In 2001 , Disney released its 41st animated feature , Atlantis : The Lost Empire . They did a lot of thing differently with this movie , and that may have mold its mediocre box seat office . But it was all those danger that make it so wonderful .
From a strictly design view , Atlantis is a beautiful film . In the beginning of the movie , the Jules Verne influence is very strong . Atlantis may have the ripe variant of the Nautilus that ’s ever made it to film :
Once they actually get to the metropolis of Atlantis , the design riff on the Greek beginning of the myth , but also appears to include stirring from every single pretty thing they could find . It would have been very easy to phlebotomise all the color and do a white-hot - columned , lily-white - togaed society , but that ’s not what we got .
The expression of the whole moving-picture show was heavily influence by Hellboy creator / artist Mike Mignola ’s expressive style , who was hired as one of four production house decorator on the film . Disney animation worked severely to teach their energiser how to equal the style pathfinder and preliminary character / background designs Mignola provide , and it gives Atlantis a completely dissimilar feel from the other Disney works .
Atlantis also eschewed making a musical for something much more in the vein of an action - escapade serial . For me , tired of princesses and prince , Atlantis was a breath of fresh air . Atlantis move at a very fast pace , ruin the beautiful sub less than 10 minutes after we see it . The final battle — between the technology of Atlantis and the guns of 1914 Europe — is heroic in every common sense of the word . On one side is hoar stone and glowing blue and the other is brown metal and orange fervour . Despite its speed , it ’s an promiscuous action sequence to keep an eye on and love .
The bomber of Atlantis are flake . When it comes down to it , no matter what they look like , they are flake and that makes them wonderful to root for . The agonist is emphatically Milo Thatch , an academic obsessed with find the lose metropolis of Atlantis , who checks every single dork box . But all the rest of the squad — save mayhap Wilhemina , the radio operator — are all people with very specific set of skills and obsessed with being good at them . Audrey ’s a mechanic who became the most bright there is by the time she was a teen . Dr. Sweet immediately start run Milo through a series of aesculapian tests when he contact him . Vinny hoards explosives and is always fiddle with something that could blow everyone up . Mole actually assaults Milo for mess up his dirt appeal .
And for all that some of these qualities are played for risible relief ( especially Vinny and Mole ) the ones with passion are the ones who are skillful inside . The villains are the ones who have no passion outside of money . We even get the authoritative second - in - instruction turn , where the angry accusation is about how much she was promised . Oops . Atlantis is much skilful at giving this message , and these kinds of antagonists , than Pocahontas was .
I ’m also a fan of a lot of the dialogue in Atlantis . It ’s very fun , and move at a gravid stride . Like this :
Milo : Will you count at the size of this ? It ’s acquire ta be half a mile gamey , at least . It must have taken hundred — no , grand of age to carve this matter .
Vinny ( explodes the bottom of the newspaper column , so it fall over ): Hey , look , I made a bridge . It only get hold of me , like , what ? Ten seconds ? Eleven , tops .
The team is so good in Atlantis , in a agency that old supporting players were n’t . Without each one of them , the history did n’t do work . Each one contributed something to get the team to Atlantis . Which , as much as I fuck the enchanted house stave in Beauty and the Beast , can not be said of them .
Atlantis : The Lost World deserve more love than it cease up getting from its parent company . Disney scuttled the boob tube show and buried the plans to integrate into the idea commons . Which is a shame , since the intent was so firm and the pic so fun .
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