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It's a bit as if they wanted to re-make Laputa: Castle in the Sky, but then with worse animation, really crappy storytelling and side-characters whose only reason to do things is a punchline.
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Nice family movie…
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Part of Disney's unsuccessful early 2000s 2D animated output, Atlantis: The Lost Empire thus stands as an underrated adventure that blends Mike Mignola designs with a Moebius and Miyazaki aesthetics (the plot makes me think the makers definitely saw the latter's Castle in the Sky) in a steampunk-adjacent story that takes no prisoner, and indeed, may have the highest death toll of any Disney animated feature. It's a lot more adult than most (smokers, violence, a freaking femme fatale, and the looming shadow of the first World War. And while the adventure elements are strong, as a rag-tag group of explorers go down into hidden caverns under the Earth's surface to find the elusive lost world, it's really very funny too. Florence Stanley's iconic as the old bat who runs coms, Don Novello brings his "Father Guido Sarducci" voice to the explosives expert, and Phil Morris is surprisingly amusing as the Adonis-like doctor. James Garner, Leonard Nimoy, Jim Varney, John Mahoney, Claudia Christian… It's a great cast at the center of which is a great voice performance by Michael J. Fox. Some of the sharp turns at the end could have been foregrounded more, but most of the twists are shocking and well-earned, so it's a damn shame this didn't find its audience at the time. But that just means it's meant to be rediscovered.