In my opinion this IS the best Disney film (Treasure Planet and Tarzan being great too), it's just different from the "princessy" fairy tales or cutesy classics everyone thinks of when they think of Disney, particulary with animated Disney movies. But personaly, I liked this way better, and don't really understand how it got so under-rated. I wont talk to much on the plot because I'm sure you can read that else where, it was a little confusing, and in some places hard to follow, with a few things that just plain don't make scence, but a good adventure plot. This movie has a lot more action than your typical Disney film, but I appreciate it for this. It has a great animation style too, which really adds to the movie. It was obvious that this movie was meant for slightly older aduiences than the "classics", but is still a good family watch. I'm just not sure if real little kids would understand the somewhat confusing and involved plot real well. The characters are pretty good (with Mole being just abnoxious), and the movie is just fun to watch, I recommed it.

Yuck! Hard to believe that this was done by the same studio that once brought you classic animated films like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Lady and the Tramp, The Rescuers or The Little Mermaid. This has to be the worst Disney animated release ever. The animation may be good, but the whole style and "art" is horrible.
Not only is this a complete rip-off of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, the problem is that this isn't half as great! Even having the same story-line. Atlantis - The Lost Empire focuses on bringing a comedy directed at teenagers, a way to do this is by adding stupid, tasteless jokes, loud noises and heavy machineries and by keeping it songless. Like every other Disney animated feature to be aimed at grown-ups, this is yet another complete failure.
I would like to describe the plot for you readers, but I simply can't, I watched the movie and found myself completely lost by a twirling and confusing plot line which makes the film completely uninteresting. From Disney we've come to spect more, although after releases like this, Hercules, The Emperor's New Groove and Home on the Range, I don't know what to think anymore.

Terrible, don't waste your time or your money on this, Disney will probably use money earned to make another stupid filmas bad or worse than this one, which is hard to imagine.

0/5

It saddens me when movies are held to standards that they never even intended to meet. Atlantis, being a Disney feature, was automatically pigeon-holed as the requisite yearly installment of the company's "family films". With Atlantis, however, Disney took a chance and went in a completely different direction. Here we see the abandonment of the tried and true saccharine plots and fuzzy characters. Forgive poor Atlantis for having no sequences where the main characters burst into song; it simply had no place in a movie whose story was geared towards a slightly older audience.

I've read various reviews of the movie, where critics condemn the movie for having a "contrived" storyline. Contrived is one of those words that pretentious people use in the place of "I didn't understand", "Not what I expected", or "I have a short attention span and couldn't keep up." While Atlantis has its share of cliches, it does not apologize for them, and even pokes fun at itself for their use. For example, Milo is every passive and gangly bookworm scientist ever. There is a scene where Kida identifies him as a scientist just by looking at him, making fun of his build and large glasses, saying that he isn't fit to be anything else. This is also an example of how while Atlantis has a more serious storyline, the movie never takes itself so seriously as to become an ill-conceived melodrama.

The thing about Atlantis that really won me over, however, was the art direction. It is simply a beautiful movie. It had the perfect blend of hand-drawn and computer-generated imagery. This is a balance that so many films fail to establish; either there are only specks of poorly rendered CG, which stand out like sore thumbs amidst the cleaner and brighter 2D, or there is an excess of CG, which if coupled with inferior animation can really drain a film's vitality. As is to be expected of Disney's high production capabilities, however, Atlantis showcases the best of both worlds, and so seamlessly as to never break the continuity of the narrative.

The people who have a problem with this movie are those who held it against their own preconceptions for what the next "Disney family film" should be, rather than watching and appreciating it for its own merits. If you haven't seen this movie yet, then I highly recommend it, and I suggest that you go in with an open mind, because only then can you fully take in all it has to offer.

Excellent, through and through...

This film is one of Disney's most underrated films ever. The story is about a young linquist, Milo Thatch, who tries to sell his theories about the lost city of Atlantis to a local museum, but he's shot down and laughed at. When all seemed hopeless, an offer from an eccentric billionaire giving him an opportunity of a life time. Milo along with eight other brave comrades explore the ocean deep to find the lost city. Upon their arrival, they soon discover an advanced acient race of Atlantians that are in desparate need of help. This film does however fall into some typical Disney movie cliches like the love story, for example, isn't that original, and the characters aren't as memorable as previous Disney characters. However, I was intriqued though that this is Disney first original film that wasn't based on a fairy tale or told like one, so that made it a lot different than one might expect. I thought the special effect for this movie were simply excellent because Disney does such a great job blending the computer animation with the traditional animated figures, so it's quite impressive. Overall, I think most folks may find this film quite different from other Disney animated films, but if you give this one a chance then you won't be disappointed. A great film for the entire family.

Let me just start this review with one thumb up for at least trying in this low-budget animated DIsney Dull, Atlantis. It starts out as good plot, but ends horribly, and the shabby sequel is just as bad as its idea. This movie, althugh released and having pretty decent amount of stars from critics you'll never hear from again, asn't a soon-to-be classic nor a must-see. It's simply a Disney Dull, like Monsters, Inc.