Treasure Planet

Author: Ron Clements And John Musker

Some films are unjustly ignored, and Disney's Treasure Island might be the chief among them. One of the most thrilling animated features Disney has ever produced, it's absolutely beautiful, and when seen along-side the Pixar films of the last decade, it is almost an entirely different world. The film is glorious, a combination of traditional animation and computer-generated techniques all with a bent towards creating a world that is science fiction meets pirate times. The scenes like Jim solar surfing with an incredible score that rivals the flight themes from Superman or E.T.. The story is an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, brought into space, with a steampunk feel that makes sense in both the pirate and science fiction world. The animation is incredible, and the score is solid, but the story is the driver, and the voices employed, including a pre-big time Joseph Gordon Levitt, make the most out of every moment. The film took four-and-a-half years to produce, and almost twenty years in pre-production, and it looks like they spent every minute perfecting each frame, making it totally worth the weight. Why it's on the list: One of the best science fiction animations of all-time.