A Bug’s Life

John Lasseter, director of Pixar’s movie phenomenon Toy Story, has set new standards in computer animation with this effort, another Disney-released children’s epic entitled A Bug’s Life. Blending classic Disney storytelling characters and the mysterious underground world of bugs, Lasseter has created a film that can be enjoyed by all audiences, and another franchise in the process. A Bug’s Life is a computerized retelling of the Aesop fable The Ant and the Grasshopper, made as a cartoon-short by the one-and-only, Walt Disney, in the mid-’30s. However, A Bug’s Life has modernized the story with many new twists and celebrity voices. The story focuses on a colony of ants who seasonally gather food for themselves and a wild gang of rowdy grasshoppers. When bumbling worker ant Flik (David Foley) destroys the food supply, the angry grasshoppers, lead by the maniacally warped Hopper (Kevin Spacey), threaten to kill the ants if they don’t produce a new supply of food by the time they return — an impossible feat. Flik leaves the anthill in search of help in the form of bigger bugs, and to wage war against the grasshoppers. What he doesn’t know is he has actually discovered a group of down-on-their-luck traveling circus insects in need of a job. When the ants realize that their heroes are really circus performers (and the circus bugs realize these grasshoppers are really big and mean), the situation goes from bad to worse. Ultimately, the ants use their large numbers to overcome the grasshoppers., Animation in the Magnificent Seven mould about a colony of ants who seek tough bugs to defend them from marauding grasshoppers, but accidentally hire a failed circus troupe instead. With the voices of Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere, Phyllis Diller, Richard Kind, David Hyde Pierce, Denis Leary, Bonnie Hunt and John Ratzenberger., A colony of ants gather food for themselves and a wild gang of rowdy grasshoppers. When bumbling worker ant Flik destroys the food supply, the angry grasshoppers, lead by the maniacally warped Hopper, threaten to kill the ants if they don’t produce a new supply of food by the time they return – an impossible feat., An epic of miniature proportions, this stunning film combines state of the art computer animation with a fun and fantasy filled adventure from the team that made Toy Story. It’s a small world on Ant Island, populated with every imaginable kind of bug, but the adventures are anything but small. Each summer a bunch of greedy grasshoppers descends demanding food, which the peace-loving ants grudgingly supply. Then one year a rebel ant called Flik decides to enlist the help of an unemployed troupe of bug performers from a second rate flea circus to fight the intruders. It’s a great idea, but doesn’t quite work out the way he planned…. Star voices include Kevin Spacey and the late Roddy McDowall in this great family film. Ant-icipate enjoyment!, A bumbling ant recruits a band of insect circus performers to save his colony from an army of greedy grasshoppers., An epic of miniature proportions. Enjoy a fun-filled fantasy with state of the art computer animation in this great family adventure about an ant colony., A misfit ant, looking for warriors to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe., An oddball ant unwittingly employs a creepy-crawly circus troupe to help him protect his colony from grasshoppers., An A-list of vocal talent—Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Phyllis Diller—brings this animated gem to life. An ant colony is terrorized by tyrannical, voracious grasshoppers who demand an annual food tribute from the ants be replaced after it is accidentally lost by Flik, an inventive but bumbling ant. So Flik leaves home to find insect warriors to help save his colony., When bumbling worker ant Flik destroys the anthill’s food supply, the rowdy grasshoppers that come by every year to steal it threaten to kill the ants if they don’t produce a new supply by the time they return. Flik leaves the anthill in search of help in the form of bigger bugs, and to wage war against the grasshoppers. But due to a double misinterpretation, he returns with a traveling circus crew in need of a job. When the ants realize that their heroes are really circus performers, the situation goes from bad to worse., Cheerful animation set on an island populated by insects who must band together to fight a group of greedy grasshoppers who arrive every year demanding food., Animation in the Magnificent Seven mould about a colony of ants who seek tough bugs to defend them from marauding grasshoppers, but accidentally hire a failed circus troupe instead., An animation retelling the Aesop fable of The Ant and The Grasshopper. A colony of ants, doing what ants do, is busy gathering food for winter. Some rowdy grasshoppers threaten to destroy their home if they don’t supply them food before the set deadline. One ant accidentally destroys the food supply, and after being ridiculed and shamed, he sets out to recruit warrior bugs to fight off the grasshoppers., A bumbling ant (voice of Dave Foley) recruits a band of insect circus performers to save his colony from an army of greedy grasshoppers. Additional voices include Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Richard Kind, Phyllis Diller, Denis Leary, Madeline Kahn.