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                       Disney's annexation of Atlantis

I was invited over to JeffK's house (he lives just around the corner from the
Facility in the Middle of Nowhere) to watch a movie. Mark [1], Kelly [2] and
ChrisS were there and we all voted for the film we wanted to view; a nearly
unanimous vote for the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire [3].

It's a decent film; perhaps not worth seeing in the theater but good enough
for rental though. I was a bit surprised at just how violent the film was
(for a Disney animation—enough to get a PG [4]). The style of animation is a
bit different than your standard Disney animated style—it's more influenced
by Japanese animation (anime) than classical Disney style but not so anime as
to be distracting; although I did find the mixing of compter and traditional
animation to be a bit distracting in some instances (it was better realized
in Beaty and the Beast [5]).

We were all disappointed though, in the quality of the DVD (Digital Video
Disc)—it took us fifteen minutes of fiddling around to get it to play
correctly. We didn't know if it was poor quality from being handled so much
(as a rental) or just poor quality in manufacturing.

[1] http://www.conman.org/people/myg/
[2] http://www.nevesis.net/
[3] http://us.imdb.com/Title?0230011
[4] http://www.filmratings.com/questions.htm#pg
[5] http://us.imdb.com/Title?0101414

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