Films like Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured disney / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Treasure Planet (2002) poster
1. Treasure Planet2002

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers (2009) poster
2. Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) poster
3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) poster
4. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace1999

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mission to Mars (2000) poster
5. Mission to Mars2000

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Highlander (1986) poster
6. Highlander1986

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Daredevil (2003) poster
7. Daredevil2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Steamboy (2004) poster
8. Steamboy2004

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Expelled from Paradise (2014) poster
9. Expelled from Paradise2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Restless (2006) poster
10. The Restless2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

X2 (2003) poster
11. X22003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms (2006) poster
12. Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

These are Atlantis: The Lost Empire’s neighbours — where are yours?

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