Raiders Of Atlantis is a good illustration of just how fun an exploitation quickie can be. Plotwise, it's throwaway stuff -- basically a combination of The Final Countdown and Escape From New York with an Atlantis plot hook thrown in and plenty of baddies dressed up like castoffs from The Road Warrior. However, the story offers plentiful b-movie fun in practice because it puts an accent on action and throws an endless array of endearingly goofy b-movie plot hooks at the viewer. Director Ruggero Deodato gives it a tongue-in-cheek feel, wisely playing up the humor amongst its heroes and never letting the story become too serious for its own good. The effects are cheap looking, particularly the miniature effects. . . but that's really part of the fun for the b-movie fans this is aimed at. It also helps that Raiders Of Atlantis boasts a dream-team of Italian exploitation fare: Chris Connelly and Tony King are charming as the wisecracking heroic duo that drives the story and they benefit from solid support by Ivan Rassimov as a cool man-of-action fellow survivor and George Hilton playing against his suave image as a nerdy professor. In short, Raiders Of Atlantis is a b-movie with specialized appeal but Eurocult fans will likely find it to be a blast of kitschy fun.