It was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards. The film was a box-office bomb, costing $140 million to create while earning $38 million in the United States and Canada and just shy of $110 million worldwide, but received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences. The musical score was composed by James Newton Howard, while a couple of songs were written and performed by John Rzeznik. Treasure Planet features the voices of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Martin Short, Roscoe Lee Browne, Emma Thompson, Michael Wincott, Laurie Metcalf, and Patrick McGoohan (in his final film role). The film was co-written, co-produced and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, who had pitched the concept for the film at the same time that they pitched another Disney animated feature, The Little Mermaid (1989).
With a budget of $140 million, it is the most expensive traditionally animated film to date.
It employs a novel technique of hand-drawn 2D traditional animation set atop 3D computer animation. It is at least the second retelling of the story in an outer space setting, following the 1987 Italian miniseries Treasure Island in Outer Space. The 43rd Disney animated feature film, it is a science fiction adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 adventure novel Treasure Island and was the first film to be released simultaneously in regular and IMAX theaters. Only you can help Captain Planet in this epic arcade battle to defend the Earth.Treasure Planet is a 2002 American animated science fiction action- adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002. With the five powers combined they summon earth’s greatest champion – Captain Planet! From Asia, Gi with the power of water and from South America, Ma-Ti with the power of heart. From Russia, Linka with the power of the wind. From North America, Wheeler with the power of fire. From Africa, Kwame with the power of earth. She gives five magic rings to five special young people. Gaia, spirit of the Earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing the planet.