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War, eugenics, a decapitated talking head, unionization, the line “erotic dreams”— they really don’t make children’s movies like they used to. Shocking Dreamworks stayed in business after this.
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I watched this dubbed over in French with english subtitles so I didn’t have to hear W**dy Allen’s voice
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i’ve seen this so many times before but this time i couldn’t help but get irritated by the voice of the main ant whose name is Z so i googled the cast and surprise surprise Z was voiced by that melting wax looking bitch woody allen
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BBranson Reese 8 月 26, 2026
Laughing imagining a guy who doesn’t know what movies are and goes to watch one and this is the one he watches
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I am entirely baffled by nearly every single aspect of this film. But I think I enjoyed it?
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noah fence but if i ever saw woody allen as an ant i wouldnt hesitate for a second to step on him
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An anti-conformist, neurotic, worker ant falls in love with the colony princess and tries to impress her by posing as a soldier, only to find himself going to battle and becoming part of a deadly conspiracy by a deranged general. Say what you want about Dreamworks’ first attempt to compete with Disney in the feature length animated films arena, “Antz” was one of the most adult-oriented cartoons ever, and remains so even today. The use of satirical humor and the fact that Z, the protagonist, isn’t just voiced by Woody Allen but also shares many of his personality traits, make it clear that the filmmakers made this movie with an eye on a more mature crowd. Not that the younger…
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WWill Sloan 8 月 26, 2026
The fact that there’s a big DreamWorks animated movie starring the voice of Woody Allen, and built around the whole Woody Allen shtick, is one of those funny quirks on film history that will always tickle me. I’m glad this exists.
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Fuck this movie. I don’t care if it’s actually good or not, the image of a decapitated talking ant head fucks you up when you’re 5 years old
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Hearing the word “erotic fantasies” in a dreamworks movie is something that just baffles my brain.
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Pphilgraves 8 月 24, 2026
“We have A Bug’s Life at home.”
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consensual what the f*ck
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I watched two hours of brown insects marching in dirt and they were indeed just ants
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If you’re able to imagine a different voice coming out of the Woody Allen ant, and if you’re able to overlook the slightly anticlimactic ending, and if you’re able to accept the animation for what it was at the time, and if you’re able to overlook that it is very likely this was rushed into production after Jeffrey Katzenberg heard what Pixar were up to and needed a bargaining chip to push Disney away from opposing Prince of Egypt’s release date… if you can get past all that, this movie kinda slaps?
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genuinely a cinematic masterpiece there are so many underlying messages it’s insane
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K
idk what this was man its not bad but its also ?????
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Una satira per bambini
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Not at all appropriate for kids in anyway hahahaha. best bit was watching Ant Woody Allen get smacked in the face by Ant Sharon Stone
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Who is this even for? Why did I watch it over and over as a kid? More importantly HOW?
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Lmao wtf
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L
the animators really put their all into this movie because they made EVERY SINGLE ants face unique and in doing so they made an ant look strikingly similar to will smith
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This is one of the better movies I have seen in a while! Shocked that lots of the popular critics on here overlook it due to pre-conceived ideas that animated films have to be for children and must NEVER contain mild sexual innuendos, and the fact that the characters look a little freaky and not distinct from eachother (which is a tonal and thematic choice I actually quite like) Really creative story with mature writing, surprisingly great visuals for CG…
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Idk what i thought abt thus as a kid but i have a feeling an ant wouldn’t have a full straight set of pearly whites
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Way worse than I remembered. Even the kids lost interest
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loved this so much as a kid ( i don’t know what that says about me but i know it isn’t good )
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I think this what the kids call based. Even bussin at times
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tenho medo
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K
filme muito legal, a crítica nele com contexto entre a classe alta e os operários é sensacional!!! o famoso vc é aquilo que você trabalha um simples operário e não aquilo que você é! Nesse filme demonstra completamente isso nas cenas em que o formiga Z é reconhecido pela princesa como apenas operário e não pelo nome dele! Enfim um filme muito bom com uma lição muito boa!!!
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Capitalist propaganda against marxism, fascism and social determinism? I’d rather watch it as a film about freedom and love.
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I watched this once when I was a kid, and all I remembered was the terrifying-looking animation. Sylvester Stallone is in this, and he says the best line in the movie: “You da ant!” In fact, that was the only part of the whole movie that made me feel any kind of emotion other than boredom.
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I’ve never understood how something like TOY STORY gets a free pass of sorts for how its aged from a technical perspective and this doesn’t. People punchline it a bit too now but it’s actually a gem as family comedies go. Contrary to popular belief nowadays it wasn’t a flop and it was mostly well received by critics too. It’s very funny (benefiting from a rewrite and further improvisation from its main star) and, seriously, that cast? Woody Allen, Sharon…
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MMoss 8 月 22, 2026
dont think i knew what was happening at any point lmao
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This movie rocked as a child. Still rocks as an adult. That voice cast 🔥 Also General Mandible is still one hell of an underrated villain.
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Babies first socialism deserves more than a 2.7
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Uncanny animation, weirdly adult-oriented… And it was pretty good. Not as good as A Bug’s Life, but still pretty good. I watched it once when I was 17 and I think it was better the second time. I don’t have anything else to say.
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Muffy!!! No! No!!
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Scritto da Todd Alcott coi fratelli Chris e Paul Weitz e diretto dagli esordienti (nel lungometraggio) Eric Darnell e Tim Johnson, Antz ha una produzione caratterizzata da una pubblica lite tra la Dreamworks e la Pixar per via della similitudine che lo spunto narrativo di partenza ha con A Bug’s Life (Jeffrey Katzenberg, la “K” in Dreamworks SKG, dove la “S” è Spielberg e la “G” è Geffen, viene accusato da John Lasseter e Steve Jobs di aver rubato l’idea…
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The Dreamworks Canon Watch Through Part 1: You can really tell they were working with a very rough stolen pitch of A Bug’s Life. Cause beyond the premise of “Movie about Ants” there’s no similarities. Half of the movie seems like it’s gonna be about Woody Allen Ant getting with this Princess. And like it is, but also there’s a conspiracy to create a coup by instigating a eugenics plan to kill all the worker ants. It’s such a wild…
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Those who follow the manosphere would kill for those jaw lines.
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Rrinrinfate 8 月 20, 2026
don’t remember much
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What the frick is that
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Weird but interesting
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Molto meglio Bugs Life.
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Credit where credit is due, Antz had to flop around for Shrek to flourish.
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To be honest, Antz (1998) surprised me quite a bit, as behind its appearance as a late-nineties animated comedy I found a much more explicit political critique than I had expected. I took notes while watching it and, when I went back over them, I noticed that the film constructs a coherent discourse on power, obedience and collective manipulation, developed with a directness that I rarely associate with animated cinema from that period. From the very beginning, the colony is…
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oh to be an ant suspended within a water droplet
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DreamWorks’ first animated feature is, in my opinion, still one of their very best. You can relate to Z’s desire to escape societal pressure and find his own identity. I wonder if it’s meant to be an allegory for Communism? One thing’s for certain: it’s surprisingly dark and sometimes violent. My rating: 85%
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I don’t know what movies are, so I decided to watch one, and this is the one I chose. What the heck did I just see?
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J
★½ – BAD DreamWorks Animation – RANKED Deciding to watch all the DreamWorks animated films and rank them just as I did for all the Disney animated films! Starting at the start, the very first DreamWorks animation, one that I hadn’t seen before and one that is not really talked about (and probably for good reason). It’s just a thoroughly unpleasant viewing experience. It’s ugly to look at, everything feels stitled and awkward when it moves, the character designs are…
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One of my first animation movies that i would always remember proudly, adressing mature and complex subjects with such ease and charm for the youngest has always impressed me.
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What on this ant-infested Earth is this movie? For Dreamworks’ first film, it’s surprisingly graphic. There’s a few cusses, some pretty intense gore, and a shockingly cinematic soundtrack for a movie about ants. Also, this film somehow feels like it was directed by Gareth Edward’s, because damn is the sense of scale impressive. This movie is a fever dream. None of the characters are that likeable, the story bounces all over the place, the cast is somehow stacked and yet…
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have zero nostalgia for this I just tried to watch it and it was actually fire. it’s ugly if you’re a kid and sorta edgy so that’s why it’s rated so low but good ass movie.
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It is the grasshoppers that are afraid of us
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The middle section feels painfully slow and aimless but the rest kind of rocks! Gross and gnarly atmosphere and character designs. Kidnapping. Curse words. Just generally vibes I can get behind.
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I thought I had seen this before but it was only A Bug’s Life, which is by far a superior film. It could be my massive dislike of anything Woody Allen does, but from the opening scene I was straight up not having a good time.
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Alright at best. Main characters voice is annoying as fuck. Would be fine to never watch again. Bugs life supremacy
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Il titolo inglese di “Z la formica” è “AntZ”, cioè formiche al plurale ma con la z al posto della s perché è più fico.
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this movie was just simply so so ugly now I need to rewatch a bug’s life stat the part with the magnifying glass was funny tho
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Zachary “Che” Marion
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schiaccerei volentieri sotto gli stivali quella formicaccia di merda di woody allen che a quanto pare è irritante in ogni singolo contesto in cui lo si mette
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The first film battle between Pixar and Dreamworks (opening slightly before a Bugs Life followed by Monsters Inc vs Shrek, Shark Tale vs Finding Nemo and more) – with feuds between the studios over who had the idea first. I feel this hurt my appreciation of both Antz and a Bug’s life when they came out and even now I find it hard to talk about one without comparing the two. Like A Bugs Life we have a village idiot…
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Teaching kids the valuable lesson of collective bargaining.
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I could never understand why as a kid Mum and Dad never let me watch this film… eventually I rewatched it and asked them ‘it’s because of the adult themes, right?’ And their response was ‘fuck no, we just didn’t like this movie’ And honestly… valid
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Mezza stella in più perché il compositore della colonna sonora è lo stesso di Metal Gear Solid.
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A rushed film that feels like it was made to rival a bugs life
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Disgusting little faces
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definitivamente a 2ª melhor animação de 1998 sobre uma formiga diferente das outras que acaba inspirando uma revolução contra a opressão no formigueiro
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Movie where Woody Allen accidentally invents Marxist Thought because he’s horny.
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personally it’s better than bugz life
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Woody Allen movies are a lot better when theyre directed and written by somebody else. Not having to look at him is also a big bonus.
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A change in the political system is a significant event
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le doy cinco estrellas a pesar del pesao de Woody Allen y sus mensajes anti-colectivistas subliminales, qué divertida cómo me he reido
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Revendo como adulto o filme parece bem mais adulto e denso do que quando eu vi quando criança. A história é bem madura, a animação é um pouco datada? Sim! Mas acaba sendo o charme do filme. Os personagens são bons, até o protagonista que é chato algumas vezes é muito carismático quando quer. Dito isso, é um filme bom, mas não chega ser um dos melhores da Dreamworks
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Stacked cast and fun movie overall. Over hated imo. Hearing Sylvester Stallone say “bitchin’” in a kids movie surprised me
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is that cillian murphy
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Not a bad movie, just a forgettable one.
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Pretty Weird Way to Start DreamWorks but…It’s Was Meh
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Insane! Felt like an acid trip but in the best way possible. Very philosophical and has lot of themes that will go right over a kids head. The main character Z is extremely depressed but does have a peculiar charm to him. Will definitely watch it again.
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Formigas bizonhas
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marre de prendre des pincettes, c’est éteint, c’est nul a chier et c’est moche
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communist
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Watched ts in class. The magnifying glass scene was actually really funny.
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A meme movie that actually sucks.
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watched while babysitting yesterday
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3.0
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We as a society are the way we are because from the start none of y’all liked THE movie that could help us understand how to be a better one.
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Non capite un cazzo comunque
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I couldn’t for the life of me get this out of my head while watching this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpdscsPV1yE
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ha fatto un giuramento ad una divisa in cui non crede affatto
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buena
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DDando 8 月 11, 2026
Bourgeois individualist propaganda grotesquely masquerading as the folk literature of the workers………….. and yes it is that serious!!!!!!
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Youch
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Dad said he liked this more than the bee movie and while this is not good it’s only beer cuz this has only animal on animal crossing.. this movie is what made people woke, a temu a bugs life if you will I have a thing about drinking out of another animals anus
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honestly, this wasn’t as bas as i remember it being. if anything, it’s just boring. again, another animated movie with racism metaphors
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“You da ant.”
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O filme conseguiu ser engraçado e pesado ao mesmo tempo
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con razón me caía mal
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ants*
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being the weird kid who liked antz more than bug’s life always thought mandible looked more like costas mandylor than hackman ___________________________________________________________ what separates antz from comparable children’s entertainment operating in political allegory is the specificity of its socioeconomic argument, which operates closer to orwell’s animal farm than the generic individualism-versus-conformity binary most children’s films settle for. animal farm works because orwell understood that a political allegory requires a system rather than a sole villain, and antz applies the same…
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Watched this A LOT of times as a 9yo kid and had my father explaining me everytime how revolitionary it was to not just accept what people try to push into us. Puberty came in and I became the problematic daughter.
- Synopsis
- A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.
- Director
- Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
- Writer
- Paul Weitz, Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz
- Studio
- Pacific Data Images, DreamWorks Animation, DreamWorks Pictures
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Year
- 1998
- Runtime
- 83 mins
- Canada19 Sep 1998
- Canada29 Sep 1998
- USA02 Oct 1998
- Bosnia and Herzegovina05 Oct 1998
- Australia29 Oct 1998
- Morocco04 Nov 1998
- Czechia05 Nov 1998
- UK06 Nov 1998
- South Korea07 Nov 1998
- Belgium11 Nov 1998
- Argentina12 Nov 1998
- Norway13 Nov 1998
- Japan14 Nov 1998
- Trinidad and Tobago17 Nov 1998
- Malaysia19 Nov 1998
- Denmark20 Nov 1998
- Turkey27 Nov 1998
- Hungary03 Dec 1998
- Jordan29 Dec 1998
- Zimbabwe30 Dec 1998
- Bahrain31 Dec 1998
- Azerbaijan01 Jan 1999
- Bolivia04 Jan 1999
- Oman05 Jan 1999
- Netherlands07 Jan 1999
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