* AcclaimedFlop
* ActorAllusion: Scroop who was voice acted by Michael Wincott, who also played Rochefort in Disney's ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993'' had the same line (word) delivered exactly the same way after the same question; "Transparently."
** Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing [[ThirdRockFromTheSun a teenager from outer space.]]
** It wouldn't be the last time he would [[{{Inception}} float around in zero gravity.]]
* ExecutiveMeddling: This movie was conceived back when ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' was....but the executives didn't allow Musker and Clements to make it until much, much later, and when it was made, the [[NeverTrustATrailer marketing campaign]] ensured not many people saw it by playing up the TotallyRadical aspects of it to the point of being obnoxious.
* HeyItsThatVoice:
** Does the [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame narrator]] [[WesternAnimation/TaleSpin sound]] [[ReBoot familiar]]? As well, Doctor Doppler is [[{{Frasier}} Niles]] and [[OsmosisJones Drix]].
** The norwegian Jim is [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]].
*** Also, John Silver is [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Sebastian]] and [[HowToTrainYourDragon Stoick the Vast]].
** The Captain is [[Film/HarryPotter Professor Trelawney]] and NannyMcPhee.
** Jim is [[Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer Tom Hansen]], [[GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra Cobra Commander]] and [[{{Inception}} Arthur]].
** Scroop is [[TheCrow Top Dollar]] and [[DarksidersII Death]]
** Mr. Arrow is, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Lee_Brown among lots of other things]], [[SpidermanTheAnimatedSeries The Kingpin]].
** The Narrator at the start of the film is Judge Claude Frollo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame[[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Claude_Frollo]] and Shere Khan in the sequel to the Jungle Book.
* ShoutOut: To (would you believe?) ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' in a deleted scene, N. C. Wyeth, and of course ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
--> "Dang it, Jim. I'm an astronomer, not a doctor! I mean, I am a doctor, but I'm {{not that kind of doctor}}."
** They were also going to have Doppler say "[[HesDeadJim He's dead, Jim]]" when the tortoise-like pirate (named [[TheMcCoy "Bones"]]) [[StealthPun dies]], but [[NeverSayDie thought better of it]].
** Onus (the six-eyed lookout), as the pirates find the treasure, does a ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' reference: "We are going to need a bigger boat!"
** [[spoiler: The genders and looks of Amelia and Doppler's kids--3 girls resembling the mother, 1 boy resembling the father--]] was possibly a nod to [[LadyAndTheTramp Lady and the Tramp]]. That, or just brazen unoriginality.
** After Silver's artificial leg is damaged in the course of the film, the ever-versatile cyborg extends a crutch from his also artificial arm and starts hobbling around just like Robert Newton from Disney's own 1950's version of ''TreasureIsland''. This also gives him a PrimalStance, making him more inhuman-looking.
** The alien eggs Silver prepares in his opening scene are scaled-down versions of the [[Franchise/{{Alien}} alien eggs]].
** Morph could be a reference to Aardman Animation's [[http://www.toonhound.com/morph.htm shapeshifting pink-skinned character]] he shares the name with.
*** Or [[{{Pokemon}} Ditto.]]
** Does naming Jim's home planet [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Montressor]] count? Poe's use of Montressor is a pun on [[PirateBooty ''mon trésor'' ("my treasure")]], and [[ScrewDestiny ''montre'' (to show) and ''sort'' (fate)]], both of which factor into the story.
** BEN whistling [[DisneyThemeParks "A Pirate's Life for Me"]] as he goes off to shut down the ship's cannons.
** The ship's name is the R.L.S. Legacy; the initials stand for Creator/RobertLouisStevenson, the original author of ''Treasure Island''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/AlanSilvestri was attached to score the film but pulled out to do ''LiloAndStitch'' instead.
** There's a line cut from the ending that would have revealed it was [[MisterSeahorse Doppler]] who gave birth to the babies.
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