By the way, the brown and gray color palette was specifically chosen to make everyone look the same because they’re basically just supposed to be numbers NOT people.
Antz is kinda like the common folks cry out but it’s the reason why we have this gusto to want to take down the leaders now! A lot of things we watched growing up had messages like “power in numbers” and “treat everyone equally” and older generations wonder why we want to change things
@@usedtiddyjuice do you seriously think rebellious young people are a new thing? I would say that your parents' generation was much more radical than yours
Fun fact: Arnold Schwarzenegger was supposed to be Weaver, but he was asking to be paid a lot for the role. However Sylvester Stallone offered to do the role for Weaver. For free. Pretty cool guy tbh
@@reganh5223 yeah as a kid my mind skipped over that word. I just knew the word "fantasy," so I assumed he meant he was going to include her as a part of his Insectopia fantasy, like as a romantic partner.
@@pitmezzari2873 depends on the kid, depends on how the word is used (like if it's focused on then yeah kids are gonna get confused but if it's just a passing word like in the movie then most kids will just shrug it off)
I always felt that dream works was more for teens and adults and Disney was for younger kids. That's why bug's life was more colorful and antz was more muted and more realistic-ish
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I agree, I remember Antz almost entirely and I liked that movie a lot. Maybe because I watched it as a teen, and that movie must be pretty confusing for Lil kids The most memorable thing to me from Bug's life are the bird machine and the childish carterpillar turning into a butterfly. I actually have something ingrained in my memories about that movie more than the movie itself, which is a 90’s magazine about computer graphics and modeling and that movie was on the cover and it had a spread story about it because it was the year the movie came out ('98) ,
As an adult, I appreciate ANTZ far more than A Bug’s Life. It’s gritty, dark, humorous, and engaging. The stakes feel higher in ANTZ than they do in A Bug’s Life. As for ANTZ’s appearance, I think the ugly character design and dull colors were intentional. I think they wanted to reflect the dull, tedious, and uninspired aspects of Capitalism and working under the pressure of corporations. A Bug’s Life’s appearance is objectively better. It’s vibrant, stylized, and fun. However, it doesn’t feel as thematic to the story as ANTZ’s animation is. Character wise, I think Z’s arc was more compelling than Flik’s. Z started off as a selfish, impulsive, and depressive worker ant, who felt worthless and secluded in a collectivist society. Flik on the other hand, was treated like shit in his own colony, but he still had admirable traits. He was smart, adventurous, and caring. His character wasn’t as dynamic as Z’s character. Z was flawed from the get-go. But as the story progressed, Z began realizing the importance of self worth, caring for others, and outwardly questioning authority. As for the story, I thought ANTZ was far more interesting. The stakes felt real and it occasionally took unpredictable turns. A Bug’s Life felt flat. The stakes were non-existent and the story felt pretty predictable. My thumbs are getting tired and I can spend so much time talking about why ANTZ is better but I’ll keep it brief. ANTZ > A Bug’s Life
Honestly I've seen both sides of people say that antz is a communist/authoritarian regime and others say its a captalist regime Guess the horrible goverment Antz is which ever is your boogey man
Lol I swear, if you do anything remotely supporting the idea of a fair society that benefits the working class, then America is like, is this Communism? And it’s worked because so many other middle class citizens grew up with that sort of mentality after being told anything unlike us is communism. In a funny way though, Antz still got that message across, because the younger generation is willing to embrace SOME of this movie’s ideals.
I watched Antz many many times as a kid and I don’t really remember much about it except thinking it was a bit… skeevy? Scary? The death of Barbados was so sad to me and the “romantic relationship” was very creepy to me. I also wanted to drink giant water drops.
My brother worked on the animation for A Bug's Life, so I'm glad that was one of the best parts to you. Interesting that each movie featured at least one known predator (Kevin Spacey, Woody Allen).
I love Antz so much, I feel like it’s overshadowed and very underrated. I enjoyed it greatly as a kid and I like it even more as an adult because it has so many good jokes.
I remember that a while back I watched it in a civics / social studies class to try and find sorts of government stereotypes and whatnot. And I remember that it threw me off so much, as someone who never saw it before then.
To be fair, I get the obsession in context. Imagine everyone saying to stay in your lane to the point your own best friends are pushing you to conform. Then one day you meet someone who says “Ok, yeah, let’s not conform” and suddenly it seems like a 1-in-1,000,000 opportunity.
Flick: Wants to make a difference for his colony, lovable, inventor, has certain relations to the royal family, stood up to the higher official when nobody else would, and extremely resourceful. Z (COMPLETE OPPOSITE): Annoying, creepy, perverted, selfish, cowardly, and only makes a difference because his love interest was taken from him. Do with this information as you will
He didn't even fire Katzenberg, he refused to give him frank's old job and Katzenberg quit. Eisner doesn't deserve the bad rep, he did a lot of very good things for Disney.
@@Noodlemonkey7 Bullshit, Eisner brought very good things to Disney, such as the partnership with George Lucas and Lucasfilm, to create Star Tours, Indiana Jones Adventure, etc. Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom opened under him. He helped bring in the Disney animated Renaissance, with movies like Aladdin, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, and Beauty and The Beast. He brought Disney to broadway with Beauty and The Beast and The Lion King. The Disney Store was created under him. Oh yeah, Eisner also helped with the ABC deal, ( Disney Bought ABC ) which doubled the size of the company. Yes, he fell short with California Adventure and EuroDisney, but EuroDisney wasn’t entirely his fault. (California Adventure was though) I’ve been to both in the past 3 years, and they are both very enjoyable nowadays. You think Eisner was bad? Look at Chapek. Now we’re getting cutbacks, price raises, and food portion shrinking at the parks.
I love them both for totally different reasons. Antz is, like you said, a more adult experience that's a little stranger and grosser and realer. Bugs life is definitely cuter and more fun and kid friendly, and is definitely more visually pleasing. I loved them both equally as a kid.
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@@criticalsurria6773 y'know, this is entirely irrelevant to anything happening here, and just hearing some verses doesn't save anyone. According to what ya just said, believing is what saves people, and most people don't automatically believe everything they hear, so I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to accomplish here?
I really like both of the movies. Each movie has its own strenghts and weaknesses. And I think it is not possible to make a movie about sentient ants (or bees) without giving at least a little commentary to this whole "working class stuff" - that is just the way of the hive I think ^^ I liked the more realistic look on ant worldbuilding in Antz, I mean the queen is literally birthing all the baby ants and they are devided into soldiers and workers based on physicality. And the joke with the lice juice - Ants are doing that in real life. I like the dark stuff in the movie. In A Bug's life the queen is more of a cartoon queen that is doing not really anything the whole day. Flick is an inventor instead of doing a worker ants stuff the whole day - so the feeling of the film is more open, light and cartoony. I like the colorful visuals and the circus crew, even if they are just puns, I like puns ^^
Both are good, but I love Antz because I love how it was darker dealing with the concept of conformity and very reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984. While it does lack subtlety in expressing the idea, I do like how they weren’t afraid to discuss darker topics for a kids film.
You see, out of all their run, Dreamworks seemed to intend to actually counter Disney and Pixar by making animated movies that were actually for adults. They were "safe" for kids, but Katzenberg's mockbuster idea seemed to have a method to the madness. Why bother making a similar film for the same audience when you can make a similar film for a different audience? That way everyone kinda wins. Which is why we all have our preference out of the two but nobody seems to *hate* either. Then Shrek happened, made megabucks, and Katzenberg took the wrong lessons from it and pummelled Shrek and Dreamworks into the ground. There's no discourse about Finding Nemo and Shark Tale and how we all like both but have our preference. I think we universally hate Shark Tale. Fuck, even I hated it when I saw it at 13 because I felt so insulted by it.
I just realized how bad flick’s plan could’ve gone. What if he did find warrior bugs but had to pay them in food then in the end they start getting exploited by even stronger insects than the grasshoppers?
I think both have strong resonance for different reasons. My first and favorite was Antz. I felt like I could relate to the existential dread of Z's feelings and his desire to leave the machine he was a cog in. However once I found Bug's Life and saw it I found it to be sort of a reverse of the ideals of Antz. Where Antz was the story of a man who wanted to be his own amongst the crowd of the same, Bug's Life was about an out there guy who wanted to join the group while being himself.
I was actually always freaked out by both movies, so I never really liked either or them, but it is very interesting how similar yet different they are
I think Bug's life is considered better because most people saw it as children and nostalgia makes that more of an impact. Also, the deal with these popular popcorn flicks of today is that they are visually beautiful but the story lacks depth. Bug's life is a great example of that when compared to Antz. I won't lie, I've seen Bug's life more times than Antz as a child, but I've learned to appreciate Antz more as I grew up. The thing that didn't work for Antz I think is that it was marketed as a movie for children. It would have been better to say that it is recommended above the age of 12.
As a kid I loved Antz waayy more but I dont remember why. When Bugs Life was on I always got bored and stopped paying attention despite actually giving it a couple real tries when my younger brother said he loved it (still when I was real little)
Antz absolutely terrified me as a kid, the decapitation scene and just the way the ants looked completely crippled me didn't watch it again till I was 20 lol
When I was little I remember seeing a commercial about A Bugs Life on tv and I asked my parents to go see the "ants" movie because I didn't know what it was called. So they took me to the movies and asked the clerk about the ants movie and they gave us 3 tickets. So when movie comes on im thinking to myself "Wheres the blue ant?" and it turns out we got tickets to see Antz and not Bugs Life. I had no idea Antz was a thing until we were in the movies so i was kinda mad hahaha.
I watched both a lot as a kid, but could barely remember what happened in Antz. Now, as a father; I watched both again recently, and I found Antz a lot more enjoyable as an adult, so I think you nailed it here
I grew up watching both and I remember liking them both as well but I feel as though I watched Bug’s life more, maybe because it seemed more geared towards children??? I think as a child I sort of understood that Antz was a little more grown up and some of the jokes went over my head, but again still enjoyed it as a kid.
Not the same era though. The appeal of comparing these two is the fact they came out less than 2 months apart. The Ant Bully wouldn't come out for another 8 years.
Left out the disturbing part in Antz when they were beating up Sylvester Stallone and it didn't show it but I think they were molesting his girlfriend as a way to get him to speak.
As a kid, I liked Bugs life a lot more, but now that I'm older, my vote goes to Antz. The humor gets me and I liked the plot a little bit more. So 6.5 to antz, 6 for bugs life ;)
Antz has a better take on the colony issues and seriousness on stakes with the characters, while Bugs Life is more of a vacation farming with strict farmers, even tho Hopper and his gang don’t play, they are the only real threat, while Antz showed multiple threats of what happens when you step outside the colony, I do like both leads better in Bugs Life more tho cuz they’re more fun, the other 2 feel mean to each other too much Antz is a better story but Bugs Life is a better movie I think, if that makes sense
i remember watching both movies on the tv and immediately knew that a bugs life is for kids and antz is for more mature audience just by the theme and visuals
Personally I vastly prefer A Bug's Life, and it's not because of nostalgia as I barely grew up watching either movie. Upon rewatching both, I found Antz to be incredibly boring, unfunny, and meandering. Not mention how ugly everything looked. Now I'm not the biggest fan of A Bug's Life, there are much better Pixar movies imo, but it has a nice cohesive story, well written characters, and a satisfying ending. For me, there's really no competition between the two.
I think that was the point, it was a deliberate choice, but if you don't like it then that is a failing of the movie I suppose...I still love the idea though, warts and all.
I bet you voted for Biden, got the vaccine and the booster, and also think America is a terrible place. You might even think that all white people are racist.
I like Antz for a lot of the reasons people don't. I think the film sticks with me more because its unique. The fact its essentially a woody Allen movie but animated to me gives the film a unique twist.The art style is strange, but that's what makes it more memorable and distinct. A lot of the aspects of a Bugs Life feel a lot more generic to me. I can also appreciate how we get much more world building in Antz than in a bugs life. Things feel real and tangible. We see the inner workings of the colony, where as a lot of those aspects feel glossed over in a bugs life. As an adult, the jokes in antz are funnier to me. The characters in a bugs life are fun, but the characters in antz are flawed and complex than they are in a bugs life. I will give a bugs life this: It has a much better villain. I can also appreciate how much darker Antz gets. We see a freaking severed ants head in that movie, man. Both are good films though. In a way I think both reflect the creative visions of their studios. Pixar's a lot safer and has a broader appeal, whereas Dreamworks can go a bit darker and more adult.
I grew up watching both xD My parents had bought both on VHS when I was a kid HOWEVER Bugs Life played a bigger part in my childhood cause it was one of my first PC games i played that wasnt “educational” in some way xD and my mom would help me on the stuff i struggled with such as when you would have to float with a Dandelion puff
I can't believe someone else remembers that game! I've spent hours playing that as a kid trying to get every medal possible. And that dandelion level was such a pain!
I always liked antz and hated bugs life. Antz has so many more memorable moments for me and all the songs are still stuck in my head 16yrs later i cant walk past a rubber tree plant without singing the song.
I think while you can and ARE ALLOWED TO enjoy things in a surface level without any thought or nuance, there is no doubt that Antz (whether or intentional or unintentionally) does have those themes
@@cdogthehedgehog6923 bruh the argument of let people enjoy things is fucking stupid. No one is forcing you to enjoy things in a way you don't want to, but if you don't realize that there might be some underline meaning to your everyday media, you are genuinely stupid (u can make fun of me for saying should instead of could tho lol)
@@swansonjoe7121 Stfu you literal child. Give daddy's tablet back. It's past your bedtime. Edit: Wow you edited your comment. Fucking loser. Just backhanded and disgusting. Literally what a 3rd grader would do and think he's sneaky or smart.
Antz was traumatic and too political to understand as a child. A Bug’s Life was more memorable and for children (being that both were for children, it definitely wins).
I actually grew up watching Antz when I was little. I never heard of A Bug’s Life until I was 10. But in my opinion, Antz aged well with many of its jokes. Z: What a bunch of losers, mindless zombies, capitulating to an oppressive system. Z: (when learning how the soldiers are going to kill the termites) Now we’re being a little extreme. Why don’t we try influencing their potential process with campaign contributions?
15:45, This is why I love Treasure anet so much. The colours and the music is amazing when you're a child, and the multidimensional characters are a relief to watch (and enjoy)
Each film has their own charm in a way. A huge difference between the stories is where the threat it coming from and how they are handled. In Antz the conflict of the colony is all within. Our hero who felt depressed and worthless learns to find happiness in caring for others, find out about the corruption, and unite the workers who were condemned to death to literally rise from their fate, thus inspiring the villain's right hand and own soldiers to continue the rescue. The colony saved itself from a coup thanks to one who seemed insignificant. This leads to the colony into a reformation. In Bugs Life the problem was external. A gang is forcing the colony to collect food in exchange for 'protection'. Like a mafia. (The grasshoppers even rev up their wings like motorcycles.) Since there doesn't seem to be a police force in that world our hero has to seek help from outside the home colony. Despite the misunderstanding of the 'hero bugs' they still arrange a plan to get rid of the grasshoppers by using trickery. Wits over force. Eventually the colony unites to get rid of the oppressors, gaining liberty. When dealing with a difficult situation you can either handle the problem yourself or ask for help. That seems to be the big takeaway i found from these films.
I just wish it made more money. Shrek really helped Dreamworks kick ass, but Antz definitely wasn’t for kids. I remember watching this as a kid and thinking what the heck did I just watch. Especially that battle scene. It was suppressed until now lol
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I was a nerdy kid and although I really liked A Bugs Life and probably watched it over 2 dozen times as a kid, I really like the physical size differences between the different bugs in Antz.
This reminds me of The Ant Bully, I mean, they're ants. I actually really liked it and thought it was better than these two movies, Idk if that opinion still stands cause I haven't watched it in a while, but I'm curious if you'll ever talk about it.
I also remember enjoying that one way more than Antz and Bug's Life as a kid even though I owned the second two on VHS and just had rented Ant Bully from a local movie rental place a few times. I barely remember anything about it now
I love the systematic message in ants I think it's really important for kids and anyone to see People wishing to empower themselves against the governments of the world. But it is not a cookie cutter kids film, hence the flop unlike a bugs life but i think ants its more creative as a story but a bugs life is much better exsicuted and why it did so much better
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Z doesn’t see the princess as a way out. He sees someone who sees the world the same as him. He and she know “the colony” is all one big show to please the top. They want both want out
Honestly, I kinda love them both equally. I was 10 when they both came out, saw them both, loved them both. I also had a job at that point, I had a paper route so I could buy games for my N64. But I will completely agree with you that Antz had the better narrative, and Bugs Life had the better visuals.
I remember growing up on Bugs life and leaning towards that, because when I tried to watch Antz as I got older it creeped me out too much to the point where I just couldn’t watch it
I'm a 90s kid so I saw these growing up - I loved Antz and hated A Bug's Life! I guess I liked the darker and more "realistic" theme of Antz even as a kid 🤷♀️
I prefer antz, it’s more interesting of a story, the humour gets me more, the filmmakers aren’t afraid to get dark despite being for kids, and overall takes more advantage of the main characters being insects 🐜.
The movies aren't comparable at all. One is made of kids. Ones is made for adults. Two totally different storylines. The only thing they have in common is that they're ants.
I love both movies. And although I've watched *"A Bug's Life"* more times, I favored *"Antz"* more because of its realism, graphics, animation style, and story line.
I remember my little brother used to be obsessed with the Antz movie. Like, he'd watch it so much that I began to despise the movie because it was all we watched for WEEKS on end until he eventually became obsessed with something else. We still have a copy of it, but I haven't touched it since my little brother grew out of his craze for it. All I remember from the movie are the war scenes, the death scenes of some of the ant characters, and how the ants got their roles in the colony.
I remember when I was seven, woke up home alone on the couch with the bird scene playing on my lounge room TV with a lot of static. Gotta say, most surreal and horrifying moment in my life
A bug's life will always be better. There was something about "antz" that always disturbed me in that uncanny valley kind of way. Also as a kid I felt like it was meant for adults.
on the note of why there are two movies on a capitalist society. The ideas was pitched to Disney. Antz was the first movie made by DreamWorks. See one of the founders Jeffrey Katzenberg resignation from The Walt Disney Company in 1994 due to someone refusing to permote him. Jeffrey was one of the main people who helped revive Disney's animated films. Because pixar was at the time working under Disney, Jeffrey planed for his movie to come out first. I highly recommend looking at the Antz fandom page to learn more
17:39 it's because colony insects like ants or bees are just the most effective stand in for the labor force. It's the same as dog=loyal, lion=brave, horse=power, it's easy allegories for kids
I only saw Antz once as a kid, so I can't remember it as clearly as A Bug's Life, which I saw more than once. But I haven't seen that one in years, either. So there's only one way to settle this! Make a crossover movie where the two different ant colonies/species fight to the death! Like the Antz battle scene, but even more of that, and with familiar Bug's Life characters being eviscerated. _That's_ the movie I want to see! (I swear there's nothing wrong with me. I just hate ants.)
I loved Antz for the visuals and the fact that, as a kid, it completely caught me off guard whenever they cussed... And don't get me started on the brutality of the Acid War and one of the most depressing death scenes in all of C.G. Animation history... Antz did NOT feel like a kids movie, and that's what hooked me... I always felt like such a badass whenever I'd watch it or show it to a friend for the first time lol But objectively A Bugs Life is still the superior film as a whole, especially factoring in the intended audience; it felt like a family movie and did exactly what it set out to do...Kind of Pixar's thing... ****Also!!!!!! --- THE FUCKING OLD MAN WHO TROLLS THE HELL OUT OF HIMSELF IN CHESS!!!!!!! The best thing Pixar has ever FREAKING DONE EVER!!!! Fucking CLASSIC!! 😂😂😂
I loved both actually, I saw A Bug's Life in theaters and at the same time I discovered Antz and I was confusing both movies. However I didn't realize DreamWorks was getting back at Disney and seeing how many DreamWorks movies basically made fun of Disney, like in Shrek, Lord Farquaad was modeled after Michael Eisner, looking at the sequels they made a mockery of Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming making them villains, I also didn't realize that Shark Tale basically copied PIXAR's Finding Nemo, I also noticed in Bee Movie where they darted Winnie the Pooh and take his honey. There's other things I notice that the other villains basically mocked two Disney princesses like Dr. Zara in Abominable was mocking Merida from Brave and Nerissa in Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken was mocking Ariel from the Little Mermaid. However I still enjoy both Disney and DreamWorks, so for this there's no contest between Antz and A Bug's Life.
I have always wondered this... i kept looking at bugs life and it’s similarity to a story called The Grasshopper And The Ant. In short at least from my memory, the grasshopper and the ant is about a group of ants that worked hard to store food for the winter, while a grasshopper goofed off, at the end the ants got food while the grasshopper did not. It was essentially a story that was trying to teach kids the importance of hard work as well as planning for the future. Both A Bug’s Life and this fable have ants that work hard and grasshoppers that goof off. Although I’m wondering if Pixar was inspired, or made a twist on the story. Because unlike the fable, there is more then one grasshopper and the ants are essentially enslaved by them, and forced to do all of the work, so that the grasshoppers don’t have to lift a leg to get what they want, which is food.
Did Bionicpig just forget to mention the Sylvester Stallone interrogation scene. The subtle hints of threatening to do... acts to his girlfriend to get info where his friend is.
Yo Antz might have had its horrific battle footage but that scene where Hopper gets picked up and fed to the baby birds really messed me up as a kid 😖😭
Disney: "Let's just repackage an existing IP into a family-friendly bug theme and then merchandise the bejeezus out of it" Dreamworks: "Let's just record Woody Allen ranting for two hours and then animate it into a story about ant genocide"
By the way, the brown and gray color palette was specifically chosen to make everyone look the same because they’re basically just supposed to be numbers NOT people.
I didn't know that! :O
That makes sense.
Which is the exact opposite of a buglife. Each ants were indivisdually made.
don't you have to be talking about something in the first place to say "by the way"?
@@MrCoalmin I had left previous messages.
Imagine being the underpaid artist rendering a bunch of ants chanting about owning the means of production. Soul crushing.
haha yep....
Antz is kinda like the common folks cry out but it’s the reason why we have this gusto to want to take down the leaders now! A lot of things we watched growing up had messages like “power in numbers” and “treat everyone equally” and older generations wonder why we want to change things
@@usedtiddyjuice So literally the same as our parents
So Disney fans?
@@usedtiddyjuice do you seriously think rebellious young people are a new thing? I would say that your parents' generation was much more radical than yours
Antz always seemed like the underrated movie from that era, but for some reason I just have a lot more fond memories about Bugs life
Antz was fuckin traumatic tho lol
@@deannas2778 isn’t there SA? 💀
bugs life had the sick ps1 game too
antz seems like a so bad it’s a fever dream movie
@@rb1278 geri's game is a pixar short that was included with most if not all copies of a bug's life
Fun fact: Arnold Schwarzenegger was supposed to be Weaver, but he was asking to be paid a lot for the role. However Sylvester Stallone offered to do the role for Weaver. For free. Pretty cool guy tbh
probably one of the best character imo after barbados
@@akaiyukihana it almost makes me think Patrick Warburton is in this movie too
@@jhonnymark7581 that weird mandela effect
@@akaiyukihana Yeah! Right? To think he would be in the movie as Weaver or another character.
Well I'm sure he made a lot off 'Rocky' and after using someone else's life to base the movie on, it's the least he could do.
The fact that they allowed the words "erotic fantasy" to even be in a kids movie to me now is crazy.
Well, most prepubescent children probably wouldn’t even know what it meant or what it was implying.
@@reganh5223 yeah as a kid my mind skipped over that word. I just knew the word "fantasy," so I assumed he meant he was going to include her as a part of his Insectopia fantasy, like as a romantic partner.
@@reganh5223 when kids see or hear things they don't understand they don't just shrug and move on, they pester you with questions about it.
@@pitmezzari2873 Frankly, it depends on the child.
@@pitmezzari2873 depends on the kid, depends on how the word is used (like if it's focused on then yeah kids are gonna get confused but if it's just a passing word like in the movie then most kids will just shrug it off)
I always felt that dream works was more for teens and adults and Disney was for younger kids. That's why bug's life was more colorful and antz was more muted and more realistic-ish
+1 to Antz. It cemented “I can see clearly now” into my childhood and that’s just a beautiful thing. Nothing in Bugs Life really stuck with me.
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I even forgot that bugs life existed but Lord. That hurrah song lives in my head forever.
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same
I agree, I remember Antz almost entirely and I liked that movie a lot. Maybe because I watched it as a teen, and that movie must be pretty confusing for Lil kids
The most memorable thing to me from Bug's life are the bird machine and the childish carterpillar turning into a butterfly. I actually have something ingrained in my memories about that movie more than the movie itself, which is a 90’s magazine about computer graphics and modeling and that movie was on the cover and it had a spread story about it because it was the year the movie came out ('98)
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As an adult, I appreciate ANTZ far more than A Bug’s Life. It’s gritty, dark, humorous, and engaging. The stakes feel higher in ANTZ than they do in A Bug’s Life. As for ANTZ’s appearance, I think the ugly character design and dull colors were intentional. I think they wanted to reflect the dull, tedious, and uninspired aspects of Capitalism and working under the pressure of corporations. A Bug’s Life’s appearance is objectively better. It’s vibrant, stylized, and fun. However, it doesn’t feel as thematic to the story as ANTZ’s animation is. Character wise, I think Z’s arc was more compelling than Flik’s. Z started off as a selfish, impulsive, and depressive worker ant, who felt worthless and secluded in a collectivist society. Flik on the other hand, was treated like shit in his own colony, but he still had admirable traits. He was smart, adventurous, and caring. His character wasn’t as dynamic as Z’s character. Z was flawed from the get-go. But as the story progressed, Z began realizing the importance of self worth, caring for others, and outwardly questioning authority. As for the story, I thought ANTZ was far more interesting. The stakes felt real and it occasionally took unpredictable turns. A Bug’s Life felt flat. The stakes were non-existent and the story felt pretty predictable. My thumbs are getting tired and I can spend so much time talking about why ANTZ is better but I’ll keep it brief. ANTZ > A Bug’s Life
Don't forget, Insectopia is literally the picnic area and accompanying trash cans in the middle of a city park.
Honestly I've seen both sides of people say that antz is a communist/authoritarian regime and others say its a captalist regime
Guess the horrible goverment Antz is which ever is your boogey man
Woody Allen playing a creepy miniscule stalker seems like the perfect role for him. Dude always gave me the creeps.
Also Kevin spacey preying on the poor ants in a bugs life
also he married his daughter
I'd forgotten he played the grasshopper! That did not age well... much like his carreer.
@@SigmaGE one could say it aged like milk
Antz has always been the only woody Allen movie I like lol
I love how Antz is shot like it’s a live action movie, with close ups, blurry backgrounds, different camera angles and wide shots.
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I'm sorry???
Lol I swear, if you do anything remotely supporting the idea of a fair society that benefits the working class, then America is like, is this Communism? And it’s worked because so many other middle class citizens grew up with that sort of mentality after being told anything unlike us is communism. In a funny way though, Antz still got that message across, because the younger generation is willing to embrace SOME of this movie’s ideals.
I watched Antz many many times as a kid and I don’t really remember much about it except thinking it was a bit… skeevy? Scary? The death of Barbados was so sad to me and the “romantic relationship” was very creepy to me. I also wanted to drink giant water drops.
Luc bessons Arthur and the Minimoys always struck with me better than either of these movies, I really enjoy the creative aesthetics of his movies
Luc Besson, Woody Allen, Kevin Spacey… What’s with all the pedos here?? 😭
My brother worked on the animation for A Bug's Life, so I'm glad that was one of the best parts to you. Interesting that each movie featured at least one known predator (Kevin Spacey, Woody Allen).
I love Antz so much, I feel like it’s overshadowed and very underrated. I enjoyed it greatly as a kid and I like it even more as an adult because it has so many good jokes.
Yes
I remember that a while back I watched it in a civics / social studies class to try and find sorts of government stereotypes and whatnot.
And I remember that it threw me off so much, as someone who never saw it before then.
Same, tho
@Slurpdatsauceytomatoesoupboi for me personally, when I was a kid I liked it more than Bugs Life.
I loved the movie.
Antz haunted me for years after seeing it as a little kid. The termite massacre and beheaded ant warrior messed me up as a 4-5 year old.
Honestly I always preferred Antz. Idk why but it just gelled with me more.
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same for me, antz has always been a better watch for me
Yep me too. I have more memories of watching it as a kid. I've rewatched it several times over the years and still enjoy it.
yeah i agree becuses i watched this movie alot in the movie
as a kid i ment lol
To be fair, I get the obsession in context. Imagine everyone saying to stay in your lane to the point your own best friends are pushing you to conform. Then one day you meet someone who says “Ok, yeah, let’s not conform” and suddenly it seems like a 1-in-1,000,000 opportunity.
For my personally i always liked the style of Antz its really interesting for me. Its a different step and i adore it
It slightly gives me Rango vibes!
@@liberpolo5540 same.
Flick: Wants to make a difference for his colony, lovable, inventor, has certain relations to the royal family, stood up to the higher official when nobody else would, and extremely resourceful.
Z (COMPLETE OPPOSITE): Annoying, creepy, perverted, selfish, cowardly, and only makes a difference because his love interest was taken from him.
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"Kind of a bad call on Eisner's part"
Could describe his entire tenure as CEO
Eurodisney: 👀
*enter SaberSpark*
He didn't even fire Katzenberg, he refused to give him frank's old job and Katzenberg quit. Eisner doesn't deserve the bad rep, he did a lot of very good things for Disney.
Omg! Eisner was the beginning of the end of for Disney.
@@Noodlemonkey7 Bullshit, Eisner brought very good things to Disney, such as the partnership with George Lucas and Lucasfilm, to create Star Tours, Indiana Jones Adventure, etc. Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom opened under him. He helped bring in the Disney animated Renaissance, with movies like Aladdin, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, and Beauty and The Beast. He brought Disney to broadway with Beauty and The Beast and The Lion King. The Disney Store was created under him. Oh yeah, Eisner also helped with the ABC deal, ( Disney Bought ABC ) which doubled the size of the company.
Yes, he fell short with California Adventure and EuroDisney, but EuroDisney wasn’t entirely his fault. (California Adventure was though) I’ve been to both in the past 3 years, and they are both very enjoyable nowadays.
You think Eisner was bad? Look at Chapek. Now we’re getting cutbacks, price raises, and food portion shrinking at the parks.
I always liked both as a kid, even though the character design of the ants in antz kinda scared me a bit lol
Scared me too lol
I love them both for totally different reasons. Antz is, like you said, a more adult experience that's a little stranger and grosser and realer. Bugs life is definitely cuter and more fun and kid friendly, and is definitely more visually pleasing. I loved them both equally as a kid.
I feel the same.
That is true!
I was scared by Antz as a kid lol, but now I think it's a better movie
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@@criticalsurria6773 y'know, this is entirely irrelevant to anything happening here, and just hearing some verses doesn't save anyone. According to what ya just said, believing is what saves people, and most people don't automatically believe everything they hear, so I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to accomplish here?
I really like both of the movies. Each movie has its own strenghts and weaknesses. And I think it is not possible to make a movie about sentient ants (or bees) without giving at least a little commentary to this whole "working class stuff" - that is just the way of the hive I think ^^ I liked the more realistic look on ant worldbuilding in Antz, I mean the queen is literally birthing all the baby ants and they are devided into soldiers and workers based on physicality. And the joke with the lice juice - Ants are doing that in real life. I like the dark stuff in the movie. In A Bug's life the queen is more of a cartoon queen that is doing not really anything the whole day. Flick is an inventor instead of doing a worker ants stuff the whole day - so the feeling of the film is more open, light and cartoony. I like the colorful visuals and the circus crew, even if they are just puns, I like puns ^^
Both are good, but I love Antz because I love how it was darker dealing with the concept of conformity and very reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984. While it does lack subtlety in expressing the idea, I do like how they weren’t afraid to discuss darker topics for a kids film.
You see, out of all their run, Dreamworks seemed to intend to actually counter Disney and Pixar by making animated movies that were actually for adults. They were "safe" for kids, but Katzenberg's mockbuster idea seemed to have a method to the madness. Why bother making a similar film for the same audience when you can make a similar film for a different audience? That way everyone kinda wins. Which is why we all have our preference out of the two but nobody seems to *hate* either. Then Shrek happened, made megabucks, and Katzenberg took the wrong lessons from it and pummelled Shrek and Dreamworks into the ground. There's no discourse about Finding Nemo and Shark Tale and how we all like both but have our preference. I think we universally hate Shark Tale. Fuck, even I hated it when I saw it at 13 because I felt so insulted by it.
Isn't it more like Orwell's animal farm?
@@rjill7000 yeah, I just went with 1984 because of the conformity angle. But Animal Farm as well.
I just realized how bad flick’s plan could’ve gone. What if he did find warrior bugs but had to pay them in food then in the end they start getting exploited by even stronger insects than the grasshoppers?
I think both have strong resonance for different reasons. My first and favorite was Antz. I felt like I could relate to the existential dread of Z's feelings and his desire to leave the machine he was a cog in. However once I found Bug's Life and saw it I found it to be sort of a reverse of the ideals of Antz. Where Antz was the story of a man who wanted to be his own amongst the crowd of the same, Bug's Life was about an out there guy who wanted to join the group while being himself.
I would actually like to see this turn into a series!! It's a fun idea!!
I was actually always freaked out by both movies, so I never really liked either or them, but it is very interesting how similar yet different they are
Antz is better in story, message and action while a bug's life is better in visuals. Period.
I think Bug's life is considered better because most people saw it as children and nostalgia makes that more of an impact. Also, the deal with these popular popcorn flicks of today is that they are visually beautiful but the story lacks depth. Bug's life is a great example of that when compared to Antz. I won't lie, I've seen Bug's life more times than Antz as a child, but I've learned to appreciate Antz more as I grew up. The thing that didn't work for Antz I think is that it was marketed as a movie for children. It would have been better to say that it is recommended above the age of 12.
As a kid I loved Antz waayy more but I dont remember why. When Bugs Life was on I always got bored and stopped paying attention despite actually giving it a couple real tries when my younger brother said he loved it (still when I was real little)
Antz absolutely terrified me as a kid, the decapitation scene and just the way the ants looked completely crippled me didn't watch it again till I was 20 lol
I loved both as a kid and both now. They each have their own charm.
When I was little I remember seeing a commercial about A Bugs Life on tv and I asked my parents to go see the "ants" movie because I didn't know what it was called. So they took me to the movies and asked the clerk about the ants movie and they gave us 3 tickets. So when movie comes on im thinking to myself "Wheres the blue ant?" and it turns out we got tickets to see Antz and not Bugs Life. I had no idea Antz was a thing until we were in the movies so i was kinda mad hahaha.
Lol
LOL "where's the blue ant? 😂
@@malonee LMAO thats all i could think of! I just remember being in the theatre like 🤨🤨
@@Chrispyy__ idk why but I could just imagine myself in the situation as a kid and truly feeling as though I'd been bamboozled 😂
@@malonee we've been speckledorfed!
I always liked Bug's Life better because the art style of Antz scared me when I was younger. Such a silly and simple thing, but thats why haha
I watched both a lot as a kid, but could barely remember what happened in Antz. Now, as a father; I watched both again recently, and I found Antz a lot more enjoyable as an adult, so I think you nailed it here
I grew up watching both and I remember liking them both as well but I feel as though I watched Bug’s life more, maybe because it seemed more geared towards children??? I think as a child I sort of understood that Antz was a little more grown up and some of the jokes went over my head, but again still enjoyed it as a kid.
I had both movies growing up, and I recall watching Antz more than Bugs Life. Both are good but i lean towards Antz more.
Same
As a kid a bugs life was enjoyable, as an adult damn Antz was the GOAT
Me sitting here with 'The Ant Bully' as my favourite~
Ah, the negotiator...!
ohh i remember that one!
me too! my childhood bug movie was The Ant Bully
You read my damn mind
Not the same era though. The appeal of comparing these two is the fact they came out less than 2 months apart. The Ant Bully wouldn't come out for another 8 years.
Left out the disturbing part in Antz when they were beating up Sylvester Stallone and it didn't show it but I think they were molesting his girlfriend as a way to get him to speak.
Fun fact: Mandible and Hopper are voiced by the same actor in latin america
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No wonder! I'm hispanic and I did start to realize something going on...!
I mean to be fair both have “alleged actors” Woody Allen and Kevin Spacey
As a kid, I liked Bugs life a lot more, but now that I'm older, my vote goes to Antz. The humor gets me and I liked the plot a little bit more.
So 6.5 to antz, 6 for bugs life ;)
Out of 6?
My vote gose to A Bugs' Life.
Z - Flik
Princess Bala - Princess Atta
Queen Ant - Queen of Ant Island
General Mandible - Hopper
Colonel Cutter - Molt
Antz has a better take on the colony issues and seriousness on stakes with the characters, while Bugs Life is more of a vacation farming with strict farmers, even tho Hopper and his gang don’t play, they are the only real threat, while Antz showed multiple threats of what happens when you step outside the colony, I do like both leads better in Bugs Life more tho cuz they’re more fun, the other 2 feel mean to each other too much
Antz is a better story but Bugs Life is a better movie I think, if that makes sense
Man, I loved everything about antz. The color, the story, the acting.. it was one of my favorites
i remember watching both movies on the tv and immediately knew that a bugs life is for kids and antz is for more mature audience just by the theme and visuals
Personally I vastly prefer A Bug's Life, and it's not because of nostalgia as I barely grew up watching either movie. Upon rewatching both, I found Antz to be incredibly boring, unfunny, and meandering. Not mention how ugly everything looked. Now I'm not the biggest fan of A Bug's Life, there are much better Pixar movies imo, but it has a nice cohesive story, well written characters, and a satisfying ending. For me, there's really no competition between the two.
I think that was the point, it was a deliberate choice, but if you don't like it then that is a failing of the movie I suppose...I still love the idea though, warts and all.
I bet you voted for Biden, got the vaccine and the booster, and also think America is a terrible place. You might even think that all white people are racist.
I like Antz for a lot of the reasons people don't. I think the film sticks with me more because its unique. The fact its essentially a woody Allen movie but animated to me gives the film a unique twist.The art style is strange, but that's what makes it more memorable and distinct. A lot of the aspects of a Bugs Life feel a lot more generic to me. I can also appreciate how we get much more world building in Antz than in a bugs life. Things feel real and tangible. We see the inner workings of the colony, where as a lot of those aspects feel glossed over in a bugs life. As an adult, the jokes in antz are funnier to me. The characters in a bugs life are fun, but the characters in antz are flawed and complex than they are in a bugs life. I will give a bugs life this: It has a much better villain.
I can also appreciate how much darker Antz gets. We see a freaking severed ants head in that movie, man.
Both are good films though. In a way I think both reflect the creative visions of their studios. Pixar's a lot safer and has a broader appeal, whereas Dreamworks can go a bit darker and more adult.
I grew up watching both xD My parents had bought both on VHS when I was a kid HOWEVER Bugs Life played a bigger part in my childhood cause it was one of my first PC games i played that wasnt “educational” in some way xD and my mom would help me on the stuff i struggled with such as when you would have to float with a Dandelion puff
The dandelion section nearly stopped my playthrough as a kid lmao, I remember hating that part and being afraid of the bird trying to eat you
I can't believe someone else remembers that game! I've spent hours playing that as a kid trying to get every medal possible. And that dandelion level was such a pain!
I played the Bugs Life game on PS1 for HOURS
Same here! I owned both and the pc game!
@@abbylarkspur PC over here
I always liked antz and hated bugs life. Antz has so many more memorable moments for me and all the songs are still stuck in my head 16yrs later i cant walk past a rubber tree plant without singing the song.
same
I think while you can and ARE ALLOWED TO enjoy things in a surface level without any thought or nuance, there is no doubt that Antz (whether or intentional or unintentionally) does have those themes
The hell you talking about _should?_
Enjoy what you want, how you want.
@@cdogthehedgehog6923 ok normie
@@swansonjoe7121 Lmfao normie? What is this 2014? Go to UA-cam kids where you belong.
@@cdogthehedgehog6923 bruh the argument of let people enjoy things is fucking stupid. No one is forcing you to enjoy things in a way you don't want to, but if you don't realize that there might be some underline meaning to your everyday media, you are genuinely stupid (u can make fun of me for saying should instead of could tho lol)
@@swansonjoe7121 Stfu you literal child. Give daddy's tablet back. It's past your bedtime.
Edit: Wow you edited your comment. Fucking loser. Just backhanded and disgusting. Literally what a 3rd grader would do and think he's sneaky or smart.
Both are awesome movies
But I prefer the dark realistic side of Antz, plus the music and design
Antz was traumatic and too political to understand as a child.
A Bug’s Life was more memorable and for children (being that both were for children, it definitely wins).
I remember ants as a deeply traumatising movie but however I like It more than a bugs life because it just feels empty in kinda a weird way
"Boing boing the talking chair"
Get the fuck outta here lmfao
Came here for the cartoon bugs, stayed for the crackpot mental gymnastics and double-think.
Lol totally agree
I actually grew up watching Antz when I was little. I never heard of A Bug’s Life until I was 10. But in my opinion, Antz aged well with many of its jokes.
Z: What a bunch of losers, mindless zombies, capitulating to an oppressive system.
Z: (when learning how the soldiers are going to kill the termites) Now we’re being a little extreme. Why don’t we try influencing their potential process with campaign contributions?
Brilliant!
The dialogue just had so much more p ut into it...!
15:45, This is why I love Treasure anet so much. The colours and the music is amazing when you're a child, and the multidimensional characters are a relief to watch (and enjoy)
Antz was weird as hell to watch
It was like a giant animated shitpost
Thank you. I feel validated in my hatred for that fever dream.
I usually remember seeing this as a kid
I remember really loving Antz as a child for some reason
Each film has their own charm in a way.
A huge difference between the stories is where the threat it coming from and how they are handled.
In Antz the conflict of the colony is all within. Our hero who felt depressed and worthless learns to find happiness in caring for others, find out about the corruption, and unite the workers who were condemned to death to literally rise from their fate, thus inspiring the villain's right hand and own soldiers to continue the rescue. The colony saved itself from a coup thanks to one who seemed insignificant. This leads to the colony into a reformation.
In Bugs Life the problem was external. A gang is forcing the colony to collect food in exchange for 'protection'. Like a mafia. (The grasshoppers even rev up their wings like motorcycles.) Since there doesn't seem to be a police force in that world our hero has to seek help from outside the home colony. Despite the misunderstanding of the 'hero bugs' they still arrange a plan to get rid of the grasshoppers by using trickery. Wits over force. Eventually the colony unites to get rid of the oppressors, gaining liberty.
When dealing with a difficult situation you can either handle the problem yourself or ask for help. That seems to be the big takeaway i found from these films.
@@xaxa7832 what the fuck?!
I just wish it made more money. Shrek really helped Dreamworks kick ass, but Antz definitely wasn’t for kids. I remember watching this as a kid and thinking what the heck did I just watch. Especially that battle scene. It was suppressed until now lol
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Lovely explanantion
I appreciate this analysis
I was a nerdy kid and although I really liked A Bugs Life and probably watched it over 2 dozen times as a kid, I really like the physical size differences between the different bugs in Antz.
This reminds me of The Ant Bully, I mean, they're ants. I actually really liked it and thought it was better than these two movies, Idk if that opinion still stands cause I haven't watched it in a while, but I'm curious if you'll ever talk about it.
I also remember enjoying that one way more than Antz and Bug's Life as a kid even though I owned the second two on VHS and just had rented Ant Bully from a local movie rental place a few times. I barely remember anything about it now
Of course, I watched that one too much.
I love the systematic message in ants I think it's really important for kids and anyone to see People wishing to empower themselves against the governments of the world. But it is not a cookie cutter kids film, hence the flop unlike a bugs life but i think ants its more creative as a story but a bugs life is much better exsicuted and why it did so much better
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Z doesn’t see the princess as a way out. He sees someone who sees the world the same as him. He and she know “the colony” is all one big show to please the top. They want both want out
Honestly, I kinda love them both equally. I was 10 when they both came out, saw them both, loved them both. I also had a job at that point, I had a paper route so I could buy games for my N64. But I will completely agree with you that Antz had the better narrative, and Bugs Life had the better visuals.
BUGS LIFE on VHS every night to fall asleep to for a while as a kid. Classic
I remember growing up on Bugs life and leaning towards that, because when I tried to watch Antz as I got older it creeped me out too much to the point where I just couldn’t watch it
I only watched Antz when I was little, and every time I keep having to close my eyes in the Battle scene! xD
I'm a 90s kid so I saw these growing up - I loved Antz and hated A Bug's Life! I guess I liked the darker and more "realistic" theme of Antz even as a kid 🤷♀️
General Mandible's trying to Make the Colony Great Again.
I always thought the grasshoppers were supposed to represent organized criminals seeking protection money.
I prefer antz, it’s more interesting of a story, the humour gets me more, the filmmakers aren’t afraid to get dark despite being for kids, and overall takes more advantage of the main characters being insects 🐜.
The movies aren't comparable at all. One is made of kids. Ones is made for adults. Two totally different storylines. The only thing they have in common is that they're ants.
Finally someone is gonna talk about this
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I love both movies. And although I've watched *"A Bug's Life"* more times, I favored *"Antz"* more because of its realism, graphics, animation style, and story line.
I remember my little brother used to be obsessed with the Antz movie. Like, he'd watch it so much that I began to despise the movie because it was all we watched for WEEKS on end until he eventually became obsessed with something else. We still have a copy of it, but I haven't touched it since my little brother grew out of his craze for it. All I remember from the movie are the war scenes, the death scenes of some of the ant characters, and how the ants got their roles in the colony.
For whatever reason, Bugs Life scared me more as a child than anything in ANTZ ever did.
I remember when I was seven, woke up home alone on the couch with the bird scene playing on my lounge room TV with a lot of static. Gotta say, most surreal and horrifying moment in my life
@@callumbreton8930 BAHAHAHA
A bug's life will always be better. There was something about "antz" that always disturbed me in that uncanny valley kind of way. Also as a kid I felt like it was meant for adults.
on the note of why there are two movies on a capitalist society. The ideas was pitched to Disney. Antz was the first movie made by DreamWorks. See one of the founders Jeffrey Katzenberg resignation from The Walt Disney Company in 1994 due to someone refusing to permote him. Jeffrey was one of the main people who helped revive Disney's animated films. Because pixar was at the time working under Disney, Jeffrey planed for his movie to come out first. I highly recommend looking at the Antz fandom page to learn more
I never actually though of "a bugs life" and "antz" were similar
Me expecting him to talk about "The Ant Bully": 🧍♂️
17:39 it's because colony insects like ants or bees are just the most effective stand in for the labor force. It's the same as dog=loyal, lion=brave, horse=power, it's easy allegories for kids
I only saw Antz once as a kid, so I can't remember it as clearly as A Bug's Life, which I saw more than once. But I haven't seen that one in years, either. So there's only one way to settle this! Make a crossover movie where the two different ant colonies/species fight to the death! Like the Antz battle scene, but even more of that, and with familiar Bug's Life characters being eviscerated. _That's_ the movie I want to see! (I swear there's nothing wrong with me. I just hate ants.)
As a kid I loved both but preferred a bug's life because of the fun visuals and characters. But, as an adult, Antz resonates a lot more.
We saw part of Antz in theatres; pretty sure my parents meant to take us to Bugs life because…holy crap Antz was intense for the under 8 crowd. 😂
Bugs life has one of the best sound designs in all of Disney imo. The grasshoppers and everything, I remember it distinctly.
I loved Antz for the visuals and the fact that, as a kid, it completely caught me off guard whenever they cussed... And don't get me started on the brutality of the Acid War and one of the most depressing death scenes in all of C.G. Animation history... Antz did NOT feel like a kids movie, and that's what hooked me... I always felt like such a badass whenever I'd watch it or show it to a friend for the first time lol But objectively A Bugs Life is still the superior film as a whole, especially factoring in the intended audience; it felt like a family movie and did exactly what it set out to do...Kind of Pixar's thing...
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“I’m a princess dammit”
I loved both actually, I saw A Bug's Life in theaters and at the same time I discovered Antz and I was confusing both movies. However I didn't realize DreamWorks was getting back at Disney and seeing how many DreamWorks movies basically made fun of Disney, like in Shrek, Lord Farquaad was modeled after Michael Eisner, looking at the sequels they made a mockery of Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming making them villains, I also didn't realize that Shark Tale basically copied PIXAR's Finding Nemo, I also noticed in Bee Movie where they darted Winnie the Pooh and take his honey. There's other things I notice that the other villains basically mocked two Disney princesses like Dr. Zara in Abominable was mocking Merida from Brave and Nerissa in Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken was mocking Ariel from the Little Mermaid. However I still enjoy both Disney and DreamWorks, so for this there's no contest between Antz and A Bug's Life.
I love both of these movies 😭
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Both movies give a nice feeling to me like a fun, warm, sunny, happy spring day in a park.
I have always wondered this... i kept looking at bugs life and it’s similarity to a story called The Grasshopper And The Ant.
In short at least from my memory, the grasshopper and the ant is about a group of ants that worked hard to store food for the winter, while a grasshopper goofed off, at the end the ants got food while the grasshopper did not. It was essentially a story that was trying to teach kids the importance of hard work as well as planning for the future.
Both A Bug’s Life and this fable have ants that work hard and grasshoppers that goof off. Although I’m wondering if Pixar was inspired, or made a twist on the story.
Because unlike the fable, there is more then one grasshopper and the ants are essentially enslaved by them, and forced to do all of the work, so that the grasshoppers don’t have to lift a leg to get what they want, which is food.
Did Bionicpig just forget to mention the Sylvester Stallone interrogation scene. The subtle hints of threatening to do... acts to his girlfriend to get info where his friend is.
Yo Antz might have had its horrific battle footage but that scene where Hopper gets picked up and fed to the baby birds really messed me up as a kid 😖😭
To me antz feels like a more adult version of bugs life it takes some adult topics like war and death
Disney: "Let's just repackage an existing IP into a family-friendly bug theme and then merchandise the bejeezus out of it"
Dreamworks: "Let's just record Woody Allen ranting for two hours and then animate it into a story about ant genocide"
As a kid I was always more obsessed with Antz 👏🏽