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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 [[LucasArts|cinematic game]] which was mooted as the basis for an ''[[Indiana Jones|Indy 4]]'' that [[What Could Have Been|never was]]. The movie itself was based on ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' by [[Jules Verne]], as was ''Nadia'', [[Older Than They Think|which goes some way in explaining similar themes]]. For what it is worth, one of the credited writers is [[Joss Whedon]], and [[Hellboy (comics)|Mike Mignola]] was the production designer.
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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* [[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.
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