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Antz

Play trailer 2:25 Poster for Antz PG 1998 1h 27m Kids & Family Romance Comedy Adventure Fantasy Animation Play Trailer Watchlist
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Z the worker ant (Woody Allen) strives to reconcile his own individuality with the communal work-ethic of the ant colony. He falls in love with ant-Princess Bala (Sharon Stone), Z strives to make social inroads, and then must save the ant colony from the treacherous scheming of the evil General Mandible (Gene Hackman) that threaten to wipe out the entire worker population.
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Featuring a stellar voice cast, technically dazzling animation, and loads of good humor, Antz should delight both children and adults.

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Nell Minow Common Sense Media 12/22/2010
3/5
Great effects, but surprisingly violent. Lacks kid appeal. Go to Full Review
Richard Schickel TIME Magazine 09/04/2008
Kids may be puzzled by rebellious worker ants chanting Marxist slogans, but their parental guides may welcome the relief from the prevailing blandness of family films. Go to Full Review
Geoff Andrew Time Out 06/24/2006
Visually striking and dynamically shot, this has strong characters and no shortage of incident. Go to Full Review
Wesley Lovell Cinema Sight 10/05/2023
3/4
“Antz” is a fun movie for adults and for children, but occasionally lacks originality. The animation is definitely fine, but still nothing compared to what Disney can and has done. Go to Full Review
Sean Collier Box Office Prophets 03/27/2020
4/10
[Antz is] a bizarre, tonally dissonant mess of a movie. Apparently we were willing to overlook such issues 22 years ago. Go to Full Review
Rachel Wagner rachelsreviews.net 03/12/2019
C+
In a world of cookie-cutter movies at least it tries a bunch of weird stuff. Go to Full Review
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Miguel C 4d Não é ambicioso e muitas cenas são tediosas, mas o geral é bastante positivo. See more Declan D. @filmbuffkid Nov 22 It’s a great movie, and teaches a good lesson about war for younger audiences. See more Penguin O Nov 18 It's dark. It has adult jokes. And I like it. This is one of those early computer animated films, so the animation doesn't look very good...but for its time, it did, and some things, like the crowd simulation and the textures hold up. Antz isn't afraid to get dark. You find termite wars, with actual deaths shown by the dozen. You have a soldier ant, Barbatus, still alive and speaking with his head cut off. There is a scene where a wasp is squished by a flyswatter. Some may not like this at all. But this gives the film more of its distinct charm, I think. We have that adult humor (my favorite part is where two bugs find out what they're eating), political allegories, romance, and Allen-esque wit. He nailed it here. Also the other cast members are great, though. All in all, a great film, establishing Dreamworks as the second major animation studio, and better than its competitor A bug's life for sure. See more thiago s @Thiagostone Oct 16 Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom See more Stephen C @bob25009 Oct 13 The worldwide gross is $171,757,863.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more Tyler G Oct 9 The voice cast was wonderful and star studded, the animation nice-looking, and message worth hearing, but it commits a cardinal sin- trying to be funny and failing. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Z the worker ant (Woody Allen) strives to reconcile his own individuality with the communal work-ethic of the ant colony. He falls in love with ant-Princess Bala (Sharon Stone), Z strives to make social inroads, and then must save the ant colony from the treacherous scheming of the evil General Mandible (Gene Hackman) that threaten to wipe out the entire worker population.
Director
Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
Producer
Brad Lewis, Aron Warner, Patty Wooton
Screenwriter
Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Distributor
DreamWorks SKG
Production Co
DreamWorks SKG, Pacific Data Images (PDI)
Rating
PG (Mild Language|Menacing Action)
Genre
Kids & Family, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 2, 1998, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$90.7M
Runtime
1h 27m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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