I love this movie! I'd love to own it it on Blu-ray. This was the film that put a nail in the coffin for Disney 2D animation. They spent a fortune on it and it was a bomb. John Musker and Ron Clements brought the idea for the movie to Katzenberg when he was the head of Disney Feature Animation he told them it was going to bomb, which he was right. The directors John and Ron went over Katzenberg's head and brought the idea to Roy Disney and Eisner and they approved of it. While in production Dreamworks 2D animation studio put money a lot of money into the Prince of Egypt which intimidated Disney. Disney believed they had to be the standard in 2D animation and of it's excellence so they had to beat Dreamworks on that level, they were threatened. There was the Eisner Katzenberg rival. So right off the bat Disney put a lot of their money into Tarzan, then into Treasure Planet also Atlantis. Tarzan was a hit but Treasure Planet was such a bomb and so was Atlantis, the execs blamed the animators for the films failures. When actually the execs had their hands in every aspect of creativity in the films. The Dreamworks 2D animated films were also very unsuccessful at the box office. But they were beautifully animated, from an artistic stand point they out did Disney. If you ask people what studio made the Dreamworks films they think it was Disney. On a side note,Walt Disney's motto, we find every child in every adult. The Dreamworks motto, we find the adult in every child. I kid you not that is what Katzenberg said in one of the interviews on the DVDs.
