10 Best Animated Sci-Fi Movies
5. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Ask anyone of a certain age, and they'll tell you what an incredible movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire is. Ask anyone younger than that, and they probably won't have any idea what you're talking about.
Another animated Sci-Fi classic that is inexplicably and unbelievably overlooked, Atlantis: The Lost Empire gives us exactly what we wanted to see from a Disney movie: a technologically advanced race living beneath the ocean, their own bespoke Atlantean language created specifically for the movie, and a lovable nerd to lead the expedition.
It has a lot to say, and it does so with both subtlety and emotion, in a well-written movie with an impressive cast of voices.
Atlantis has its share of fans, but it deserves to be named alongside all of Disney's biggest movies, and unfortunately, it never quite is.
Released at a time when all that was expected of Disney was to release repackaged fairy tales, Atlantis flew in a little under the radar, and isn't as well remembered as it deserves.