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Treasure Planet (An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2002 animated science fiction action-adventure film Treasure Planet. The album features seventeen tracks – fifteen tracks from the score composed by James Newton Howard, and also featured two pop singles: "I'm Still Here" and "Always Know Where You Are". Walt Disney Records released the film's soundtrack album on November 19, 2002.[1] The film's score received positive critical reception, with praise directed on Howard's composition.[2][3]

Treasure Planet (An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack)
Film score by James Newton Howard
Released	November 19, 2002 (2002-11-19)
Genre	Rock pop classical
Length	58:10
Label	Walt Disney
Producer	Chris Montan
Walt Disney Animation Studios chronology
Lilo & Stitch (2002) Treasure Planet (2002) Brother Bear (2003)
James Newton Howard chronology
The Emperor's Club (2002) Treasure Planet (2002) Dreamcatcher (2003)

Background

The film marked Howard's third collaboration with Walt Disney Animation Studios; he previously scored for Dinosaur (2000) and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). The music from the film is largely orchestral in nature. Howard said that the score is "very much in the wonderful tradition of Korngold and Tiomkin and Steiner."[4] The score has been described as a mixture of modern "classical style" music in the spirit of Star Wars and Celtic music.[5][2] Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser is credited as the co-composer of the track "Silver Leaves", and is also listed as a soloist in the film's credits.[1]

The music includes two moderately successful pop singles — "I'm Still Here" and "Always Know Where You Are". The Goo Goo Dolls frontman John Rzeznik performed both the tracks in the film version, whereas the latter was recorded by the British pop-rock group, BBMak, which was featured in the soundtrack.[2]

Track list

Reception

Writing for BBC, Jack Smith stated "James Newton Howard's score is firmly in the old-fashioned escapade mould, more swash and buckle than Space Odyssey. It is, perhaps, less of a tribute to the music's descriptive powers than a result of the familiarity of Disney's musical conventions that the listener feels they would be able to guess the plot without ever having seen the film [...] This soundtrack is certainly workmanlike and inoffensive, but there's little buried treasure awaiting anyone digging beneath the surface."[6] Jason Ankeny of Allmusic wrote "Treasure Planet is pure Disney formula, balancing rousing action, cornball comedy, and bittersweet romance in bold, broad strokes. What sets it apart from its predecessor is the presence of Gaelic whistles and fiddles, as well as a fiery electric guitar that adds a dash of rock & roll to Howard's otherwise conventional symphonic sensibilities. The problem with Treasure Planet is the problem that plagues all contemporary Disney scores, and that's the mind-numbing predictability of the music's emotional arc."[7] Filmtracks.com wrote "[James Newton] Howard's score is about as predictable as it could be, but it is enjoyable even so, launching Erich [Wolfgang] Korngold's bold style from The Sea Hawk to a place where no sailing score had gone before."[8] A. O. Scott of The New York Times called the score as "treacle-dipped sea-chanty-on-steroids".[9]

Personnel

Credits adapted from Allmusic[10]

International versions

Release history

Region	Date	Format(s)	Label	Catalog Code	Ref.
United States	19 November 2002	CD	Walt Disney Records	60799-7	[3]
Canada				D15607997
United Kingdom	25 November 2002			5050466-1797-2-2
France	27 November 2002			5050466-1381-2-5
Italy
Spain
Netherlands	30 November 2002
Brazil	2002			05008607997
				5050466363121
Scandinavia	3 December 2002			5050466-1379-2-0
Australia	28 November 2002			336102
New Zealand
Japan	9 July 2003			AVCW-12342
	3 October 2018			UWCD-8046
Indonesia	2002	Cassette		60799-0
Malaysia			Sony Music	60799-4

Charts

Chart (2002)	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC)[11]	39
US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[12]	11

References

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