Atlantis - The Lost Empire (DVD)

Hey, I love Disney. Having children was a great event in my life. It meant I had an excuse for the cupboard full of Disney videos and I could watch cartoons at cinema without people thinking I was a weirdo. My second child was born last August, which meant I was a bit too busy to see this film on the big screen. Thus I was very keen to get it on video. Fortunately I had just accumulated enough 'ipoints' to get it free. (Isn't free a lovely word!) It arrived in the post early one Friday morning, my daughter tore the packaging off before I had chance and we decided to have a family night in with this new addition to our collection. So ...  Read the complete review

Ever since I’ve had kids my trips to the cinema have almost entirely been limited to watching Disney films or other films of that genre. I’ve seen them all, ‘Mulan’, ‘Emperors New Groove’, ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’ and many, many more. On the whole nothing has ever come close to the last truly great animated film ‘The Lion King’. So it was with some trepidation that I agreed to take my two sons (8year old and 5year old) and their cousin (6year-old) to see the much-hyped new Disney animated film ‘Atlantis The Lost Empire’. My verdict…well let’s start at the beginning. *THE ...  Read the complete review

Half term is over and we all survived! Experience has taught me over the years that holidays go smoothly if enough is on offer for the children to do, so I’d planned a few trips dotted between the times left for them to entertain themselves. Now all three of my foster children love going to the cinema (inspite of one of them being profoundly deaf) so off we went to see Disney’s latest offering. Often I’ve heard so much about Disney films before I go to see them that I know what to expect but this time was different I didn’t know any one that had already seen it and I’d read nothing either. I looked specially here on ...  Read the complete review

"Atlantis" deeply disappointed me. The story was lame, full of clichees, poorly executed, jammed with pseudo-esoteric humbug, and generally boring. We didn't have characters, not to mention any development- just clichees. The character animation was mediocre, to say the best. What was done with CGI was impressive, but much too short and poorly placed. Why one wastes an endless span with the (pretty pointless) exposition and the superfluent and absurd twist of Milo being kidnapped, then introduces the magnificent submarine and ditches it again just a minute later, to follow up with the endless and boring expedition, rather than exploiting the ...  Read the complete review

Being a 'grown up' fan of Disney, i long awaited this film and so had many high expectations. I wasn't disappointed, but it's not the Disney classic you expect. I think we're seeing a new era of Disney films, concentrating less on the musical aspects that im sure everybody would agree are endeering and drawing closer to a more sophisticated story. We're seeing more of this with the Emperors New Groove and Treasure Planet also. Atlantis the Lost Empire i felt was a bit more gritty, with more history and fact yet still extremely fictitious. The main characters - Kida, the heir to the empire and Milo Thatch, an enthusiastic but ...  Read the complete review