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1998 American computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by Pixar

A Problems's Life
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Lasseter
Screenplay by	Andrew Stanton Donald McEnery Bob Shaw
Story past	John Lasseter Andrew Stanton Joe Ranft
Produced past	Darla K. Anderson Kevin Reher
Starring	Dave Foley Kevin Spacey Julia Louis-Dreyfus Hayden Panettiere Denis Leary Joe Ranft David Hyde Pierce Jonathan Harris Madeline Kahn Bonnie Hunt Michael McShane John Ratzenberger Brad Garrett Phyllis Diller
Cinematography	Sharon Calahan
Edited by	Lee Unkrich
Music by	Randy Newman
Production companies	Walt Disney Pictures Pixar Animation Studios
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Release date	November twenty, 1998 (1998-xi-20) [1]
Running time	95 minutes[2]
Land	United States
Language	English language
Upkeep	$120 million[one]
Box office	$363.three million[1]

A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer-animated one-act motion-picture show produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Information technology was the 2d film produced by Pixar. Directed past John Lasseter and co-directed by Andrew Stanton, the film involves a misfit ant, Flik, who is looking for "tough warriors" to salve his colony from a protection racket run past Hopper'south gang of grasshoppers. Unfortunately, the "warriors" he brings back turn out to be an inept troupe of Circus Bugs.

The film was initially inspired by Aesop'south fable The Ant and the Grasshopper.^{[3] [4]} Production began before long after the release of Toy Story in 1995. The screenplay was penned by Stanton and comedy writers Donald McEnery and Bob Shaw from a story past Lasseter, Stanton, and Joe Ranft. The ants in the motion-picture show were redesigned to be more appealing, and Pixar'due south blitheness unit employed technical innovations in computer animation. Randy Newman composed the music for the motion picture. During production, a controversial public feud erupted between Steve Jobs and Lasseter of Pixar and DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg due to the parallel production of his similar flick Antz, which was released the same year.

The film was released on November 20, 1998, received positive reviews and grossed $363 1000000 at the box office. It was the starting time film to be digitally transferred frame-by-frame and released on DVD, and has been released multiple times on domicile video.

Plot

A colony of ants, led past the elderly Queen and her girl Princess Atta, lives in the middle of a seasonally dry creekbed on a minor hill known as "Ant Island". Every summer, they are forced to give food to a gang of domineering grasshoppers, led by Hopper. One day, individualist and inventor Flik accidentally knocks the offering into the h2o with his latest invention, a grain harvester. Hopper demands twice as much food every bit compensation. When Flik earnestly suggests the ants enlist the assistance of bigger bugs to fight the grasshoppers, Atta sees it equally a way to get rid of Flik and sends him off.

At the "bug city", which is a heap of trash nether a trailer, Flik mistakes a troupe of Circus Bugs (who were recently dismissed by their greedy ringmaster, P.T. Flea) for the warrior bugs he seeks. The bugs, in turn, error Flik for a talent agent, and accept his offer to travel with him dorsum to Ant Island. During a welcome ceremony upon their arrival, the Circus Bugs and Flik both notice their common misunderstandings. The Circus Bugs effort to go out, but are pursued by a nearby bird; while fleeing, they rescue Dot, Atta's younger sis, from the bird, gaining the ants' respect. At Flik'due south asking, they continue the ruse of being "warriors", and then the troupe can continue to relish the hospitality of the ants. Hearing that Hopper fears birds inspires Flik to create a false bird to scare away the grasshoppers. Meanwhile, Hopper reminds his gang the ants outnumber them 100 to one, and suspects that the ants will eventually insubordinate against him.

The ants terminate amalgam the false bird. During the subsequent celebration, P.T. Flea arrives searching for his troupe to rehire them, revealing their secret. Outraged by Flik's deception, the ants exile him, and desperately try to gather food for a new offering to the grasshoppers. Nonetheless, when Hopper returns to discover the mediocre offering, he takes over the island, and demands the ants' wintertime food supply, planning to execute the Queen afterwards. Overhearing the plan, Dot persuades Flik and the Circus Bugs to return to Ant Island.

Subsequently the Circus Bugs distract the grasshoppers long enough to rescue the Queen, Flik deploys the bird. It initially fools the grasshoppers, but P.T. Flea, who likewise mistakes it for a existent bird, burns it, exposing it every bit a decoy. Hopper has Flik browbeaten in retaliation, saying that the ants are lowly life forms who live to serve the grasshoppers. Flik asserts that Hopper actually fears the colony, considering he has always known what they are capable of. This inspires the ants and the Circus Bugs to fight back against the grasshoppers, driving all but Hopper abroad.

The ants shove Hopper into P.T. Flea'southward circus cannon to shoot him off of the island, but rain all of a sudden begins to autumn. In the ensuing chaos, Hopper frees himself from the cannon and abducts Flik. The Circus Bugs and Atta pursue, with the latter catching upward to Hopper and rescuing Flik. Flik lures Hopper to the nest of the mother bird who attacked Dot earlier; thinking the bird is another false, Hopper taunts her, until she grabs him and feeds him to her chicks.

With the enemies gone, Flik improves his inventions, along with the quality of life for Pismire Isle. He and Atta become a couple, and they send a few ants and Hopper's friendly brother Molt to help P.T. and the Circus Bugs on their new bout. Atta and Dot go the new Queen and Princess, respectively. The ants congratulate Flik equally a hero, and bid a addicted farewell to the circus troupe.

Voice cast

• Dave Foley equally Flik, a brave, clever, merely accident-decumbent ant
• Kevin Spacey as Hopper, the leader of the grasshoppers
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Princess Atta, a nervous queen-in-training of the emmet colony
• Hayden Panettiere as Dot, Atta's younger sis
• Denis Leary as Francis, a male ladybug clown constantly mistaken for a female
• Joe Ranft equally Heimlich, a large caterpillar clown with a German accent
• David Hyde Pierce as Slim, a walking stick clown who acts equally a prop in the circus
• Jonathan Harris as Manny, a praying mantis who is the circus sorcerer
• Madeline Kahn as Gypsy, Manny's gypsy moth wife and lovely assistant
• Bonnie Hunt equally Rosie, a blackness widow spider and Dim's "tamer" in the circus
• Michael McShane as Tuck and Gyre, two twin^[v] pillbug brothers from Hungary and act as living cannonballs
• John Ratzenberger every bit P.T. Flea, a ringmaster of the circus
• Brad Garrett as Dim, a rhinoceros beetle that plays the "ferocious fauna" in the circus
• Richard Kind every bit Molt, Hopper's dimwitted younger brother
• Phyllis Diller equally The Queen, an elderly ant planning to soon retire
• Roddy McDowall as Mr. Soil, the pismire colony'southward resident role player
• Edie McClurg every bit Flora, the ant colony's doc
• Alex Rocco as Thorny, a primary engineer who is Atta's grouchy assistant
• David Ossman as Cornelius, a very quondam ant whom the Queen flirts with
• David Lander as Thumper, Hopper'southward deranged "enforcer"
• Rodger Bumpass as Harry, a mosquito
• Ashley Tisdale as the leader of the Blueberry Scouts, a troop of ant children that Dot belongs to
• January Rabson and Carlos Alazraqui every bit Axel and Loco, a duo of grasshoppers from Hopper'south gang
• Bob Bergen as Aphie, the Queen's pet aphid

Production

Development

John Lasseter, the director of A Bug's Life, at the Austin Film Festival in October 2011

During the summertime of 1994, Pixar's story department began turning their thoughts to their next film.^{[half dozen]} The storyline for A Issues's Life originated from a lunchtime conversation between John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, and Joe Ranft, the studio's head story squad; other films such equally Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and WALL-Eastward were also conceived at this lunch.^[7] Lasseter and his story team had already been fatigued to the idea of insects serving as characters. Like toys, insects were within the reach of computer animation back and so, due to their relatively simple surfaces. Stanton and Ranft wondered whether they could observe a starting point in Aesop's fable The Emmet and the Grasshopper.^[7] Walt Disney had produced his ain version with a cheerier ending decades earlier in the 1934 short film The Grasshopper and the Ants. In add-on, Walt Disney Feature Animation had considered producing a movie in the tardily-1980s entitled Army Ants, that centered effectually a pacifist pismire living in a militaristic colony, but this never fully materialized.^[viii]

As Stanton and Ranft discussed the accommodation, they rattled off scenarios and storylines springing from their premise.^[7] Lasseter liked the idea and offered some suggestions. The concept simmered until early 1995, when the story team began work on the second film in earnest.^[7] During an early on exam screening for Toy Story in San Rafael in June 1995, they pitched the moving-picture show to Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Eisner idea the idea was fine and they submitted a handling to Disney in early July under the title Bugs.^[7] Disney approved the handling and gave discover on July vii that information technology was exercising the option of a second moving-picture show under the original 1991 agreement between Disney and Pixar.^[9] Lasseter assigned the co-director task to Stanton; both worked well together and had like sensibilities. Lasseter had realized that working on a calculator-blithe feature as a sole director was dangerous while the product of Toy Story was in process.^[9] In add-on, Lasseter believed that it would save stress and that the role would groom Stanton for having his own position as a lead director.^[10]

Writing

In The Ant and the Grasshopper, a grasshopper squanders the spring and summertime months on singing while the ants put food abroad for the winter; when wintertime comes, the hungry grasshopper begs the ants for food, but the ants turn him away.^[seven] Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft hit on the notion that the grasshopper could simply accept the nutrient.^{[7] [xi]} Subsequently Stanton had completed a draft of the script, he came to doubt one of the story's primary pillars – that the Circus Bugs that had come to the colony to cheat the ants would instead stay and fight.^[10] He thought the Circus Bugs were unlikable characters as liars and that it was unrealistic for them to undergo a consummate personality alter. Also, no particularly good reason existed for Circus Bugs to stay with the ant colony during the 2d human action. Although the film was already far along, Stanton ended that the story needed a different approach.^[10]

Stanton took 1 of the early circus bug characters, Cherry-red the scarlet ant, and inverse him into the character Flik. The Circus Bugs, no longer out to cheat the colony, would exist embroiled in a comic misunderstanding as to why Flik was recruiting them. Lasseter agreed with this new approach, and one-act writers Donald McEnery and Bob Shaw spent a few months working on further polishing with Stanton.^[13] The characters "Constrict and Ringlet" were inspired by a drawing that Stanton did of two bugs fighting when he was in the second grade.^[11] Lasseter had come to envision the movie as an ballsy in the tradition of David Lean's 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia.^[14]

Casting

The voice bandage was heavy with television sitcom stars of the time: Flik was voiced by Dave Foley (from NewsRadio), Princess Atta was voiced by Julia Louis-Dreyfus (from Seinfeld), Molt was voiced by Richard Kind (from Spin Urban center), Slim was voiced by David Hyde Pierce (from Frasier) and Dim was voiced by Brad Garrett (from Everybody Loves Raymond). Joe Ranft, member of Pixar's story team, played Heimlich the caterpillar at the suggestion of Lasseter's wife, Nancy, who had heard him playing the grapheme on a scratch vocal rails.^[15]

The casting of Hopper, the motion-picture show's villain, proved problematic. Lasseter's top choice was Robert De Niro, who repeatedly turned the part downward, as did a succession of other actors.^[xv] Kevin Spacey met John Lasseter at the 1995 Academy Awards and Lasseter asked Spacey if he would be interested in doing the phonation of Hopper. Spacey was delighted and signed on immediately.

A Problems's Life was the final film advent of actor Roddy McDowall, who played Mr. Soil, before dying shortly before the motion picture's theatrical release.^[16]

Fine art pattern and blitheness

Information technology was more than difficult for animators during the production of A Bug's Life than that of Toy Story, as computers ran sluggishly due to the complexity of the character models. Lasseter and Stanton had two supervising animators to assist with directing and reviewing the blitheness: Rich Quade and Glenn McQueen.^[3]The first sequence to be animated and rendered was the circus sequence that culminated with P.T. Flea's "Flaming Wall of Death". Lasseter placed this scene first in the pipeline because he believed it was "less likely to alter".^[17] Lasseter thought it would be useful to look at a view of the globe from an insect's perspective. Two technicians obliged by creating a miniature video camera on Lego wheels, which they dubbed equally the "Bugcam".^{[10] [18]} Fastened to the stop of a stick, the Bugcam could whorl through grass and other terrain and ship back an insect'southward-eye outlook. Lasseter was intrigued by the mode grass, leaves, and blossom petals formed a translucent canopy, as if the insects were living under a stained-glass ceiling. The team besides subsequently sought inspiration from Microcosmos (1996), a French documentary on beloved and violence in the insect world.^[ten]

The transition from treatment to storyboards took on an extra layer of complexity due to the profusion of storylines. Where Toy Story focused heavily on Woody and Buzz, with the other toys serving mostly as sidekicks, A Bug's Life required in-depth storytelling for several major groups of characters.^[thirteen] Character blueprint also presented a new challenge, in that the designers had to make ants appear likable. Although the animators and the fine art section studied insects more than closely, natural realism would give style to the flick'southward larger needs.^[fourteen] The squad took out mandibles and designed the ants to stand upright, replacing their normal six legs with two arms and ii legs. The grasshoppers, in contrast, received a pair of actress appendages to appear less attractive.^[14] The story's scale also required software engineers to adjust new demands. Amidst these was the need to handle shots with crowds of ants.^[14] The film would include more than 400 such shots in the pismire colony, some with as many as 800. Information technology was impractical for animators to control them individually, only neither could the ants remain static for even a moment without actualization lifeless, or move identically. Nib Reeves, i of the picture show's two supervising technical directors, dealt with the quandary past leading the development of software for autonomous ants.^[14] The animators would merely animate four or five groups of virtually eight individual "universal ants". Each one of these "universal ants" would later exist randomly distributed throughout the digital set. The plan also allowed each ant to be automatically modified in subtle ways (e.thousand. different color of eye or skin, dissimilar heights, dissimilar weights, etc.). This ensured that no two ants were the same.^[xviii] It was partly based on Reeves's invention of particle systems a decade and a half before, which had permit animators use masses of cocky-guided particles to create effects like swirling dust and snowfall.^[15]

The animators also employed subsurface scattering—developed past Pixar co-founder Edwin Catmull during his graduate student days at the University of Utah in the 1970s—to render surfaces in a more lifelike way. This would be the get-go time that subsurface scattering would be used in a Pixar film, and a small team at Pixar worked out the applied problems that kept it from working in animation. Catmull asked for a short film to test and showcase subsurface scattering and the upshot, Geri'southward Game (1997), was fastened alongside A Issues's Life in its theatrical release.^[19]

Feud between Pixar and DreamWorks

During the product of A Bug's Life, a public feud erupted betwixt DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Pixar'south Steve Jobs and John Lasseter. Katzenberg, former chairman of Disney's picture partitioning, had left the company in a bitter feud with CEO Michael Eisner. In response, he formed DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen and planned to rival Disney in animation.^[20] Afterward DreamWorks' acquisition of Pacific Information Images (PDI)—long Pixar's gimmicky in computer animation—Lasseter and others at Pixar were dismayed to learn from the trade papers that PDI'southward first project at DreamWorks would be some other ant film, to exist called Antz.^[21] By this time, Pixar's project was well known within the animation community.^[22] Both Antz and A Problems's Life middle on a young male ant, a drone with oddball tendencies that struggles to win a princess'due south paw by saving their social club. Whereas A Bug's Life relied chiefly on visual gags, Antz was more exact and revolved more effectually satire. The script of Antz was also heavy with adult references, whereas Pixar's film was more than attainable to children.^[23]

Information technology was clear that Lasseter and Jobs believed that the thought was stolen by Katzenberg.^{[8] [20]} Katzenberg had stayed in impact with Lasseter subsequently the acrimonious Disney divide, oft calling to check up. In October 1995, when Lasseter was overseeing postproduction work on Toy Story at the Universal lot's Technicolor facility in Universal City, where DreamWorks was also located, he called Katzenberg and dropped past with Stanton.^{[20] [24]} When Katzenberg asked what they were doing adjacent, Lasseter described what would go A Bug'due south Life in detail. Lasseter respected Katzenberg'due south judgment and felt comfortable using him as a sounding board for creative ideas.^[24] Lasseter had loftier hopes for Toy Story, and he was telling friends throughout the tight-knit computer-animation business to become cracking on their own films. "If this hits, it'due south going to exist like space movies after Star Wars" for calculator animation companies, he told diverse friends.^[8] "I should have been wary," Lasseter later recalled. "Jeffrey kept asking questions near when it would be released."^[twenty]

When the trades indicated production on Antz, Lasseter, feeling betrayed, called Katzenberg and asked him bluntly if information technology were true, who in turn asked him where he had heard the rumor. Lasseter asked again, and Katzenberg admitted it was true. Lasseter raised his voice and would not believe Katzenberg'south story that a evolution managing director had pitched him the idea long ago. Katzenberg claimed Antz came from a 1991 story pitch by Tim Johnson that was related to Katzenberg in October 1994.^[8] Another source gives Nina Jacobson, ane of Katzenberg'due south executives, every bit the person responsible for the Antz pitch.^[22] Lasseter, who normally did not apply profane linguistic communication, cursed at Katzenberg and hung upwards the telephone.^[25] Lasseter recalled that Katzenberg began explaining that Disney was "out to get him" and that he realized that he was merely cannon fodder in Katzenberg'due south fight with Disney.^{[viii] [22]} For his function, Katzenberg believed he was the victim of a conspiracy: Eisner had decided not to pay him his contract-required bonus, disarming Disney's lath not to give him anything.^[22] Katzenberg was further angered by the fact that Eisner scheduled Bugs to open up the same calendar week every bit The Prince of Arab republic of egypt, which was and then intended to be DreamWorks' showtime blithe release.^{[22] [25]} Lasseter grimly relayed the news to Pixar employees but kept morale high. Privately, Lasseter told other Pixar executives that he and Stanton felt terribly allow down by Katzenberg.^[22]

Katzenberg moved the opening of Antz from spring 1999 to October 1998 to compete with Pixar's release.^{[22] [26]} David Cost writes in his 2008 volume The Pixar Bear upon that a rumor, "never confirmed", was that Katzenberg had given PDI "rich fiscal incentives to induce them to whatever it would accept to have Antz ready offset, despite Pixar'southward head offset".^{[22] [25]} Jobs was furious and called Katzenberg and began yelling. Katzenberg made an offer: He would delay production of Antz if Jobs and Disney would move A Bug's Life and then that information technology did not compete with The Prince of Egypt. Jobs believed it "a blatant extortion endeavour" and would non go for information technology, explaining that there was zero he could do to convince Disney to change the date.^{[8] [25]} Katzenberg casually responded that Jobs himself had taught him how to conduct like concern long agone, explaining that Jobs had come to Pixar's rescue by making the deal for Toy Story, equally Pixar was almost bankruptcy at that fourth dimension.^[xv] "I was the one guy there for you back then, and now you're allowing them to utilize y'all to spiral me," Katzenberg said.^[25] He suggested that if Jobs wanted to, he could simply tiresome downwards production on A Bug's Life without telling Disney. If he did, Katzenberg said, he would put Antz on hold.^[viii] Lasseter also claimed Katzenberg had phoned him with the proposition, only Katzenberg denied these charges later.^[17]

As the release dates for both films approached, Disney executives concluded that Pixar should keep silent on the DreamWorks battle. Regardless, Lasseter publicly dismissed Antz as a "schlock version" of A Issues's Life.^[19] Lasseter, who claimed to have never seen Antz, told others that if DreamWorks and PDI had made the picture show nigh annihilation other than insects, he would have closed Pixar for the day so the unabridged visitor could go see information technology.^{[viii] [23]} Jobs and Katzenberg would not back down and the rivaling emmet films provoked a printing frenzy. "The bad guys rarely win," Jobs told the Los Angeles Times. In response, DreamWorks' head of marketing Terry Press suggested, "Steve Jobs should have a pill."^[25] Despite the successful box role functioning of both Antz and A Bug'southward Life, tensions would remain loftier between Jobs and Katzenberg for many years. According to Jobs, Katzenberg came to Jobs later on the success of Shrek (2001) and insisted he had never heard the pitch for A Problems'south Life, reasoning that his settlement with Disney would have given him a share of the profits if that were and then.^[27] Although the contention left all parties estranged, Pixar and PDI employees kept up the sometime friendships that had arisen from spending a long time together in computer animation.^[17]

Music

A Issues's Life: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Randy Newman
Released	October 27, 1998
Recorded	1998
Genre	Score
Length	47:32
Label	Walt Disney
Randy Newman chronology
Michael (1996) A Bug's Life: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (1998) Pleasantville (1998)
Pixar soundtrack chronology
Toy Story (1995) A Issues's Life (1998) Toy Story ii (1999)

The movie's score was composed and conducted by Randy Newman. Walt Disney Records released the soundtrack on October 27, 1998.^[28] The album's first runway is a song called "The Time of Your Life" written and performed by Newman, while all the other nineteen tracks are orchestral cues. Although the anthology was out of print physically in the United states of america during the 2000s, in June 2022 Universal Music Japan announced that a re-mastered edition would be released on Oct iii, 2018, forth with other soundtrack albums from the Walt Disney Records pre-2018 catalogue. The album is besides bachelor for purchase on iTunes. The time elapsing is 47 minutes and 32 seconds.^[29] Out of 5 stars, AllMusic,^[28] Empire Online,^[xxx] and Film Tracks rated the album iii stars.^[31] Motion-picture show Wave rated it four and a half.^[32] The score won the Grammy Accolade for All-time Instrumental Composition.^[29]

Release

A few weeks into the film's theatrical release, new outtakes were added to the theatrical prints.^[33] Because the moving-picture show is animated, no actual outtakes exist; they are blithe specifically for the outtakes sequence.

Dwelling media

A Issues'south Life was the first habitation video release to exist entirely created using a digital transfer. Every frame of blitheness was converted from the film'due south computer information, equally opposed to the standard analog picture-to-videotape transfer process. This immune for the pic's DVD release to retain its original 2.35:1 widescreen format.^{[34] [35]} The DVD was released on April 20, 1999, alongside a VHS release which was presented in a standard 1.33:1 "fullscreen" format. The motion picture's fullscreen transfer was performed by entirely "reframing" the film shot by shot; more than half of the film'southward footage was modified past Pixar animators to fit within the film'south aspect ratio. Several characters and objects were moved closer together to avert being cut out of frame.^[34] The moving picture'due south VHS release was the best-selling VHS in the United Kingdom, with i.76 1000000 units sold by the cease of the year.^[36] On Baronial ane, 2000, these editions were re-released on VHS and DVD under the Walt Disney Gold Archetype Collection imprint.^[37]

On Nov 23, 1999, a 2-disc Collector's Edition DVD was released. It was fully remastered in anamorphic widescreen and has substantial bonus features.^[38] The edition was re-released on May 27, 2003 to coincide with the release of Finding Nemo. This THX certified DVD release once over again gives the option of viewing the film in widescreen or fullscreen.^[39] The second disc features numerous bonus features, such every bit a set-elevation game and a Finding Nemo featurette.^[40]

On May 19, 2009, the moving picture was released on Blu-ray.^[41] The motion picture was released on 4K Blu-ray on March iii, 2020.^[42]

Reception

Box office

A Problems'due south Life grossed approximately $33.3 one thousand thousand on its opening weekend, ranking starting time at the box office.^[43] It managed to retain its spot for two weeks until it was taken by Star Trek: Coup.^{[44] [45] [46]} The motion-picture show had also earned $46.5 million during the five-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend,^[47] surpassing the previous record holder 101 Dalmatians.^[48] In 1999, this tape was surpassed past Toy Story 2, which would accept the third biggest v-mean solar day Wednesday opening, but afterwards Independence Day and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.^[49]

By late Dec 1998, A Problems's Life had earned over $100 million. Birthday, several in-year 1998 films combined with Titanic pulled $7 billion in North America, propelling the motion picture industry to a tape twelvemonth at the box office.^[50] At the end of its theatrical run, the film grossed $162.8 million in the United States and Canada and $200.4 meg in strange countries, pushing its worldwide gross to $363.3 million, surpassing the competition from DreamWorks Animation's Antz.^[1]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 92% based on 88 reviews and an average rating of seven.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "A Issues's Life is a rousing adventure that blends animated thrills with witty dialogue and memorable characters – and another smashing early success for Pixar."^[51] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, gave the film a score of 77 out of 100 based on 23 critics, indicating "more often than not favorable reviews".^[52]

Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote, "Lasseter and Pixar bankrupt new technical and aesthetic ground in the blitheness field with Toy Story, and here they surpass it in both scope and complexity of movement while telling a story that overlaps Antz in numerous ways."^[53] James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film iii and a half stars out of iv, saying "A Bug's Life, similar Toy Story, develops protagonists we can root for, and places them in the midst of a fast-moving, energetic hazard."^[54] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the picture iii and a half stars out of iv, writing "Will A Issues'south Life endure by coming out so soon after Antz? Non any more than than one thriller hurts the chances for the next one. Antz may even help business concern for A Bug'southward Life by demonstrating how many dramatic and comedic possibilities can be found in an anthill."^[55] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave the film iv out of five stars, writing "What A Bug'southward Life demonstrates is that when it comes to bugs, the nearly fun ones to hang out with hang exclusively with the gang at Pixar."^[56] Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film four out of four stars, stating "A Problems'due south Life is 1 of the corking movies – a triumph of storytelling and character development, and a whole new ballgame for reckoner blitheness. Pixar Animation Studios has raised the genre to an amazing new level".^[57]

Richard Corliss of Time magazine wrote, "The plot matures handsomely; the characters neatly converge and combust; the gags pay off with emotional resonance."^[58] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B, saying "A Bug's Life may be the single most amazing film I've ever seen that I couldn't fall in love with."^[59] Paul Clinton of CNN wrote, "A Bug's Life is a perfect flick for the holidays. It contains a cracking upbeat message ... information technology'southward wonderful to await at ... it'south wildly inventive ... and it's entertaining for both adults and kids."^[60] Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune gave the film three and a half stars out of four, and compared the movie to "Akira Kurosawa'due south Seven Samurai (with a lilliputian of another art-picture legend, Federico Fellini, tossed in)." where "As in Samurai, the colony here is plagued every year by the arrival of bandits."^[61] On the contrary, Stephen Hunter of The Washington Postal service wrote, "Clever equally information technology is, the film lacks charm. One problem: likewise many bugs. 2nd, bigger globe for two purposes: to feed birds and to irk humans."^[62]

Accolades

A Issues's Life won a number of awards and numerous nominations. The flick won the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards for All-time Animated Picture (tied with The Prince of Egypt) and Best Family Film, the Satellite Honor for Best Blithe Picture show and the Grammy Laurels for Best Instrumental Composition by Randy Newman. It was besides nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Musical or One-act Score, the Aureate Globe Award for Best Original Score and the BAFTA Accolade for All-time Achievement in Special Visual Effects.^[63] In 2008, the American Picture Institute nominated this movie for its Tiptop ten Animation Films list.^[64]

Legacy

In the years since its release, A Bug's Life has been regarded by critics and fans to be a Pixar film that, in contrast to its successors, has become largely forgotten by audiences.^{[65] [66] [67]} While recognised every bit solidifying Pixar's success, the film has been seen equally the studio's sophomore slump in the wake of the critically successful Toy Story,^{[65] [66] [68] [69] [70]} and inhibited by beingness released directly before the equally revered Toy Story ii.^[65] Pixar's feud with Dreamworks equally a result of Antz has as well been regarded as a factor in A Bug's Life 's legacy.^{[70] [71]}

Critics have generally ranked A Issues's Life to exist one of Pixar'southward weaker releases;^{[66] [69] [70] [72] [73]} while it has been seen as a "charming"^{[67] [73]} and "aggressive"^[74] picture show with pioneering animation for its time,^{[65] [66] [74]} others take described it as "adequate"^[72] and appealing more to a younger demographic.^[73] Nonetheless, the movie'southward characters, voice acting, and humor have received lasting praise.^{[66] [67] [68] [69] [74]}

Media and merchandise

Attached brusk picture

The film's theatrical and video releases include Geri'south Game, an Academy Award winning Pixar short fabricated in 1997, a twelvemonth before this film was released.^[75]

Video game

A game, based on the picture, was adult by Traveller'southward Tales and Tiertex Pattern Studios and released by Sony Computer Entertainment, Disney Interactive, THQ and Activision for diverse systems. The game's storyline was like to the film'south, with a few changes. However, unlike the movie, the game received mixed reviews.^[76] Aggregating review website GameRankings gave the Nintendo 64 version 54.40%,^[77] the PlayStation version 51.90%^[78] and the Game Boy Color version 36.63%.^[79] GameSpot gave the PlayStation version a ii.vii/x, concluding that it was "obvious that Disney was more than interested in producing a $xl advertisement for its film than in developing a playable game."^[lxxx] IGN gave the Nintendo 64 version a 6.8/10, praising the presentation and audio by stating "Information technology was upbeat, cheery await and feel very much like the movie of the aforementioned name with cheery, happy tunes and strong sound effects but again criticised the gameplay past maxim the controls were sluggish with stuttering framerate and tired gameplay mechanics".^[81] while they gave the PlayStation version a 4/ten, criticizing the gameplay equally tedious and awkward but praising the presentation as cinematic.^[82]

Theme park attractions

Disney's Animal Kingdom includes the 3D bear witness It's Tough to Be a Problems!, which also existed at Disney California Run a risk from 2001 to 2018. The Disney California Gamble nighttime testify World of Color features a segment that includes Heimlich, the caterpillar from the film.^[83]

Former theme park attractions

From 2002 to 2018, A Bug'southward Land was a section of Disney California Run a risk that was inspired by the film.

See too

• List of animated feature-length films
• Listing of Pixar films
• List of computer-animated films
• List of Disney animated films based on fairy tales
• List of films featuring insects

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Further reading

• Price, David (2008). The Pixar Touch. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN978-0-307-26575-iii.

External links

• Official website
• Official website at Pixar
• A Bug'southward Life at IMDb
• A Problems's Life at the TCM Movie Database
• A Issues's Life at The Big Cartoon DataBase
• A Bug'southward Life at AllMovie

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