When "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" begins, you can tell is certainly is NOT going to be a traditional full-length picture from DIsney. Much of the opening animation was done with computers...much more than you'd have seen in 1990s Disney films. At the time, it must have wowed audiences, but since it was 19 years ago, it looks unbelievably dated now...perhaps even bad. What follows is again, most unlike most previous Disney films. There is no Disney princess and the story is much more geared towards teens and adults and gone are the usual songs. Clearly Disney was trying to make a more mature sort of animated film. But this film and their subsequent "Treasure Planet" did not do very well as the box office...an Disney returned to more traditional style movies.The story is about an expedition to find the lost city of Atlantis. A linguist named Milo is obsessed with finding this lost city...and most people just think he's a nut. But a rich plutocrat inexplicably bankrolls just such an expedition...but my guy reaction was 'this is too good to be true...I suspect something is amiss'. Well, there is...and you should see the movie to learn what it is.So why was I rather cold about this film? Well, it wasn't the style, more significant use of CGI or the more adult plot that left me cold...it was the characters. While the film is clearly going for a most mature look and style, several of the characters are NOT mature nor even well thought out at all. Mole and Cookie, for examples, are just terrible...completely unrealistic and dare I say it...annoying! Yes, annoying. The plot, also, is a bit obvious. With a minor re-write, the picture would have worked much better for me. I think the adultness of the film isn't the problem...just the writing.
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