Treasure Planet

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.

Critics in 2002 were split roughly down the middle: many admired the film's visual ambition — its fusion of traditional and digital animation, its retrofuturist design — while finding the characters and script unable to keep pace with the spectacle. The harshest voices dismissed it as a cynical, hollow exercise, while audiences then and now have warmed to it considerably more than critics did, and a later wave of reappraisal has made that gap between initial reception and lasting affection part of the film's identity.