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 ...

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. ...

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 ...