It should have been a slam dunk. Instead, it became the biggest flop in the history of Disney animation, and one of the costliest movies in Hollywood history. While the company that made it has all but refused to acknowledge the existence of "Treasure Planet" in the ensuing decades, it's gained a small but mighty fanbase and it remains an important, if somewhat tragic, relic of the downfall of hand-drawn animation in American cinema.
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It should have been a slam dunk. Instead, it became the biggest flop in the history of Disney animation, and one of the costliest movies in Hollywood history. While the company that made it has all but refused to acknowledge the existence of "Treasure Planet" in the ensuing decades, it's gained a small but mighty fanbase and it remains an important, if somewhat tragic, relic of the downfall of hand-drawn animation in American cinema.
Disney, however, has a long memory, and the animosity that Bluth felt toward the company was, it turns out, entirely mutual.
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The validity of animation as a medium is one that's repeatedly been called into question for all the wrong reasons. From recent comments by Disney …
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