Treasure Island Kids: The Mystery of Treasure Island – Treasure Island 3 – The Mystery of Treasure Island (2004)

Directed by: Gavin Scott | 82 minutes | adventure, family | Actors: Keith Adams, Beth Allen, Jack Hurst, Katherine Kennard, Joel Tobeck, Devon Wood

The mood in the holiday camp on the idyllic island is quite low: archery is not going well, singing is only going out of tune, inventions threaten to fail and there is a lot of arguing among themselves. But then, as if by magic, the meter turns completely the other way and everything seems to work in an almost supernatural way.

This suspicion turns out to be correct. Suddenly there is a large statue in the woods that reacts angrily or cheerfully to what the adolescents are doing and, for example, makes the earth shake if they do not want to believe that it is a god statue. The causative agent turns out not to be the image itself, but an alien being who is trying to complete his education in knowledge of the earth and the inhabitants of the earth and communicates with people through the image. It is a kind of hippo named ‘Obi’ and possesses a cute flying saucer. After fighting amongst themselves, the residents of the holiday camp join forces to save Obi from the cruel Dr. Phillman (Katherine Kennard) and then let him go to his alien home. Will she succeed despite the torture and other aggressive methods of Dr. Philman and her helpers?

How the makers come up with such a lot of nonsense is actually clever, but also a bit tiring. They took ideas from quite a few movies and then turned it into a weird kind of stew that is definitely not tasty, but the product of first-year students who have just moved into rooms. To mention even one of the “cited” films would be an insult to the original in this case. There are runaway teenage girls who worship the idol like zombies and don’t shy away from attacking those who want to appeal to them about that strange behavior en masse. This religious fanaticism, however, they let go as easily as it arose. There is a ‘mad scientist’ who seems only interested in shaking her, indeed beautiful, hair and who parades in leather pants and boots, but who cannot be suspected of any scientific insight. And so it goes on. Top notch.