Treasure Planet is the 43rd full-length animated feature film in the Disney Animated Canon. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, it follows the story of young Jim Hawkins, who dreams of life filled with adventure on other legendary planets. When he meets old Billy Bones, his life takes a major turn as he discovers that Treasure Planet may just be real after all. The film performed very poorly at the box office, making it the biggest box office loss in the Disney animated canon. This was because it not only had a huge competition with The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Die Another Day, and The Santa Clause 2, but also due to the increasing popularity of computer-animated films, such as the newly released Ice Age. It should be noted, however, that it had a positive reception from movie critics and that the film has gained a strong cult following and got nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
The film was released on November 27, 2002.
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Treasure Planet received a PG rating (for adventure action and peril) by the MPAA. This is the fifth Disney animated movie to be rated as such in the US after The Black Cauldron, Dinosaur, Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Lilo & Stitch. It is also the first Disney animated film directed by John Musker and Ron Clements to have another rating.
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