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90A thrilling tale smartly told, with an abundance of wit and invention. It's a classic.
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88Rousing 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.
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80A wide-eyed, action-adventure throwback to the era of Disney's magnificent adaptation of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
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80A monumental treat as well as a crafty assemblage of mythologies.
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75A 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.
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75A crackling good adventure, a visually sumptuous effort.
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75The emphasis here is less on cuteness and romance and more on the "Raiders of the Lost Ark"-style adventure.
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75Enough flair and conviction to keep the movie buoyant even when its plot is abrupt and its emotionality conventional.
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70The 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.
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63Disney'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.
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63Unfortunately for Disney, the real obstacle confronting the submarine isn't the giant lobster. It's a foul-smelling ogre, and it's no contest.
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63For all its handsomeness, the movie reveals a few cobwebs beginning to gather at the conceptual edges of the Disney animations.
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60Story 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
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60Visually imaginative and even persuasively spiritual.
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58Has 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?
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58Grand and imaginatively designed epic that forgets that the spectacle -- and this is nothing if not spectacular -- is just the flourish.
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50The idea that every animated feature from Disney is an instant classic officially springs a leak with the noisily disappointing Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
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50What Atlantis gains in chills and thrills, it loses in pure emotion.
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50The eye candy can't quite compensate for the murky mess of a plot.
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A tedious let-down that will bore adults and only mildly amuse children.
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50Has the comfortable, old-fashioned, earnest idealism of a '50s Disney action-adventure.
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50Qualifies as a pleasant time-killer, but it's 20,000 leagues beneath what it might have been.
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40A 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.
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40Recycles 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."
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40For the most part, the movie's a bland disappointment, on many levels.
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38A frantic, heartless hodgepodge of pieces from James Bond movies, Indiana Jones adventures, "Star Wars" and half a dozen legends.
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The bulk of the Atlantis scenes in situ are as involving as a chakra workshop.
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30The result is cutesy but harsh, a hybrid of saucer-eyed anime and square-jawed angularity that brings to mind an edgier "Pokemon."
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20Doesn't seem geared to kids at all: It's so adult that it's massively boring.
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RandomG10Excellent effects, voice acting, music, humor, and plot make this in my opinion the best movie to come from Disney yet.