SO SO underrated


I hadn't watched this since I was a kid, but I remembered really really liking it back then. So i watched it again yesterday, and little me was absolutely right. Such a beautiful movie and really interesting story, one of the Disney classics.

I read the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic and saw the mediocre imdb score and I couldnt believe my eyes. I don't get how everyone got so excited with ridiculous SHREK back then but rejected this... Such a pity

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Agreed.

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Sounds a lot like me, I was really young when this came out and my family never went to the movie theater even though I REEEALLY wanted to see it. Eventually I saw it on Disney Channel once or twice, and I friggin' loved it. Of course, years and years went by and I never got to see it again until it was on Netflix, and I still love it.

I agree, this movie really did not get the credit it deserved. Disney did a new art style, a new direction with science fiction and no love story or music numbers, etc etc etc. The thing is, everyone I know who's seen it loves it too, and from what I read most critics gave it a good review so I don't understand why Disney dropped it. Hell, they canceled a submarine ride and the Team Atlantis show and went with an absolutely sh!tty sequel.

Part of it I think is the time. Disney had made all the big ones like The Lion King, Pocahantas, etc and by the time A:TLE came out Disney was churning out the sh!tt!er movies like Home On The Range. I think by then people figured that Disney was done with the classics and got tired of the other underwhelming movies so they just chocked up A:TLE with them. It's a shame considering how unique this movie is compared to all the other Disney movies.

Can't be too careful with all those weirdos running around.

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Treasure planet, Hercules, tarzan, hunchback or Notredame too

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Honestly I find this to be among the bottom five of Disney films. I'm not a fan of Shrek either but it's much better than this. Disney has a lot of underrated classics that should be stood up for...this is not one of them.

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Agreed. This movie and Treasure Planet were my *beep* childhood, haha. I watched them a billion times over, and they were my absolute favorite Disney movies (and still ARE some of my favorite movies).

That, and Princess Kida was my first fictional character crush. :D

It kinda threw me to go online and see how these two movies are actually pretty generally disliked.

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It really sucks being a fan of this movie since everyone's opinions on it are so divided. But I have been a fan since it came out when I was 8 and I feel the general consensus on it has gotten better with time. It's become somewhat of a cult classic now, it's even on the wikipedia page of cult films, and it being on Netflix has probably given it more views and attention than it received while in theaters in 2001.

I also think people are liking it more now that Disney has really changed gears since 2001 and is making predictable, safe, cute stuff, people who don't like the current Disney start to really appreciate Atlantis for being so different, when it was so harshly criticized at its release for the same reason.

Honestly I'm also just pissed that this movie was snubbed for an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Picture, a category that was created THAT year. They picked Jimmy Neutron over it for the 3 movie slot (with Monsters Inc and Shrek) ??? It's literally criminal. Even people who dislike Atlantis can admit the music was phenomenal, there was a lot of interesting designs and sound/visual effects, and it was cool of Disney to try something new. But Jimmy Neutron????? Bullsh!t

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