When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms on their journey to find treasure.
Production
Hand-drawn animation fused with CGI—still gorgeous, still cursed
Direction
Clements & Musker swinging for the fences on their passion project
Acting
Brian Murray's Silver: charming, terrifying, weirdly hot for a cyborg
Director
John Musker
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Jim Hawkins (voice)
Brian Murray
John Silver (voice)
Emma Thompson
Captain Amelia (voice)
David Hyde Pierce
Doctor Doppler (voice)
Martin Short
B.E.N. (voice)
Dane A. Davis
Morph (voice)
Michael Wincott
Scroop (voice)
Laurie Metcalf
Sarah (voice)
Roscoe Lee Browne
Mr. Arrow (voice)
Patrick McGoohan
Billy Bones (voice)
Corey Burton
Onus (voice)
Michael McShane
Hands (voice)
Tony Jay
Narrator (voice)
Jack Angel
Additional Voices (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the most expensive traditionally animated film ever made at $140 million—and it bombed so hard it helped kill hand-drawn animation at Disney for a decade. A crime.
Jim Hawkins was Disney's first emo protagonist—designed with a soul patch and earring specifically to appeal to early-2000s teens who felt misunderstood. It worked on exactly twelve of us and we would DIE for him.
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