DISNEY has had plenty of competition lately with the likes of Dreamworks doing the business, but they are always there, making kid's films, and they'll never go away.

It's great to see they still have the fighting spirit, but if they continue to churn out films like this, then maybe they had better give up!

Treasure Planet takes the classic story of Treasure Island and sets it in space. As young Jim Hawkins is guided by Billy Jones on a journey for treasure, he must be heroic to survive.

Children's films are usually praised because they do what they are supposed to do - entertain the kids. This film will not be praised, though, because it doesn't do that. It's boring.

The concept is good, but everything goes wrong during the actual film making. The makers seemed to be too concerned about entertaining adults as well as children. Well they may entertain some adults, but they've certainly forgotten about the kids.

How could Disney make something as good as Lilo and Stitch and then follow it up with something like Treasure Planet? It's easy to make mistakes with live action films because once you get to the editing room, everything could go pear shaped. But with animation, it's a more lengthy process, giving the film makers more time to judge.

OK, it might not bore all kids, but it will bore the majority, as their behaviour in the cinema proved. It's good that Disney are keeping up with the times by leaving out songs (songs are the bits that I hated as a kid), but here you find yourself hoping for songs because you get fed up of checking your watch.

It has it's moments. The beginning and ending are both faultless but it's the overlong middle that destroys it.