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Bug’s Life


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  Bug’s Life Review
Tookey's Rating
9 /10
 
Average Rating
8.25 /10
 
Starring
With the voices of:, Flik: Dave Foley, Hopper: Kevin Spacey
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Directed by: John Lasseter
Written by: Andrew Stanton, Donald McEnery and Bob Shaw

 
 
 
Released: 1998
   
Genre: ANIMATION
FAMILY
COMEDY
   
Origin: US
   
Colour: C
   
Length: 94
 
 


 
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Fine fare for kiddies, but parents might prefer the somewhat more sophisticated humor of Antz, the earlier and more grown-up of the two computer-animated insect movies. That one had Woody Allen playing the neurotic, six-legged lead. A Bug's Life stars the likable but bland Dave Foley.

(Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post)

One of the most inventive movies in years and one of the most sumptuous color fests since Carmen Miranda hung up her bananas. Imagine The Seven Samurai or its Hollywood remake The Magnificent Seven turned into a noisy backstage musical with aircraft action scenes; this is the payoff after an ant colony's most hapless liability desperately recruits members of a flea circus to combat bullying grasshoppers... If there's a warning to be made, it's that this rather unmodulated adventure is jammed with narrative high points that don't leave one with much time to catch a breath. One non-narrative high point is the improved Pixar animation capabilities that take even predecessor Toy Story's technology to a new level - even if the movie itself falls comparably short (though not by much, if at all, in the second half).

(Mike Clark, USA Today)


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