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Atlantis: The lost empire

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Movie propaganda

Combining the elements of 20,000 leagues and Journey to the centre of the Earth, Atlantis is an animated Indiana Jones-like adventure tale in the grand tradition.

An inexperienced young adventurer becomes the key to unravelling an ancient mystery when he joins up with a group of daredevil explorers to find the legendary lost empire of Atlantis. At the centre of Disney's exciting new animated feature is naïve-but-determined museum cartographer Milo Thatch (Michael J Fox), who dreams of completing the quest begun by his late grandfather, a famous explorer. When a long lost journal surfaces, providing new clues to the location, and an eccentric billionaire agrees to fund an expedition, the action shifts into high gear. Milo ultimately leads Captain Rourke (James Garner) and his team to the elusive undersea kingdom but what they find there defies their expectations and triggers an explosive series of events that only Milo can resolve.

Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

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Persons of interest

Michael J Fox .... Milo James Thatch
Corey Burton .... Gaetan "The Mole" Moliere
Claudia Christian .... Helga Katrina Sinclair
James Garner .... Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke
John Mahoney .... Preston B Whitmore
Phil Morris .... Dr Joshua Strongbear Sweet
Leonard Nimoy .... King Kashekim Nedakh
Don Novello .... Vincenzo "Vinny" Santorini
Jacqueline Obradors .... Audrey Rocio Ramirez
Florence Stanley .... Wilhelmina Bertha Packard
David Ogden Stiers .... Fenton Q Harcourt
Natalie Strom .... Young Kida
Cree Summer .... Princess "Kida" Kidagakash
Jim Varney .... Jebidiah Allardyce "Cookie" Farnsworth
Tab Murphy .... Screenwriter
Kirk Wise .... Director
Gary Trousdale .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

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Awards and film festivals:

Cinematic Intelligence Agency Trenchcoat Awards 2002

Studios and distributors:

Buena Vista International

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

20,000 leagues to the centre of the Earth. Or is that Indiana Jones romancing the temple of the last lost jewel of the Nile under the sea?

In the best tradition of Disney animation, Mickey and his friends have taken the romantic adventure genre and turned it into a New Age romp through a classic Victorian novel as seen through the eyes of an overweight American nerd. It's funny, it's frolicsome, it's forthright and it's just in time for the spring school holidays.

Milo is the projection of a number of Disney geeks who received too much bullying at school for being too skinny, being too bookish, wearing glasses and wandering around in his underwear. He is an unlikely hero who finds adventure, thrills, true love and a princess for a girlfriend. He could eat a dozen pizzas and not gain weight. Yah, sux to the over-sized morons (personified in the nasty military stereotype of Captain Rourke) who picked on the creators. Kida is, of course, all the pretty, skinny, sexy cheerleader types that the geeks couldn't even dream of approaching.

And you wonder why pornography is the internet's most successful product.

Florence's perennially smoking (!) communications officer is a kak, bringing all the heroic flights of fancy down to earth with a mighty thump just by uttering a pithy, sarcastic word. She is a classic character who could fill an entire movie all by herself.

Anyhoo, Atlantis: The lost empire is a fun film to which you can safely send your holidaying offspring. The violence is non-graphic, the moral is life-affirming and the story is fun. You'll even enjoy it if you go yourself.