Antz (1998)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Boring

Best movie ever!

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Part of the fun of the movie Antz is that on works on many different levels and as several different stories. Children might enjoy it as simply a cute animated film (although the aftermath of the battle between the ants vs. the termites earned Antz a PG rating). At another level, Antz is the old girl-meet-boy from the wrong side of the tracks story). The film is also part adventure film with political intrigue and action. At yet another level, the film is an interesting political parable complete with sophisticated humor and witty dialogue.Antz is about Ant Z, a neurotic worker ant in a colony of millions of ants. The movie opens with Ant Z lying on the psychiatrist's couch asking questions about the meaning of life, and the needs of the individual as opposed to the society as a whole. Fittingly, the voice, neuroses, and mannerisms of Ant Z are provided by Woody Allen. Sharon Stone provides the voice of Princess Bala, daughter of the queen of the ants. Princess Bala meets Z when she goes to a working-class bar. There is a cute dance sequence here complete with imitations of John Travolta and Uma Thurman from Pulp Fiction. The one part of the movie that could use some debugging is the political parable. There are some references to the class system that could have been written by Karl Marx. There are other times when Ant Z rallies the troops around the themes of individualism and autonomy. In short, the film is a bit unfocused in terms of its central theme, and as a result, the political parable is the least satisfying of the elements.If we don't take this part too seriously, we can still enjoy the film. Additional voices are provided by Gene Hackman, Christopher Walken, Danny Glover, and Jennifer Lopez (too name a few). The computer-generated animation is excellent. The dialogue is witty and well-written with lots of tongue-in-cheek references to contemporary culture. For example, when Ant Z is in trouble, a chorus of Ants starts singing "all we are saying, is give Z a chance." All in all, not a bad summary evaluation for the film as a whole.

Woody Allen lends his distinctive voice and personality to the role of "Z", a lowly worker ant in an ant colony. He's become awfully tired of his inconspicuous, drab existence, and the idea of living only to follow orders. He becomes smitten with the colony's princess (voice of Sharon Stone), and in order to impress her, switches places with his soldier pal Weaver (voice of Sylvester Stallone), and inadvertently becomes a war hero. But what he really wants is to find a fabled "Insectopia"; he must also expose the nefarious plan of a general named Mandible (voice of Gene Hackman).Written by Chris & Paul Weitz, with Todd Alcott, this is a funny and clever animated comedy from Dreamworks and PDI, the company that hit it big with the "Shrek" series. It does have a message about the benefits of thinking and acting for oneself, but it wouldn't really be for the youngest of viewers in one's family. There is some mild intensity and language. It would indeed have the most resonance for Allen fans, although the whole cast is well utilized. Other celebrities voicing characters are Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin as a pair of wasps, Anne Bancroft as the Queen ant, Danny Glover as a soldier ant, Jennifer Lopez as a worker named Azteca, John Mahoney as an old barfly ant, Paul Mazursky as Z's psychologist, Christopher Walken as a loyal colonel, and Grant Shaud as a foreman.There's enough slick animation, visual effects, and action sequences to make it all pretty fun, along with good music by Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell. Some grandiose gags involve the comparative size of ants to humans, as Z and Bala discover a picnic spread. People are sure to love the character designs, and be amused by the philosophical exchange between a mosquito and a beetle.Solid entertainment, overall.Eight out of 10.

History will regard it as the film that famously butted mandibles with Disney's A Bug's Life for monopoly over the anthropomorphized bug market in 1998. And yes, Antz is fundamentally a product of its time - if not for its hip, 90s misspelling, then for the reason that no one would ever let Woody Allen within a hundred miles of a kids film again. Still, he's able to meld his neurotic, intellectual schlub persona well into this clever little tale. Antz may not be as heartwarming or beautiful as many of the decade's classics, but, appropriate for a film championing the snarky underdog, it's still easily fun and provocative enough to entertain and stand out, even against its insectoid competition. Fittingly for a film sparring with Disney, Antz sneaks in subversive themes of individualism and Marxist anti-authoritarian revolt into a children's animation. But this script is far too snappy to ever get bogged down in misguided dogmatism, pumping out sly gag after gag to keep parents and kids alike engaged (if "the war on termites" isn't enough to win you over, try Dan Aykroyd's wasp's drolly pontificating on "Eurotrash"). Directors Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson churn out a hugely fun adventure romp, which bustles along at a perfectly bouncy pace, pulling thunderous momentum from Harry Gregson-Williams' tremendous score. The deceptively detailed animation still holds up (check out how much Colonel Cutter's gaunt facial curvature looks like Christopher Walken), especially when playing with size perspective in the world above ground, turning a ride on the underside of a human's shoe into the most blood- curdling roller-coaster imaginable.Still, if the high percentage of Woody Allen jokes wasn't already enough to tip the scales in favour of a slightly older audience ("I have something against drinking from the anus of another creature"), the intense content is sure to set off all but the hardiest young viewers. Not only do we watch Sylvester Stallone's cocky worker ant get beaten in an interrogation sequence - there's also the nightmarish termite massacre will. A flurry of stabbing and decapitation against the acid-spewing, behemoth enemies, it's a magnificent sci-fi battle for adults, but easily one of the most horrifying sequences ever to make its way into a kids movie.Antz also marks one of the first animated features to play off celebrity voice casting, which unquestionably works in its favour. Apart from quality comedic work from Allen and Stallone playing off their established personas with gleeful aplomb, having a supporting cast chock full of actors like Jennifer Lopez, Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover, Dan Aykroyd and Christopher Walken helps lend texture to otherwise largely thankless secondary roles. Gene Hackman's ferocious growl makes for a perfect adversary as disturbingly militaristic Mandible, and Sharon Stone's effete drawl butts heads perfectly with Allen's neurotic bluster, keeping their road trip pseudo-romance entertaining throughout. Even if only regarded as A Bug's Life's sparky, snarky cousin, Antz is uniquely daring enough children's fare to stand the test of time. The humour still bristles, the adventure whips along, and there are enough sentimental grace notes amongst the film's self-assured, intellectual snark to ensure that adults and (slightly older) kids are enjoyably engaged throughout. And hey - how long have you been yearning for your average flick to contain the phrase "Buzz off, pawn of the oppressor?" Yeah, I thought so.-8/10

I was one to dismiss all conspiracy theorists as paranoid and their conspiracy theories themselves as unfounded eyewash, till seeing these two movies confirmed what I long suspected and deep down always expected. All said and done, a crow cannot sing like a cuckoo.Ever come across an ant that made its own meal and not steal it or come across a bee that drank its own nectar. Ever seen a selfish bee or a selfless ant. The only bees I have seen that didn't make any honey were in Bee movie and the only ants I have seen that didn't help themselves but help others were in Antz. It is not for nothing that ants carry more than their own weight. The number one killers on land are African army ants whose war path one had better not cross when they go on a binge or feeding spree. Their scourge is on land what the feeding frenzy of shoal's of vicious fish is on water. On the other hand, all one needs to do to not be stung by a bee is to not disturb it. The Guinness records, Ripley's believe it or not, and such other shows featuring daring human feats are a testament to this fact. One who has to smoke the hive and/or invade it to evict the bee to steal its honey is certainly a thief. I have always maintained that the only one worthy of the silk is the worm that makes it. It is the only thing more precious and more priceless than the silk itself. The only one worthy of the honey is the bee which produces it. It is the only thing more precious than the honey itself. The only one worthy of the nest, is the bird which builds it. It is the only thing more precious than the nest itself. The only one worthy of the web is the spider which spins it. It is the only thing more sinister than the web itself. And here is the good news of the gospel. The only one worthy of the truth is the one who tells it. For being the humble steward and the servant of the truth, and for upholding it, that one is certainly more precious than the truth itself. One can never hope to better the standard by always lowering it, yet always going under it and always falling short of it.Clearly, these movies are directed towards an innocent and infantile audience, readily trusting, easily impressionable, with tremendous grasping power. Do they need to be fed such a lopsided and perverted truth at this young age ? They will take it to heart and passionately consume it and eventually be consumed by it.What is it, if not a conspiracy theory to suggest that one must not eat of the fruit of the tree of good and evil; that to discriminate between good and evil, between right and wrong, is in-fact not good but evil ? What is it if not a deep-seated conspiracy and lie to suggest that being good is neither important nor necessary nor required, to go to heaven, and the criteria for getting to heaven is to just believe in God, not even to believe in being, much less in actually being good ? What is it if not a conspiracy to suggest that God can forgive all the banalities and sins of the evil people and welcome them into his heaven, but cannot forgive the one sin of the good people of not believing in him ? What was eden, if not a garden and I am sure that it was not a lawn, or a portico, or a terrace, or a hanging, or a bonsai, garden ? What did the Lord and the son refer to himself as, but the true-vine and refer to his father as, but the gardener ? In all my life I have never come across a dead vegetable or a live wire. I have never tasted junk and unhealthy food, or swallowed nutritious and healthy medicine. There are no such things. What is it if not an out and out seditious and subversive conspiracy theory to suggest that a little evil is good but a lot of good is evil; that a little poison makes it elixir and a lot of elixir makes it poison, upon which a malicious system of medicine is founded ? Just how much poison in solid food will actually make it better and not contaminate it. What if this contaminant was slyly introduced into the food product as a chemical preservative or as a false nutritive or as an additive of some sort, or into the food cycle itself as a chemical pesticide, or even artificial manure ? Does not a drop of poison in drink make the whole drink poisonous ? The dispersion is least in solids, more rapid in liquids, and a lot more pronounced in gases. What sort of poisonous gases emerge and emanate from the breath of smokers and from the exhaust fumes of vehicles ? That fossil fuel is not even good for the very machine and engine that it drives and will rapidly wear out that engine and deteriorate that contraption. BTW, if you are wondering, where did all this prodigious underground reserves of fuel come from and at the same time are also wondering what happened to all the Dinosaurs, now you know. The plain fact of the matter is that one can never have too much of what is good nor have too little of what is evil.What is it, if not a conspiracy theory to project false values in movies, all of which glamorize and glorify the unjust and the evil, and denigrate the just and the good, these ones included ?Does one have to scope and scout the universe to detect aliens ? Do they not dwell among us ?