Antz | 
| Directors: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
Actors: Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone, Dan Aykroyd
Studio: Dreamworks Animated
Category: DVD
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Rating:  288 reviews
Sales Rank: 7435
Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Live, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 83 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.6
MPN: D84199D
ISBN: 0783231474
UPC: 667068419924
EAN: 9780783231471
ASIN: 0783231474
Theatrical Release Date: October 2, 1998
Release Date: March 23, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
LIFE IS NOT A PICNIC FOR Z, A SMALL WORKER ANT WITH VERY BIG IDEAS. WHEN Z FALLS FOR THE BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS BALA, HIS ODDS OF WINNING HER OVER ARE ONE IN A BILLION. TO GET NOTICED, HE SWITCHES PLACES WITH SOLDIER ANT WEAVER.
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Woody Allen as a worker ant with an inferiority complex? Sylvester Stallone as an affable soldier ant who discovers that digging tunnels is cool? The animation playground we all knew so well is turning into a theme park full of in-jokes for grownups. Antz explores age-old topics (one person--err, insect--can make a difference, individuality and social responsibility must exist side by side, war is hell) with comic asides and Woody Allen's funniest quips this side of PG (adults will chuckle at the socialist slogans bandied about as he campaigns for workers' rights). Sharon Stone voices the rebellious princess with a fun-loving streak that doesn't quite overcome her royal bearing and court training, but she can learn. Gene Hackman is all teeth (ants have teeth?) and menacing grins as the Army general plotting insect-icide. This bug's-eye view of life on Earth gives Allen's neurotic nonconformist an epic adventure of microscopic proportions: a devastating war with a termite colony, an odyssey to the fabled land of plenty (a picnic ground), and a race to save his fellow workers from certain death. Other voices include Anne Bancroft as the Queen, Christopher Walken, Jennifer Lopez, Danny Glover, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, and John Mahoney. The computer animation isn't exactly realistic but feels as solid and contoured as puppet animation with the smoothness and slickness of traditional cel cartoons, and the character designs and animation offer a marvelous range of expressions. The PG rating includes a gritty battle sequence that may frighten youngsters. --Sean Axmaker
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 Too many CUSS words for a kids show! March 5, 2009
K. Oatfield (Sandy OR)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a horrible movie for kids and is boring for adults!! it has many cuss words including b*tch, tight A**, H*ll, taste like Cr*p....
 It's No Bug's Life, But It's Still Fun February 1, 2009
julie
The Film is Nothing Like Bug's Life, But It's Still Fun.
The Story Focuses on Z, a Worker Ant Who's Not A Huge Fan of His Job. One Day He Meets Princess Bala, and Thay Dance During The 6:15 Dance. Afterwards, Z Thinks He'll Never See The Princess Agian. But He Trades Places With His Soldier Buddy Weaver To Meet The Princess Once Agian. But Insted, He Ends Up in A Very Dangerous War. After The War, Z Meets The Princess Agian, But Accedently Ends Up Bringing The Both of Them on A Trip To Search For Insecttopia.
This is One of The Best Dreamworks Movies Scince Shrek and Galaxy Quest. The Acting Was Top-Notch, The Action (Rather Violent For Such A PG Film) Was Very Well-Animated, and The Humor Was Funny at times, and Wierd During Others. Woody Allen Does A Very Brilliant Job as The Voice of Z, and Selvester Stallon Does a Great Job as The Voice of Weaver. Overall, The Film is Fun and One of The Best Animated Films I've Seen.
Spiecial Features Include:
-Audio Commentary by Tim Johnson and Eric Darnell (Both The Directors)
-Making of Featurtte
-The Basics of CGI Animation
-Facial System For The Film
-Early Charecter Desings
-Production Notes on The Film
-Cast and Dirctor Bios
-ANTZ Trailer
The Audio Commentary For The Film Was Very Great To Listen To, and The Most Interesting Thing Thay Mentined on The Commentary Was How Thay Were Origanaly Were Going To Open The Film With. The Making of Features (Like Alot of The Making ofs by Dreamworks) Was Very Interesting. The Bsics of CGI Animation on The Film Was Pretty Repeated, But Still Fun To Watch. The facial System for The Film Was Interesting. The Charecter Desins Are Fun To Look at Because It's Interesting To See What The Charecters Origanaly Looked Like. The Production Notes Are Interesting To Read Because It Talks About The Reason Thay Wanted To Make The Film Was Made and Why Thay Chose Actors For the Roles in The Film. Cast/Director Bios Are Pretty Much The Same, Thier Life Story, How Thay Got Into Showbessnies, and List of Films Thay Were in. The Trailer is The Same 1-To-2 Minute Advertisment For The Film.
Overall Ratings:
Movie-5/5
DVD-4/5
Z the man, I mean ant January 24, 2009
Michael Patrick Boyd (Waukesha, WI)
This movie is one hour and twenty-three minutes and released on October 2, 1998. Mainly the movie focus around a single ant named Z. Z thinks there are something better then doing the same thing day in day out. He is always thinking that there must be something better. The computer animation is great. The story flows along and does not bounce around. This is an excellence movie to watch and own.
One of Dreamworks' few good ones October 3, 2008
T. Gadd (Tasmania, Australia)
It's ironic, but 'Antz' may be remembered as the last great Woody Allen comedy. Like Robin Williams in 'Alladin', Z's dialog is so quintessentially Woody Allen that it's hard to believe he didn't write or ad-lib some of it. It's also a damn sight funnier than anything Woody has made himself since I can't remember when, or anything Dreamworks made, up til 'Over the Hedge'.
Some of Z's lines to the ant psychiatrist in the opening scene alone are priceless. The world might be slightly tired of Allen playing the whiny, neurotic wimp, but in 'Antz' the character who, back in 1967, tried to hold up a bank with a stick-up note which nobody could read ("I have a Gub?") is absolutely perfect.
What's more, Allen is cast alongside Sylvester Stallone (who, incidentally, was voted worst actor of the century in the Razzie awards in 2000), and even HE comes across well. This is easily the most bizarre pairing since Mickey Rooney and Kurt Russell in 'The Fox and the Hound'. No, wait... I forgot about Ernest Borgnine and Sheena Easton... well it just goes to show that in animation, miracles can happen.
It's been said before, but it bears repeating: Antz, despite the ostensible similarity of subject matter, and similar release dates, is nothing like 'A Bug's Life'. Put simply, 'Bug's Life' is a kid's film this is an adult's film which kids will like.
The story, I suppose, is nothing remarkable: male nobody gets princess... another parallel with 'Alladin' - but there is a social and political undercurrent to 'Antz'. If it owes a little to Disney, perhaps it owes a little to George Orwell, too.
There's something else about 'Antz': it's one of the few CGI movies where the CGI just didn't bother me at all. In 'Toy Story' I just swallowed my preference for cel animation, because the film was so undeniably good in other respects. With 'Antz', the whole thing somehow seemed outside of the normal animated genres, such that it never entered my head to wish they'd done cel animation instead. In fact I can clearly see how scenes like the 'wrecking ball' sequence wouldn't have had half the impact with conventional animation.
Visually the film is always superb, sometimes plain stunning, especially for 'such an old' CGI.
'Antz' is straining hard to break through to greatness. Close but no cigar. It's just very good, and sadly overshadowed by the also good, but less substantial 'Bug's Life'.
 Not for Kids July 5, 2008
K. E Hart
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie had a lot of graphic violence, including a war against termites, and a scene of torture. It also had some sexual innuendo. I did not think it was appropriate for children. It was also very much a Woody Allen Movie. My daughter, age 6, wasn't very interested in it. We won't be watching it again.
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