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The like... sixth-best version of _Seven Samurai_ to date. _Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._
- r96sk8/10
A thoroughly enjoyable production from Disney and Pixar. 'A Bug’s Life' cobbles together nice animation, fun characters and a memorable voice cast. The premise is entertaining, as the film flies through its 95 minute run time. The score is pretty solid, also. Dave Foley is…
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A Bug's Life
“An epic of miniature proportions.”
70%
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1h 35m
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A Bug's Life (1998) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of A Bug's Life (1998) — a movie tagged as Adventure, Animation, and Comedy with cozy, funny, and epic moods and fast-paced pacing.
Story & themes: On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper. Our models also surface themes such as war from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for families with kids, family viewing, date night, and casual background watching. Expect fast-paced storytelling (~95 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate A Bug's Life 70% (9,717 votes) — solid community ratings for this movie.
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Synopsis
On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.
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- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1998-11-25
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- TMDB rating
- 7.0
- TMDB ID
- 9487
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On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Ho... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
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The official runtime for A Bug's Life is approximately 95 minutes.
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Cast

Dave Foley
Flik (voice)

Kevin Spacey
Hopper (voice)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Atta (voice)

Hayden Panettiere
Dot (voice)

Phyllis Diller
Queen (voice)

Richard Kind
Molt (voice)

David Hyde Pierce
Slim (voice)

Joe Ranft
Heimlich / Additional Voices (voice)

Denis Leary
Francis (voice)

Jonathan Harris
Manny (voice)

Madeline Kahn
Gypsy Moth (voice)

Bonnie Hunt
Rosie (voice)

Michael McShane
Tuck / Roll (voice)

John Ratzenberger
P.T. Flea (voice)

Brad Garrett
Dim (voice)

Roddy McDowall
Mr. Soil (voice)

Edie McClurg
Dr. Flora (voice)

Alex Rocco
Thorny (voice)
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The like... sixth-best version of _Seven Samurai_ to date. _Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._
A thoroughly enjoyable production from Disney and Pixar. 'A Bug’s Life' cobbles together nice animation, fun characters and a memorable voice cast. The premise is entertaining, as the film flies through its 95 minute run time. The score is pretty solid, also. Dave Foley is good in the role of Flik, while Kevin Spacey is actually great as Hopper; shame about the actor himself, obviously. There's a load of other noteworthy members of the voice cast, including Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Atta), Hayden Panettiere (Dot), Bonnie Hunt (Rosie) and John Ratzenberger (P.T.) as well as many others - one of the studios' best casts. I actually prefer, somewhat controversially I guess, 'Antz' to this - only marginally though, as I truly like them both. I'd say watch the pair, if you can!
I'm not really into a lot of kid movies. My daughter made me watch this with her. It was a ok movie. It was something different to see. I'd probably never watch it again unless of course my daughter wants me to again.
I suppose we could have guessed from Randy Newman's wild west type opening theme that we were in for something... just not, maybe, an insect version of the "Magnificent Seven"! The ants slave away day in day out to pick a harvest that they leave as an offering for the marauding grasshoppers. Thing is, the enthusiastic (and annoying) "Flik" likes to try his hand at inventing things and after creating his own type of combine harvester finds himself left above ground and managing to tip the assembled food down a hole in the ground. Needless to say the hungry bugs aren't happy - they vow to return after the next harvest and woe betide the ants if there's not a feast awaiting them. The Queen and her daughter "Princess Atta" know they've no hope, so when "Flik" offers to ride far and wide to assemble a gang to defend them all, they cheerfully see him off as a liability they can do without. Can he get together a group of formidable defenders for his seemingly doomed colony and redeem himself? It's quite a well paced story this, with loads of different, vibrantly coloured, critters, but there's no getting away from the fact that "Flik" is just a pain in the neck - and after a while of the fairly constant barrage of verbiage - there is a great deal of dialogue here - I found my attention wandering a bit. The last ten minutes are quite fun, and I did quite like the denouement - but the rest of this was just a wee bit too repetitive for me.
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