Atlantis: Milo's Return
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| Atlantis: Milo's Return | |
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 DVD release poster. |
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| Directed by | Victor Cook Toby Shelton Tad Stones |
| Written by | Thomas Hart Henry Gilroy |
| Starring | James Arnold Taylor Cree Summer John Mahoney Jacqueline Obradors Don Novello Corey Burton Phil Morris Florence Stanley Frank Welker Steven Barr Clancy Brown Jean Gilpin Kai Rune Larsen Bill Fagerbakke Thomas F. Wilson Floyd Westerman Jeff Bennett William Morgan Sheppard |
| Music by | Don Harper |
| Editing by | John Royer |
| Distributed by | Walt Disney Home Video |
| Release date(s) | May 20, 2003 |
| Running time | 1 hour, 20 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) |
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Atlantis: Milo's Return, released in 2003 is the direct-to-video sequel to the film Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
Originally, Disney was developing a sequel entitled Shards of Chaos; it was abandoned once the movie was less than successful. The released "sequel" consists of three animated shorts, originally meant to be three episodes of a series that was never completed called Team Atlantis. Allegedly, ten minutes of additional animation was done to link the stories more closely.
Cree Summer (Kida), Corey Burton (Mole), Don Novello (Vinny), Phil Morris (Dr. Sweet), Jacqueline Obradors (Audrey), John Mahoney (Whitmore), and Florence Stanley (Wilhelmina) all reprise their roles from the first film, with James Arnold Taylor replacing Michael J. Fox as Milo and Steve Barr replacing Jim Varney as Cookie.
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[edit] Plot
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Milo Thatch and his comrades leave Atlantis to investigate mysterious forces causing trouble on the surface. Their travels take them from the frigid Nordic Mountains to the dry and baking Southwest as they discover legends, sea monsters, and spirits opposing them. During the escapades Kida comes into a greater understanding of just how powerful the Atlantean Crystal is, and she must choose between hiding it and sharing it with the rest of mankind. It turns out that the Atlanteans used the Crystal's powers outside Atlantis. A hidden city in Arizona contains a statue that greatly resembles Atlantean architecture. Milo and Kida discover that the mystery on the surface is supposedly linked to an artifact called The Spear of Destiny, presumably an Atlantean artifact of origin. In the end Kida realises her father was wrong to hide the Crystal from mankind. She combines the Spear with the Crystal and lifts Atlantis to the surface. Two fishermen are shocked when they suddenly see an entire continent rise before them. In the end we see Atlantis above the water for the first time in about 9000 years.
[edit] Cast and crew
Directed by
- Victor Cook
- Toby Shelton
- Tad Stones
Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
- Henry Gilroy
- Thomas Hart main writer
Voice Cast
- James Arnold Taylor .... Milo
- Cree Summer .... Kida
- John Mahoney .... Whitmore
- Jacqueline Obradors .... Audrey/Nurse
- Don Novello .... Vinny
- Corey Burton .... Mole
- Phil Morris .... Dr Sweet
- Florence Stanley .... Packard
- Frank Welker .... Obby/Mantell
- Steven Barr .... Cookie
- Clancy Brown .... Volgud
- Jean Gilpin .... Inger
- Kai Rune Larsen .... Seaman/Gunnar
- Bill Fagerbakke .... Sven
- Thomas F. Wilson .... Carnaby
- Floyd Red Crow Westerman .... Chakashi
- Jeff Bennett .... Sam McKeane
- William Morgan Sheppard .... Erik Hellstrom
Voice Director
Original Music
- Don Harper
Film Editing
- John Royer
Art Department
- Nathan Chew .... storyboard artist
Sound Department
- Elliot Anders .... dialogue editor
- Joshua Chase .... sound effects editor
- Steve Dierkens .... music recordist
- Arnold Geher .... adr engineer
- Marilyn Graf .... foley mixer
- Eric Lewis .... assistant dialogue editor and assistant dialogue recording engineer
Other crew
- Joshua P. Edwards .... script coordinator
- Carin-Anne Greco .... animation storyboard artist
- Don Harper .... conductor
- Dave Metzger .... orchestrator
[edit] DVD Features
- Game: "Search for the Spear of Destiny"
- Random course generator
- Matching correct artifacts with the lost city you learn about how to recover the Spear and save the city
- Deleted scene OR alternate ending
- Interactive Menus
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and DTS 5.1 Digital Surround Sound
- English, French, and Spanish tracks on DVD
- 80 min long.
- Widescreen.
[edit] Team Atlantis Series
[edit] Unmade episodes
The series would feature episodes with different legends incorporated, such as Puck, The Loch Ness Monster and The Terracotta Warriors.
Greg's comment on the story featuring The Loch Ness Monster: "In Team Atlantis, the Loch Ness Monster was actually a series of monsters. And these monsters were actually human beings transformed by an ancient Atlantean magic/tech chamber.
In the story we worked on, a little girl found her way into the chamber and was transformed. Her father mistakenly assumed that the monster had eaten his daughter and set out to hunt the thing down."
[edit] The Last
One of the episodes of Team Atlantis that was never animated, featured an appearance by Demona from Gargoyles. It introduced the hunter known as Fiona Canmore, known friend to Dr. Sweet. The episode would have Demona using the Praying Gargoyle statue to bring Gargoyle Statues in Paris alive to kill the local humans.
Scripts and Voice recording of the episode can be seen at The Gathering conventions. Marina Sirtis reprises her role as Demona, and Fiona Canmore is voiced by Sheena Easton. Greg Weisman, who wrote the episode, plans to use the story for the Gargoyles comic book series.[1] He said if he is unable to use the Atlantis characters, then he will use analogues for the story.
Greg has mentioned that while the episode itself is canon in the Gargoyle Universe, the entire series Team Atlantis is not. In fact, the Team Atlantis interpretations of The Loch Ness Monster and Puck differ.
[edit] Criticism
Many fans of the first movie seemed disappointed with this direct to video sequel. It had an obviously lower budget, and seemed to take place in more recent times, despite the original movie taking place in 1914. Some fans have said that it is in fact during later times (after World War I). They state several pieces of evidence:
- In the first short one of the sailors says that he's glad that they don't need to worry about U-Boats any more. This would mean that the movie takes place after 1918.
- The tech the team uses is somewhat different from the first movie, as show by the truck from the second short, and the plane from the third.
- A "stock market crash" is mentioned, presumably referring to the Great Depression. This crash did not occur until 1929.
Another odd fact is it would seem the characters act as if they never had any of the fortune they gained from the end of the first movie at all: the money is never even mentioned. A possible explanation for the different setting could be that, as revealed in the previous movie, the crystal endows the wearer with longevity. Also, if the setting is post-World War I, their wealth could've been lost in that time.
[edit] References
- ^ s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=9705
[edit] External links
- Atlantis: Milo's Return at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- Atlantis: Milo's Return at the Internet Movie Database
- Milo's Return at Disney DVD & Video
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