Disney's summer animation entry, mercifully bereft of cloying musical numbers, falls into the "good enough" category.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 30, 2024

This feature plays more like the best Disney animated film of 1981 than 2001. The unfortunate retrograde look of this cartoon is further hindered by the conventional nature of the characters and weak dialogue.

| Original Score: C | Apr 30, 2024

While the style and technical ability of Atlantis: The Lost Empire is clear, the bland storytelling and the overused emotional beats cause the film to ultimately become forgettable and dull.

| Jan 20, 2023

The world of animation may have been changing in 2001 but Atlantis: The Last Empire is a solid action-adventure.

| Jun 15, 2021

Don't get me wrong, I value the effort of Trousdale and Wise to stage scenes that, amazing by themselves, end up being exhausting in their imprecise conjunction. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 14, 2020

It was exciting, beautifully drawn, with a fun troop of characters to root for.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 25, 2019

Our little science-minded guy was hooked, and it's easy to see why. It's the kind of film Disney usually produces as a live-action blockbuster.

| Original Score: B | Mar 30, 2016

It's too rich with invention and characterization, too packed with juice, and it gallops right along breathlessly. Even so, it manages moments of lyricism and visual elegance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2011

...a passable Disney endeavor that ranks somewhere in the middle of the studio's animation canon.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 28, 2011

Disney's animators once again go under the sea, this time to discover the lost city of Atlantis. Shame they didn't find an engaging plot while they were down there.

| Jan 25, 2011

Visually imaginative and even persuasively spiritual, this animated adventure has some unusually complex villains and heroes, and some of the plot and dialogue transcends what's typical in movies intended for a broad or youthful audience.

| Jan 25, 2011

Entertaining but intense adventure for tweens and up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2010

It is difficult to say whether its greatest failure is in its story, its characters, or its animation.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 7, 2009

A fun action-packed fantasy...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2009

By all means bring the kids to this one -- and sit back to enjoy the ride in Adventureland.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2008

This blandly conceived and executed attempt at a juve-style Indiana Jones with Jules Verne trappings recycles familiar adventure and cartoon devices with minimal wit and flair.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2008

Disney does animated adventure with this colorful, mostly brisk 1914 search for the legendary missing empire.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

When compared to Disney's best animated films, "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" doesn't compare.

| Original Score: C | Sep 12, 2007

It's probably the most grown-up animated feature Disney has produced, and with its attuned vocal performances, elegant design and pulse-quickening finale, it sets a standard of sustained craftsmanship most live-action film-makers must envy.

| Aug 16, 2007

A solid addition to the Disney canon. But from the directors of Beauty And The Beast, solid ain't good enough. Classic Disney this is not.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006