**ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE** is funnier than I expected. FIRST TIME WATCH 

“Did he get blinded because he looked at the light at the beginning?” Yes! He wanted to see his wife one last time 😭😭😭

Milo: my first girlfriend turned into a weird magic crystal thing Sokka: Oh yeah? well my first girlfriend turned into the moon Milo: that's rough buddy.

I deeply appreciate that all of the main characters are a huge variety of ethnicities and backgrounds, the female lead is not only highly educated but a princess who also happens to be leader of the guard, and the male lead is very normal (more brains than the constant brawn and athleticism that is mostly seen in adventure films).

The hand on the head kind of hug is SO UNDERAPPRECIATED AND UNDERUSED in so many romance films 😭 It's me weakness with how comforting it looks.

*THE MOST* underrated disney movie of all time. The characters are great, the story is beautiful and the soundtrack is fantastic. I have no idea why this movie is so unpopular.

12:01 I’m pretty sure Mole was gonna say “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?” which means “do you want to sleep with me?” That’s why she punched him.

Peter Parker looking nerd meets hot lady and goes to ocean town

Just a little backstory, Kida could speak French because the shepherd who wrote the journal was also French, had been there and made a linguistic bridge with the Atlanteans.

"people are either simping for Milo or Kida" me as a bisexual: Ha ha ha yeeeah "either" suuuuure

"People are always simping for Milo or Kida" Me: No! Helga! HELGA!!

When commander Rourke says “P.T. Barnum was right.”, this is a reference to the famous quote usually credited to Barnum: “There's a sucker born every minute."

“Road to Eldorado” “Atlantis” and “Treasure Planet” all feel super similar. Like very different but same style art. Also just 3 of my faves for the sheer humor and adventure. Yeah I guess all 3 are super adventurous with romance taking a background role so I love them.

I love that Kida saw Milo and went: "This guy is a dumbass... I like him"

The funniest part of the "Ireland" to Iceland" bit is that it sounds like hokey but actually works in Old Norse. ("Írland" to "Ísland". This also works in runes.)

As a kid, I kind of hated most Disney films, as I felt most of the songs were pointless and irritating. Then this masterpiece came along, with explosions instead of songs, and I fell in love.

you wanna know a fun fact ? the "mole-man" is dubbed in French by an actor who actually looks like him and I swear it's a running gag among my generation

This style is very distinct because the concept artist is Mike Mignola, the artist behind Hellboy. Fun fact: in his notes he writes, "Sorry I can't draw pretty women." Edit: I should have clarified that Mike Mignola didn't draw the faces and instead left them blank because he didn't feel comfortable finishing the sketches. You'll should have seen them cuuuuuuuz yikes

"something about this man and his square jaw” 😭😭

Fun fact (sorta) the sequel was actually supposed to be an animated series but was cancelled or scrapped, so they just turned it into a movie instead since like 3 episodes or so was already animated....

7:03 It’s even more horrifying when you consider the scale being displayed here. The Ulysses Submarine was 377 feet (115 meters) long, and the Leviathan just grabbed it with its smaller pair of pincers. That beastie has to be somewhere over a mile in length! To top it all off, it has lasers, tentacles to deal with smaller precision strikes, and as clearly seen in the opening, these bastards are capable of high speed flight. That is a monster engineered for war, and is probably one of my favorite kaiju.

This movie is going to be 20 years old this June, hard to believe

aaaaah! cant believe you'd never seen it before! this and treasure planet are def two of my favorite disney films :D

He went blind because it was the last glimpse he had of his wife. He told Kida to shield her eyes, but he loved his wife so much that the blindness was worth it.

"Maybe she's not evil, maybe she just tough." Well there's a sentence.

In case it was never translated in the comments, the Queen's words to young Kida are: "Kida, come on! Please, just leave it, Kida, we need to go!" I can recheck the translation, I have their official novel or the Wikia translation.

The "Atlantis is waiting" whisper from the trailer has never left my head since the movie came out

The work behind this movie is insane. Disney made A WHOLE LANGUAGE for this movie alone. The Atlantean language was made by Marc Okrand

There is nothing wrong with being an adult and liking Disney! Especially since Disney movies were originally supposed to be for all ages

Princess Kida is a super under-appreciated Disney Princess. She’s the best one. This movie is so good and doesn’t get the love it deserves.

When you simp for both of them...

"He looks like the villain from Tarzan" I thought he looked like a cartoon version of the villain from Avatar

Based on "Atlantis: The Lost Empire." Watch "Castle in the Sky" and "Stargate (1994)"

This is my absolute favourite movie. Action, adventure, a budding relationship with no high expectations, surrounded by intense world building (THEY CREATED A LANGUAGE FOE THIS MOVIE). Love it so much I watch it twice every year

"I wish we could do more" *Looks back at more gold than the Vatican* "Nah, you're good"

Simping for the main characters of this movie is the best thing

If you feel like it's similar to The Road To El Dorado, there are actually some (basically confirmed) rumors of corporate espionage around the start of both films' development (late 90s-early 2000s) done among higher-ups *and* animators between Disney and Dreamworks so some of their films around that time have similar feels, ideas, tones, and aesthetics.

2:34 I think Milo wasn't expecting people or the civilization still being there. Maybe just the ruins with the crazy "power source" hidden somewhere.

18:10- he means "there's a sucker born every minute." Barnum didn't actually say it but it always gets credited to him for some reason...

"They're either simping for this man or this woman" Literally everyone: Both. Both is good.

"whenever i talk about this movie, people are either simping for this man or this woman" me: *SWEATING IN BISEXUAL*

I like how the only 2 disney movies she hasn't seen are what majority of the animated world consider underrated lol

In an interview one of the director, Kirk Wise, confirmed that had they made a theatrical sequel that Helga would return as the villain but in a "Darth Vader" like suit and leading an army of mercenaries. So it's technically Canon that she survived that fall and volcano explosion. How? I don't know, but it would have been cool since she was a cool villain. The "Sequel" this film got was actually a pilot for a canceled TV Show "Team Atlantis" and was 3 episodes edited together. It would have been amazing to see a Theatrical Sequel, a TV Show, and yes, they planned rides at both Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida. Why can't we live in a world where those are reality?

that hug at the end was so satisfying 🥺 THE HAND ON THE BACK OF THE HEAD ARE YOU KIDDING MEEE

This was my favorite Disney movie as a kid and I never got why people didn’t like it. It’s amazing

This is my FAVORITE non-princess Disney movie of all time, hands down. It really spoke to little kid me, who was a big on fantasy/history. I even had a McDonalds toy of the crystal necklace from this movie

DUDE YOU HAVE TO WATCH TREASURE PLANET-

The part that her mom says at the beginning is something along the lines of "leave it [the bracelet] behind, there's no time!" Not sure why that wasn't translated in the version you watched, but it was always available in the VHS that I watched as a kid!

In your defense of mixing up Atlantis and Treasure Planet, they were both made by the same guy, Tab Murphy. Most if not all of the great, horribly underrated Disney films are thanks to Tab Murphy and his creative mind c:

Some people don’t remember this, but there was actually a sequel. It was more of a three part pilot for a series that didn’t launch.

I always get so exited when I get notified by her

I'm over here simpin' Helga. Who's with me?

Reasons why this movie is amazing on top of the regular reasons (tight script, great banter, beautiful animation, etc.): - Milo as a nerdy "science hero", a soft nerdy man who's an idealist and motivated by a pure pursuit of knowledge, and his physical weakness isn't shown as something shameful or unmanly or something he needs to overcome by the end. - Even though he's shown as idealistic, we're reminded that scientific advancement doesn't exist in a vacuum and in his work, Milo is naively reaping the fruits of suffering and conquest. As Rourke points out, the Altanteans' treasure would be far from the first thing to make it into museums against the will of the original owners. - Rather than black and white characterisation, the cast exists on a spectrum from "good person who cares about other people" (Milo, Dr. Sweet) to "your average person who knows what's right but may struggle with doing it" (Audrey and the others), to "knows what's right but will do the wrong thing for other reasons like loyalty or self-interest" (Helga, with her little line "This changes everything" before Rourke shoots that down), to "gives zero shits about doing the wrong thing and will not feel bad about it" (Rourke) - Disney needs to revive the tradition of "conquest-hungry immoral military man as the ultimate bad guy" (Altantis, Tarzan), if they're not too busy sucking up to the Pentagon these days when writing the MCU.

I always loved this movie as a child but now I love it even more because Milo is a linguist and so am I. He's kinda like my personal hero.

Sophia: I did the same thing with Atlantis and Treasure Planet Me: more like Road to El dorado Also Sophia: this whole movie gives me whole El dorado vibes

I love this movie. More people need to see it. Also, Helga survived the fall because the bottom of the volcano was made of ash.

I'm so pissed this didn't get more fame This should have been in kingdom hearts

Loved this. I feel like this would be one of the best animated Disney's that would actually translate well to a live action. Also thank you!! I never noticed the PT Barnum comment! I wonder if he was referring to PT Barnum's famous "There's a sucker born ever minute" because of the crew turning on him

You should watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit

I'm with you on that hug! It's such a great detail, and so full of warmth.

I literally watched this last week and honestly forgot how underrated this film is!

Cookie's line near the end saying that he wasn't so good at “speechifying” was the only dialogue line of his that was done by someone other than Jim Varney, who had died of lung cancer aged just 50 before the film was completed. Presumably that line was added much later in the production, when Jim was either too ill to record the line himself, or was no longer with us by the time the decision was made to add it. _Atlantis: The Lost Empire_ is dedicated to his memory and Cookie was his last role.

such an underrated movie

"they're either simping for this man or this woman" *sweats in bisexual*

I always thought this movie and Avatar (with the blue people) had a lot of similarities. Like, their plots are almost exactly the same. Also, you posting this totally made my day! Please keep making this content!

Another super underrated movie to me is Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron u should do a reaction to it plzzz

This is my favorite Disney animated movie.

to be fair, i think they started off wanting to show Atlantis more in-depth before it cut to the "present" and Milo, but figured that would kinda ruin the spectacle of actually finding it. They also had an alternate intro where Icelandic vikings trying to find Atlantis get heckin' nuked by the Leviathan, leaving the Journal, but they decided to instead show how Atlantis sank into the ocean so that you get a taste of the city and culture before the movie _i think_ Also that montage of them going through like the centipede and the cold and the caves, that was supposed to be wayyyyy longer.

Personally, I love Milo and Kida. I also love their romance, as its slow and realistic. And yes...as a hugger myself...that HUG.

Was I the only strange child who didn't care about Milo or Kida but had a weird crush on Vinny? 😂 😂

Just like how she try to find the bad person

Fun thought, the giant lobster that attacked the sub, the Leviathan? There is no one in it, the machine is completely autonomous and as long as it has standing orders to follow. It was about ~380 feet long and could also fly like Atlantean vehicles

I love treasure planet and Atlantis

U should watch Treasure Planet next. That and Atlantis are my favourite Disney films.

For any Stargate fans in the comments, is it just me or does Mile give off major Daniel Jackson vibes? Lol

8:40 - 9:04 10:24 - 10:35 Fun fact: Don Novello, who plays Vinny, chose to improv his dialogue. One of the animators even stated that he would read his line once or twice, but not even say them through the scenes. Makes me wonder what his original lines were.....

P. T. Barnum was credited with coining the phrase "There's a sucker born every minute." Whether he actually did or not is up for debate.

I just made me aunt watch this yesterday, I've loved it since i saw it when i was a kid-! shame most people haven't seen it. SIDE NOTE so many people die in this movie, I was so surprised because I hadn't really noticed when I was a kid lol

Jim Varney passed away on February 12, 2000, at age 50 due to lung cancer from smoking, before the production ended, and the film was dedicated to his memory. Producer Don Hahn was saddened that Varney never saw the finished film, but mentioned that he was shown clips of his character's performance during his site sessions and said, "He loved it." Shawn Keller, supervising animator for Cookie, stated, "It was kind of a sad fact that he knew that he was not going to be able to see this film before he passed away. He did a bang-up job doing the voice work, knowing the fact that he was never gonna see his last performance.

He does look like the villain from Tarzan, but not in appearence but in manners. The way he talks and such

If you’ve gotten this far into underrated Disney, Treasure Planet is your next stop if you haven’t seen it already. It’s loads of fun

im so glad i got to see this in theaters as a kid. and its always great to see someone watch this movie for the first time, its one of my favorite animated movies. everything about the design of this movie and the great voice acting make it so unique

This movie is what inspired me to study to become a linguist. Milo is my hero.

We NEED more animated characters like Milo here.

the fact that you react to underrated movies is amazing!! thank you for the quality content ✨

5:53 It's Rourke! He's the Admiral Zhao of the group! (In the scene he tries to take a power greater than imagined away from tribal people and it ends up destroying him, lol) 12:15 Just love how you're able to read people :D Kind of reminds me of when you knew that Sokka was holding back from kissing Suki because he was still broken from the lost of Yue :) 14:58 Of course he was off by 10 states, it's 1914, so we already had Arizona as a state at this point, it became a state Feb 14, 1912 . . . and exactly two months later a very romantic night turns into night of disaster :3 I'm pretty good with history. **Finger guns** :3 . . . XD 18:13 It's everything you ever want! It's everything you ever need! And it's here right in front of you! This is where you wanna be! :D 18:34 True about them needing to go up to the surface, but I think he's talking about Milo hitting his lowest point, things can only improve from there :) Kind of reminds me what Iroh said to Zuko :D "You must never give into despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road, and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself." :)

Out of all the Disney movies I’ll say the music score in this movie is my favorite specially when Kida becomes the Crystal

The terrifying thing about lobsters is that they cannot die of old age, they just continue shedding their shell and growing until either something eats them or until they become too big to molt out of their shell, if that didn't happen they would just get bigger and bigger continuously

20:37 caught me so by surprise i nearly choked on my coffee 💀 your sense of humor is SO underrated

5:40 I’m sorry ma’am, you trying to tell me water isn’t important?... well you’re right I haven’t drank water in over 12- **blacks out for the 3rd time**

2:18 is exactly why I’m scared of the open water

I saw some other people comment this. Treasure planet is such a great film. I have no idea why it was so unpopular when it came out. For some reason steam punk + space didn’t equal cool to some people. It has remained in my memory so vividly along with Anastasia. The animation and the soundtrack is *chef’s kiss*

9:31 ”crazy russian hacker be like” lmaoo😂

She's redeemed at the end. But we don't see her after the first film. I think that there was plenty of time for her to have been saved from the volcano.

There was a "sequel" - made up of a TV series that didn't get sold - that had Atlantis coming to the surface at the end of it. It was...okay. But had TV level animation (and writing) and was mostly set on the surface rather than Atlantis, but, again, it was okay-ish.

The thing about milo is that prior to Atlantis we had Tarzan, Hercules, Aladin, beauty and the beast with all man in there super handsome, muscular who used a lot of physical skills like strength and dexterity, Milo was kinda the first one to rely more on intelligence and being kinda goofy, also he has a lot of Tom Holland energy lol

I'm a simple woman: I see Atlantis being portrayed in a positive light, I like the content.

This movie was my introduction to Disney so this holds a place in my heart along with Tarzan.

20:25 if someone hugged me like that I’d melt like a puddle on the floor.

This is by far one of my favorite disney movies!!!

Fun Fact: one of the old Disney execs (Jeffrey Katzenburg) started DreamWorks, and he did not leave on good terms. So many of his projects were an attempt at creating movies similar to Disney projects before they came out. Ex. Ants vs Bugs Life; Shark Tale vs. Finding Nemo; The Road to El Dorado vs Atlantis: The Lost Empire