Category: Family
All Genres: Family, Animation, Comedy, Adventure
Release Year: 1998
Country: USA
Runtime: 96
Rating: 8.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: John LasseterAndrew Stanton
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Taglines:

  • An epic of miniature proportions.


    • Writing by: John Lasseter – (story) (as John Lassetter) &
    Andrew Stanton – (story) &
    Joe Ranft – (story)
    Andrew Stanton – (screenplay) &
    Don McEnery – (screenplay) (as Donald McEnery) &
    Bob Shaw – (screenplay)
    Geefwee Boedoe – additional writer: story
    Jason Katz – additional writer: story
    Jorgen Klubien – additional writer: story
    Robert Lence – additional writer: story
    David Reynolds – additional writer: story

    Produced by: Darla K. Anderson – producer
    Kevin Reher – producer

    Cast: Dave Foley – Flik (voice)
    Kevin Spacey – Hopper (voice)
    Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Atta (voice)
    Hayden Panettiere – Dot (voice)
    Phyllis Diller – Queen (voice)
    Richard Kind – Molt (voice)
    David Hyde Pierce – Slim (voice)
    Joe Ranft – Heimlich (voice)
    Denis Leary – Francis (voice)
    Jonathan Harris – Manny (voice)
    Madeline Kahn – Gypsy Moth (voice)

    Music: Randy Newman
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    Plot Outline: A misfit ant, looking for warriors to save his colony from grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troup.
    Plot: Every year, a bunch of grasshoppers come to the anthill and eat what the ants have gathered for them. The “offering”, as the ants call the ritual, is a part of their fate. One day in spring, when the offerings preparation has just been finished, Flik, unliked inventor ant, accidentally drops the whole offered seeds into the river. The grasshoppers come and give the ants a second chance to collect food until fall. Flik sets off to find bugs that are willing to fight the grasshoppers (nobody expects him to succeed anyway) and, due to a double misinterpretation, returns with a circus crew, giving everybody new hope. When the misunderstanding finally gets cleared out, there is only little time left for a new plan, which has to work, or else…

    Crazy Credits: We know about 7 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
     Filmed entirely on location.

    Goofs: We know about 11 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: As Hopper is flying away carrying Flick, Tuck & Roll pull off his right antenna. Just as Hopper ditches Tuck & Roll, you see him flying away with both antennae still intact. Then scene flashes to Tuck & Roll holding removed antenna.

    Trivia: There are 34 entries in the trivia list – like these:

    • The names on the boxes that make up the City are all the names of the writers kids. A few examples are: JuJus Litter, Hannahs Bananas, and PJ Pop.
    • The pickup truck to the left of the mobile home when the bug flies into the bug light is the same pizza delivery truck that Buzz and Woody climb into at the gas station in Toy Story (1995).
    • The restaurant at Bug City is a can of “Low Fat Lard”.