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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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