some have praise _atlantis represent_the_lost_empire_ a a disney adventure for adult . i do not think so at least not for think adult . this script suggest a beginning a a live action movie and that strike someone a the type of crap you can not sell to adult anymore . the crack staff of many old adventure movie have be do well before and ( think _the dirty dozen_ ) but _atlantis_ represent one of the bad film in that motif . the character be weak . even the background that each member trot out seem stock and awkward at best . an md or medicine man and a tomboy mechanic whose father always want son and if we have not at least see these before and we have see mix and match quirk before . the story about how one companion and vinny play by don novello ( fr . guido sarducci ) and go from flower store to demolition totally unconvincing . only the main character and milo thatch and a young atlantis obsess academic voice by michael j. fox and have any depth to him . milo search for atlantis continue that of his grandfather who raise him . the opening scene show a much young milo giddily perch on a knee and a his grandfather place his pith helmet on his head . and while the character be thin at best and the best part about _atlantis_ be the voice talent . perhaps milo depth be no thicker than fox charm . commander rourke lose nothing be voice by james garner . although rourke be a pretty stock military type and garner show his ability to breath life into character simply by his delivery . garner vocal performance be the high point . i be sorry to say leonard nimoy die king be nothing more than obligatory . additionally and don novello a the demolition expert and vinny santorini and be also notable for one or two well do and funny line but i have always like father guido sarducci and anyway . also well do be the computer animation . the background animation and that be . the character animation have not be this bad for disney since the minimalism that drive don bluth out the door . the character animation do nothing if not make already flat character appear even flatter . aside from landscape and building and vehicle there isn not much to impress . the plot be the bad . some say hackneyed or trite . i be not so sure about that . any serviceable plot can be make into something new with the proper treatment . shakespeare often start from a know story and plot and be famous only for put on a new coat of paint . so the treatment be the thing . and _atlantis_ obviously lack that . i can not begin to go into all the logic gap without a spoiler section . the plot be bad . the plot bridge snap like twine and the end do not make sense . to add to that and the script and the animation be pepper with annoy sloppiness . spoiler 1. right at the beginning when milo reveals that runic or celtic symbol have be wrongly transliterate and the coast of ireland should read the coast of iceland and we begin to have problem . the writer of the script would need to know the british take for eire or eireann a ireland and and completely ignore the old and latin term hibernia . but more than this and they need to know of the viking conspiracy to call the greener island iceland and the icy island greenland . by make it the matter of a mi tranliterated letter and the writer have doom themselves to require a runic version of english and a post roman date on the script . since this be long after atlantis be suppose to have sink into it undersea cave . and without visible clue and less technology than milo have and make the inscription far less trustworthy . 2. the shepard journal could not be write before the sinking of atlantis and or it would know nothing about the cave or the crystal lying in the king eye . it must have be write after the sinking and but without even the technology that milo expedition have and how the heck do anybody get by the leviathan . so how could it know more about anything after that . and why would it be write in atlantian . automatic writing and clairvoyance or astral travel can explain these thing . however clairvoyance and astral travel do not require the shepard to write in atlantian . so it get to be some sort automatic writing . since noone leave in atlantis can read and it must be the spirit of the crystal beaming message to the surface . this would have make more sense . but could also have be explain within the movie represent milo could have discover that this power have be call him all his life appear in dream and etc . this need to be explore in the movie . 3. the atlantians should simply not be able to comprehend modern language . no one expect that the original indo european would be able to converse in europe and anymore than roman would understand that hard c or their day become french chs ( pronounce like shs and no less . ) 4. current atlantians be alive before the cataclysm when apparently they could read and yet now be unable to read what they use to and or operate similar machinery . 5. the mass illiteracy point out a crucial flaw in the movie . nothing seem to have happen to this culture . it seem suspend in air until milo can rescue it . even though it appear that life be not a constant struggle for survival and no one want to compose poetry or write novel and perhaps it be a combination of atlantian school system go downhill toward the end and lack of good fiction that cause atlantis to fall into illiteracy . 5. kida can be excuse for not know how to read or operate the machinery if she be so young when the cataclysm of stupidity set in but any of it hardly qualify her father for deification . kashakim foolishness almost single handedly wipe his people from existence . kill a bunch in the cataclysm and stall progress ( not a lot kill here and but he oversee a massive slide in culture and progress ) until someone could take the crystal to kill everybody and if they weren not boil in lava first because the giant robot weren not there to protect them . a bolt of blue electricity should have shatter kashakim likeness and when kida try join her father image to the circle of great king of atlantis . 6. even though milo be the only one who could read atlantian and rourke and others know enough to look through a book of gibberish and find a page on a crystal which he know to be a crystal and not some stylized astrological or phase of the sun diagram . 7. if milo grandfather have tell rourke about it and it still do not explain what how rourke would have suffer from milo read it a part of the book . rip out the page which be dog eared in rourke hand and even though milo find no sign of a torn page in the book apparently only be there to tip off the viewer that something be not quite right . unless the word crystal would have set alarm off in milo head that somebody would try to steal it and milo would have suspect nothing . it just thick head foreshadowing . 8. the crew double cross be not a character change . we learn that vinny and sweet and audrey and cookie have be go along with rourke from the beginning . however and the change of heart fall flat . it be a change and and need to be well motivate . hard to do with character who weren not give anything to begin with . 9. niggling little bit that the lava flow up over the dome and instead of fill in the rest of the area that we view the sequence from . it liquid while it will not flow over the protective dome until it fill up all low area . 10. the end stink . and make no sense other than to appease political correctness . with it powersource restore and atlantis be no longer a weak power and need coddling . the giant robot guardian and the sky cycle shoot blue lightning suggest that they have less to fear from u than they might . the technology be superior to ours and and definitely to early 20th century . in the end milo need to teach the atlantians to read and for what . the whole idea be to leave their little quiet and chastened culture alone and not to send it into hyperdrive . end spoiler perhaps and the lost world plot and the turn of the century set should give me a hint that this be more an homage to pulp . the failure i find with the film agree with this idea . but i be at a loss why i should pay to see thin character and plot hole simply because many dime novel have them as well . and pulp story be part of the crap they can not sell adult anymore and anyway . we have become a bit more sophisticated and our pulp need to grow up as well . raider of the lose ark lose none of it pulp feel and avoid so much badness . 4 out of 10 the movie be enjoyable but a i think about the plot and it seep ever low .