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89
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87
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86
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84
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83
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83
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83
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82
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82
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82
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82
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81
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81
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80
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80
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79
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78
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77
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77
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75
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74
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74
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74
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74
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74
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71
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71
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70
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70
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70
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69
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69
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67
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66
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66
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65
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65
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64
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64
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63
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63
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63
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63
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62
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62
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61
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60
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59
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58
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58
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57
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57
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57
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56
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56
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55
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54
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54
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54
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52
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50
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48
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45
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42
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42
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40
Limits of Control, The
40
Paris 36
38
Gigantic
36
Life is Hot in Cracktown
35
New York
28
Big Shot-Caller, The
28
Surveillance
22
What Goes Up
18
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16
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xx
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xx
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xx
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Walt Disney Pictures
GAMES:
MPAA RATING: PG for action violence
Starring
Michael J. Fox,
Jim Varney,
Corey Burton,
Claudia Christian,
James Garner,
and
John Mahoney
A young adventurer named Milo Thatch (Fox) joins a group of explorers in search of the lost continent of Atlantis.
| GENRE(S): |
Sci-fi
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Tab Murphy
Joss Whedon
Bryce Zabel (story)
Jackie Zabel (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Gary Trousdale
Kirk Wise
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 29, 2002
Video: January 29, 2002
Theatrical: June 8, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
95 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
90
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
A thrilling tale smartly told, with an abundance of wit and invention. It's a classic.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.

80
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
A monumental treat as well as a crafty assemblage of mythologies.

80
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
A wide-eyed, action-adventure throwback to the era of Disney's magnificent adaptation of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
75
Miami Herald
Christine Dolen
A crackling good adventure, a visually sumptuous effort.
75
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
A well-told, vividly imagined movie that doesn't pretend to be more than it is and doesn't lean on pop-culture references to win over its viewers.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Wesley Morris
The emphasis here is less on cuteness and romance and more on the "Raiders of the Lost Ark"-style adventure.

75
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Enough flair and conviction to keep the movie buoyant even when its plot is abrupt and its emotionality conventional.
70
TV Guide
Frank Lovece
The character designs, however, are much less impressive. Except for the oddly naturalistic Sinclair, the rest look like cartoony characters from one of Disney's '60s films.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
For all its handsomeness, the movie reveals a few cobwebs beginning to gather at the conceptual edges of the Disney animations.
63
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Disney's disappointing Atlantis, sadly, is a lot like much of the studio's recent animated output: eye-popping visuals and great vocal characterizations sunk by a dead-in-the-water script.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Unfortunately for Disney, the real obstacle confronting the submarine isn't the giant lobster. It's a foul-smelling ogre, and it's no contest.
60
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Visually imaginative and even persuasively spiritual.

60
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Story line and characterization are decidedly old-fashioned, and a curious decision about production design gives this wide-screen cartoon some of the look and feel of a Saturday morning TV cartoon series

58
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Has my eye, seduced by the devious and tactile delights of ''Shrek,'' already evolved in tandem with the technological leaps in computer animation? Or is Atlantis simply a Disney dud?

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Grand and imaginatively designed epic that forgets that the spectacle -- and this is nothing if not spectacular -- is just the flourish.

50
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
What Atlantis gains in chills and thrills, it loses in pure emotion.

50
Portland Oregonian
Staff (Not credited)
A tedious let-down that will bore adults and only mildly amuse children.

50
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Qualifies as a pleasant time-killer, but it's 20,000 leagues beneath what it might have been.
50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
The idea that every animated feature from Disney is an instant classic officially springs a leak with the noisily disappointing Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

50
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Has the comfortable, old-fashioned, earnest idealism of a '50s Disney action-adventure.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
The eye candy can't quite compensate for the murky mess of a plot.

40
Film.com
Sean Means
A fireworks show with plenty of "oohs" but not a lot of "aah" -- the story is needlessly convoluted in places and storybook-simple in others, and the characters never make the leap from drawn figures to flesh-and-blood people.

40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
For the most part, the movie's a bland disappointment, on many levels.

40
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Recycles familiar adventure and cartoon devices with minimal wit and flair, and the lack of imagination will seem all the more dramatic to audiences in comparison to the winningly sophisticated "Shrek."

38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
A frantic, heartless hodgepodge of pieces from James Bond movies, Indiana Jones adventures, "Star Wars" and half a dozen legends.

30
Village Voice
Ed Park
The bulk of the Atlantis scenes in situ are as involving as a chakra workshop.

30
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
The result is cutesy but harsh, a hybrid of saucer-eyed anime and square-jawed angularity that brings to mind an edgier "Pokemon."

20
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Doesn't seem geared to kids at all: It's so adult that it's massively boring.


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