1998 · animation · family · comedy
Antz (1998)
Directed by Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson1h 23m1998
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.
Our read: Antz (1998) (1998) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive animation · family · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
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“You want a clever animated adventure with neurotic humor and a surprisingly dark bug war.”
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