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A budget of $140,000,000?!


Did they serve lunch to the cast/crew on diamond rimmed silverware?!

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Animation can get expensive. Just look at Tarzan ($150m), Kung Fu Panda ($130m), or WALL-E ($180m). This film isn't even in the Top 10 of most expensive animated movies anymore.

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True. I just watched the extra's on the DVD and found out pretty much the whole RLS Legacy (the ship) was computer generated. Pretty awesome stuff.

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Yeah. Its really too bad that it didn't make back $100mil. of what was spent on it. Its a great film with amazing music!

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Agreed 100%. Maybe they should try a re-release (is that even a word? English isn't my first language, heheh)

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A re-release would be great.

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Its really too bad that it didn't make back $100mil. of what was spent on it.

Actually it did--$109.5m, to be exact. Still not enough though...


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I know the marketing in the Netherlands wasn't all that good, at least in my experience. Around that time, I normally knew about pretty much all Disney movies coming out, but I was only slightly aware of this one.

I only watched it a cuple of months ago, when I was free from college, got bored and decided to grab a list of Disney movies (there was a complete list of Disney DVD's in a magazine) and watch them on youtube.

Since then, I'm pretty much hooked, haha.

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The marketing was bad pretty much everywhere, which highly accounts for its poor BO take.

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i actually had the opportunity to see it for free when it was in theatres. AND I TURNED IT DOWN! i really regret it now.

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