I saw 'Atlantis'...

[phoenixfeather36 at aol.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amber <reanna20 at y...> wrote:
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> ...and all I can say is bleh. I must say that I was sorely and
> completely disappointed. In my opinion, it's one of the WORST Disney
> movies to come out in quite awhile. Why you ask? Well, here ya go...
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> The story, to begin with, was way too long for an hour and a half
> movie. I remember thinking about a third of the way into the movie 
that
> it was moving veeeery fast. Because it moved so fast, no enough time
> was spent on the various parts of the story. Second, the character
> development was LOUSY. Awful. We never get to know any of the
> characters at all. The requisite "bad guy" turned into a bad guy way
> too late and didn't seem real at all. Third, can we say plot hole? 
Plot
> holes everywhere! The biggest was at the part where Kida (as the
> Atlantis power source) was herded into the metal container. If she
> currently is a powerful being, why was she complacently going along?
> When Milo "frees" her, she explodes into power but why didn't she do
> this before? And if she has so much power, nothing should be able to
> hold her. And lastly, I must say that I wasn't pleased with the
> animation. It was okay, but nothing special. The triangle 
fingernails
> really bugged me for some reason.
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> I must awknowledge that I had high expectations for this film and 
the
> extreme disappointment might stem from that. But I still feel that 
this
> is one of Disney's worst films. Did anyone who saw it like it? Maybe
> I'm just way off base. My dad and bro saw it with me and liked it 
okay.
> They thought I was crazy...maybe I am?
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> ~Amber
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I agree that the plot moved way too quickly for the movie and that 
there were a lot of plot holes.  I went to see it with my younger 
sister and she really liked it.  I'm really not sure what to think of 
it, though.  It was definitely not your typical Disney movie 
(singing, love story, etc.), so I think that has something to do with 
my inability to form an opinion of it.  It just wasn't quite what I 
was expecting (although I'm not sure exactly what I *was* expecting).

Now that I think about it, though, I probably wouldn't be too eager 
to see Atlantis again.  This is in contrast to a lot of other Disney 
movies that I can watch over and over without getting sick of them.  
My only reason for seeing Atlantis again would be to try to pick up 
some details that I might have missed the first time I saw the movie, 
since it did move so quickly, but I really don't think there was that 
much to miss.

Devika