What A Cartoon Movie! - Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Added 2025-07-28 04:00:04 +0000 UTCIn the late '90s, directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise (Beauty & The Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame) decided to roll the dice and produce an animated feature unlike anything anything else from the Disney Renaissance. This film would wash its hands of big, Broadway tunes, and instead focus on big, bold adventure at the turn of the 20th century. Unfortunately, filmgoers took one look at this results and said "We'd rather watch Shrek." This month on What A Cartoon Movie, join us as we plumb the depths of Disney's Atlantis to find out just what went wrong.
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Yo Henry, props to you for the ODB mention, and remember "Wu-Tang is for the children". 😅😅😅. Also my first time hearing Father Guido was from Handsome Boy Modeling School (Dan the Automator and Prince Paul)
Malfred Davies
2025-08-24 23:01:47 +0000 UTCThis is not relevant to anybody but me, but this movie will be locked in as a core memory with me discovering what clinical depression was and figuring out that I had it. I had a hacked DIRECTV system at the time. I had been feeling really really bad and came home from work on a Friday. I went upstairs and laid down on my bed and turned the channel on that was running this as a pay-per-view movie 24/7. I then laid there on my bed drifting in and out of sleep for the better part of 15 or 16 hours before I realize that something was terribly terribly wrong. I went to my doctor on Monday and she put me on an antidepressant and I was feeling really good again in a few months. I have not watched this movie since that weekend. And I can say that I totally enjoyed the movie and had no recollection of that awful day that I just laid on my bed like a stinky pile of laundry. This was a really good movie and I genuinely enjoyed watching it. I’m also a gigantic back to the future fan so I really enjoyed rediscovering a pretty good Michael J. Fox performance.
Norman Benford
2025-08-15 19:33:15 +0000 UTCI take it you boys weren't on Tumblr in the 2010s because that's where most, if not all, the Atlantis: The Lost Empire fanbase of young millenials/elder zoomers resided. For good while, gifsets of the film were the easy way to get like and reblogs. It's also where I found the expanded backstory of the crew thanks to a devoted fanblog. https://whitmoreindustries.tumblr.com/post/189765085946/all-the-crew-files-from-the-journal-of-milo Click the link if you want to learn things like Commander Rourke finding and destroying a Lovecraftian city, Vinny getting most of his explosives experience as a corporate saboteur with possible mob ties, and Miss Packard being a former exotic dancer.
KaiserBeamz
2025-08-03 15:54:01 +0000 UTCI look forward to more Stargate talk when you get around to the season 17 episode with Richard Dean Anderson in a few. years
zzz711
2025-08-03 05:41:02 +0000 UTCWow unlocked a memory! That original alternate opening with the vikings, it was used as the opening on the Disney interactive CD rom game: Atlantis : search for the journal. We somehow had it in our house be it from cereal or some kind of promotion I’m sure, but as a kid revisiting the movie as we gathered every Disney vhs at the time, I remember this scene not being present and kind of confusing or wondering if as a 10 year old I had imagined it. (The game long since added to a pile of those cardboard cases in the family library ) and it wasn’t until the podcast just now had me think back to that. And within seconds oh loading up disney+. It came back, I had to do 5 mins of internet recon and found the pc tie in game and bam it opens right with that lost scene. Thank you for solving 10 year old me’s dilemma.
Matthew
2025-08-01 12:57:46 +0000 UTCIn defense of Teddy Roosevelt, he famously invited Booker T. Washington and his family to dine at the White House which upset many Southerners who hated the idea of the president eating with a black man. Woodrow Wilson, however, would absolutely NOT do the same thing.
Ian Stratton
2025-08-01 10:26:55 +0000 UTC
