Headscratchers / Atlantis: Milo's Return

• The film takes place shortly after the Great Depression, yet all of the characters look unchanged (in age and appearance) from the movie? Milo now being ageless is logical. But the crew?
  • Sufficient exposure to the crystals imparting the same effect Milo got? Maybe you only have to be around them for a little while? And they DID get right up next to the thing, didn't they?
    • They were given crystal pendants as gifts when they were leaving, right? And the crystals have a "healing power" and made Whitmore feel "fifty years younger", and they are seen to be dimming as Rourke takes the Heart of Atlantis away from the city. It's fair to say that they grant the longevity that the Atlanteans enjoy.
  • Also, what happened to Kida's tattoos in the sequel?
    • Is it that the epilogue of the original movie takes place before the sequel, and that Atlanteans don't just have multiple, sometimes distant parts of the funerary/cornoation process for the once and present rulers? If it does definitely happen that way, maybe Kida's "tattoos" are just ceremonial paint that use the same pigment as her tattoos, and she won't collect the full range of royal tattoos until she has been in the throne for a while, or spontaneously and retroactively becomes male.
  • Word of God on the DVD commentary for the first film said the tattoos were nothing but a giant pain in the arse, continuity-wise. Removing them in the sequel was probably just to make it easier.
  • The crystal shards have healing power, so Kida could have removed the tattoos she put on at her ceremony. She may have done that do symbolize that she doesn't want her status as queen to distance her from her people.