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Summary: A delightful movie the whole family can enjoy
Review: This is one of the rare children's movies that can be enjoyed by an entire family. The youngest person in my family is 14, and "A Bug's Life" still manages to be one of our most frequently watched movies. It's based on the old moral about the ant and the grasshopper, where the ant spends all summer working to prepare for the coming winter while the grasshoper lazily puts it off until it's too late. Here it is a colony of ants forced into working for the grasshoppers every year so that they barely have enough food for themselves to last the hard winters. All that changes when Flick, a well-intentioned yet clumsy ant, goes off in search of mighty warriors to help them fight off the grasshoppers once and for all. But in a twist of fate, he accidentally hires down-on-their luck circus bugs instead. The premise is somewhat cliched, that anyone can be a hero if they believe in themself - but it is told freshly and with humor. Besides, that is an important lesson, and one that adults could stand to remember as well. "A Bug's Life" is high on my list of the best Disney movies ever made, if not the number one. I highly reccomend it, and not just for children.
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Summary: Pure Eye Candy!
Review: Pixar produces the best animation effects bar none, and it shows on this DVD. The color, sound and movement is perfect. It has many humorous moments and a pretty decent story overall. None of the characters are overly endearing but I always enjoy watching it anyway and I'm 37 years old. I can hardly wait until the next Pixar production comes out! If you have DVD player, this is a must have to show off what pure digital animation can do to your senses! I have the standard single disk version, but you might want to consider getting the version with the extras on a second disk.
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Summary: Excellent, even for people who own the regular edition
Review: While I could tell you all about "A Bug's Life", in the case of a Special Edition it is probably better to talk about the features (since you should already have seen the movie before getting a special version of it). I'll begin on disk 1. Well, there is the basic movie, a commentary track, an audio only track and a sountrack only track. The basic movie is very well done, and maybe even better than the theatrical version because of the conversion process and sound quality. Superb stuff, but its also available on the regular version so we'll move on. The commentary track is very insightful and actually provides a lot of information about the process of making the movie. Its very interesting to listen to and will keep you watching, unlike most commentary tracks where the speakers generally just drag on and on about how great the actors are or something similar without actually talking about the movie. The soundtrack only section is pretty interesting, and it lets you hear the more subtle parts that you miss with FX and voice, but it gets pretty tiring. The FX track, on the other hand, was absolutely riveting for some reason. You would think a track with no voice and no music would be boring to all hell, but in fact it was incredibly entertaining to watch and it really lets you get a sense into the amount of effort they put into the sound. Things you don't even notice or realize are happening in the background are made very clear on this track. I would recommend this edition for anyone who is thinking about going into Sound FX later in life simply for this track. On to disk 2 now, which is pretty much all design sketches and production notes. There are some really fascinating things on this disk as well. They go through all the stages from beginning to end and you really get to see the story evolve from its original form (recognizable, but oh so different). Also, the short feature on turning the storyboard art into 3d art was very interesting (especially if you want to go into graphics). In the end this is a DVD I think any A Bug's Life fan will love. All the various options and ways to view the movie are excellent and will keep you entertained for hours while all the special features on disk 2 will make you appretiate the effort behind it all that much more. Pick this one up.
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Summary: What's up with some of these guys...
Review: Okay so I'm just now getting around to reviewing this movie that I bought on the day it was released. I've seen it 15 million times and I love it. Yeah I'll admit that some of the parts are kind of weak and could be funnier, but the characters are so loveable that that's what did it for me. All you reviewers who raved about the DVD release make me want to go out and buy a DVD player just to get this movie on DVD. I am still stuck with VHS. Oh well. Anyways, I would love to see a sequel to this, just to see these characters again. So I end up asking stupid questions about them... I wonder why Flik had to go and devise this whole bird plan even though he had a black widow spider in his gang, she could've taken care of those grasshoppers easily...but then this wouldn't be a kid's movie. (but I still think about that every time I watch it..) and maybe Rosie is defanged. (but still, she was widowed 12 times...hmmm! one starts to wonder.) Also, Francis is supposed to be this macho tough guy who doesn't let ANYONE think he is a girl.. well then why is he in the circus dancing around ballet-style with flowers on his head?? Was unemployment that bad for bugs that he had to run out and join the circus? Oh well, he's cute anyways. (Denis Leary is the best.) Okay enough of my dumb questions about the movie. It's a really cute movie and I would love to see it on DVD. Whenever I get around to getting one it will be partly because of this movie.
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Summary: A Bug's Movie
Review: On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires "warrior bugs" to defend his colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by Hopper. But when Flik's cavalry turns out to be a ragtag group of flea circus performers, the stage is set for comic confusion...as well as unlikely heroes! Featuring a star-studded voice cast, A Bug's Life presents an amazing new perspective on teamwork and determination.
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Summary: The Best CGI film ever made
Review: Let's face it - anyone who uses brand new CGI technology is on to a winner, but how does Pixar do it? Their films are so meticulously detailed, so beautiful and perfectly casted, it's unreal. ABL is better than Toy Story, not least because of the (literally) thousands of neat touches which make a superlative film into something just that little bit more special. The story follows Flik, an inventor ant who is shunned by the rest of his colony on account of his clumsiness and his need to be different. On the way, he hires a certain motley crew of circus bugs to head off some rather troublesome grasshoppers (led by the awesome Kevin Spacey). The film also explores moral issues, and is of course technically stunning to anyone in the animation business (the initial reason why I went to see it - but came out with a thousand different ones for going!). On top of this is the obvious, and very colourful appeal to kids, who will, basically put, ADORE this film. Bye it, Love it, get the T-shirt, and start praying for the impending sequel!
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Summary: Just plain.....
Review: I was so excited to finally see the movie. It was a real let down. None of the punch and emotion of "Toy Story". I had seen "Antz" before this one and I thought "Antz" was ok. Compared to "A Bug's Life, "Antz" was great. Don't waste yout time. I don't see how little kids would even like this one.
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Summary: I enjoyed an animated movie after a very long time.
Review: Aldin was the last animated movie I enjoyed a lot. Now this one. I was almost into their world while watching it. My TV never looked this good and my audio was almost at its best. The quality of this DVD is absolutely marvelous. Looking forward to buying it soon!
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Summary: Been there done that...
Review: Toy Story was in many ways a new kind of film for Disney. It had an origionality that the company hadn't shown in a long time and was quite refreshing to say the least. A Bug's Life, however is pretty much the same formulated and trite Disney film that he have all seen a million times before wrapped in some flashy new computer animation. The movie starts out with Flick(an ant) trying to find a more efficient way to gather nuts. Flick is part of a colony and doesn't fit in. The evil grasshopers force the poor ants to give them food every year. Flick decides the only way to end this is to this is to get some "warrior bugs" to come and get rid of the grasshoppers. However, being a niave little ant, he instead gets a bunch of circus rejects by mistake. If this sounds familiar, it should. It's the same old contrived plot that we have seen more times that we can count in Disney films and other films. Anyone with half a brian can guesse what is going to happen. The "warrior bugs" are going to be exposed as fakes but the ants are going to find the strenght to defeat the grasshoppers themselves. How touching. The film has a few amusing parts but for the most part A Bug's Life is a total disapointment. When compared to the likes of Toy Story, Ants, or even Alladin; A Bug's Life ends up looking terribly dated(even with it's great computer animation). Maybe Disney should quite telling the exact same stories in new settings and try to do something origional.
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Summary: A GREAT BUG'S MOVIE
Review: This is a great movie,a great story and great charecter.The DVD is totally awesome,the picture look great and the 5.1 surround sound was awesome,the hopper gang was flying around my house WOW! GREAT MOVIE,GREAT SURROUND SOUND,GREAT PICTURE and GREAT DVD.
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