What's with some commenters complaining about comparing Atlantis to Miyazaki? Ebert was saying that Atlantis shows INFLUENCE of Miyazaki, not on par with it. Big difference. And before you jump on and say you don't see Miyazaki influence on Atlantis, Ebert and Roeper also note that it looks like a moving comic strip as well.
The comic comparison is apt since the creator of Hellboy, Mike Mignola, was the production designer. Also I like how Ebert makes one of his offhand comments about anime and the fabric of reality starts to tear itself apart.
I agree, I work at a theater have for years and one thing I know for sure, if we play terrible movies it's standing room only, if a good movie comes out crickets.
Bloody hell, this was the second movie I ever watched in cinemas as well, with Toy Story 2 being the first, and I still hold a special place in my heart for both those films and as such I fully agree with Ebert and Roeper about the film about this film
I’m so glad Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper, and I liked this film. I’m honestly would have been curious to see what Ebert especially would have also thought of say Zootopia and Moana, had he been still alive to see those movies.
I thought Atlantis was a good movie as well. It's one of those Disney movies that doesn't get recognized by Disney and other people lol. I don't think it has those qualities that will hold kids' attention, but I thought it had a good message.
I remember watchin this movie with my cousin and my aunt when I was 10....very underrated disney animated film....good break from the typical "sing song" movies which Disney is known to doing. Come on film makers you dont need to add pointless songs to get our attention...just grab kids attention with visuals, humor and interesting characters and thrilling action scenes...and a decent story. I give Atlantis 3/4 stars...its a solid adventure movie.
Same for me, it's also my 2th favourite movie of all time. And I hope Disney will re-release this one in 3D. Because like Roger said. The visual are freaking beautifull.
i think he didn't fall in love with kida but insteaad found a friend and in doing so, he fell in love, eventually, but not in the timeline of this movie
A little sad trivia. Disney planned to make animated series based of this one, like they did with aladdin and tarzan. but because of it's lack-luster boxoffice reception it just didn't happen. That direct to vido sequal was made up of some of the episodes ideas. i find this sad case of reality ensuing just another example of how you can drop an ax on good potential storytelling. it also explains why it appers so little in other disney media and why kida not marcated as a disney princess...
this was my first Disney film that i watched on theaters and at the time, i thought it was epic, but now, with a different perspective, is not a good movie but neither a bad one
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Atlantis was a weak entry. I like the color palette, but the character designs are boringly generic and it doesn't have the scope or weight of a Miyazaki film.
Rourke was more entertaining. He also got more chances to show his skills as a leader. Warge didn't really do much outside of tell people where to point their guns, sadly. Still liked him, though.
Sorry, I didn't like it. Not because it's not a musical, I do like the animation, the characters and the action/adventure story. What lost it for me was the dreaded "greedy badguy." The last third, sadly like most films animated or not, has cliche written all over it. -_-
I like it but I'm with you - the setup was great but it fell apart at the last third, I mean the people of Atlantis had been down there thousands of years and couldn't figure out those flying machines, then a character who's been there a couple of days comes along and figures it out straight away? It wasn't even complicated - It made the Atlantians look like morons
+KaydeyRai Ignoring several things: 1. Atlanteans were more focused on survival than operating some machine. 2. The King could have outlawed teaching the written language. 3. He also could have outlawed using the machines. After all, look at what happened in the opening, to which he takes full responsibility for.
Geez why'd Ebert compare this to Miyazaki?! God, not even CLOSE. I thought the animation was sub-par for Disney. Good, but sub-par. And come ON, the Atlanteans couldn't fuckin figure out how to work those hovercrafts?! Oooh, the secret is to keep your hand ON the pad while you turn the key!!! Gee that's complicated. Wow. Kinda insulting to that race of (dark-skinned) people. I did think the overall design was cool though and Kida is the prettiest Disney princess.
That was for one of the vehicles. The one Milo used at the end had a different activation sequence: half-turn right, quarter-turn back, keep your hand on the pad. And the moral of the story is, "Always read the instructions."
