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Summary: Just rocks straight out.
Review: This movie is awesome. Much better than Antz, because for one thing Flik goes to take care of hsi problem than sitting on a psychiatrist's couch whining about it a la Z. The jokes were great, as well as the bloopers during the end credits. Bug's Life was also the farewell performance of Roddy McDowall, one of the greatest actors _ever_ IMHO, as Mr. Soil. It would have been nice if there had been a small dedication or something like that during the end credits but... Whatcha gonna do?
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Summary: Great DVD for a very good animation movie
Review: Ok, this is Disney always doing the same kind of film, but I really loved the characters and the story in this one. Cute, funny and entertaining. The DVD quality is also great!
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Summary: Amazing detailed animation and great story
Review: I didn't think I would see the day that I would actually enjoy a children's movie. I found it actually quite funny, especially the caterpillar and the pop bugs. What I also found amazing was the computer animation. Every aspect of every scene was incredibly detailed and colorful, with great textures. This deluxe collectors edition disc is packed full of supplimental materials. Probably my favorite of those are the outtakes that they created. What a great idea to add in. I also found it interesting to see how this movie was actually made, lots of work involved. Grab this disc while you can. I found it hard to find as there aren't many left.
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Summary: Way too scary for my kids (2 and 5)
Review: There's a lot that's good in this movie -- fabulous animation, nice (if unoriginal) story, good performances, clever humor. But the scenes where characters we've come to love are in dire peril are way too intense and frequent, and there is too much brutality meted out by the menacing bad guys for me to consider this an acceptable movie for kids under 8 or 9. My 2 year old cried and had to leave the room with her father; my five year old spent much of the movie with her hands over her ears and her eyes buried in my shoulder. (And my kids are not wimps -- they'll watch real bugs attack and eat each other with total fascination and they love nature documentaries where the predators catch and eat their prey. But movies like this intensify everything and assault their sensitive young eyes and ears and emotions.) I realize that I am probably in a very small minority with this judgment, but I don't think this sort of thing is good for small kids. I really feel it is our job to protect their tender little hearts from such intensity, menace, and brutality, not show it to them over and over again until they are desensitized to it. So I give it two stars as a kids' flick; four stars as over 10 year old fare and average it out at three stars.
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Summary: I am very dissapointment
Review: In the information appear Dolby Digital in Spanish and French, but only Traks is in English. My languaje is in Spanish. The movie is wonderfull and the audio too. My only dissapointment is the Traks.
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Summary: NO SPANISH TRACKS
Review: If you want your kids to watch this in spanish, BUY THE VHS, because this new edition which is supposed to have an spanish track, doesn't have it. I wasted my money and lost any intention of hearing it in spanish.
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Summary: EXCELLENT MOVIE...BUT HAVEN'T WE SEEN THIS BEFORE?
Review: "A Bug's Life" is a fantastic movie, full of comedy, drama, and charm. You feel for those poor ants and you can't help but cheer them on. But, wait a minute...the Disney plagiarism machine is at work yet again! After all the flak that Disney endured because its movie "The Lion King" was so similar to the Japanese animation classic "Leo The Lion", you'd think they'd have learned their lesson. Well, they haven't. This time, Disney & Friends have decided to rip off ANOTHER Japanese classic movie, albeit a rather obscure one to the average modern American movie audience. Their plagiaristic target? The 1957 classic "Seven Samurai" --later remade into the American film "The Magnificent Seven". In this movie, a village of farmers (Disney's ants) is under threat of pillage from the countryside-roaming bandits (Disney's grasshoppers). So the village dispatches a few of its residents (Disney's Flik) to the nearest town to enlist the help of brave samurai (Disney's big bugs). Although there are a few plot changes, probably just so Disney can stay one step ahead of a copyright infringement lawsuit, the big bugs eventually help defend the village from the attackers and all ends well. Despite all the story-stealing, Disney has managed to produce a visually stunning movie. The DVD image is unbelievably clear, crisp, and super sharp. With a large screen TV, you will swear you're there with the ants sharing in their adventure. The audio is excellent, with neither the dialog nor the music being too soft nor too loud (DVD producers, take note: there's nothing more irritating than having to crank up the volume because the dialog's barely audible, only to have the house rattle when the music or sound effects kick in!). I have the standard edition of the DVD, so there aren't many extras. There is an alternate French audio track. AND there are the much-loved outtakes during the end credits, both sets in fact! These are hilarious and, in my opinion, are actually funnier than the movie. I'd pay to watch a whole DVD of such outtakes. If there's ever the possibility of a DVD wearing out, mine will be at the outtakes, for I often pop the DVD in the player just to watch those. They are truly funny. So, despite my beef about the plagiarism, I must give Disney kudos for cranking out a top-quality product. But you still owe it to yourself to check out the original film from which this was taken, the Japanese classic "Seven Samurai". It's a wonderful movie that's suitable for the whole family.
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Summary: Absolutly Adorable
Review: Flick has never fitten in with the rest of the ants. He dose things diffrently, he likes to create things and make them work. And frankly most of the other Ants would be happy if he just stayed out of the way. So when Flick's new invention knocks over the offering stone, which full of food for the grasshoppers, the other ants would like to tear them limb form limb but there too busy collecting more food for the grasshoppers. So Flick comes up with an idea to find warrior bugs to defeat the grasshoppers. The other ants agree with him just to get rid of em. But when Flick actually dose come back with "bigger bugs" he's considered a hero. Unless they find out that the "warrior bugs" are actually circus bugs! This is a great movie! It's cute and good for the whole family.
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Summary: Not as good as "Antz" but good
Review: I finally saw "A Bug's Life" and it was good, but it wasn't as funny as I thought it would be from seeing the previews. A colony of ants must try to rid their colony of Hopper and the rest of the grasshoppers that demand some food from them every so often. "A Bug's Life" reminded me a lot of the movie "Antz" while I was watching it. In my opinion, "Antz" is a little bit better than "A Bug's Life." However, if you like the other computer animated cartoon movies such as "Antz" and "Toy Story," then you will probably like "A Bug's Life." I do recommend seeing, if not adding, this movie to your collection.
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Summary: The best DVD I've ever owned
Review: This is probably not going to surprise anyone-- This is simply an excellent DVD, in every scale. The first disc contains the movie itself, which is transferred from its original, digital source. The picture quality is unbelievable. Not one spot comes up during the movie, not one scratch appears-- because this wasn't transferred from film. This is the way A Bug's Life should be watched. The colors are amazing, bright and contrast eachother perfectly. The sound is also unbelievable-- this movie challanged my 1.5 surround system perfectly. Unlike some other movies I've seen, where the two rear speakers are only used about twice in the movie, A Bug's Life uses them almost constantly-- You can hear the crickets and cicadas all around you in many of the scenes, Hopper's gang are flying at you from behind; Even with a simple scene like the "Royal Huddle" the ant's footsteps are coming from around you. The first disc contains a Cinemascope widescreen version and a pan-and-scan version. I'll have to say that if you don't have a widescreen TV (I don't), you probably should forget about the widescreen version here as it is aspecially small. Besides, the PSP version was edited digitally in a very special way, even described on this DVD-- you hardly miss anything in the PSP version because of that special editing. If anything, you actually get to see more detail. Also on the first disc are two special audio choices, Music Only (cool) and SFX only (VERY cool), and a director's commentary (quite cool, although not the best I've heard. John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich seem to talk too much about the story, which sometimes makes it sound as if they're just describing what you already see on screen.) (I'm not going to give review to the movie itself here-- In short, it is definitly a 5 star movie!) The second disk is where the real fun begins. I've never seen so many extras, with so many choices to choose from. It's almost confusing-- You not only get to see how they made the movie, you get to literally see how they developed EACH AND EVERY character in this film. It's astonishing. You can also hear how they edited the sound, see how they made the PSP version so good, see how they made the outtakes at the end (and also see the outtakes by themselves, clean, full screen and with no credits to interrupt), see an interview with the characters themselves (which is simply hilarious), and... See Geri's Game in all its glory. And there's even more. Basically, if you don't have this DVD, you WILL buy it. Otherwise, what's the point of having a DVD?
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