Your animation of Sweet is one of the best from the company. Surprised you could keep up with his voice actor. 🙂

I still love its adventure and action and want to be in the world more than we’re given. The game was great for that but a 2 hour version would have been superior.

Also in the longer version of the film, Rourke was originally going to be a German agent since the movie takes place on the first year of WWI.

When I first saw this I felt that Rourke was sleazy and slimy from the beginning and didn’t trust him at all so when he turned out to be the bad guy it wasn’t a surprise it wasn’t a twist.
The same with Helga, it would have been better if she turned out to be a good guy at the end a secret agent or something working under cover Milo would be surprised and she could say something like “What did you think that I was some Femme Fatal?”

Also, this film has probably my favorite prologue that was cut: The film was gonna open with a group of Vikings that were searching for Atlantis under the guide of the Shepherd’s Journal book before being destroyed by the Leviathan. But instead, the filmmakers decided to open with the sinking of Atlantis which would open stronger. Oh well…..

This version of the prologue is actually from the “Atlantis” CD-ROM game “Trail by Fire” which has much better sound than the one on the DVD and I don’t know why but the reason why I loved the Viking prologue was that it made me laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8XuV7flf8o

But…there is a cliche that happens in most animated movies from the late 1990’s on where there’s a character who appears as one of the nicest you have seen and all of the sudden, throughout the movie, you find out this character has a shadow-side to him or her. I mean…this happened in “Frozen”, “Monsters, Inc.”, “Zootopia”, “Toy Story 2 & 3”, etc. And for some reason, that villainous character comes across as under-developed and even irritating. That’s where Rourke comes in. Rourke starts out as a grandfatherly/mentor-esque character who kinda grumbles like a regular curmudgeon senior would say. But then, towards the end of the second act, not only does he reveals himself and Helga as the true bad guys, but the rest of the crew as well! I mean…Vinny, Mole, Dr. Sweet, Audrey and the rest. They suddenly turn bad, in a weird and uncomfortable way, only to redeem themselves when Milo gets punched by Rourke after he delivers an anti-intellctual speech about the crew getting money at the end.

This film, along with “Titan A.E.” and “Monsters, Inc.”, are some of the worst examples of the “suprise-twist villain” cliche I have ever seen in any movie. But at least, that cliche worked well in “Treasure Planet”. Silver realized that Jim was much more important than the treasure itself.

I think it is worth watching just to see something different from Disney. I really like this movie so give it a shot