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Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:11
Rotten:18
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: "Atlantis" provides a fast-paced spectacle, but stints on such things as character development and a coherent plot.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Childrens
Theatrical Release:Jun 15, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $83,561,615
Synopsis: An inexperienced young adventurer becomes the key to unraveling an ancient mystery when he joins up with a group of daredevil explorers to find the legendary lost empire of Atlantis. At the center... [More]
Starring: Michael J. Fox, James Garner, Cree Summer, Don Novello
Director: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale
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Reviews for Atlantis: The Lost Empire
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01/29/02
Top CriticAtlantis is good, and kids will love it, but it doesn't achieve greatness.
06/21/01
Top CriticA new-fashioned but old-fangled hash.
06/15/01
Top CriticThe characters and story are mere narrative lubricant to get us from one digitally goosed sensory assault to the next.
06/15/01
Top CriticJust beneath the surface, Atlantis brims with adult possibility.
06/15/01
Top CriticCertainly, the eye is busy throughout this movie. Verbally, however, it's an often-daunting affair.
06/15/01
Top CriticA film without an artistic vision to match its commercial one.
06/15/01
Top CriticThe movie loses sight of those old nuisances, character and story, behind a chain of spectacles.
06/15/01
Top CriticIt should have been more daring, and gone for the grandeur and even poetic dimension its subject invites.
06/15/01
Top CriticIt's like "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" set free by animation to look the way it dreamed of looking.
06/15/01
Top CriticFor the most part, the movie's a bland disappointment, on many levels.
06/14/01
Top CriticIt's so adult that it's massively boring.
06/14/01
Top CriticIts visuals are executed skillfully, it takes time to develop characters, and its voice cast has personality. But in today's context of broadened animation appeals, Atlantis seems as stale as uncirculated submarine air.
06/14/01
Top CriticA fine Disney adventure about the legendary lost land.
06/14/01
Top CriticLacks the confidence and assurance that have been the hallmark of the spectacular successes of the Disney animation renaissance in the last decade.
06/14/01
Top Critic
Has the distinct feel of too many galley cooks.
06/14/01
Top CriticMostly 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.
06/14/01
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