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* Others have said it, but I just can't get over it: Atlanteans from the time of the Mebelmok are still alive today, but they don't know how to read their own language. Even granted that Kida was a toddler and the king was blinded (assuming that Atlantean has no equivalent to braille), ''even if'' you make the [[Wild Mass Guess]] that only the royal family lives for thousands of years (with the commoners living mere hundreds) this is impossible. There must have been at least ''one'' literate adult among the survivors, and teaching Kida would have been one of their first priorities. By all rights, Atlantean as a written language should be alive and well, with Kida ''teaching'' people how to read the walls, not asking to be taught. But no, they had to give the [[Mighty Whitey]] something to do.

** It's possible that she read all the directions but misread the vital one.

'''Kida''': Yea... no. }}

*** Not really. Milo doesn't have to take any particular time or effort to read the instructions, so they're apparently both legible and straightforward. If Kida could read at all, she would have been able to read them herself, especially because she's clearly been trying to get the fish-speeder to work for some time. The things she ''has'' done so far have been trial and error - which the fish-speeder is apparently designed to ''prevent'' from working. Sensible, since children carry around those crystals, too.

** [[Rule of Funny]].

** Poor guy was also pretty tongue-tied around her. With a voice and... well, [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant|EVERYTHING]] like hers, it's fairly understandable.

** There are some people who don't like it because it is ''so'' different from ordinary Disney animation. Other people don't like the third act, which does have quite weak motivation for the characters.

* Why are the Atlantian's flying machines shaped like fish? They were built ''before'' the city was sunk.

** Fish have quite an aerodynamic build, so it would be practical to have them fish shaped. Maybe they decided to fully go with the fish theme after that.

** This (it's [[All There in the Manual|a rare illustration]] showing a full view of the dress).

* An infamous deleted scene from the film was actually originally going to have the movie begin with [[Horny Vikings|a team of Vikings]] making an attempt to look for Atlantis, but are immediately blown up by [[Kraken and Leviathan|the Leviathan.]] How the heck are those Vikings able to get to Atlantis if they all lived at a time long before ''any'' submarines were even invented?

**** They simply would have sailed to the island Aziz found Atlantis in, hence the journal (since that island is all that is left of the original kingdom prior to the Mebhelmok, he got to Atlantis accidentally while exploring the caves inside that island)

** And said deleted scene is the ''only'' one of its kind to be be fully colorized and animated. Why aren't any of the other Disney deleted scenes animated in full detail like the final versions of their films?

** And for some reason, the Leviathan in this scene has tentacles. Why does the Leviathan have tentacles? It's supposed to be a giant mechanical lobster, and [[You Fail Biology Forever|lobsters don't have tentacles!]]

*** The Leviathan has retractable tentacles directly below its eyes. The tentacles come together to fire the beam weapon (a certain amount of energy is channeled through each tentacle, and when all of that energy is combined at one point...), which you can see in the scene where it destroys the ''Ulysses''. The fact that the Viking longship is so small (relative to the Leviathan) is probably why we see the tentacles actually getting used as tentacles (if the thing just smashed the longship with a pincer, the scene would be over in two seconds flat). As for lobsters not having tentacles, the Leviathan is ''based on'' a lobster, but is not meant to be a perfectly accurate 1000x scale model of one (it has two sets of pincers, its head can move without turning the entire cephalothorax, its tail is different from a real lobster's, etc.).

** Poor box office reception. Hence in Rourke went.

* Here's one that I don't get. The first time the Crystal took someone of Royal Family, we're suppose to assume that she died, but when it uses Kida to do basically the same thing it did with her mother, why did it give Kida back? Why didn't it give back her mother? What's the distinguishing characteristic between the two characters or the two events?

** Brown comes in different shades. It's entirely possible that Kida is just naturally lighter.

* How the heck did everyone get back to the surface? They can't use the [[Rope Bridge]] anymore since Rourke blew it up, with said bridge built over a river of lava, and the tunnels leading to that kingdom are now clogged up by the now-cooled lava left behind when the volcano erupted (they can't use the [[Drill Tank]] anymore since if you look very closely during the scene when they and the just-rescued-but still crystallized Kida are escaping the erupting volcano, said tunneling drill can be seen falling into the lava when they all finally come out). And even if they do find another away around, they have to account for the bridge above the volcano that crumbled apart under their trucks' wheels when the Pyreflies set their camp on fire, and even if they make it back to the air pocket leading from under the Atlantic Ocean, there's still no way out from there since the Leviathan is still waiting for them at the entrance leading to the air pocket.

 

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