Monday, December 3, 2012

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Ironically--for a movie with such a "deep"(sea) theme--this one comes across as rather shallow. For a moment I thought it was going to build an allegorical story, relating the "dying" culture of the Atlanteans to our modern America, but no, it just plowed ahead with its straight-ahead, banal story. The characters, including the now-requisite "zany" sidekick(s), aren't very interesting, the animation impressive in a now-standard way (including one sequence that is painfully derivative from Aladdin), and all the crystal power stuff comes across as so much New Age hooey. Bleh.

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