Atlantis: The Lost Empire

United States

2001

95 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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SCR Tab Murphy, David Reynolds

CAST Michael J. Fox, Corey Burton, Claudia Christian, James Garner, John Mahoney, Phil Morris, Leonard Nimoy, Don Novello, Jacqueline Obradors, Florence Stanley, David Ogden Stiers, Natalie Strom, Cree Summer, Jim Varney, Jim Cummings

PROD DES Matt Codd, Ricardo F. Delgado, Jim Martin, Mike Mignola

1914: Milo Thatch, grandson of the great Thaddeus Thatch works in the boiler room of a museum. He knows that Atlantis was real, and he can get there if he has the mysterious Shephards journal, which can guide him to Atlantis. But he needs someone to fund a voyage. His employer thinks he’s dotty, and refuses to fund any crazy idea. He returns home to his apartment and finds a woman there. She takes him to Preston B. Whitmore, an old friend of his Grandfathers. He gives him the shepherds journal, a submarine and a 5 star crew. They travel through the Atlantic ocean, face a large lobster called the Leviathan, and finally get to Atlantis. But does the Atlantis crew have a lust for discovery, or something else? —IMDb

Director

Gary Trousdale

Gary A. Trousdale (born June 8, 1960) is an American film director known for directing movies such as Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He frequently directs films with Kirk Wise.

Trousdale planned to become an architect, but decided instead to study animation at CalArts, where he studied for three years. He was hired in 1982 to design storyboards and do other animation. He then went to work designing restaurant menus and t-shirts.

Trousdale was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1985 as an effects animator on The Black Cauldron. He gained true prominence in his field with the success of his animated film directorial debut Beauty and the Beast, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and won a LAFCA Award. He later directed The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1996. In 2001 he directed Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

He moved to DreamWorks Animation in 2003, where he worked on projects such as The Madagascar… read more

Kirk Wise

Kirk Wise (born August 24, 1963) is an American film director, animator and screenwriter best known for his work at Disney. Wise has directed such Disney movies as Beauty and the Beast, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He also directed the English language translation of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away.

Career

Wise graduated from Palo Alto High School and went on to study character animation at California Institute of the Arts. Early in his career, Wise worked as an animator on Disney’s Sport Goofy in Soccermania, The Great Mouse Detective and The Brave Little Toaster, as well as Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories episode “Family Dog”. Returning to Walt Disney Feature Animation, he began work on Oliver & Company as an assistant animator, but eventually joined the story department, where he was reunited with former CalArts classmate Gary Trousdale. After working as storyboard artists on The Rescuers Down Under and The Prince and the Pauper… read more

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Zach Closs

17Jun13

No irritating and unfunny modern pop-culture references to contradict the period setting, no cutesie characters that exist only to sell stuffed animals and no idiotic characters that exist solely to provide comic relief. "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" ignores the Disney formula and focuses entirely on the best delivery of its unique vision.

Zach Closs

16Jun13

A beautifully animated, sweeping, imaginative spectacle with terrific characters abound. Feels like a B-movie serial a young Lucas or Spielberg might've enjoyed.

Matt Parks

27Mar13

Disney, before they figured out the whole 21st century thing.

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Eingya

29May12

Atlantis is a beautiful looking movie, the animation is simply amazing especially in the action scenes, sadly it doesn't know if it wants to be a serious or silly movie, flipping continuously back and forth for pretty much for all the first half of it. Overall is not as bad as people says, on the contrary is quite enjoyable (surely more than Emmerich's Stargate, from which it rips off a lot of the story).

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