron Clements (Nominated)

Review
TREASURE PLANET is a science-fiction animated movie adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story, Treasure Island. It's not the first time Disney has brought this source material to the big screen, having done so in 1950 and again in 1996 with The Muppets. Interestingly, the filmmakers of this picture dared to set it in outer space, an intriguing and clever way to transform a classic tale into something fresh and new.

The main differences between the original novel and this film are the characters and plot points. For example, Long John Silver is now a cyborg rather than a one-legged pirate, and the main hero, Jim Hawkins, is a rebellious teenager. I was amazed that it took place in a different universe where space has an atmosphere, and the spaceships looked like old 18th-century ships.

Despite its bizarre setting and weird logic, I found this film imaginative and authentic to the original novel. I liked the heartwarming relationship between Hawkins and Silver. I also liked the character of the little shape-shifting blob, Morph. The film has stellar voice acting by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, and Emma Thompson. It even has an ingenious music score by James Newton Howard. I liked how TREASURE PLANET impressively blends 2D and CGI animation to create a stunning visual experience.

TREASURE PLANET was intriguing, and the film was better than the similar movie Titan A.E. It is my second-favourite Disney animated feature. For anyone who loves Disney, this underrated animated film is worth seeing. Or you'd rather watch the Pirates of the Caribbean movies instead.

Star rating: (5/5) Best Movie Ever

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