Antz - AniMat’s Classic Reviews 

We watched this in my English class and everyone was surprised by how adult it is

I remember seeing Antz for the first time. Never knew back then that it might have been an edgier version of A Bugs Life. I mean this was PG vs G bugs were killed, dismembered and a bloody villain death to boot. With a host of voice actors good too.

The only Ice Age movie that matters, the first one. Can't wait for that review

Personally, I don't see the film having any similarity with A Bug's Life besides working to support the colony. The main characters have different motivations, the villains are different in goals and background, the story arcs are their own ways of telling either underdog stories or protecting the colony from those who are selfish, and even the jokes are different in standards. So I'd say this being a ripoff of A Bug's Life is like saying Megamind is a ripoff of Despicable Me.

Also, even if this was made back in 1998, it still looks FAR better than Shark Tale.

I would so have a sequel to this instead of the Alec Baldwin Baby 2

As children we all preferred a bugs life. Preferring Antz now is maturing and entering adulthood

Story: 10/10 Animation: 7/10 Characters: 10/10 Score: 9/10 (Excellent)

Both Antz and A Bugs Life are good films

"The characters have so much in common in terms of their personality and trait to their voices, that you can only see the actors and not who they're playing" Just wait until you pull Shark Tale out of the animation hat or someone requests it on patreon, and you'll see how at least Antz knows how to do it better.

can't wait for emoji movie reviews hahahahaHAHaHAaaaaa I love seal of garbage

The most impressive part of this film is the detailed perspective of the giant humans and the outside world.

"The message was hammered home" I disagree, the colony was saved by all the worker ants following Z's instructions - it's about believing in the purpose of the orders you're given, and not just going with the flow because you think you're meant to.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTZ!!!!!!!!!

At first at the end, I ALMOST thought "Whoa, The Land Before Time is next?! Awesome!" And then he mentions the crazy squirrel and I goes: "Oh, it's the first Ice Age movie...well, that's still just as awesome!"

Ice Age! You're right we're too focused on the crappy sequels that we forgot about the first Ice Age

Both Antz and A Bug's Life have their own reasons to be despite the striking resemblances', Antz is literally all about the ants, the society and how everything works inside the ant hill, A Bug's Life is literally about bugs lives, not just ants, like their struggles against birds, but A Bug's Life isn't about predictability, it's about what is in the journey along the way, and it has every scene in it at it's best, from it's breathe taking opening, with it's musical score, humour, each one has it's own engagement factor, a real new level of "never a dull moment", to the point that it doesn't even need a human, Antz with realistic looking designs to the point of seeing a wasp from an ants perspective, well A Bug's Life's designs show that it is just unnecessary really, the ants being more humanised, the brighter colour scheme, this is animation, it's not just visual appeal that's important, but animation and realism don't match

Soon as I heard the background music, I thought of CGI prehistoric animals and I realised I was thinking of Ice Age lol

I knew you were going to give it a 7/10 ever since I saw your review of A Bug's Life.

Actually the second motion animated picture to be full CGI would be Caciopeia,if it wasnt for production problems that delayed the movie it would be the first one above Toy Story actually.

Really the only character in A Bug's Life that comes even close to the actor just being the actor is Francis the ladybug played by Denis Leary, and in a way that's a good thing because he's freakin' hilarious.

To be honest, I prefer Antz over A bug's Life. Ice Age is next!

I think one of the reasons why my sisters and I loved and enjoyed the Antz characters a little more than A Bug's Life was the fact that we saw the film in theaters (and had the VHS tape) in the Spanish dub. We were very young and never realized the characters were modeled exactly after their actors, so we always saw the ants as themselves. I do enjoy A Bug's Life but... I don't know, there's just something in it that doesn't make me love it.

Antz is one of my favorite animated movies!

the reason the color palette is brownish is to show how the colony feels boring and plane for Z

I think it's better than A Bugs Life

Another weird/funny connection is that the villains in both movies either have or will play another famous villain, lex luthor.

Wow, you had some great insight on the story and it's flaws! The writing in this review feels very sophisticated, I enjoyed your overall analysis 👍

The characters' aesthetic design never appealed to me but the movie was fine

This film always looked like a Woody Allen movie. But no, he only was the main character

Saw both at the cinema, one of them I have never felt the need to watch again, the other is 'Antz', seen it several times over the years and as long as the gap is long enough I will watch again... These days so many do not even know some of the actors, so them playing themselves is of little relevance, good breakdown though and as per usual the opinion will be divided, that I feel is a good thing..

The termite war scene scared the living shit out of my little kid self but I loved the movie anyway.

not gonna lie! I kinda both like Antz and a Bugs Life!

The story 7/10 The animation 7/10 The characters 9/10 8/10 a good start for dreamworks animation

AniMat's Classic Reviews: Ice Age coming next month or tomorrow. AniMat's Reviews: Cars 3 coming in next week.

I do like Antz and I really do enjoy it however I do love A Bug's Life better. But I do enjoy your review and I can't wait to see your next review Ice Age.

Can't wait for cars 3 review.

The termite war part traumatized me

Animated Films Rankings in Animats and Animats Classic Reviews From Best to Worst as of 6-16-17 10/10 Toy Story 3 & Zootopia (30 Points) Inside Out, Waltz with Bashir, Princess Mononoke, Yellow Submarine, The Road to El Dorato & The Iron Giant (29 Points) 9/10 Frozen (29 Points) Kubo and the Two Strings, Tangled, The Adventures of Tin Tin, The Secret of Kells, Anomalisa, How To Train Your Dragon 2, & Watership Down (28 Points) The Thief and the Cobbler, The Simpson's Movie, Moana, Kung Fu Panda 2, The Wind Rises, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, The Lego Batman Movie, The Hunchback of Notra Dame (27 Points) Wreck-It Ralph, Finding Dory, The Secret World of Arrietty, Chico & Rita, Big Hero Six, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva & Animal Farm (1954) (26 Points) 8/10 Despicable Me 2, Megamind & Rango (25 Points) Despicable Me, Surfs Up, Kung Fu Panda 3, A Scanner Darkly, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog, Rise of the Guardians, The Lego Movie, The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water & The Peanuts Movie (24 Points) The Good Dinosaur, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Brave, A Bug's Life, Balto, Legends of the Guardians, Puss in Boots, ParaNorman, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Pocahontas & Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie (23 Points) 7/10 Ferngully (23 Points) (7/10) Sausage Party, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, The Animatrix, The BFG, Justice League: The New Frontier, How To Train Your Dragon, Winnie the Pooh, The Boxtrolls & The Phantom Tollbooth (22 Points) Epic, Storks, Sing, Frankenweenie & Madagascar 3: Europes Most Wanted (21 Points) Rio, Gnomeo & Juliet, The Croods, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Minions, The Secret Life of Pets & Antz (20 Points) Team America: World Police (19 Points) 6/10 Raggedy Ann & Andy (20 Points) 9, Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, Monsters University & My Little Pony Equestria Girls (19 Points) Rio 2, The Angry Birds Movie, The Sword in the Stone, The Little Prince, Ducktales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, The Flight of Dragons, Penguins of Madagascar (18 Points) Shrek Forever After, Gay Purr-ee & Cars 2 (17 Points) 5/10 The Lorax (19 Points) Turbo, Planes Fire & Rescue, Bionicle: Mask of Light, The King and I, Home & Smurfs The Lost Village (16 Points) Trolls, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters, The Care Bears Movie, My Neighbor Totoro, The Wild, Happy Feet Two & Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (15 Points) Mars Needs Moms, Ice Age Continental Drift & We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (14 Points) Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (13 Points) 4/10 Free Birds, Chicken Little, The Boss Baby, Jetsons the Movie, The Nut Job & Happily Ever After (13 Points) Alpha and Omega, Hotel Translvania, Hotel Translvania 2, Planes, Legend of Oz Dorothy's Return & Ratchet & Clank (12 Points) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs & Surfs Up 2: Wavemania (11 Points) 3/10 Walking With Dinosaurs (14 Points) Beauty and the Beast: Bell's Magical World, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Strange Magic, Ice Age Collision Course & The Wild Life (10 Points) Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil & Escape from Planet Earth (8 Points) 2/10 The Legend of the Titanic & Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (7 Points) Norm of the North (5 Points) 1/10 Foodfight! (4 Points) Where the Dead Go to Die (3 Points)

one thing I don't like about people who review Antz is when the reviewer doesn't know who Woody Allen is and they say some thing dumb like "That guy doing the voice, why do they have him doing a Jewish stereotype?" I keep freaking out and yelling back "Woody Allen's natural voice IS the origin of the stereotype." reviewers who don't get culture sound so ignorant.

I remember we had an insect unit in science back in 2nd grade and we were going to watch this movie. But being the bitchy 8 year old I was, I said "OH WAIT WE SHOULDN'T WATCH DIS MOVIE BECAUSE IT HAS SWEAR WORDS." So we watched a Bug's Life instead and everyone hated me because of it.

I'm more into A Bug's Life too. Also, I look forward to what has to be said about Ice Age.

I've been waiting for a review of this.

you really did keep your promise from the bug's life review.

Full Voice Actor List Woody Allen: Z - Sharon Stone: Princess Bala - Sylvester Stallone: Weaver - Gene Hackman: General Mandible - Jennifer Lope: Azteca - Danny Glover: Barbatus - Christopher Walken: Colonel Cutter - Anne Bancroft: The Queen - Dan Akroyd: Chip the Wasp - Grant Shaud: The Foreman - John Mahoney: A Drunk Scout Ant - Jane Curtin: Muffy the Wasp - Paul Mazursky: A Therapist - Jerr Sroka: A Bartender - Jack Ange: Multiple Males - Jim Cummings: Multiple Males - Maggie Roswell: Multiple Females - Bob Bergen: Multiple Males

Hahaha, you mentioned Ice Age? Nice that you finally picked it out of the Animation Hat.

Ice Age is Next!

I saw Antz a couple of times when I was a kid, it next to A Bug's Life made me wonder why there are 2 animated films with Ants, the first thing I noticed as a kid was that Antz had a human in it while A Bug's Life didn't, I was interested by that, yes I can remember these things well, but I then forgot all about Antz ever existing in the first place, even though you'd think A Bug's Life would remind me, eventually I was reminded when it randomly came up in conversation, all I remembered about it was the scene with the human, the beginning scene and the ending scene, so forgettable, when I rewatched it, I didn't like it at all

I bet its a ice age sequel, as hope DreamWorks can make good films again like with captain underparts instead of films that's just for kids like boss baby and home.

Finally!!!!! A review of the first Ice Age movie coming up next

my grandma walked into this movie thinking it was a edgy pg13 film called aunt z about a crazy aunt and her family or something

"Or did Dreamworks made a bad first impression?"

*Reads video description* And then the company was sold and its reputation went downhill.

Yes next reviews Ice Age finally

Oddly enough my VHS said © 2000, though it also said © 1998 on the back in very obscure writing. The copyright must have been renewed when my copy was released. Between 'A Bug's Life' and 'Antz'. I've always preferred 'A Bug's Life', though the competition is a lot harder now that I'm older and understand the more adult humour more. For a film that was released in 1998, I would have to say that the animation for 'Antz' is pretty impressive. More impressive than 'Prince of Egypt' which had © 2004 on the back of the DVD case, despite being released in 1998 as well. If I remember correctly, 'Prince of Egypt' was entirely 2D.

One childhood movie to the next. BUT YES ICE AGE IS NEXT!!!!!!!

I liked the social commentary of Antz and SOME of the humor, not all of it but some of it. When I was little and didn't know any better I liked it more I think. As an adult I appreciate the general messages it was giving but I think how they approached it wasn't really a good idea for a family film. the colors, the themes, were..not adult...but how they presented them I wouldn't say is good for children.

Animate and RebelTaxi should collab with each other. It seems they talk about similar things and it would be cool too.

Maybe the plot means that he is sick of his life and along the way tries to discover his true role in the world. The movie is pretty awesome for its first impression, even though it does have a few flaws that people see. Lov the vid, anyway.

It's funny I had watched Antz a couple of times the past week and now we got this

I knew what the scores for the Story, Animation and Characters would be before the review was done! AniMat didn't compare the 2 bug movies the way I thought he would though; I thought it would be similar to how he compared Sing to Zootopia. Still, it is nice to once again hear both sides of the argument. I can't wait until his review of Ice Age!

I remember the Disney-Dreamworks rivalry A Bug's Life/Antz Finding Nemo/Shark Tale The Wild/Madagascar

"Whenever I go back to this franchise, it bothers" ok.. "Refuses to die.." Wait "sequel after sequel.." heeeeey... "Back when it was good" bitch you better not be talking about Pokemon. "Three prehistoric animals taking care of a baby" oh thank god

I choose Antz over A Bugs Life.

Did not know it was a war at the time when I was little I like ANTZ because it was dark.

I honestly prefer this to Bugs life.

7:48 he denied them by the way because Mia Farrow falsely accused him without any proof

yes! i know what the next classic review will be it's gonna be the first ice age before it went way downhill!!

Plz Review Kung Fu Panda (2008)

A bug's life it is for you. ... next in line: Ice age.

Tomorow's Classic Review is Ice Age.

“I’m a huge Woody Allen fan, although I’ve only seen Antz” - Michael Scott

I haven't seen Antz, but animation-wise, it has aged MUCH better than A Bugs Life, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and the whale scene from Fantasia 2000.

I always preferred Antz over A Bugs Life.

Um, the second computer animated film ever made was Cassiopeia..

this is one one of my favorite movies.

Fun fact: (1) this is the first feature film with water effects, VeggieTales Madame Blueberry was the first computer animated anything with water effects and how do I know this, release dates , VeggieTales Madame Blueberry (July 21st 1998) Antz (October 2th 1998)

The next movie is Ice Age.

Kratzenburg should've been president of Disney since he save Disney. but then again we wouldn't had Dreamworks

The first Ice Age is next

My childhood movie

Hello Ice Age

I love this movie!,why isn't on blu ray?

Antz is one of my childhood films.

Will Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy be in the animation lookback of Cartoon Network

7:32 I bet Z's erotic fantasies can be the same one of Woody Allen. No offense

I actually liked this movie and I have it on tape

I'm hyped for your Cars 3 review! 😃

the nostalgia!!!!!!!

missed the deep ass meaning behind this movie, the fact there was a world beyond what they knew, the queen thought she was queen of the world but no you are still just a small peace in this big ass unknown, it gives me the question what is on the out side of the dome. They made it to the outside out found…the admiral knew about this place but kept it secret like our government would do to us

surprised we didn't get a cars 3 review today. maybe next week

I cant wait for your cars 3 review

hmm I don't remember antz as well as I thought I did but then again it's been years O.O I love both a bugs life and antz but if I had to choose which one was better it would be a bugs life the animation is more smooth and colorful

I watched this movie when I was a kid, but all it did was bore me to tears. It's probably because it feels more like an adult animated movie than a kid's film, so I might enjoy it more if I rewatch it today. Heck, I might find it even better than A Bug's Life in that regard, being that I found that movie was just...meh to me.

It's Ice Age, I can tell by the David Newman music

Story: 9/10 Animation: 9/10 Characters: 10/10 Score: 9/10 (Exelent)

I really love that main theme.

Story: 10/10 Animation: 7/10 Characters: 10/10 Score: 9/10 (Great)

Maybe next, you can review the ant bully

AniMat can you review Hannah Montana The Movie.