We've got stunning visuals, great jokes, some brilliant scenes and some very likeable characters. Spielberg gave us Prince of Egypt and though Disney won, narrowly, the next round isn't going to be so easy. This is what has made the House of Mouse the dominant toon makers but their mastery is under attack from Dreamworks SKG. Disney have always stuck to a solid "one cute song for every acidic aside" ratio which meant that the over-15's got Robin Williams and Eddie Murphy doing a stripped down routine whilst the 10 year olds got pretty pictures, cute animals and plenty of slapstick. The trouble with making a children's film has always been to keep the kids happy but avoid making Mum and Dad fall asleep. Honestly this movie was really good, it has a good story, it has good characters, it is realistic, and has nice action. There is nothing that can't kill him (even the princess could if she wanted). It gives this overwhelming sense that Z is not only small in the ant world but also small in the insect world as well. Praying Mantis? It is infinitely larger than an Ant. The other cool thing in Antz is that the rest of the insects in the movie are as hideous and monstrous as they should be. When someone dies, the movie won't hide it. The thing is that this movie doesn't cover up death. Like a very intense scene where the ants are trying to fight a termite colony and the ants are getting attacked by acid, are getting decapitated, and dying in other various barbaric ways. Ants swear in it (the word b****in is used once) and as mentioned there is a lot of violence. The nice thing about this movie is that it doesn't pretend to be a kids movie. The animation was also pretty advanced for its time, because it did many things that were hard for that time: Water, large amounts of moving objects, realistic face movement, realistic body movement, lighting, and many others. The voice acting itself is also pretty good and Woody Allen fits the role of Z perfectly. There are the miners, the warriors, the drones (the ones with wings) the queen and others. The movie A Bug's Life really doesn't seem to understand what ants do or how their colonies work, but the movie Antz does it all. The movie Antz which actually came out before A Bug's Life by about a month takes the role of what ants do a lot more seriously and better captures an ant like atmosphere. pretty epic huh (granted, just being edgy doesn't necessarily equal good). This movie has death (and a lot of it at that), it has violence, it has gore, it has humor, it has swearing, and it has alcohol in it. After the family friendly movie Toy Story, I feel like people weren't ready for something a little bit darker, and more intense. Antz is an animated movie that wasn't appreciated upon its initial release.
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