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Soundwaves Cinema (Dennis Willis)
Although "Antz" preceeded it, and was boffo in it's own right, there's no faulting the magicians at Pixar for unfortunate timing. And how unfortunate was it, really? "A Bug's Life" made almost double the box office.
"A Bug's Life" tells of a world ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Soundwaves Cinema (Dennis Willis)
The Cincinnati Enquirer (Margaret A. McGurk)
Hereâs my Thanksgiving advice to you: Pack up the kids, hop in the car and head out to the theater right now to see A Bugâs Life.
No kids? No problem. Grab your grandmother, kidnap your neighbor, bring along your brother-in-law. Unless theyâre ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at The Cincinnati Enquirer (Margaret A. McGurk)
B Movie Reviews (John J. Brassil)
From the first sweeping shot of Ant Island to the totally unnecessary and
totally hilarious "outtakes" that unreel during the credits, this movie is a
rare gem, one to be treasured by anyone who's got kids, who is a kid or who has
ever been a ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at B Movie Reviews (John J. Brassil)
David N. Butterworth
From its opening frames of a fallen leaf settling on a pool of water, it's clear that "A Bug's Life" is no ordinary kiddie cartoon. The attention to detail in this scene is extraordinary and, fortunately for the viewer, that level of detail is maintained ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at David N. Butterworth
The Flying Inkpot
comparison with ANTZ (see Inkpot review) is inevitable but the two animation pieces should be judged on their own merits. In ANTZ, the unmistakable Woody Allen (the voice behind Z) gives the story a satirical slant, allowing for social commentary, while ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at The Flying Inkpot
Boxoffice Magazine
Finally, the DVD of A Bug's Life that Disney should have released in the first place! Regardless of whether or not the increasingly popular "caste" system of releasing regular and collector's editions of major movies is a positive trend, it's hard not ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Boxoffice Magazine
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
In case you're having a hard time distinguishing between the season's two computer-animated insect movies, "Antz" may have been the first, but "A Bug's Life" is definitely the best.
While it doesn't boast quite as many big names in the voice ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Wolfpack Productions (Sujit 'Chief' Chawla)
Ahh... The Disney/Pixar magic is back. I've been waiting three years for A Bug's Life, and it did not disappoint. Unlike it's direct competition, Antz, A Bug's Life is a light hearted, fun filled adventure directed at kids, but good enough for ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Wolfpack Productions (Sujit 'Chief' Chawla)
The Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
Animation is one of the most fascinating things in the world to me. I love animated movies, especially when they break some kind of new ground. In 1995, I was blown away by Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated motion picture, which was the ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at The Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
Light Views, Reviews & Previews (John Larsen)
While watching "A Bug's Life," I kept marveling at how far computer animation has come since "Toy Story." I remember being impressed by the 64-bit graphics on my computer games, wondering how they could ever improve on the technology. Now computers are ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Light Views, Reviews & Previews (John Larsen)
Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)
A Bug's Life (Randy Newman) In the battle of the animated bug wars, I have to give the nod to Powell and Gregson-Williams for Antz over Newman's A Bug's Life. With Antz, you could easily tell that a new and experimental means of scoring an animated film ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)
DVD Talk (Adam Tyner)
A Bug's Life peers into the unseen world that crunches beneath our feet. Routine and tedium don't make for much of a life, though. In the first glimpse of the ants that litter this digitally-created world, food is being gathered for "The Offering", a ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVD Talk (Adam Tyner)
Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Disney's got some serious problems when it comes to their recent non-animated films, but there's no doubt that they (and their pals at Pixar) can deliver when it comes to tooney goodness. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
One ant, Flik (Dave Foley), spends his time inventing instead of gathering. While showing his picking machine to little Dot, the invention goes haywire and spills the piled grasshopper food into the pond. When the hoppers show up, they are steaming mad ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
DVD Verdict (Dean Roddey)
Legendary Japanese director Kurosawa probably never dreamed that his film The Seven Samurai would be remade about a thousand times, but this classic story line has been rehashed more times than can probably be counted. The basic theme is that a small ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVD Verdict (Dean Roddey)
MovieEye.com (David Litton)
Standing out as one of the most imaginative and funny Disney films in quite some time, "A Bug's Life," carries on the humorous pairing of the House of Mouse with the computer animation studio Pixar for yet another outing of supreme in-jokes and ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at MovieEye.com (David Litton)
Blunt Review with Emily Blunt
Well dear readers, as you know I always give credit where credit's due. Disney and Pixar (Pixar famous for the Toy Stories) have topped themselves with this one! A Bug's Life is truly an excellent display of entertaining entomology. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Blunt Review with Emily Blunt
Edward Johnson-Ott
When you see "The End" appear onscreen at the conclusion of "A Bug's Life, " stay in your seat, because the show isn't over quite yet. The filmmakers have added a very clever little treat to the closing credits. The rollicking "A Bug's Life" is that ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Edward Johnson-Ott
Jeffrey Huston
Great family entertainment is rare nowadays. Many films and TV shows like to present themselves under the guise of being entertaining for the whole family, but most are not. `Family Entertainment' is an abused expression by studio marketers that are ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Jeffrey Huston
The Reel McCoy (Patrick McCoy)
Visually stunning. Wildly entertaining. Refreshingly funny. Phrases like these keep entering my mind as I sit down to write this review. The makers of Toy Story have done it again. Pixar has created an animated feast that, in my opinion, and in the ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at The Reel McCoy (Patrick McCoy)
DVD Net (Amy Flower)
As we zoom into the world of the ants, we find them gathering food to get them through the rainy season. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVD Net (Amy Flower)
Nathaniel R. Atcheson
The Movie Mom (Nell Minow)
The second computer-animated movie about ants this season is a delightful Disney movie that is great fun for all but the smallest kids, who may be frightened by the scary bad guys (grasshoppers) and by some intense action sequences that put the lead ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at The Movie Mom (Nell Minow)
Steve Kong
Flik (Dave Foley of "News Radio") is a rebel in the ant colony. He has many brilliant ideas that are cast aside by the colony - including a machine that would help ease the harvest. The harvest is a grueling ordeal for the colony because they have to do ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Steve Kong
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
Disney and Pixar wowed 'em when they teamed up to tell a wonderful "Toy Story" at this time three years ago. "A Bug's Life," which scurries into multiplexes on Wednesday morning, is Pixar's famed computer animation raised to the next level.
The ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
Stockholm Film Review : A Bug's Life
Worker ant Flik (voiced by Dave Foley) has a streak of individuality that constantly gets him into trouble. He invents things, to the bemusement of the rest of the ant colony, and he lands himself (and the colony) in big trouble when one of his ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Stockholm Film Review : A Bug's Life
DVD MovieGuide
suppose it doesn't qualify as a case of the old bait and switch - my favorite phrase, by the way - but Disney's been up to no good with their pattern of DVD releases. Too frequently have they released an essentially "movie-only" edition of a film and ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVD MovieGuide
La Movie Boeuf (David N. Butterworth)
From its opening frames of a fallen leaf settling on a pool of water, it's clear that A Bug's Life is no ordinary kiddie cartoon. The attention to detail in this scene is extraordinary and, fortunately for the viewer, that level of detail is maintained ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at La Movie Boeuf (David N. Butterworth)
Doug Pratt's DVD Review
The outstanding computer animation feature has been issued as a single-sided dual-layer program, with a letterboxed presentation on one layer and a full screen presentation on the other, the full screen version having been digitally altered to improve ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Doug Pratt's DVD Review
eFilmCritic
Judging by some of our user comments, the kind folks at Pixar.com have been stuffing the ol' ballot box.
Gang, it doesn't need it.
This movie rules the school.
You have to like family movies that appeal to the entire family, and A Bug's Life ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at eFilmCritic
Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
filethirteen.com
Animated features continue to profligate with only occasional cinematic achievement. Disney and Pixar's "A Bug's Life" is one of those remarkable achievement. The film seems to take Pixar's remarkable computer animation that was so endearing in "Toy ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at filethirteen.com
Boxoffice Magazine
A handful of cursory similarities to Dreamorks' "Antz" notwithstanding, Disney's long-awaited "A Bug's Life" emerges as the clear winner of the computer-generated insect competition. Funnier, flashier, more colorful and imaginative, better animated and, ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Boxoffice Magazine
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Now I've seen them both. I remember thinking The Truman Show was pretty good until I saw Pleasantville. While ANTZ is essentially a great Woody Allen film, John Lasseter has again set the bar with the superior A Bug's Life.There's been ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Audio Revolution
Pixar/Disney's second feature together may not be quite up to the standards of A TOY STORY and its sequel, it's a terrific movie anyway, and it's prettier; it has a spun-sugar, stained-glass look that fills the screen with colorful light. This transfers ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Audio Revolution
eFilmCritic.com (Oz)
You have to like family movies that appeal to the entire family, and A Bug's Life does that. I saw this film in a theater full of families, and the adults enjoyed it just as much as the kids did. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Oz)
Movie Mom's review
When Flik inadvertently loses the food tribute set out by the ants for the predatory grasshoppers, he must find a way to protect his community. In the spirit of "The Magnificent Seven," he goes off in search of warrior bugs to fight the grasshoppers. He ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Movie Mom's review
Ultimate Guide to Disney DVD
A Bugâs Life was the first of Pixarâs computer-animated movies to come out after their 1995 smash hit Toy Story, and has always unfairly lived in that filmâs shadow.These days, Pixar is usually referred to as the creators of Toy Story, Monsters Inc. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Ultimate Guide to Disney DVD
Scott Renshaw
Not that it's a perfect one. It gets off to a slightly sluggish start, introducing an ant colony forced to collect a winter food supply for Hopper (Kevin Spacey), a grasshopper gang leader running an entomological protection racket. Our protagonist Flik ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Scott Renshaw
DVDRAMA
Oppressée par des criquets racketteurs, la fourmilière de la princesse Atta ne peut plus faire face. Tilt, inventeur insatiable mais maladroit, décide d'aller chercher du secours.
Pixar possède t-il la formule magique pour concocter des chefs ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVDRAMA
EyeCraveDVD.com (Shane)
After 3-years Pixar Studios along with Disney released their second composition in computer animation, A BUGâS LIFE. With the success of TOY STORY behind them it was no surprise to see this one shine in the limelight as well. Opening in top spot in ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at EyeCraveDVD.com (Shane)
Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
A BUG'S LIFE is a colorful confection. Inventive as all get-out, funny to the point of tear-inducing, and featuring Pixar's most accomplished animation to date. Solid vocal work, too, with a show-stopping (and perhaps Oscar-nominatable?) turn from Kevin ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
Mark O'Hara
A Bug's Life is an entertaining film with a decent story and astounding computer-generated animation. This is the best animation yet of this sort - the facial features of the ants and their rival grasshoppers possess the elasticity of real faces, and the ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Mark O'Hara
CNN Showbiz (Paul Tatara)
The battle for the children's box office bucks has begun. "A Bug's Life" opens this week against Paramount's new animated film, "Rug Rats," and next week "Babe: Pig In The City" opens as Universal Studio's entry into the race for holiday family ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at CNN Showbiz (Paul Tatara)
** The Shrubbery Review -- A Bug's Life **
Once again, Pixar and Disney fail to disappoint with their latest for-kids-and-adults animated feature. A Bug's Life was this year's big mid-week Thanksgiving movie for the companies, and it couldn't have hit the market fast enough.
Not only are the ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at ** The Shrubbery Review -- A Bug's Life **
Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
So you have to wonder why, after so many years, it has only now occurred to the suits in Hollywood that what the world needs now is a really good cartoon bug movie. Or, rather, two of them. Granted, one of the films is from Disney, into whose purview ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
In the animation world, 1998 was definitely the year of the creepy-crawly, with two bug-based toons - "Antz" and "A Bug's Life" - finding box office success within months of each other. But it's "A Bug's Life", Pixar's follow-up to the phenomenally ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
Needcoffee.com
For time immemorial, the ants on a particular island have had to harvest enough food not only for themselves, but for the evil gang of grasshoppers that demands their "protection" fund. Enter Flik (Foley), a bumbling inventive genius who accidentally ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Needcoffee.com
Michael Dequina
The similarities between _Bugs_ and _Antz_ begin and end with the facts that they are completely computer animated, center on ant colonies, and that the two main characters are a worker ant (here named Flik, voiced by Dave Foley) and an ant princess ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Michael Dequina
DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)
Who would have ever thought that an ant could be so darn cute? Well, they are. A Bug's Life is the story of a colony of ants, and one ant in particular named Flik (voice of Dave Foley). It seems that these ants have been working, infact slaving to make ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)
Village Voice (Amy Taubin)
A Bugâs Life is the little kidsâ version of Antz: sweeter, funnier, simpler to follow. I like that the ants in A Bugâs Life are lavender and that they have the blissed-out eyes of Teletubbies, even when theyâre running for their lives. The brown ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Village Voice (Amy Taubin)
Steve Rhodes
Easily the best family movie in the past few years was 1995's TOY STORY. The Pixar Animation Studios are back this year with their second motion picture, A BUG'S LIFE, which is another brilliant piece of filmmaking. Although the script is not quite up to ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Steve Rhodes
DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)
Who would have ever thought that an ant could be so darn cute? Well, they are. A Bug's Life is the story of a colony of ants, and one ant in particular named Flik (voice of Dave Foley). It seems that these ants have been working, infact slaving to make ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
"A Bug's Life," the second feature-length computer animated film from the partnership of Pixar Studios and Disney is as whimsical, funny, and downright entertaining as their first effort, 1995's "Toy Story." Populated with a host of memorable character ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
At-A-Glance Film Reviews
A Bug's Life, the second film from Pixar, the studio that produced Toy Story, again uses computer rendering to deliver a family adventure with heart and cheery humor. Its wit isn't as sophisticated as that of Antz (the "other" computer rendered insect ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at At-A-Glance Film Reviews
txreviews.com (Curtis Edmonds)
I went into A Bugâs Life with certain expectations, and I was not disappointed. I expected to see a technically advanced movie, with visually stunning sets. I expected to see cutesy little characters spouting bad puns. I expected to hear lots of ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at txreviews.com (Curtis Edmonds)
THE WEEKLY MOVIE REVIEW
At first, I wondered what all the hubbub was over. But as A BUGâS LIFE got cuter and cuter, I figured it out. Once again, Pixar has a winner. The animation is, of course, superb and A BUGâS LIFE is much better than ANTZ, not to mention more inventive. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at THE WEEKLY MOVIE REVIEW
Review
I have one word for A Bug's Life: charming. The entire way through. Although the characters are cute, they're not sickeningly cute. There's a lot of sly wit that Pixar sneaked in, stuff that will soar over the kiddies' heads but will amuse the grown-ups. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Review
Digital Hit Entertainment's review
The battle of the bugs has finally hit the big screen in 1998. Two major studios have released two similar insect-related computer-animated films in the same year. DreamWorks SKG was the first out of the gate with Antz. On November 25th, Disney/Pixar ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Digital Hit Entertainment's review
F.LM - Texte zum Film
... roughly translated: Das groÃe Krabbeln ist nach Toy Story (1995) der zweite vollständig computeranimierte Langfilm Disneys. Eigentlich wollte man im Verbund mit Pixar (der Firma des ð-Chefs Steve Jobs) seinen vollständig computeranimierten Film ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at F.LM - Texte zum Film
Criminy Pete's Knee Jerk Spoilers
True, maybe I'm a sucker for cartoons and computer animation, but this film looked amazing - and it SHOULD, since Pixar's been working on this for years - and it was actually pretty damn funny. Maybe there's something about cartoons that allows a person ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Criminy Pete's Knee Jerk Spoilers
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
For the second time in as many months, America is being treated to a delightful movie about ants. If I'd known the darn bugs could be so much fun, I would have put the lid on the Raid a long time ago.A Bug's Lifeis the latest offering ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
John Carroll
Disney has a way with animated features, otherwise known as cartoons. Sure, when we were young we loved cartoons. "Inspector Gadget," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" being two prime examples. But, as we grow older, we lose touch with these cartoons. But, ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at John Carroll
Matt Prigge
A Bug's Life" may not be "Toy Story," but it's more close than "Antz" was. I really liked "Antz," basically because, yes, it is clever and witty and intelligent (and it has the temerity to take a chance and put Woody Allen in the lead, perhaps the year's ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Matt Prigge
Needcoffee.com - DVD Review
On Ant Island, life is definitely in a rut. Every year, the ants have to harvest enough food not only for themselves, but also for a group of malicious grasshoppers led by the evil Hopper (Spacey). After circumstances put the ants in a bit of a spot when ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Needcoffee.com - DVD Review
Needcoffee.com DVD Review, 2003 Collector's Edition
If you already own the last collector's edition, skip it. However, if you still need one, grab it. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Needcoffee.com DVD Review, 2003 Collector's Edition
Needcoffee.com
For time immemorial, the ants on a particular island have had to harvest enough food not only for themselves, but for the evil gang of grasshoppers that demands their "protection" fund. Enter Flik (Foley), a bumbling inventive genius who accidentally ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Needcoffee.com
Walter Frith
After a major foulup by Flick, the colony loses all food collected for the grasshoppers, (after all, grasshoppers ARE above ants in the food chain), Hopper orders the ants to begin again and says that his army will destroy the ants if they come back at ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Walter Frith
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
In A Bug's Life, the protagonist is Flik (voice of Dave Foley), an ant whose sole desire in life is "to make a difference." Flik is an inventor, and, when one of his experiments goes wrong, it brings the wrath of the grasshoppers, led by the dangerous ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Pixar is the studio that first brought a full-length computer-generated feature to the screen with 1995's Toy Story, and, by adding A Bug's Life to their resume, they have established themselves as a ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Cinematter (Matt Williams)
The season's second computer-animated ant tale (following Antz ) has finally hit the theaters. It lacks some of the earlier film's sophisticated humor, but more than makes up for it with its rich animation and endearing characters. The ant colony on Ant ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)
David Wilcock
Obvious comparisons can be made to Dreamworks Antz here: computer graphics, insects, the small ant trying to defeat a much bigger enemy, dealing with being the 'little guy' etc, although to be fair, A Bugs Life was developed first. However, this being a ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at David Wilcock
Bob Bloom
For while Antz was a story about striving to be an individual in a society built on conformity, A Bug's Life is a story about learning selfreliance, selfconfidence and selfworth.This production from Pixar, the same people who brought you the enjoyable ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Bob Bloom
ShowBIZ Data
Although chances are that few parents or children will be asking, "Do we really want to see another movie about bugs?" before deciding on whether to take in the Disney/Pixar A Bug's Life, the issue of two concurrent animated films featuring insects ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at ShowBIZ Data
DVDnett.no
De av oss som lenge har sverget til originalutgavene av Disneys tegnefilmer på video (med engelsk lyd), har fått våre drømmer oppfylt nå som DVD har overtatt. Her foreligger altså en norsk utgave av A Bug's Life, eller Småkryp som den heter på ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVDnett.no
SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)
To answer your first question, "A Bug's Life" is, strangely, exactly as good as "Antz," the other animated insect movie that beat this one out of the gate by just a few weeks. To answer your second question, seeing both movies will not feel redundant as ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)
Nitrate Online (Carrie Gorringe)
Forget the concept of "Girl Power"; in animation circles at least, 1998 is the year of "Insect Power." Weâve all seen Antz and felt the urge to stock up on Black Flag foggers, the idea of invasion by thousands of ants all sounding and acting like Woody ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Nitrate Online (Carrie Gorringe)
Entertainment Insiders (Craig Roush)
Lest their be any question of whether or not the Mouse House still packs any animated clout, consider this to be the convincing argument otherwise.
With a eerie feeling of déjà vu and a virtual replay of events earlier this year, Disney's ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Entertainment Insiders (Craig Roush)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
As ants struggle to gather morsels of food, a leaf falls and interrupts their procession. "I'm lost!" screams a worker in panic. "Where's the line?" Rescue workers quickly arrive: "We are ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
In Film Australia
Critics everywhere have compared Disney Pixarâs A Bugâs Life to Dreamworksâ Antz. Donât expect me to be any different; it is virtually impossible not to compare these two pretty special films. As I was wracking my brain trying to figure out why ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at In Film Australia
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Disney/Pixar's remake of, ironically, Three Amigos!, is redone with bugs and animated via computer. When meanie grasshoppers (headed by Kevin Spacey) threaten the anthill, well-intentioned clutz Flik (Dave Foley) goes on a crusade to find help. He ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Screen It! Entertainment Reviews for Parents
Each summer, a greedy and domineering group of grasshoppers descend on Ant Island demanding a large portion of the ants' annual harvest. Unfortunately, this time around an industrious ant by the name of Flik (voice of DAVE FOLEY), who had hoped to put an ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Screen It! Entertainment Reviews for Parents
Christian Spotlight on the Movies
There was a time, not many years ago, when Disney movies were enchanting. The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast created worlds of wonder and beauty, with just a twinkle of concorable evil that lay just beneath the surface. Aladdin had a comic ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Christian Spotlight on the Movies
NandoNext (Hugh Kellenberger)
DVDnett.no
For å ha sagt det med en gang, A Bug's Life er en fryd å se på. På alle måter. Her har vi truffet Disney i det gode hjørnet, og når entusiastiske Pixar tar fram sine helt uslåelige animasjonskunster er det bare å bøye seg i støvet. Dette er en ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVDnett.no
filmcritic.com reviews A Bug's Life
Disney/Pixar's remake of, ironically, Three Amigos!, is redone with bugs and animated via computer. When meanie grasshoppers (headed by Kevin Spacey) threaten the anthill, well-intentioned clutz Flik (Dave Foley) goes on a crusade to find help. He ends ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at filmcritic.com reviews A Bug's Life
San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)
Bug's Life'' is one of the great movies -- a triumph of storytelling and character development, and a whole new ballgame for computer animation.
This warm, rollicking movie features a computer-created world that looks breathtakingly natural, with ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)
Time Out
An underworld film in the truest sense, Disney/Pixar's animated story takes elements from the gangster and adventure genres and shrinks them down to a microscopic grass-root level. Flik is like any other worker ant gathering harvest before the onset of ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Time Out
dvdfuture.com (Ken Pierce)
Two of the best animated features of 1998 are now available on DVD.
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In this corner, we have our challenger, hailing from Dreamworks and PDI, weighing in at one hour, twenty-three minutes, and starring the voices of Woody ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at dvdfuture.com (Ken Pierce)
Joy Wyse
Disney Studios' latest full-length animation film is delightful. It tells the story of a colony of ants that work and slave to provide food for the dreaded grasshoppers that descend upon them each year and take their harvest. Then, after the grasshoppers ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Joy Wyse
DigitalVD.de (Carsten Scheibe)
Entdecken Sie die Welt doch einmal aus einer völlig neuen Perspektive. In Disneys/Pixars erfolgreichem Kinohit "Das grosse Krabbeln" werden kleine Helden nämlich ganz gross! Als das fleissige Ameisenvolk von gefrässigen Grashüpfern bedroht wird, ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DigitalVD.de (Carsten Scheibe)
Ryan Davis
It's rather strange too have two computer animated talking ant movies come out in a single year, but that is what Disney and Pixar Animation;s latest film represents. While A Bugs Life isn't nearly as deep as it's predecessor, Dreamwork's Antz, it is ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Ryan Davis
DVDRAMA
En cette fin d'année, la zone 2 frappe un grand coup. Après deux disques quasi parfaits, Le masque de Zorro et , voici sans doute le meilleur DVD zone 2 (voir même le meilleur tout court) jamais fabriqué.
Pour ceux qui avaient le DVd zone 1 ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVDRAMA
Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
Earlier this year two meteor movies competed, the first - Dreamworks "Deep Impact" - was a quite good film but could've delivered a bit more, the second - Disney's "Armageddon" - whupped DI's ass and delivered an entertaining & exciting film. 6 months ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
Austin Chronicle (Russell Smith)
In 1998's mano-a-mandible clash of digital an(t)imation features, this breakneck-paced, understatedly clever, Disney/Pixar release wins in a split decision over DreamWorks' previously released Antz. Split because, whereas most grownups would agree that ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Austin Chronicle (Russell Smith)
Espace DVD (John Mayère)
Comme chaque saison, la fourmilière de la reine se prépare à faire sa propre récolte ainsi que celle pour les terribles sauterelles. Mais Tilt, inventeur et maladroit invétéré, provoque une catastrophe qui emporte toute la récolte destinée aux ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Espace DVD (John Mayère)
Arnold Kim
It seems that these days a lot of films are dependent on visuals and filmmaking technology to "ooh" and "aah" the audience enough to occupy them for two hours. Story is often a mere second to visual effects in movies like "Godzilla" or "Armageddon". What ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Arnold Kim
FOCUS Online
Panik auf der Ameiseninsel: Als der jährliche Futtertribut an die gefräÃige Grashüpferbande sprichwörtlich ins Wasser fällt, fürchten Prinzessin Atta (Madeleine Stolze) und die Königin (Elisabeth Volkmann) die schreckliche Rache von Hopper ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at FOCUS Online
The Digital Bits
Imagine if you will, an ant colony, where each of the tiny creatures slaves away to gather enough food to appease their grasshopper masters. And in that colony, is an ant named Flik, who likes to think "outside the box". Unfortunately, that often gets ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at The Digital Bits
eye WEEKLY (Tom Lyons)
British-born Hollywood director James Whale was most famous for his horror movies: the original 1931 Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff, and its equally superb sequel, Bride of Frankenstein. But after his early triumphs, he fell from favor with the ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at eye WEEKLY (Tom Lyons)
Hollywood Jesus Visual Reviews
New York Times (Janet Maslin)
The best ant colony movie of the year! ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at New York Times (Janet Maslin)
Movie Addict (John Ulmer)
A disappointment, but still a good film. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Movie Addict (John Ulmer)
Film Values/Family Values (H. Arthur Taussig)
Film Threat (--)
DVD Times
A Bugs Life - the most hyped DVD since Armageddon - is finally here. Unlike Armageddon, this is one does deserve the hype.
The film tells the story of Flik - an inventive if somewhat misguided ant. After one mistake too many he leaves in search of some ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVD Times
Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
Despite the fact that other animated bug movie was released just two short months ago, I was quite looking forward to A Bug's Life. It's Pixar's sophomore effort following the brilliant Toy Story and much of the same talent behind the scenes is the same. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
A Guide to Current DVD (Aaron Beierle)
The second of the Fall's animated insect projects wasn't nearly as appealing to me as the first. "A Bug's Life" boasts outstanding animation, but a lackluster and predictable plot. Possibly I just felt that way as an adult and maybe it's just my cynical ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at A Guide to Current DVD (Aaron Beierle)
DVD Review e-zine
One of the trademarks of all Disney animated films is the fact that they appeal to everyone. Although animated and cute by nature, they donât appeal to children only and they never have the serious, adult note of many other animated movies of recent ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVD Review e-zine
Juicy Cerebellum (Alex Sandell)
An innovative ant who wants to break out from the colony is asked by the queen-to-be and her council to go find "warrior" bugs to fight the evil Hopper, and his rotten gang of grasshoppers. What he ends up finding is a group of washed-up circus bugs who ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Juicy Cerebellum (Alex Sandell)
Sheep Free Reviews
A Bug's Life is about Flik. He's the smartest ant in the colony - and an outcast, because he doesn't think or act like the others. Basically - the rest of the colony are a bunch of pricks to him. So we see the old formula of geek becomes hero! ok - ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Sheep Free Reviews
kids-in-mind
An ant and his rag-tag army of bugs stand up to bullying grasshoppers in this computer-animated Disney flick. Voices include Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Hyde Pierce, Denis Leary and Phyllis Diller. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at kids-in-mind
DVD MovieGuide
We live in such a cruel, harsh competitive world. Our society always has to divide issues into "either/or." Whenever two movies come out that have similar themes, discussions never deal with what people thought of one or the other; it's always "which ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVD MovieGuide
The Onion A.V. Club (Nathan Rabin)
The second feature film from Pixar, and the second movie this season to document the antics of a group of zany ants, A Bug's Life tells the story of a lovable ant (Dave Foley) who accidentally disrupts the balance of power between his peaceful colony and ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at The Onion A.V. Club (Nathan Rabin)
Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)
The question many skeptics have been asking this holiday season: Is there room for 2 computer-animated movies about ants in 2 months? The answer: barely. The first entry, Dreamworks' Antz was a buzzing delight, a glorious, witty production that appealed ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)
DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
The star of "A Bug´s Life" is an ant named Flik, perhaps a distant cousin of Allen´s angst-ridden Z. Flik is an inveterate inventor, always thinking up new schemes and ideas. When we first meet him he´s trying out a new cultivator he´s built that´s ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
The BigScreen Cinema Guide - Reader Reviews
Join Flik, a brave but misguided ant, as he mistakenly enlists a troupe of unemployed bug performers from a second-rate flea circus to help him save Ant Island from a gang of greedy grasshoppers. ... ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at The BigScreen Cinema Guide - Reader Reviews
A Guide to Current DVD (Aaron Beierle)
The second of the Fall's animated insect projects wasn't nearly as appealing to me as the first. "A Bug's Life" boasts outstanding animation, but a lackluster and predictable plot. Possibly I just felt that way as an adult and maybe it's just my cynical ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at A Guide to Current DVD (Aaron Beierle)
Globe and Mail (--)
Raging Bull (Vanes Naldi)
Coming from Pixar and Lassiter (who brings the great Hayao Miyazaki films to the US), I expected something at least close to Toy Story. No sir. A Bug's Life is certainly a joy to watch, boasting some of the most impressive CGI I've ever seen, but after ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Raging Bull (Vanes Naldi)
Moviola (Jorge Avila Andrade)
'Bichos' pasará a la historia de la animación como una muestra más de que la magia de Disney no se la llevó del todo el señor Katzenberg ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Moviola (Jorge Avila Andrade)
Courier-Journal
An innovative ant who wants to break out from the colony is asked by the queen-to-be and her council to go find "warrior" bugs to fight the evil Hopper, and his rotten gang of grasshoppers. What he ends up finding is a group of washed-up circus bugs who ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Courier-Journal
Rotten Tomatoes - Reviews from the Nation's Top Critics
Lasseter and Pixar broke new technical and aesthetic ground in the animation field with Toy Story, and here they surpass it in both scope and complexity of movement while telling a story that overlaps Antz in numerous ways. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Rotten Tomatoes - Reviews from the Nation's Top Critics
Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
Witty dialogue, funny situations, and entertaining characters. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
Film Written Magazine (Andrew Howe)
A feel-good movie I'll be revisiting on many a rainy Saturday morning. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Film Written Magazine (Andrew Howe)
Steve Bailey
Picking on Pixar's A Bug's Life, I feel like a bullying kid refracting the sun through a magnifying glass onto an anthill. As with Pixar's initial computer-animated feature, Toy Story, the animation is seamless, the voice performances are flawless, and ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Steve Bailey
SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
1998 may well go down as a year filled with a remarkable number of coincidences
of theme in filmmaking with two meteor collision films - Deep Impact (1998), Armageddon (1998); two trapped-in-tv-become-reality
films - Pleasantville (1998), The ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
Homer Yen
There certainly is no lack of creativity here. A rainstorm looks like the ants are being water bombed. Dandelion pods are used to transport Flik afar as he floats across considerable distances. The circus bugs are all very colorful and appealing. I ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Homer Yen
Detroit News (Susan Stark)
Images (Gary Johnson)
Life is no picnic for the ants in A Bug's Life. A marauding colony of grasshoppers periodically descends on the ant colony and demands huge portions of the ant colony's harvest--like gangsters insisting on "protection" money. The grasshoppers are sort of ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Images (Gary Johnson)
David Sunga
Ingredients: Ants and grasshoppers in human situations.Synopsis: A gang of big mean grasshoppers is extorting protection money from a cowering colony of little ants. One day an innovative ant named Flik (Dave Foley) goes on a quest to find bugs who ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at David Sunga
Raging Bull Movie Reviews (Vanes Naldi)
Coming from Pixar and Lassiter (who brings the great Hayao Miyazaki films to the US), I expected something at least close to Toy Story. No sir. A Bug's Life is certainly a joy to watch, boasting some of the most impressive CGI I've ever seen, but after ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Raging Bull Movie Reviews (Vanes Naldi)
Movies 101 (Robert Glatzer)
Is it odd or is it just me? Every family with a child is going this season to 'A Bug's Life' and 'Rugrats' but nobody's going to 'The Wizard of Oz,' just released in theatres for the first time in more than thirty years and without question the greatest ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Movies 101 (Robert Glatzer)
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
A Bug's Life opens on the belabored scenario of the socially awkward genius who can't get respect. While docile ants carry food to the hill in perfect (hence, uncreative--nature's so quaint) straight lines, Flik (voiced by Dave Foley) tries out a ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
The Cranky Critic (Chuck Schwartz)
Cranky's only going to do this history bit once this year, so pay attention. 1998 will see two movies about World War II, but the stories are not the same. It has also seen two movies about real people sucked into television shows (if you wait another 3 ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at The Cranky Critic (Chuck Schwartz)
Film Written Magazine
Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (Harry Knowles)
Here is my first look at a bug's life, which was an early incomplete print.... Earlier Review of A BUG'S LIFE This is less of a review and more of a document of what the heck I'm doing out here in Silicon Valley, and what the big Silicon Valley ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (Harry Knowles)
UTK Daily Beacon (Emily Broyles)
Pixar has gone "to infinity and beyond" with their latest release A Bug's Life.
After pushing computer animation to the limit in Toy Story, the creators of A Bug's Life have made an amazing new film, with life-like graphics and charming ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at UTK Daily Beacon (Emily Broyles)
Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (Harry Knowles)
When I mentioned I was flying out to Los Angeles this past week, I received an email from Sir Etch-A-Sketch. He/she is a spy of some import that I've had for just a few months now. But anyway, Sir Etch, dropped a line saying he could arrange a small ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (Harry Knowles)
DVDTown (John J. Puccio)
In another of those monumental coincidences that only Hollywood could manage, two superbly animated cartoons on the same subject from two separate studios arrived in theaters just weeks apart, Disney´s "A Bug´s Life" and DreamWorks´ "Antz." ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVDTown (John J. Puccio)
The New York Times - Family Movie Guide (Peter M. Nichols)
Though considerably outnumbered, some bully-boy grasshoppers intimidate a hard-pressed colony of ants into providing food. One eager beaver of an ant named Flik comes up with a ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at The New York Times - Family Movie Guide (Peter M. Nichols)
DVDTown- Collector's Edition (John J. Puccio)
Potential movie buyers have experienced a veritable avalanche of special editions lately, with any number of old DVD favorites showing up in two, three, and even four-disc sets. In a few cases the films themselves have been ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at DVDTown- Collector's Edition (John J. Puccio)
Cinemaphile.org (David Keyes)
Cineclub-Filmkritik
Die ganze Kolonie ist mit der Ernte beschäftigt. Jeder Grashalm der Insel wird abgesucht, alle Körner zum Opferstein gebracht. Während ein ganzes Ameisenvolk in traditioneller Handarbeit vorangeht, experimentiert Flik mit seiner neuen Erntemaschine. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Cineclub-Filmkritik
Sci-Fi Weekly
Every year the ants of an island colony toil like slaves to gather enough food for a nasty band of grasshoppers, led by the evil Hopper (Spacey). And every year they manage to hoard just enough food to feed both the grasshoppers and themselves.
One ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Sci-Fi Weekly
Cinema Laser (Derek M. Germano)
BUG'S LIFE comes from the folks at Pixar, a company that continually redefine the term state-of-the-art in the world of 3D computer animation. The plot of A BUG'S LIFE is a variation on the fable about the ant and the grasshopper with industrious ants ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Cinema Laser (Derek M. Germano)
Steve Baker's Film Reviews: Barfly Magazine
Yes, as you've probably heard A Bug's Life is heaps more entertaining than its rival Antz.
A Bug's Life is themed in a similar way to Antz with a misfit ant saving the colony from threat but Antz is a self conscious Manhattan political whinge whereas ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Steve Baker's Film Reviews: Barfly Magazine
John Smyth
Worker ant Flik (voiced by Dave Foley) has a streak of individuality that constantly gets him into trouble. He invents things, to the bemusement of the rest of the ant colony, and he lands himself (and the colony) in big trouble when one of his ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at John Smyth
Mark R. Leeper
The ants of Ant Island could live very well if they were not obliged to pay a heavy tribute of food each year to a ferocious band of grasshoppers. In the colony ant Flik has many ideas how to do things differently-he even has ideas for how to deal with ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Mark R. Leeper
James Brundage
Well, the battle of the bugs is finally over and I think, cash wise, that Disney will come out on top once again. After all, there is such a thing a customer loyalty when it comes to kids and animated movies and whatever they see at McDonalds (Disney) ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at James Brundage
Radio Free Entertainment
When an army of grasshoppers led by the evil Hopper (Spacey) terrorize a peaceful ant colony, an unconventional ant named Flik (Foley) goes on a quest to find bigger bug allies.
A wide cast of celebrities lends their voice talents to this film, making ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Radio Free Entertainment
artechock (Ruediger Suchsland)
Schaumig leicht Disneys ameisenhafte Gegenoffensive
Bei den Ameisen herrschen bekanntlich die Frauen. Wer freilich meint, unter dem Matriarchat müÃte es friedlicher und irgendwie ganz anders zugehen, als unter den Machoverhältnissen menschlichen ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at artechock (Ruediger Suchsland)
Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
Computer-animated movies, like computers themselves, are only as clever and funny as the people who program them. What "A Bug's Life" demonstrates is that when it comes to bugs, the most fun ones to hang out with hang exclusively with the gang at ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
James Bowman
A Bug's Life, directed by John Lasseter âwith co-direction by Andrew Stantonâ and the usual array of celebrity voices including Kevin Spacey as the bad guy and Phyllis Diller as the ant-queen, is that by-now familiar Hollywood phenomenon, a movie ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at James Bowman
Movie-Page.com review
A Bug's Life is an entertaining film with a decent story and astounding computer-generated animation. This is the best animation yet of this sort - the facial features of the ants and their rival grasshoppers possess the elasticity of real faces, and the ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Movie-Page.com review
Cinema Laser (Derek M. Germano)
The plot of A BUG'S LIFE sort of takes the old fable about the ant and grasshopper and turns it on its ear. Yes, in A BUG'S LIFE, the industrious ants continuously work through the summer season- stockpiling food. However, instead of just idly flitting ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Cinema Laser (Derek M. Germano)
Dr. Daniel's Movie Emergency
A Bug's Life is the story of a little worker ant named Flik (voiced by Dave Foley of TV's "NewsRadio"). Flik happens to be an inventor of sorts, and he's trying to make life a little easier in the colony. Unfortunately, the queen (Phyllis Diller) and ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Dr. Daniel's Movie Emergency
Movie ram-blings (Ram Samudrala)
A Bug's Life is Disney's second completely computer animated film following Toy Story from a couple of years ago. Coming right at the heels of Antz, comparisons are inevitable. The primary difference is that Antz is essentially an animated Woody Allen ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Movie ram-blings (Ram Samudrala)
filmtext.com
Im neugeschaffenen Subgenre des Zeichentrickfilms, dem total computeranimierten Trickfilm, zeichnet sich ein Machtkampf ab. Walt Disney und Regisseur John Lasseter, mit deren "Toy Story" alles begann, kontern das jüngste Werk namens "Antz" von ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at filmtext.com
Boston Phoenix (Peter Keough)
Whereas Antz finds some of its edgy inspiration in Kafka by way of Woody Allen, A Bug's Life is mired comfortably in the pastel mediocrity of Gumby. Made by the same people behind the tauter and more entertaining Toy Story, Life re-creates the treacly, ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Boston Phoenix (Peter Keough)
Kino (Alessandro Bencivenni)
Coi loro esoscheletri e le loro corazze, gli insetti sono gli animali meglio compatibili con una certa rigidità ancora implicita nella computergrafica. E' uno dei motivi che spiega la nascita dei progetti gemelli che hanno portato alla realizzazione ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Kino (Alessandro Bencivenni)
Anthony Leong's MediaCircus
MediaCircus (Anthony Leong)
One might consider "A Bug's Life", the follow-up to "Toy Story" from Disney/Pixar, a kinder, gentler, and less-sophisticated version of Dreamworks' "Antz", which arrived in theaters two months earlier. At first glance, it is easy to see the numerous ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at MediaCircus (Anthony Leong)
Cinopsis
Flik, la fourmi, n'a pas ses mandibules dans sa poche! Bourré d'idées, maladroit en diable, il va détruire malencontreusement la récolte de la saison que les fourmis avaient amassée en vue de l'arrivée annuelle du monstrueux Hopper et sa bande de ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Cinopsis
reVision
Formiche. Ancora formiche, ma questa volta non solo formiche. A Bug's Life (ultima creazione animata della premiata ditta Disney e Pixar) racconta, attraverso l'uso della computer graphic 3 D, quel mondo a parte che si nasconde e prolifera sotto i fili ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at reVision
Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Flik, the self styled inventor and thinker of the colony, risks his life in search of warriors who will save them all. But, instead of the "Seven Samurai" he thought he hired, Flik finds an eclectic collection of colorful, motor-mouthed and funny bugs. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Reel.com
In the autumn of that fabled year of 1998, the movie world saw one of the strangest battles in recent memory, with two entirely computer-animated features about bugs duking it out for box office glory. Having the benefit of first release was ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Reel.com
Philadelphia City Paper (Vance Lehmkuhl)
Though Disney/Pixar's A Bug's Life was conceived back before Dreamworks even existed (and while Dreamworks cofounder Jeff Katzenberg wasâahemâstill at Disney), the upstart studio beat Disney/Pixar to the opening-weekend punch this fall with its Brand ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Philadelphia City Paper (Vance Lehmkuhl)
Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)
An ant colony terrorised by a swarm of grasshoppers who demand the ants gather food for them finds itself in dire jeopardy when an enthusiastic inventor ant accidentally knocks the harvest into a puddle. In an effort to make reparation, he sets out to ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)
Expanded Cinemah
In questa stagione ai ragazzini è stato dedicato uno Zorro anarcosindacalista al servizio del popolo in catene, seguito da una formica post-espressionista, che ricalca con la voce di Woody i balbettii socialdemocratici di Weimar, rieditando Metropolis ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Expanded Cinemah
LowComDom Online Film Reviews
A Bug's Life is a disappointment. Once again, Disney proves it is much better at building the trailer than the film. I say that because virtually all the funny stuff is in the trailer.
The film also has the problem that there are too many distractions ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at LowComDom Online Film Reviews
Harvey S. Karten
"A Bug's Life" has dialogue that will tire adults who were intellectually challenged by the colloquy in "The Waterboy." And the verbal exchanges are bound to be of little appeal to the tots who will form the majority of its audience. One of this movie's ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Harvey S. Karten
David Nusair
The movie is about an overeager ant named Flik (voiced by Foley) who gets his colony in trouble with a dangerous gang of grasshoppers, led by the appropriately named Hopper (Spacey). Flik comes up with a plan to leave the colony and find other insects ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at David Nusair
James Sanford
Ant Island is annually raided by greedy grasshoppers led by the bullying Hopper (given a distinctively nasty voice by Kevin Spacey), who insists the ants slave away for months gathering food for these unwanted guests. Ambitious Fleck (Foley) volunteers ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at James Sanford
Tim Voon
Somehow the idea of playful, individualistic insects with attitude hasn't caught my imagination. This movie is primarily aimed at children, but will entertain adults as well. It is not as cleverly scripted as the humourous Antz, but carries about it a ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Tim Voon
The Boston Phoenix
Whereas Antz finds some of its edgy inspiration in Kafka by way of Woody Allen, A Bug's Life is mired comfortably in the pastel mediocrity of Gumby. Made by the same people behind the tauter and more entertaining Toy Story, Life re-creates the treacly, ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at The Boston Phoenix
Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
This frolicsome and funny family film directed by John Lasseter (Toy Story) registers strongly on the senses and punches home its messages about the virtues of individuality and imagination. In a very routinized ant colony, Flik, an inventor, is trying ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
Westword Newspaper
Salon.com (Janelle Brown)
Near the climax of "A Bug's Life," the antagonist -- a myopic, scaly bully of a grasshopper named Hopper -- rallies his gang together to steal the harvest of the local ant colony. "The ants outnumber us 100 to 1. What if they figure that out?" he ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Salon.com (Janelle Brown)
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Sandra Contreras)
Technically astounding and unwaveringly bright film! ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Sandra Contreras)
Tempi Moderni
Una colonia di formiche operaie è vesseggiata ogni anno da una banda di cavallette che pretendono il loro dazio in cibo. La formica Flik, pasticciona, geniale e intraprendente si offre come volontaria per una missione pericolosa: andrà nella città ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Tempi Moderni
James Sanford
If you could be a fly on the wall at Disney these days, you'd probably overhear more than a few conversations about that cursed Dreamworks and their lousy "Antz" movie. It's bad enough that "Antz" has become the highest-grossing non-Disney animated ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at James Sanford
Club Culture
Dans le cahier de La Presse de fin de semaine le 21 novembre dernier dans la section Arts et Spectacles, quelques mots tirés du reportage de monsieur Richard Hétu (collaboration spéciale).
" ...Des centaines de passionnés, incluant des Québécois, ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Club Culture
The Tech (MIT) (Vladimir V. Zelevinsky)
A Bug's Life is on one hand not a sequel at all and on the other hand twice a sequel and twice a remake. Coming from the team behind Toy Story and less than two months after another computer-generated ant-colony adventure, Antz, it doesn't exactly feel ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at The Tech (MIT) (Vladimir V. Zelevinsky)
Megaklik - no nonsense movie reviews in Slovene
Kot vsako leto tudi tokrat kolonija mravelj na Äelu s kraljico in princeso Atto (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) pripravi goro žita, ki ga bodo dali v davek skupini kobilic. Preden pa se tolpa, na Äelu z zelo zlobnim Hopperjem (Kevin Spacey - zakaj niso dali ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Megaklik - no nonsense movie reviews in Slovene
Film Freak Central (Walter Chaw)
Of all of Pixar's films, it's the first and thus far only one whose pleasures are almost completely reserved for the diaper set. ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Film Freak Central (Walter Chaw)
Dustin Putman
After the recent animated debacles of, "A Rugrats Movie," and "A Bug's Life," I am seriously considering raising my highly negative rating on Dreamworks' other insect film from October, "Antz." I hated that movie, and yet, it is so much better than ...read the complete Bug's Life movie review at Dustin Putman
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