I wont get excited about it until I read Danny Mannings review
I havent seen the movie yet; the closet Ive gotten is reading the treatment of the script. Its defiantly not like any other Disney animated film its flat out action without a single moment of cute. I think theres enough that people who want to like the movie will have reason to say nice things; but theres also points for people who wont like the movie. Im personally very interested in how the people who found the fart jokes in Shrek offensive are going to respond to the 100+ deaths in this film. Technically the animation is supposed to be excellent, although I have real doubts that animation is a good form for an action movie. Honestly, I would have put the budget for Pearl into Atlantis and have made a live-action film that would have rivaled 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The buzz (and YoHo, dont mock the buzz dude) is to expect moderately good reviews because of the strong animation but a very weak story, lots of recommendations to take boys 7-12 years old, and a lot of bad jokes comparing Disney to a fabled lost paradise raided by greedy capitalistic imperialists. Atlantis is going to get clobbered at the box office by Tomb Raider so no one is paying that much attention or taking this one all that seriously. That doesnt mean that Atlantis is a bad film, just plan to see it before July 4th.
P.S. Danny Manning is a fake reviewer that Sony Pictures made up so they could put favorable quotes in their movie ads. Sony was caught putting using a phony review for The Animal film made by the former head of The Walt Disney Studios.