History Animation / TreasureIsland1988

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Perhaps the only point when Livesey loses his trademark grin is when Trelawny, upon meeting Silver, flat out tells him that they're after Flint's treasures (and that's not long after Livesey warned him against doing exactly that). The doctor gives Jim a very worried look, with "What is this moron doing?!" practically written on his face, before resigning and putting the smile back up again.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The English dub ends with a narrated epilogue telling what happened to the surviving characters following the end of the adventure.

** In the book, Jim Hawkins is a classic KidHero who got through the whole ordeal only with brains and bravery. Here, simply doing gymnastics every morning made him into a martial arts master with SuperStrength, capable of beating pirates four times his own size to a pulp within seconds. He's also a fan of MoreDakka when he has an opportunity.

** Dr. Livesey, already a CombatMedic in the book, was given ImplausibleFencingPowers. During the stockade assault, he's able to defeat three burly pirates DualWielding cutlasses at once with a single flimsy rapier used in left hand, [[ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask while using his right one]] to casually sniff a flower. He's also given a boisterous personality (complete with swaggering walk and [[PerpetualSmiler Grin of Supreme Confidence]].

** Dr. Livesey, already a CombatMedic in the book, was given ImplausibleFencingPowers. During the stockade assault, he's able to defeat three burly pirates DualWielding cutlasses at once with a single flimsy rapier used in left hand, [[ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask while using his right one]] to casually sniff a flower.

* TakeThat: In-universe example early in the movie, when Blind Pew and Black Dog, pretending to be street musicians, taunt Billy Bones with a song about the boy named Bobby who loved money too much. Bones isn't amused and throws an orange at them, which gets lodged in Black Dog's mouth.

* AdaptationalWimp: Squire Trelawny, an experienced adventurer and a crack shot in the book, is reduced to "dumb, greedy, gluttonous, arrogant, cowardly and lazy" UpperClassTwit who is basically TheLoad (and would be TheMillstone, due to blurting out that they're going on a treasure hunt, if Silver hadn't known it from the start). He ''does'', though, score the most kills during the fort assault, but via trickery.

** Trelawny's manservants, as well as Abraham Grey, are never mentioned.

** Hovever, it is turned right back at Jim during the stockade assault by a pirate who's at least twice as big as the one from above entry. The same RapidFireFisticuffs that floored the first pirate do little more than knock some dust out of the second's shirt. Once Jim [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh realizes this]], the pirate just leans onto his barrel-sized fist with a nonchalant expression, [[BringIt challenging the boy to do his worst]]. Jim breaks a thick piece of wood over his head (to no avail), then a whole giant tree (with the same result), and then decides to book it.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the last shots of the movie, Israel Hands is seen still clinging to the rope holding the masts of the ''Hispanola'' together.

* IntimidationDemonstration: In ''Spy-Glass'', a huge pirate tries to bully Jim, gets slapped for it, and goes into fit of rage, knocking down furniture and support beams; when a wooden beam falls on the floor as a result, he picks it, [[CanCrushingCranium breaks it over his own head]], and ''eats'' one half before ripping his shirt, revealing gigantic muscles. Jim then [[MuggingTheMonster beats him down in roughly two seconds]].

* NoSell: Jim's reaction to a pirate with wrists literally thicker than Jim's entire body throwing a hook at him is to ''casually circle-block it and the follow-up'' Karate-style without moving an ''inch'', before beating said pirate into a literally unrecognizable mess.

* OneManArmy: Dr. Livesey single-handedly (and with his non-dominant hand no less) defeats a band of pirates with his rapier, not putting as much serious effort as he could have.

** A ceiling beam dropping on someone's head.

''Treasure Island'' (''Остров сокровищ''), also known as ''Return to Treasure Island'', is a classic Soviet two-part comedic AnimatedAdaptation of an [[Literature/TreasureIsland eponymous book]] by Creator/RobertLouisStevenson, directed by David Cherkasskiy and starring Valery Chiglyayev as Captain Flint[=/=]The Narrator, Valery Bessarab as Jim Hawkins, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as John Silver, Viktor Andriyenko as Captain Smollett and Billy Bones, Evgeny Paperny as Dr. Livesey, Boris Vozniak as Squire Trelawney and Yuri Yakovlev as Ben Gunn.

* OminousAdversarialAmusement: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Dr. Livesey, though anyone aware of the original book's plot won't be fooled. Livesey constantly acts helpful and cheery, has an unshakeable SlasherSmile, and punctuates every other word with a series of deep-chested, practically uncontrollable laughs. And that's it. There's no catch to it. He's just a good-hearted BoisterousBruiser taken up to 11.

* RogerRabbitEffect: A distinctive feature of the cartoon was the inclusion of live action "musical pauses" — songs, that were acted out by live actors, that explained, for example, why it is a bad idea to drink alcohol or smoke or why Jim Hawkins defeats all the pirates he meets (because he does exercises every morning). In a few scenes, the 2-D and live action were used together--once when the pirate acting as Billy lays down the skeleton that points to his treasure, and once when the live action pirates take their final bows (the 2-D pirates can be seen in their hands).

** The pirates who fell for Trelawny's ''cardboard tavern'' trick and, as a result, literally fell of a cliff.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Blind Pew's dog was never seen again after a musical number he did with Black Dog.

* MusclesAreMeaningless: Skinny boy Jim Hawkings nonchalantly blocks two wild swings from a pirate whose forearms and fists only are about the same size as Jim's torso, and subsequently pummels him into a broken mess, before punching him through a wall. Subverted later during the island fort assault, where Jim runs into a much, much bigger pirate who just casually shrugs off anything Jim throws at him.

* NoSell: Jim's reaction to a pirate with wrists literally thicker than Jim's entire body throwing a hook at him is to ''casually circle-block it and the follow-up'', Karate-style, before beating said pirate into a literally unrecognizable mess.

* VerbalTic: Captain Smollett overemphasizes the letter "P" in his speech to the point of spraying saliva every time he says it.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Thanks to Armen Dzhigarkhanyan's gravelly voice, Silver's BadassBoast of how Flint himself was afraid of him sounds ''very'' credible.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: For the sake of keeping the plot the same as in the book, by the end of the movie, when Jim encounters Israel Hands and when he is captured by pirates, he conveniently forgets that with his karate training he just could have beaten all the pirates into the ground in seconds.

* RogerRabbitEffect: A distinctive feature of the cartoon was the inclusion of live action "musical pauses" — songs, that were acted out by live actors, that explained, for example, why it is a bad idea to drink alcohol or smoke or why Jim Hawkins defeats all the pirates he meets (because he does exercises every morning).

* MoralityBallad: The animated movie is peppered with live-action musical numbers where the cast delivers an {{Aesop}} in song form, admonishing greed or promoting healthy lifestyle. They were cut from the English dub, though.

* RunningGag: A ceiling beam dropping on someone's head.

* BottomlessMagazines: With ''flintlock pistols'' (you know, the ones that have to be reloaded after each shot by hammering powder charge and bullet down the barrel). One pirate manages to shoot one such gun 7 times in a row. And the aforementioned cannon, which is ''belt-fed'' from an ammo box that is truly bottomless despite appearing to contain 6 cannonballs at most.

* SpeechImpediment: Billy Bones's got a very nasal voice, as he has a permanent cold. Captain Smollett speaks with a spitty lisp. Notably, both of them are voiced by same actor.

* OminousAdversarialAmusement: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Dr. Livesey, though anyone aware of the original book's plot won't be fooled. Livesey constantly acts helpful and cheery, has an unshakeable [[SlasherSmile]], and punctuates every other word with a series of deep-chested, practically uncontrollable laughs. And that's it. There's no catch to it. He's just a good-hearted BoisterousBruiser taken up to 11.

* OneManArmy: Dr. Livesey single-handedly (and his non-dominant hand no less) defeats a band of pirates with his rapier, not putting as much serious effort as he could have.

** Bones, again, dies because of rum, but instead of a stroke, it's a heart attack after chugging from a bottle. However, his cat later drinks from the same bottle and drops dead too, indicating that Pew had poisoned the bottle offscreen.

Notably, the adaptation remains fairly faithful to the book plot-wise, though most characters suffer from {{Flanderisation}}.

-->'''Smollett:''' Oh-la-la! I believe they're loading the cannon!.. But why?.. [[ExplainExplainOhCrap AH! THEY'RE ATTACKING US!!!]] FASTER!!