{"id":4640,"date":"2026-03-24T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4640"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:43:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:43:47","slug":"movie-atlantis-milos-return-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/movie-atlantis-milos-return-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Atlantis – Milo’s Return (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Atlantis:Atlantis: Milo’s Return
<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2003
Rating: G
Length: 70 minutes \/ 1.17 hours<\/p>\n

Back before movies went straight to streaming instead of having a theatrical release, Disney leaned into \u201cDirect-to-Video\u201d sequels of some of their famous films. While this was mostly something that happened during the VHS era of the 1990s, Atlantis: Milo\u2019s Return<\/em> (2003) certainly seems to fit that bill. The real problem with these slapdash sequels is the quality, but Milo\u2019s Return<\/em> is even worse than that in the sense that it\u2019s not even a movie as much as it is three TV episodes in a trench-coat.<\/p>\n

The \u201880s and \u201890s were full of Saturday morning cartoon tie-ins to big movies. Even if movies like Ghostbusters<\/em> (1984) and RoboCop<\/em> (1987) weren\u2019t appropriate for children, they still pumped out TV shows for kids to watch. This made more sense for Disney, with shows from their \u201890s renaissance being the perfect match for kids to watch at home on TV. But when Atlantis: The Lost Empire<\/em> (2001) flopped, they had already started down the path of creating a TV show tie-in. And if Direct-to-Video quality wasn\u2019t great, TV show quality was even worse.<\/p>\n

I think I could have forgiven this movie if it had any semblance of connective tissue to bring the three episodes together in an overarching story arc. As it is, Milo\u2019s Return<\/em> somewhat undoes everything that the original movie set up when its plot completed. Ultimately, if you really<\/em> liked what Disney was doing with the Atlantis<\/em> series, then it might be worth your time to see where they were going with the TV show. The only reason I even sat down to watch it with my kids was because it was included in the Blu-ray for the first film.<\/p>\n

A sub-par sequel, even by direct-to-video standards, I give Atlantis: Milo\u2019s Return<\/em> 2.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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