Atlantis

This summer's Disney animated feature teaches teamwork, determination and vitality as a scrawny scholar and his motley crew save a crumbling city from total ruin. Milo Thatch (voiced by Michael J. Fox) is a gullible geek with relentless gusto and oversized glasses; he guides an expedition with a dirt dweller, a teenaged tomboy and an explosives expert through raging fires, active volcanoes and a Star Wars-like battle with murderous lobster machines in search of the legendary lost lands of Atlantis. But after a square-chinned, money-grubbing colonel (James Garner) destroys, maims and plunders for the sacred Heart of Atlantis, Milo helps the empire's Princess Kida (Cree Summer) and King Nedkah (Leonard Nimoy) regain their crystallized life force. Although Disney's usual musical medleys have been traded in for fights and firearms, the directing duo that created The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Beauty and the Beast present yet another charming and aesthetic film.