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Antz
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Manufacturer: Dreamworks Animated
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Directed By: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Theatrical Release: October 2, 1998
Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
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Starring: Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone, Dan Aykroyd
Life is not a picnic for z a small worker ant with very big ideas. When z falls for the beautiful princess bala his odds of winning her over are one in a billion. To get noticed he switches places with soldier ant weaver. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/01/2007 Starring: Sharon Stone Jennifer Lopez Run time: 84 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Eric Darnell Tim Johnson
User Submitted Antz Reviews
October 3, 2008
One of Dreamworks' few good ones
It's ironic, but 'Antz' may be remembered as the last great Woody Allen comedy. Like Robin Williams in 'Alladin', Z's dialog is so quintessentially Woody Allen that it's hard to believe he didn't write or ad-lib some of it. It's also a damn sight funnier than anything Woody has made himself since I can't remember when, or anything Dreamworks made, up til 'Over the Hedge'.
Some of Z's lines to the ant psychiatrist in the opening scene alone are priceless. The world might be slightly tired of Allen playing the whiny, neurotic wimp, but in 'Antz' the character who, back in 1967, tried to hold up a bank with a stick-up note which nobody could read ("I have a Gub?") is absolutely perfect.
What's more, Allen is cast alongside Sylvester Stallone (who, incidentally, was voted worst actor of the century in the Razzie awards in 2000), and even HE comes across well. This is easily the most bizarre pairing since Mickey Rooney and Kurt Russell in 'The Fox and the Hound'. No, wait... I forgot about Ernest Borgnine and Sheena Easton... well it just goes to show that in animation, miracles can happen.
It's been said before, but it bears repeating: Antz, despite the ostensible similarity of subject matter, and similar release dates, is nothing like 'A Bug's Life'. Put simply, 'Bug's Life' is a kid's film this is an adult's film which kids will like.
The story, I suppose, is nothing remarkable: male nobody gets princess... another parallel with 'Alladin' - but there is a social and political undercurrent to 'Antz'. If it owes a little to Disney, perhaps it owes a little to George Orwell, too.
There's something else about 'Antz': it's one of the few CGI movies where the CGI just didn't bother me at all. In 'Toy Story' I just swallowed my preference for cel animation, because the film was so undeniably good in other respects. With 'Antz', the whole thing somehow seemed outside of the normal animated genres, such that it never entered my head to wish they'd done cel animation instead. In fact I can clearly see how scenes like the 'wrecking ball' sequence wouldn't have had half the impact with conventional animation.
Visually the film is always superb, sometimes plain stunning, especially for 'such an old' CGI.
'Antz' is straining hard to break through to greatness. Close but no cigar. It's just very good, and sadly overshadowed by the also good, but less substantial 'Bug's Life'.
July 5, 2008
Not for Kids
This movie had a lot of graphic violence, including a war against termites, and a scene of torture. It also had some sexual innuendo. I did not think it was appropriate for children. It was also very much a Woody Allen Movie. My daughter, age 6, wasn't very interested in it. We won't be watching it again.
August 19, 2007
Dis-educational
I would not expect any small children to learn any useful insect biology from this movie. The life history of ants is pretty far off the mark. In a real ant colony, all workers and soldiers are female. I gave it two stars because the animation is pretty good. Too bad all of the effort was wasted on this story.
May 31, 2007
Too much Adult Language for Children
If this was supposed to be a kids movie there was too much profanity. It has an allstar cast, Stallone, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, etc... The story is a bit slow. You keep waiting for something interesting to happen. The story concept "finding Nirvana" away from the colony was not one for an exciting story. The "Evil Villan's" plot makes no sense as to why he would want to do what he wanted to do. If you want to hear the voice of the stars in animated Ants then this is movie. Otherwise its not worth the money. I have no desire to see it again.
April 6, 2007
Movie To Be Seen
As an animated movie goes, this is one of the best. It has excellent voice over great grafics. This movie includes Humor, Action and a good story line.
March 17, 2007
Good movie but is it really for kids?
I like the idea of being one person (or ant in this case) and positively impacting a whole community (or ant colony). It is inspiring and hopeful but there is swearing in this. I'm not sure how it is kid friendly when Weaver says "quit your bitching" to Z. Of all the words they could have replaced it with like stop complaining/ stop being irritable, difficult, unreasonable.
March 12, 2007
great flick
Its about ants what else can I say. Honestly I bought it for the little one but it does have some adult content. No nuditiy or anything like that even though I guess ants do sport around in their birthday suites. You can let the kids watch it. They probably won't pick up on the content anyway. Its a good movie.
March 4, 2007
hillman
Not a movie for childran. My wife and I were both very disapointed with the language and the sexual comments. We gave it away.
January 20, 2007
Cute movie, but does promote a little violence
animated movies have taken off in recent years. This is one of those stories that's cute, but I was not as impressed with the storyline and with the inclusion of a little too much violence for me. Maybe better for children a little older than toddler age.
January 18, 2007
Not a bad film
Again, my daughter loves this film. At first, she was less interested, now it is one of her favorites!
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