Well
dear readers, as you know I always give credit where credit’s
due. Disney and Pixar (Pixar famous for the Toy
Stories) have topped themselves with this one! A
Bug’s Life is truly an excellent display of entertaining
entomology. Every child is gonna shrill with joy to these
clever warm little creatures.
A
masterpiece! Too bold a statement you snicker towards your
monitor? Silly wabbits. This is so delightful, you may never
pick up a can of Raid again.
Story
goes...Flik (the voice of Dave-Kids in The Hall-Foley)
is a strange and persistent little ant. He is discontent with
his drone life—he aspires to greater heights—like
maybe an inch. Flik is a constant annoyance to his fellow ants;
always with an original idea here, a new invention there.
How can the colony rid themselves of this trouble-making Formicidae?
Enter
the evil meister, the cockroach of grasshoppers—Mr. Hopper!
(The voice of Kevin
Spacey.) Hopper is bad to the exoskeleton. Hopper makes the
ants work, work, work to feed him and his Hells Angel-esque
crew with the ants’ food supply. They’re ant bulllies.
It’s not that Hopper and the boys can’t feed themselves—they’re
just mean ‘cause they can be!
Poor
Flik makes a faux pas and ends up toppling the food supply meant
to feed Hopper! Natch, Hopper threatens death to the colony
if the food supply is not restocked by the Fall deadline.A nearly
inpossible feat for the colony.
Flik
volunteers to search out warriors to fight the evil Hopper,
rather than restock the food.The colony lets him go hoping against
hope, he never returns, and scramble to replace Hopper's food
supply. So, Flik ventures off Ant Island to the "outer
world" and finds his "warriors". He finds them
amidst a drunken brawl in one of the cutest scenes ever put
on film. The warrior bugs are hence recruited.Um, there not
really warriors. Flik misunderstood a tad and the gang he ends
up with are actually Vaudvillian Circus performers. You'll see.
The
warriors/circus folk are the voices of some of the best around.
There’s a stick bug with the voice of David Hyde Pierce,
very snobby and dramatic, like..um...that Frasier guy's brother.
Then we have Francis (Denis Leary), the beautiful graceful,
male lady bug bent on being taken seriously as a tough guy.
My favorite, though, is the rotund perpetually eating chub-o-bug
Heimlick (Joe Ranft - a Pixar animator) who maneuvers himself
into every position he can to satisfy his endless hunger (I
get like that every month!). Excuse me while I grab a candy
corn...
Disney
and Pixar have struck gold in them thar celluloid frames, err,
pixels in a computer program! I have spent way too much on toys,
dolls and bed sheets. It's an addiction and I'm in therapy...
Run to rent this—with or without kids!
Snack
recommendation:
Picnic lunch and lemonade |
