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Atlantis: The Lost Empire is the fortieth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. An animated sci-fi mixed action movie, it was written by Tab Murphy, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and produced by Don Hahn. Atlantis was produced at Walt Disney Feature Animation, and was released on June 15, 2001 by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. It is set in the year 1914, where an expedition crew goes off to find the lost city of Atlantis.

Characters and voice cast

Michael J. Fox
- Milo James Thatch, a 32-year-old cartographer and linguist
Cree Summer
- Kidagakash
"Kida" Nedakh, the 8,500-year-old princess of Atlantis
Corey Burton
- Gaetan "Mole" Moliére, a 39-year-old geologist
Phil Morris
- Dr. Joshua Strongbear Sweet, a 42-year-old medical officer
James Garner
- Lyle Tiberius Rourke, a 54-year-old army commander
Claudia Christian
- Helga Katrina Sinclair, Rourke's 30-year-old second-in-command
Jacqueline Obradors
- Audrey Rocio Ramirez, an 18-year-old mechanic
Don Novello
- Vincenzo "Vinny" Santorini, a 38-year-old demolitions expert
Leonard Nimoy
- King Kashekim Nedakh, Kida's 20,000-year-old father
John Mahoney
- Preston B. Whitmore, a 70-year-old friend of Milo's grandfather
Florence Stanley
- Wilhelmina Bertha Packard, a 61-year-old communications expert
Jim Varney
- Jebidiah Allardyce "Cookie" Farnswoth, a 72-year-old cook
David Ogden Stiers
- Fenton Q. Harcourt, Milo's 58-year-old boss

Plot summary

The film begins with an explosion and a massive wave washing over the island of Atlantis. Giant sentries defend the city, but the queen is drawn into a glowing blue beam projected from the "heart of Atlantis," a huge gem which powers the city's defenses. She leaves behind a young daughter, princess Kida, as the city disappears beneath the waves.

Thousands of years later, Milo Thatch is an aspiring linguist and explorer, although his employer, the Smithsonian Institution, has little use for him other than keeping the boilers running. He believes that his research has revealed the location of The Shepherd's Journal, a Viking manuscript that allegedly reveals the way to Atlantis. After he can't get any support, a mysterious woman named Helga invites him to see her employer. Helga takes him to Preston B. Whitmore, an eccentric millionaire who, owing a debt to Milo's grandfather, has funded a successful effort to find the journal and, now that it is in hand, recruits Milo to read the book and lead an expedition to Atlantis.

Milo sets out with a crew headed up by Rourke, a military man who led the expedition to recover the journal, Helga, and a crew of oddballs. They set out in a massive submarine, the Ulysses. As they approach Atlantis, the Ulysses is attacked and destroyed by the Leviathan, a huge robotic defender of Atlantis. Milo, Rourke, and a small complement of crew escape in small sub-pods and a cargo hauler and, reaching an underground cavern described in the book, continue ahead on foot and vehicle. They are tracked all the while by some Atlanteans.

Reaching Atlantis, they are greeted by Kida, now a young woman, although "young" is relative to her appearance only, as she is now many thousands of years old. She brings the group to meet her aging father, who wants them to leave as soon as they are able, since their presence cannot mean any good. Atlantis has fallen into ruins since disappearing into the earth, and Kida enlists Milo's help deciphering the runes throughout the city, the Atlantean written language having been unknown to the people for centuries. He helps her discover the nature of the heart of Atlantis, but can't tell how it works, since a page of the journal is missing.

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