the treasure island dvd should be require view in any film production course . it a textbook example of how not to make a movie . watch the movie and then listen to the writer or director commentary demonstrate graphically the vast chasm between what he know about the character and what he communicate to his audience about them . call me old fashion and but i think of movie a a mean of communication and and communication isn not complete if the audience doesn not know what the hell the director be talk about . the director avow purpose be to make a movie void of hollywood convention . among those convention and ala and be consistency of character and clarity of concept . the director himself realize that audience often do not understand point where he have purposely avoid a hollywood cliché . however and he never seem to grasp the idea that clichés exist for a reason . they be shorthand for convey complex idea quickly and clearly . it fine to avoid them and but they need to be replace with some other way of communicate the same idea and not simply eliminate . the film be build on an intriguing premise and rich with potential . two puppet be assign to fabricate a personality and background for an unidentified corpse that be to be use in a disinformation mission in the closing day of wwii . soon each begin to populate their personal fantasy with the character and their invention become increasingly real to them . someone with less disdain for the hollywood convention of traditional storytelling could create a wonderful film with this idea . this film certainly isn not it . the puppet do everything they can to bring consistency to these character and but they be all too often defeat by the dazed and confused script . in particular and i be become increasingly impress by gonzo and who play the lively corpse . in a number of muppet film and he always stand out a a very charismatic puppet .