Atlantis: The Lost Empire, an imaginative and eye-popping mix of action, adventure, and sweeping vision landscapes filled with gorgeous computer enhanced animation.
Continuing on its recent arc of solid storylines in its animation and quality visuals, Atlantis is successful in both being a wide eyed roller coaster ride for kids and is interesting enough to keep adults from passing out from boredom. The film follows the adventures of Milo Thatch (Michael J. Fox), a bookworm boiler room attendant linguistics expert. Milo’s grandfather was an explorer looking for Atlantis who knew where to discover the location of the lost city in a hidden journal. With the help of eccentric billionaire Preston Whitmore (John Mahoney), the lost journal is recovered, providing new clues to Atlantis’s whereabouts. Milo then joins a group of rag tag explorers including a 200 person Navy, enough surplus to take over a small county, and no cute sidekicks in the search for the city of Atlantis. Simple, straightforward, and very, very Disney.
Surprisingly, the film is filled with ferocious gun battles with robot monsters and crazed capitalists, extraordinary cell animation infused with CGI Work, and a plot more full of holes than a Corleone. Disney pushes the conservative American envelope with the inclusion of authentic gun usage in combat sequences, a large body count, and various characters who are either pyromaniacs, chain smokers, or twisted French perverts obsessed with dirt. And I never knew Atlantian girls were so hot! Disney even manages to lambast the capitalist lifestyle of the adventurers intent on uncovering the lost city. Damn the imperialists! (And all this on a PG rating.)
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