Hey folks, Harry here... As my expectations for PEARL HARBOR begin getting less, my expectations for ATLANTIS grow... Kinda strange that way. If Disney has pulled ATLANTIS off, then may a downpour of gold shower upon them and signal the end of the singing cute fairy tales! If it does happen, then how ironic that Dreamworks creates SHREK, a satire on the 'to date' Disney films at the same time that Disney makes their first film headed into a new direction? Here's Project Rage...
ATLANTIS
I am Project Rage
For years people have been coming up to me. "Oooh! (insert 90's animated Disney movie here) that has music, singing, I just hate when they sing." Well here's a movie for you. ATLANTIS. Disney's first animated adventure film. Now last year there was Dinosaur, with no musical elements, but had that annoying "love monkey". This year we have a tight little adventure film with no annoying-cute-talk-able-animal-sidekicks. This is the film Mulan and Tarzan should have been. This is adventure.
Jules Verne vehicles, guns, death, hot scantily clothed ladies, Kick-ass-rock-giants, Horny-Peter-lorre-character, subtitles, and massive chase scenes, just doesn't sound like your normal Disney film. It isn't. I know your probably saying, Dude.. take lithium and get out more often. But really it's great. The only film I can compare it to is Titan AE. That was a fun film barely anyone saw.
Michael J Fox's character was annoying, but he'suppose to be.
The Commander: voiced by James Gardner, delightfully ruff even with animated muscle sag. Cool.
The saggy Operator lady: Dry and hilarious.
The Demolitionist: Great voice by Father Sardecio(sp) (I usually hate this actor) one of the delights in this film.
Mole-iere: the cute character kinda like the Lorre-ish guy in Titan AE also. Creepy in an "M" sort of way.
The doctor and engineer: excellent.
HELGA: I put her letters in caps, cause she is way cool! She's in her own movie. She's a 40's Laura croft. She is unfortunately used the least. But is way cool.
Kida: great love interest, I think the animators really loved animating her. Lot's of curves.
Old Atlantian: voiced by Leonard Nemoy, liked his work more in Transformers.
Jim Varney's character was great. Too bad no more Jim Varney. (One blessing is, no more Ernest movies.)
Visual: Filmed in 2:35:1. This is rarely,rarely used for Disney films, usually it's the T.V. video babysitter friendly 1:85:1. Some Cgi, but rarely noticeable, I wished the water was Cgi, especially when it covered the city in the beginning. Just me being picky. Also I felt the shadow and fx dept. was playing it safe for some of the movie. I wanted it darker.
Sound: Excellent sound. In SDDS 6, DTS, SRD-EX. Lots of bass, The beginning kinda freaked me out. There was a lot of surround and great seperation.
The score by James Newton Howard, was tremendous. After his great work in Unbreakable, Dinosaur, and Vertical Limit (lousy movie), he is in his own personal golden age. A perfect buy for any score lovers. I could've done without the credit's song, kinda like Mummy returns.
Is this film for kids? Hell yes! It's truly a family film, like Indy or today's Mummy. Everyone can go see it, and see something different. I'm looking forward for more adventure this summer. Hopefully Tomb raider delivers also.
Go see it.
I am Project Rage
