Treasure Planet (2002)
We're down to four films in the Disney Canon, all hand-drawn 2D films. Let's kick today off with Treasure Planet. The Movie: Treasure Planet is the 43rd movie in the Disney Animated Canon. This was the passion project of directors Ron Clements and John Musker, who first pitched the idea to the studio back in 1985, at the same time they also pitched The Little Mermaid. The latter was chosen as the duo's follow-up to The Great Mouse Detective. Following their movie Aladdin, the two pushed strongly to make this movie, and only agreed to do Hercules on the promise that Treasure Planet would be next. Although the movie is primarily 2D animation, 3D CGI was used for a lot of the backgrounds. Treasure Planet was the first major studio film to be release simultaneously in both standard format and IMAX. Although critical response to Treasure Planet was fairly positive, it was a bomb at the box-office. The losses pretty much wiped out the pro...