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Atlantis: The Lost Empire Directed by
Gary Trousdale
Kirk Wise
Produced by
Don Hahn
Written by
Tab Murphy
Starring
Michael J. Fox
Cree Summer
James Garner
Corey Burton
Don Novello
Phil Morris
Claudia Christian
Jacqueline Obradors
Leonard Nimoy
John Mahoney
Florence Stanley
Jim Varney
David Ogden Stiers
Music by
James Newton Howard
Distributed by
Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)
June 15, 2001
Running time
96 min
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$120 million
Followed by
Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003)
IMDb
Atlantis: The Lost Empire is the 40th animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 15, 2001. The sci-fi action movie was written by Tab Murphy, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and produced by Don Hahn. Set in the year 1914 during the eve of World War I, the film tells the story of a young linguist who gains possession of a sacred book which he believes will guide him to the mythical city of Atlantis. He enlists a band of ragtag archaeologists and excavators to find the city, but struggles against mutineers who want to sabotage the mission for their own profit. The film was noted for the using the simple artistic style of comic book artist Mike Mignola as well as continuing the recent Disney attempts at producing animated features without musical interludes. Atlantis: The Lost Empire received mostly mixed reviews and achieved only modest success at the box-office.
This film was rated PG by the MPAA for "action violence", the first Disney animated feature since The Black Cauldron to earn that rating.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Production notes
3 Voice cast
4 Crew
5 Reaction 5.1 Reviews
5.2 Box office
5.3 Controversy
6 Annie Awards
7 Home Video Release
8 Soundtrack
9 References
10 Further reading
11 External links //
Plot
In 1914, Milo Thatch, an aspiring cartographer/linguist/explorer working in the boiler room at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., believes he has found the secret to the location of Atlantis through a manuscript called the Sheppard's Journal. When his request to lead an expedition is denied by Institute's board, he finds himself contacted by Preston B. Whitmore, who reveals he was a friend of Milo's grandfather, Thaddeus Thatch, who had originally located the Journal. Whitmore requests that Milo become part of a team to search for Atlantis as their linguist expert, which Milo eagerly agrees too. Milo is introduced to the specialists on the team, led by Commander Lyle Rourke and his aide Helga Sinclair. The team includes Italian demolitions expert Vincenzo 'Vinny' Sanrini, crazed French geologist Gaetan 'Mole' Molière, medical officer Dr. Joshua Sweet, teenage tomboy mechanic Audrey Ramirez, redneck cook Jebidiah 'Cookie' Farnsworth, and elderly cynical communications expert Wilhelmina Packard. The team initially teases and plays tricks on Milo but slowly warm up to him over the adventure.
The expedition quickly meets a fateful start when a robotic Leviathan destroys the main submarine, and most of the ship's crew are killed during the evacuation, but Milo's team are able to find the underwater cavern described by the Journal that leads to Atlantis, and proceed with the exploration, unaware they are being watched. After misadventures with the local fauna and discovering the caves are resting on a dormant volcano, they find themselves at the outskirts of Atlantis. Kida, one of the Atlantians that had been tracking the group, invites the team to see her f

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