A Bug's Life (DVD)

Last night after not being able to sleep, I'd already watched Antz and submitted my review and I decided to watch this straight after it. Antz was ok (please see review) and I'd heard if you watched Antz you really should watch A Bugs Life as well! So when I bought Antz I popped this in my trolley as well! No wonder I'm always in the red eh? lol May I just say I was so shocked that this film was so similar to the story of Antz lol I felt a bit of De Ja Vu! A Bugs Life Plot.... The film has many characters, all in their own right but it is quite focused on Flik, an inventor ant, full of hope, optimisim and quite a lot of ideas on making ...  Read the complete review

As per usual, last Christmas (it seems like such a long time....!) threw up a few good movies worth watching on the TV. It was Christmas 2001 when I saw Antz on TV, last Christmas, whilst flicking through the TV guide I noticed A Bugs Life advertised. I couldn’t remember whether this was what I’d seen the year earlier or not. I read the description, it sounded familiar. So much so I wasn’t going to bother watching it as I assumed it was what I’d seen the year earlier. By some stoke of luck though there wasn’t anything else worth watching at the time of this movie. (It was probably yet another repeat of Only Fools and Horses on the other ...  Read the complete review

There's just something about a Pixar animated film that says quality. You just know it's going to be good without reading anything about it. This is because the makers concentrate on the story and characters as well as the visuals. A Bugs Life is no different. First you've got the outstanding CGI animation that is truly wonderful to look at. It bursts with colour and imagination. Then there are the characters such as a luvvie type circus magician in the form of an insect. A real nasty grasshopper with a bumbling brother and an ant with a clumsy knack for inventions. In this story the ants gather food for the grasshoppers until one ant messes the ...  Read the complete review

As a parent I’ve had to endure the pits of despair in terms of children’s films and television. Yes I’ve been forced to sit through the likes of Pokemon (The Movie) and the truly monumentally horrendous ‘Thomas and the magic railroad’. Pokemon I can handle, totally annoying but at least it’s not patronising fluffy garbage. Anyway, for those of you out there that have found yourselves in the same miserable position as me there is good news on the horizon! Disney have saved my backside many times in the past and have prevented me from slipping in to a coma when it’s been a case of one children’s programme too many. ...  Read the complete review

A bug's life was the second brilliant Disney and Pixar master piece to be released following the success of Toy Story and was released back in 1998. I know a lot of people didn't rate this film as highly as Toy Story which, to be fair, is fine as let's face it Toy Story was brilliant but, it still has that fantastic animation and great storyline with a great cast of actors and actresses to make it a top class film. The story: Flik is an ant living in a colony that spends the summer collecting enough food to last themselves and the mean and evil grasshoppers throughout the winter. At the end of summer season the grasshoppers come and collect their ...  Read the complete review