2006 · fantasy · adventure · animation
The Ant Bully
Directed by John A. Davis1h 29m2006
Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the insects shrink him to the size of a bug with a magic elixir. Convicted of "crimes against the colony," Lucas can only regain his freedom by living with the ants and learning their ways.
Our read: The Ant Bully (2006) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal fantasy · adventure · animation entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle fantasy / adventure, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- surreal
- redemptive
- tender
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