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Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1)
From the creative team who brought you The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast comes an exciting quest of adventure and discovery. Join the expedition and search below the sea for one of the greatest mysteries of all time... ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE. The world's most highly qualified crew of archaeologists and explorers are led by historian Milo Thatch as they board the incredible 1,000-foot submarine Ulysses and head deep into the mysteries of the sea. The underwater expedition takes an unexpected turn when the team's mission must switch from exploring Atlantis to protecting it. Filled with stunning visual effects, this captivating story is loaded with laughs and messages of friendship and teamwork. Dive into ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE -- it's an adventure your family will enjoy taking over and over again.
"A monumental treat." Elvis Mitchell, New York Times
"...brims with adult possibility." Wesley Morris, San Francisco Chronicle
Editor's Note
Part INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, part 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE marries mythology, cool futuristic underwater space crafts, and turn-of-the-century adventure for an animated treat. Thanks in part to cowriter Joss Whedon (creator of the edgy BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER series), the film is filled with relaxed wit and more grown-up, pseudo-supernatural perils than some recent Disney films, without being inappropriate for kids. This non-musical extravaganza pits Good against Evil, and pairs a nerdy young scientist-turned-explorer, Milo Thatch (Michael J. Fox), with an independent-minded blond bombshell of a princess, Kida (Cree Summer)--provided Kida's father, the distrusting king (Leonard Nimoy) approves. Milo, a museum curator relegated to menial jobs, is obsessed with the famed lost empire of Atlantis. His grandfather once told him about a mysterious Shepherd's Journal that could help him find the now-sunken kingdom and, with the help of eccentric millionaire Preston B. Whitmore (John Mahoney), Milo and several other funny, quirky crew members set out on a heart-pounding adventure. The crew includes Vinny, a demolitionist (Don Novello, better known as Father Guido Sarducci), Dr. Sweet, the gentle cook (Phil Morris, a.k.a. Kramer's lawyer on SEINFELD), and a paternal but brusque Captain Rourke (James Garner). The plot is intricate and suspenseful, and artist Mike Mignola (creator of the graphic comic book HELLBOY) offers up an intense but beautifully simple animated environment as stunning as Queen Amadala's planet in STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE. With monsters like the vicious Leviathan (a mechanical lobster that guards the gates to the city) adding thrills and chills, who could ask for more?
| Features | Audio Commentary With Filmmakers | | DisneyPedia | | Widescreen Version, Enhanced For 16X9 TVs | | Audio Commentary With Filmmakers - Don Hahn, Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale | | Virtual Tours Of CG Models - 3-D Turnarounds of the Ulysses Submarine and Leviathan | | DisneyPedia Atlantis: Fact or Fiction - Fun and Interesting Theories About the Lost Continent of Atlantis | | Audio: English 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround | | Widescreen Version and Fullscreen Viewing Options | | THX-Certified | | Deleted Scene: Viking Prologue | | How To Speak Atlantean | | Digital-To-Digital Transfer |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista (Disney) |
| Release Date: 1/25/2005 |
| Running Time: 95 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 24084 | | UPC: 00786936166095 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen/Standard 2.35:1/1.33:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Gary Trousdale - Director | | Kirk Wise - Director | | Diane Warren - Musical Score | | James Newton Howard - Musical Score | | Kendra Halland - Producer | | Don Hahn - Producer | | Jim Martin - Production Designer | | Tab Murphy - Screenplay | | Gary Trousdale, et al. - Story By | | Cree Summer - Voice Of | | David Ogden Stiers - Voice Of | | Don Novello - Voice Of | | James Garner - Voice Of | | Michael J. Fox - Voice Of | | Jim Varney - Voice Of | | John Mahoney - Voice Of |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...A monumental treat as well as a crafty assemblage of mythologies..." 06/08/2001 p.E13USA Today
"...The visuals are a stunning widescreen mix of digital and hand-drawn artwork....The giant waves, monster crustaceans, flame-throwing fireflies and rivers of lava arrive in a furious rush..." 06/08/2001 p.8E Variety
"...[Norvello gives a] marvelously sardonic, world-weary delivery..." 06/11/2001 p.17 Hollywood Reporter
"...The film makes for jolly, fast-paced entertainment....[The] character animation and layout are superbly crafted for the streamlined action..." 06/08/2001 p.10-101 Box Office
"...An action-sprinkled adventure straight out of Jules Verne....It's a refreshing change of pace..." 08/01/2001 p.59 Sight and Sound
"...All of this is vividly rendered by the colourists, who provide a cobalt sea and fiery lava flows as a background..." 11/01/2001 p.40-1 Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
...an animated adventure movie with a lot of gusto and a wowser of a climax... rousing in an old pulp science fiction sort of way, but the climactic scene transcends the rest, and stands by itself as one of the great animated action sequences... It's like 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea set free by animation to look the way it dreamed of looking. - Roger Ebert
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