Review – Treasure Island (2012)

Short of moving the show to outer space, this production does just about everything possible to make Robert Louis Stevenson’s story interesting. And still it comes up short. Long John Silver (Eddie Izzard) is recast as the anti-hero of a class warfare tale, set against a greedy, arrogant Squire Trelawney. The fun parts of the tale are still fun, and if this had been cut down to 90 minutes or so it might have been a good picture. Unfortunately the time demands of a two-part miniseries pack the plot with far too much filler. Mildly amusing