Since first being published in 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure
Island has gone on to become one of the most ubiquitous novels, receiving a
number of adaptations in the coming centuries while also arguably setting the
initial default for pirate stereotypes; one of the most famous of these
adaptations is Disney’s live-action film adaptation of the same name in 1950, with
Disney’s own Pirates of the Caribbean from 2003 arguably overwriting the
pirate stereotype into Jack Sparrow clones. The year 2002 would see Disney
adapt Treasure Island again, this time fully animated and given a
space/steampunk aesthetic under the name Treasure Planet. I had somewhat
of an interest as a kid when it first came out, however I never ended up
actually being able to watch it until recently, after having heard how good it
actually was. Though it’s not without flaws, I did find myself enjoying it for
what it was.
