The Atlantis Movie

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LEGO Atlantis: The Movie is a TV exclusive movie using Computer Generated Imagery. Within a duration of 21 minutes the film features the Atlantis theme with most of its characters, vehicles, artifacts and creatures rounded up by a compact but entertaining storyline.

Plot

Part 1: The movie opens up on the Neptune Carrier with Dr. Fisher talking to Samantha Rhodes about a fish he claims exists but no one has been able to find it. After the crew is gathered (which required awaking first mate Lance Spears, the Samantha begins to explain their mission.

Part 2: Samantha discusses how a vanished sea station built for a theory of hers that the mythical city of Atlantis that was swallowed up by the sea. She then presents a triangle she says is the map to Atlantis, but the Captain refuses to help look, persisting that they are a salvage mission that just picks up as much treasure as they can. Before Samantha can convince him, however, the ship makes contact with Monster Crab that sends their ship plummeting to the ocean floor. Upon discovering a sub from the lost sea station, the Captain goes on a scuba mission to deal with the crab. After locking the crab in a cage, the Captain discovers a crystal on the sea floor and retrieves it. After Lance's failure to fix the cable, the ship goes off a cliff.

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Part 3: The ship falls into an underwater volcano, but makes its way through the deep, subterranean lava tunnels into a depth thought not to exist. Excitedly, Samantha says that once all the crystal s were found, the location of Atlantis will be clear. Observing the damage made to their current sub, the team quickly builds a new sub, the Typhoon Turbo Sub and the Seabed Scavenger with which to find the crystals. The two newly built subs, the Captain's personal vehicle (the 8057 Wreck Raider, and Lance in the diving suit alongside move out, but not before a strange, green, octopus-like creature decides to follow.

Part 4: The convoy of submarines go deep within the ocean, but Samantha stops them upon the discovery of the mysterious squid temple. The divers are soon met by many, red Squid warriors, and Fish suggests to let them know the divers mean no harm. To her horror, Samantha reads a sign on the temple warning those who enter, and so after taking a few photographs of the Squids, Fish swims away. After a brief respite, the crew is met by a Giant Squid. Thinking quickly, they are able to tangle the squid's tentacles in holes in the rock, and the second crystal is discovered. The subs soon see odd things moving in the sand, to which Fish says are Manta Rays and completely harmless. However, and Manta Warriors begin to gather, Lance begins to think twice about this statement.

Part 5: The Manta Warriors continue to surround the submarines, but they suddenly disperse. Lance credits this to his dancing, but they soon learn it is because of a much bigger threat: an enormous black shark. After a few attempts to get rid of the shark fail, Lance finally defeats him by sending a dummy diver to lure him away. When the shark eats the fake diver, the creature suddenly inflates with air. The 3rd crystal is found, but just as the Captain picks it up, a Manta Warrior erupts from the sand and takes it from him. The Captain goes after the Manta Warrior on his own in the Wreck Raider, but the rest of the crew find him (with the crystal) using the tracking device all vehicles have. Unfortunately, their happiness is ended apruptly when Shark Warriors start coming out of a large, stone shark-like entrance to a mysterious structure. The crew gets in their vehicles and leaves, followed closely by the swarming Shark Warriors.

Part 6: After hiding from the sharks in the sand, Samantha sees the last crystal, but is disappointed when there is no Atlantis. After some reassurance from the Captain, Samantha learns that crystals are the keys to Atlantis, and she inserts them in the correct places on the Portal. After all the keys are placed, Fish discovers one is still missing, but that problem is solved when the triangle unfolds to reveal the final key. When this key is placed, the ocean begins to shake and rumble, and the stone shark statues on either side of the Portal become alive. A Portal forms between all the keys, and the crew decides to built a rocket out of the Wreck Raider using their oxygen tanks to get past the newly-created sharks. They rocket into the portal, and the large, beautiful, golden city of Atlantis awaits for them on the other side. In the following newspaper articles, it is seen that Fish discovers the fish he was looking for, Samantha Rhodes becomes part of the crew, and the salvage crew are heroes.

Background

In Germany the film was premiered on January 24, 2010 on the channel "Super RTL". The German version with title "Atlantis - Suche nach der versunkenen Stadt" (engl.: "Atlantis - Quest for the Lost City") is fully synchronized and has about 21 min running time. The film was first teased in the German 2010 consumer catalog released in December 2009. According to the January edition of the German LEGO Club Magazine, the film will be shown again in March and September 2010 on the same channel.

In America the film will be featured on the Canadian channel "Teletoons" on February 13, 2010. It was first confirmed in the January edition of the American LEGO Magazine.

A shorter version of the original film can be watched in 3D (using the glasses from the January edition of the LEGO Club Magazine) on the official LEGO Atlantis website - Movie section.

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