Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

Don Novello: Vinny

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• Vinny : We done a lot of things we're not proud of. Robbing graves, eh, plundering tombs, double parking. But, nobody got hurt. Well, maybe somebody got hurt, but nobody we knew.

• Milo : Will you look at the size of this? It's gotta be half a mile high, at least. It-It must have taken hundred- No, thousands of years to carve this thing.

  [Vinny blows it up, and it falls down over a chasm] 

  Vinny : Hey, look, I made a bridge. It only took me like, what? Ten seconds? Eleven, tops.

• Vinny : Well, as far as me goes, I just like to blow things up.

  Dr. Sweet : Come on, Vinny. Tell the kid the truth.

  Vinny : My family owned a flower shop. We would sell roses, carnations, baby's breath, you name it. One day, I'm making about three dozen corsages for this prom, you know, the one they put on the wrist, and everybody, they come. "Where is it?", "When is it?", "Does it match my dress?" It's a nightmare. Anyway, I guess there was this leak next door of gas or what. BOOM! No more Chinese laundry. Blew me right through the front window. It was like a sign from God. I found myself that boom.

• [Milo bumps into Vinny's cart] 

  Vincenzo "Vinny" Santorini : Hey, Junior. If you're looking for the pony rides, they're back there.

  Milo Thatch : Excuse me! You dropped your dy-dy-dyna-dynamite.

  [laughs nervously whilst holding a stick of dynamite] 

  Milo Thatch : What else have you, uh, got in there?

  Vincenzo "Vinny" Santorini : Oh, er, gunpowder, nitroglycerin, notepads, fuses, wicks, glue, and... paper clips, big ones. You know, just, uh, office supplies.

• Preston B. Whitmore : Now, let's go over it again, just so we got it straight: you didn't find anything.

  Vinny : No. Just a lot of rocks. And fish, little fish. Sponges.

  Preston B. Whitmore : What happened to Helga?

  Cookie : Well, we lost her when a flaming zeppelin come down on her...

  [Audrey hits him with her parasol] 

  Cookie : Uh, missing.

  Preston B. Whitmore : That's right. And Rourke?

  Dr. Sweet : Nervous breakdown. You could say he went all to pieces.

  Cookie : In fact, you could say he was transmogrified and then busted into a zillion...

  [Audrey raises her parasol] 

  Cookie : He's missing too.

• Helga : Someone needs to talk to that girl.

  Mole : I will go!

  Vinny : Someone with good people skills.

  Mole : I will do it!

  Dr. Sweet : Someone who won't scare her away.

  Mole : I volunteer!

  Wilhelmina : Someone who can speak the language.

  Mole : For the good of the mission, I will go!

  Commander Rourke : [to Milo, who is not paying attention]  Good man, Thatch. Thanks for volunteering.

  [Mole cries] 

• Mole : The volcano, she awakes!

  Vinny : [waving a lit stick of dynamite]  Hey, I had nothing to do with it.

• Vinny : You didn't just drink that, did you?

  Milo : Mm-hmm.

  Vinny : That's not good! That's nitroglycerin.

  [Thatch gasps] 

  Vinny : Don't move, eh, don't breathe, don't do anything. Except pray, maybe...

  Mole : [jumps up behind Milo, scaring him]  BOOM!

  [Vinny and The Mole laugh] 

• Milo : This is an illustration of the Leviathan, the creature guarding the entrance to Atlantis.

  Vinny : With something like that I would have white wine, I think.

• [Rourke is driving off with the crystalized Kida] 

  Milo : We can't let him do this!

  Vinny : [holds Milo back]  Wait a second.

  [after crossing the bridge, Rourke pushes a detonator and the bridge is blown up] 

  Vinny : Okay, now you can go.

• Vinny : You got something sporty? You know, like a tuna?

• Vinny : I could unblock that if I had, like, two-hundred of these. Problem is, I only have, like, ten, plus three of my own, a couple of cherry bombs, road flare... Hey. Too bad we don't have some nitroglycerin, eh, Milo?

  Mole : AH HA HA HA!

• Milo : Okay. Here's the plan. We're gonna come in low and fast and take 'em by surprise.

  Audrey : Well, I've got news for you, Milo. Rourke is never surprised and he's got a lot of guns.

  Milo : Great. Well, do you have any suggestions?

  Vinny : Yeah. Don't get shot!

• Joshua Sweet : Hold on, back up. Are you saying this *whole volcano* can blow at any time?

  Gaetan "Mole" Moliere : No, no, no, no. That would take an explosive force of great magnitude.

  [everybody looks to Vinny, who is fiddling with a time bomb] 

  Vincenzo "Vinny" Santorini : [looks taken aback]  Maybe I should do this later, huh?

  Commander Rourke : [looking up the volcano shaft]  If we could blow the top off of that thing, we'd have a straight shot to the surface. Mr. Thatch, what do you think?

  [frowns as he notices Milo is not there] 

  Commander Rourke : Mr. Thatch? Thatch?

• Audrey : Hey, Milo. Don't you ever close that book?

  Dr. Sweet : Yeah, you must've read it a dozen times by now

  Milo : I know, but this... this doesn't make any sense. See, in this passage here, the shepherd seems to be leading up to something. He calls it the Heart of Atlantis. It could be the power source the legends refer to. But then it just... it cuts off. It's almost like there's a missing page.

  Vinny : Kid, relax. We don't get paid overtime.

  Milo : I know, I know. Sometimes I get a little carried away. But, hey, you know, that's what this is all about, right? I mean, discovery, teamwork, adventure. Unless, maybe, you're just in it for the money.

  Audrey : Money.

  Wilhelmina : Money.

  Dr. Sweet : Money.

  Mole : Money.

  Vinny : I'm gonna say... money.

  Milo : Well, I guess I set myself up for that one.

• Commander Rourke : [about to drive off with the Heart of Atlantis, Rourke sees Audrey, Vinny, Mole, Packard and Cookie defect to his side, furious]  Oh, you can't be serious!

  Audrey : This is wrong, and you know it!

  Commander Rourke : We're this close to our biggest payday ever, and you pick now of all times to grow a conscience?

  Vinny : We've done a lot of things we're not proud of: robbing graves and plundering tombs, double parking, but nobody got hurt. Well, maybe somebody got hurt, but nobody we knew.

  Commander Rourke : Well, if that's the way you want it, fine. More for me!

  [to himself] 

  Commander Rourke : P.T. Barnum was right.