Antz (DVD)

Ages ago I came on this site looking for reviews on all sorts films as I wanted to build my collection up and buy some. I was looking to find reviews on films I had on my hit list to watch, that I fancied watching and the one I wanted to buy at this particular time was A Bugs Life. (I had loads of others but it was the first set of reviews I read) I read one review on it and it still sounded worth me buying but someone left a comment that Antz was a similar film and they would've liked to see a comparison on both the films. So I bought both and in my next review of a film it will be A Bugs life as I watched that too! But I shall review this one first! So ...  Read the complete review

Disney has always had something of a strangle-hold on the animation market so its good to see that in the last 10 years a whole bunch of other companies have sprung up to take a bit ole bite out of their monopoly. Its even better to see that most of these movies actually surpassed Disney’s saccharin coated kiddie flicks and some even managed to aim themselves at both the children who want to see them as well as offering something other than mind-numbing boredom for the adults who accompany them. Antz, from Dreamworks preceded Disney’s very similar movie ‘A Bug’s Life’ by a matter of months and set a very stiff challenge for it to live up to. ...  Read the complete review

Antz is a 1998 computer-animated feature from Dreamworks Studio directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson. The film is set in an ant colony in New York's Central Park and features the voice of Woody Allen as the main character Z4195, or Z for short, a worker ant who yearns to escape from his lowly rung in the colony and grand scheme of things and be independent from the collective, in which he feels insignificant and alienated. "I've got to believe there's something out there better than this," whines Z. "Otherwise I'll just curl up into a larval position and weep. I'm supposed to do everything for the colony. What about my needs?" Z drowns his sorrows ...  Read the complete review

Animated movies have become more of a regular occurrence since the mid-1990s, especially at the top level, and since the emergence of Disney and Pixar and DreamWorks as modern animated film giants, there have been plenty. In 1998, Antz hit our screens, with a nice tale about a colony of ants struggling to survive year upon year, searching for Insectopia. The ant colony is divided into soldiers and workers, and when worker ant Z meets the beautiful Princess Bala, daughter of the Queen Ant, he falls instantly in love and has to meet her again. To do this, he switches places with his soldier ant friend, Weaver, and finds himself at the wrong end of trouble as he ...  Read the complete review

Now how many people out there do not like Woody Allen? A reasonable number I would imagine. Whilst some of his lines are quite funny, apposite and pointed, relevant and true. The thought of watching his weasel features whine on for an hour and a half in some dimly lit New York set meandering social commentary filled epic though is as big a turn off as Lisa Riley bending over to pick up a 5p piece. When his voice is ethereal displaced from his body he metamorphs into a funny comedian again. In Antz that is what happens. Woody Allen becomes funny again. Angst ridden and uncertain yes, but funny. Allen plays Z and he is accompanied by an array of stellar Hollywood ...  Read the complete review