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TREASURE PLANET Except on the occasions when they're aligning themselves with the Pixar company (Monsters, Inc.), Disney seems to have largely lost it when it comes to producing animated features that truly engage our imaginations. The latest case in point is this reasonably enjoyable but hardly awe-inspiring effort that adds a sci-fi twist to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins is now a troubled teen into surfing across the skies, while pirate John Silver has been reconfigured as a cyborg. As expected, the animation is bright and the voice talents have been well-chosen, yet when it comes to the comic relief, the studio just might have set a new low for itself, as the late-inning addition of an insufferable robot named B.E.N. (voiced by Martin Short) cripples much of the film's momentum and renders many of the latter scenes near-unwatchable (a friend dubbed him "the Jar-Jar Binks of animation," and she's absolutely right). Kids will eat this up, but older viewers would probably have been content seeing their childhood classic neither shaken nor stirred. 
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