Atlantis: Milo's Return

Atlantis: Milo's Return
DVD release poster.
Directed by	Victor Cook Toby Shelton Tad Stones
Written by	Thomas Hart Kevin Hopps Henry Gilroy
Starring	James Arnold Taylor Cree Summer John Mahoney Jacqueline Obradors Don Novello Corey Burton Phil Morris Florence Stanley Frank Welker Steve Barr Clancy Brown Jean Gilpin Phil LaMarr Bill Fagerbakke Thomas F. Wilson Floyd Red Crow Westerman Jeff Bennett W. Morgan Sheppard
Music by	Don Harper
Edited by	John Royer
Production company	Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Television Animation Toon City Animation, Inc.
Distributed by	Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Release date	May 20, 2003
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Atlantis: Milo's Return (also known as Atlantis 2 or Atlantis 2: Milo's Return), released by Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Television Animation and Toon City Animation, Inc. on May 20, 2003, is Disney's twentieth animated direct-to-video sequel. It is a sequel to the 2001 animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

Originally, Disney was developing a sequel entitled Shards of Chaos, but it was abandoned once The Lost Empire was less successful than anticipated. The released sequel consists of three animated shorts, originally meant to be three episodes of a series that was never completed called Team Atlantis. Some additional animation was done to link the stories more closely.

Cree Summer (Kida), Corey Burton (Mole), Don Novello (Vinny), Phil Morris (Dr. Sweet), Jacqueline Obradors (Audrey), John Mahoney (Whitmore), and Florence Stanley (Wilhelmina) all reprise their roles from the first film, with James Arnold Taylor replacing Michael J. Fox as Milo (as Fox was too busy working on Stuart Little 2, which came out a year before) and Steve Barr replacing Jim Varney, who died before the first film finished production, as Cookie.

This is also Florence Stanley's final film; she died months after production ended.

After the decline in Atlantean culture following the sinking, Kida (Cree Summer), now Queen, and married to Milo Thatch (James Arnold Taylor), is using the heart of Atlantis to restore her city's former glory. Suddenly, Milo's comrades and Mr. Whitmore (John Mahoney) arrive in Atlantis; while their arrival is unexpected, the Atlanteans welcome their old friends. Unfortunately, they have come to inform them of a mysterious creature causing trouble on the surface. They arrive in Norway and discover that the mysterious problem is actually the creature known as the Kraken, which had been attacking shipping freighters and taking their cargo to a cliffside village. At first they presume it to be an ancient Atlantean war machine gone rogue (like the Leviathan from the previous film), but they discover that the town magistrate, Edgar Volgud (Clancy Brown), seems to be controlling the Kraken. They soon learn, though, that the Kraken itself is the master, having made a deal with Volgud. When they blow up the Kraken, the man disintegrates and restores the spirit of the village.