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{{quote|''"Less singing. [[Stuff Blowing Up|More explosions.]]"''
|The team motto for this film, according to [[DVD Commentary]].}}
Entry #41 in the [[Disney Animated Canon]],
Flash forward to the early 20th century. Milo Thatch, a young, poor, orphaned linguist, has uncovered evidence of the existence of a great civilization in the past, [[Atlantis]], which was previously thought to be just a myth. Despite his breakthroughs in deciphering clues hidden in the writings and legends of many disparate cultures his ideas are rejected by peers and his proposed expedition, to find "the Shepherd's Journal" and follow its instructions to the lost city itself, is rejected out of hand. However, a mysterious woman steps in and offers him a chance to prove his theory, backed by the mysterious billionaire Mr. Whitmore, who knew Milo's grandfather and had agreed years earlier to help finance Milo's expedition.
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Once Milo meets Whitmore and convinces him of his own personal determination and commitment he is invited to join an expedition that is setting out to make the unprecedented trip to Atlantis itself. The rag-tag team is led by Commander Rourke, a straight, no-nonsense military man, who also knew Milo's grandfather and worked with him on the previous expedition where they ''found'' the Shepherd's Journal. Once they arrive at the destination from which they might never return, they discover an underdeveloped, dying society that has abandoned and forgotten their written language -- and Milo becomes a translator between the two cultures. However, it is revealed that there is an ulterior purpose to the expedition that Milo is unaware of, and his compatriots are not all that they seem.
While Atlantis is technically in the [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney canon]], it does not appear much in modern promotionals, probably because the movie did not do too well in the theater, adding to the growing fear that 2D animated movies were dead (though Disney's ''other'' [[Recess: School's Out|2D animated movie did better]] for the year). It was otherwise notable for being accused of ripping off set pieces and mechanical designs similar to those in ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]'' (an unrelated anime series also about Atlantean mythology) and ''[[Stargate]]''. (''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', however, is unrelated.) See also ''[[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]]'', a [[
While it was both a critical and financial failure, the film is [[Critical Dissonance|fairly popular]] for being vastly different than standard Disney fare - it's similar to ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'' in this regard, although it gains some credit for not nearly being a [[Franchise Killer]] for the [[Disney Animated Canon]].
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* [[Adorkable]]: Milo, who personifies this to such a degree that he provides the page image for that trope. Intelligent, sweet, clumsy, scrawny, still brave... Top it off with the voice of [[Michael J. Fox]], and you have got fangirl carnage on your hands.
* [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis]]
* [[Affectionate Gesture to the Head]]: At the end of the movie, Milo is saying goodbye to all his friends. When he comes to [[The Pig Pen|Mole, who offers a big hug]], he hesitates before patting his head instead.
* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: The film has a different theme song for the Japanese version, called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2ycvP4EtJU&feature=related "Crystal Vine"], written by DREAMS COME TRUE.
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* [[Ax Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Rourke}}, who attacks Milo with an ax as the hot air balloon transport is crashing. He himself admits that Milo has done what few people have, which is royally ''piss him off''.
* [[Badass]]: Pretty much everyone who embarked on the expedition. Gets an [[Establishing Character Moment]] during the Leviathan's attack, even for the extremely many that didn't make it. Milo appears to be the only one who isn't one, until...
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Milo is the one who decides to go after Rourke, after all.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: You bet your ass Milo becomes this during the last action sequence.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Kida and a few other Atlantean women.
* [[Birds of a Feather]]: Both Milo and Kida are intelligent individuals, though Kida is stronger than Milo is. Kida and Milo are both brave individuals as well. When Rourke takes the Heart of Atlantis, Milo decides to go after him and get it back.
* [[Bizarre Taste in Food]]: Mole. When Cookie is serving up dinner, he slops baked beans onto everyone's trays, but refers to it as Caesar salad (for Sweet), escargot (for Audrey) and oriental spring rolls (for Mole). Mole looks at his tray, disappointed, and protests to Audrey that he wanted the escargot, and Audrey shoves her tray at him. Mole abandons the 'spring rolls' and digs into the 'escargot,' even though it's the same greasy food.
* [[The Bet]]: Whitmore reveals that, years ago, he and Milo's grandfather had made a bet: If Thaddeus Thatch ever actually found the Shepherd's Journal then Whitmore would not only personally fund the mission to find the city, he would kiss Thatch right on the mouth. Whitmore honored both parts of the deal though Thaddeus actually ''didn't' want Whitmore to kiss him on the mouth.
{{quote|'''Whitmore:''' Imagine my embarrassment when he ''found'' the darn thing!}}
* [[Blue Eyes]]: Kida.
* [[Book Ends]]: The
* [[Bow Ties Are Cool]]: Milo wears one in the beginning of the film. Of course, they are fairly appropriate for the time period.
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Averted, Kida is every bit as intelligent as Milo himself is.
* [[Bridge Logic]]: Vinny, providing the page's quote:
{{quote|'''Milo:''' Will you look at the size of this? It's gotta be half a mile high, at least. It must have taken hundred -- no, thousands of years to carve this thing.
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* [[The Chief's Daughter]]: Kida.
* [[Clipped-Wing Angel]]
* [[The Cloud Cuckoolander Was Right]]: Thaddeus Thatch was right about Atlantis the entire time.
* [[Communications Officer]]: Mrs. Packard, although she spends most of the time chatting up her friend over the phone (which, unless she's also in the submarine, would be quite a feat using 1914 technology).
* [[Con Lang]]: The Atlantean language [[wikipedia:Atlantean language|is an actual functional language]].
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* [[Development Gag]]
* [[Disney Death]]: Averted with {{spoiler|Kida's father.}}
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Rourke's crew made the best decision when they decided not to leave Atlantis with him. When things get rough, Rourke decides to drop Helga to her death to make his getaway easier. The villain in question, {{spoiler|Helga, [[The Dragon]]}} actually lives long enough after the fall to give a final [[The Dog Bites Back|"parting gift"]]. {{spoiler|Rourke, on the other hand, is more or less
* [[Distant Prologue]]: The film opens with the destruction of Atlantis several thousand years ago as it is submerged beneath the ocean. Originally there was a different [[Distant Prologue]] intended for the opening, focusing on [[Horny Vikings|a viking ship]] that was trying to find the city, but it was decided to use a more action-packed scene instead explaining how the city sank in the first place.
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: It is {{spoiler|Helga's [[Last Breath Bullet]] after Rourke betrays her}} that really foils the [[Evil Plan]].
* [[Dying Race]]: The Atlanteans.
* [[Embarrassing Slide]]: Milo intends to start his lecture by showing a slide of the Leviathan, "a creature so terrifying that sailors were said [[Go Mad
* [[Everything Makes a Mushroom]]: Cooky's cooking is so bad it creates a mushroom cloud when the crew all drop their food in a cauldron at the same time.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Kida. What's so unique about her is the fact that of all the princesses created by Disney, she's actually the only one of them to ever become Queen at the end of her film.
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* [[Evil Plan]]: {{spoiler|Rourke makes the journey to steal the crystal and kill anyone in his way.}} The final stage of this plan is what Milo fights against.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: The film was originally intended to be a creature feature adventure film. Then the Disney execs decided that they needed to get to Atlantis quicker, and so much potential was wasted.
* [[The Extremist Was Right]]: For the most part, the King of Atlantis was wrong not to allow outsiders in his city. But he wasn't entirely wrong. Rourke planned to kill everyone in the city.
* [[Faceless Mooks]]: The gas-mask wearing soldiers in the end.
* [[Family Business]]
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* [[Fly At the Camera Ending]]: Ends with an Atlantean flying machine obscuring the camera.
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
** The movie opens up with vikings searching for the crystal. Rourke wishes to do the same thing, but in the Viking's case they probably weren't going to wipe out the Atlanteans so that they could have it.
** When Whitmore shows off the
** When Whitmore shows the files of the crew, {{spoiler|Rourke's photo is partially covered-up. All the good guys' (well, by the end of the movie anyway) photos are fully uncovered.}}
* [[Freudian Slip]]: "I know how to swim pretty girl -- ''good''! Pretty good, I swim pretty good."
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Milo asks Wilhelmina Bertha Packard about having pajamas, only to be told that she sleeps in the nude. Doctor Joshua Strongbear Sweet gives Milo a pair of blindfolds, explaining that she also [[Fan Disservice| sleepwalks]].
* [[Gas Mask Mooks]]: The soldiers that come along on the expedition.
* [[Going Native]]: {{spoiler|Milo at the end of the film.}}
* [[Golem]]: Those shield-generator dudes from the beginning and ending.
* [[The Greatest History Never Told]]: Sweet was a medic during the Spanish-American War.
* [[
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Audrey, Sweet, Mole, Vinny, Cookie and Ms. Packard join Milo after it is revealed that they were [[Evil All Along]].}}
* [[The High Queen]]: Kida, who not only becomes Queen at the end of this film, but is also one of the ''few'' Princesses created by Disney to ever become Queen.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Rourke}} really should have known better then to stiff her.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: They even use the line "I didn't say it was the smart thing, but it is the right thing."
* [[Humans Are Their Own Precursors]]: As the title says, there was an Atlantis in the past that was advanced beyond anything at that point. They had, among other things, lasers, floating vehicles and monuments, and massive machines. A [[Heroic Sacrifice]] prevented cataclysm from destroying the entire civilization, but sealed it off from the outside world; by the time visitors find it again around World War I's time, it has regressed terribly, and almost all that tech has been lost.
* [[I Ate What?|I Drank What?]]: Done with a bottle of what Vinny claims to be nitroglycerin as a joke.
* [["I Know What We Can Do!" Cut]]
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* [[Ominous Latin Chanting|Ominous Atlantean Chanting]]
* [[Omniglot]]: The Atlanteans are implied to be fluent in every single language spoken in the world in addition to their own language. When the expedition first enters Atlantis Milo and Kida converse in several different languages (including the Atlantean language, Latin, Hebrew and French) before settling on English for the rest of the film.
* [[Opposite Gender Protagonists]]: Milo Thatch and Kida. Kida isn't introduced until the party arrives at Atlantis. From there, Milo and Kida have some calm, [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene]] bonding sessions, before teaming up to save Atlantis from a greater threat.
* [[Opposites Attract]]: While Milo and Kida are a lot alike, it’s not hard to assume that Kida would win in a fight…if they chose to fight.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Cookie's lines in the goodbye scene are the only Cookie dialogue delivered by Steve Barr instead of Jim Varney.
* [[Pair the Smart Ones]]: Kida could give Milo a run for his money in intellect. Though she’s the stronger of the two.
* [[Parental Bonus]]: Many of the voice actors (especially Don Novello) and references to people like Jefferson Davis and P.T. Barnum.
* [[Phosphor Essence]]: Kida glows blue when she takes on an energy form.
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* [[Toilet Humor]]: "To whoever took the 'L' from the 'MOTOR POOL' sign, [[Deadpan Snarker|ha ha, we are very amused.]]"
* [[Tomboy Princess]]: Kida.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Translation Convention]]: The Atlanteans, despite having their own [[Constructed Language]], speak English amongst themselves for much of the film.
* [[Tribal Face Paint]]: The Atlanteans have varied designs on their faces.
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