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Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

TV_PG  95 min  -  Animation | Adventure | Family   -  15 June 2001 (USA)
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A young adventurer named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.

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Tab Murphy (screenplay), Kirk Wise (story), and 7 more credits »
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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michael J. Fox ...
Corey Burton ...
Claudia Christian ...
James Garner ...
John Mahoney ...
Phil Morris ...
Leonard Nimoy ...
Don Novello ...
Jacqueline Obradors ...
Florence Stanley ...
David Ogden Stiers ...
Natalie Strom Natalie Strom ...
Young Kida (voice)
Cree Summer ...
Jim Varney ...
Jim Cummings ...
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Storyline

1914: Milo Thatch, grandson of the great Thaddeus Thatch works in the boiler room of a museum. He knows that Atlantis was real, and he can get there if he has the mysterious Shephards journal, which can guide him to Atlantis. But he needs someone to fund a voyage. His employer thinks he's dotty, and refuses to fund any crazy idea. He returns home to his apartment and finds a woman there. She takes him to Preston B. Whitmore, an old friend of his Grandfathers. He gives him the shepherds journal, a submarine and a 5 star crew. They travel through the Atlantic ocean, face a large lobster called the Leviathan, and finally get to Atlantis. But does the Atlantis crew have a lust for discovery, or something else? Written by <laserwatch007@yahoo.com>  

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Plot Keywords:

Atlantis | Journal | Crew | Museum | Adventurer  | See more »

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... from the creators of Beauty and the Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Dame See more »

Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi

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Country:

USA

Language:

English | French | Spanish

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Also Known As:

Atlantis: El imperio perdido See more »

Box Office

Budget:

$90,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$329,011 (USA) (10 June 2001) (2 Screens)

Gross:

$186,053,000 (Worldwide)
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Dolby Digital EX  | SDDS  | DTS-ES

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
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Trivia

One of the character names, Santorini, is also the name of an ancient volcano in the Mediterranean that erupted with many times the force of Mt. Vesuvius (and predated it by many centuries), devastated an early civilization, and may have been an origin of the Atlantean legend. See more »

Goofs

Anachronisms: In several scenes, the submarine's crew are seen wearing gas masks akin to those developed for trench warfare. Gas had not been deployed as a weapon yet, but the concept of a gas mask dates back to the 9th century. A gas mask was patented in America in 1849 by Lewis Haslett, for filtering dust. Furthermore, the African American inventor Garrett A. Morgan invented a gas mask in 1912 that proved useful for gas/smoke-filled environments. Military use of gas masks did not occur until at least 1915, but Rourke runs a private army with unconventional equipment, to say the least. It is not difficult to imagine him or an associate seeing the need for protective masks in a dusty, potentially gas-filled underground environment. See more »

Quotes

Helga: [about Mr. Whitmore] And relax. He doesn't bite... often.
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Crazy Credits

Remembering our friend Jim Varney. See more »

Connections

References "Star Trek" (1966) See more »

Soundtracks

"Where the Dream Takes You"
Lyrics by Diane Warren
Music by Diane Warren and James Newton Howard
Performed by Mya
Mya appears courtesy of A&M Records See more »