This summer's Disney animated feature teaches
teamwork, determination and vitality as a
scrawny scholar and his motley crew save a
crumbling city from total ruin. Milo Thatch
(voiced by Michael J. Fox) is a gullible geek
with relentless gusto and oversized glasses;
he guides an expedition with a dirt dweller,
a teenaged tomboy and an explosives expert
through raging fires, active volcanoes and a
Star Wars-like battle with murderous
lobster machines in search of the legendary
lost lands of Atlantis. But after a
square-chinned, money-grubbing colonel (James
Garner) destroys, maims and plunders for the
sacred Heart of Atlantis, Milo helps the
empire's Princess Kida (Cree Summer) and King
Nedkah (Leonard Nimoy) regain their
crystallized life force. Although Disney's
usual musical medleys have been
traded in for fights and firearms, the
directing duo that created The Hunchback
of Notre Dame and Beauty and the
Beast present yet another charming and
aesthetic film.