This movie has some nice animation, but the overall plot and the main characters ruined it for me. From the very beginning the main character was a drag. He was constantly complaining and saying that he was different and acting selfishly. I tried to like guy, but he only thought about himself until the very end of the movie. The other characters were pretty one-dimensional. There was also some sexual remarks such as Z saying that the princess would no longer be a part of his "erotic fantasies." Little things like that made the movie feel dirty. The plot was predictable within the first 5 minutes. You can give it a try and form your own opinion, but I personally don't recommend this movie.

Like how Pixar started off strong with Toy Story, DreamWorks also has a film that cranked their engine up nicely, its called Antz. It is a film that not only has a great story, animation, and characters, but one that belongs with the legends of animated films. After this, DreamWorks would shortly become Disney's greatest competitor. And this would only be the first of many successes in DreamWorks' lineup. Now let talk about what made this so great. First the story is very realistic. And the way the ants work actually seem like what they would actually be. The ants all look different, making them all easily recognizable. And the animation although dated, looks impressive for a first time animated studio. I'd say the animation is on par with Toy Story. Of course no film is perfect. The negatives are that although the story is realistic it does have many similarities to A Bug's Life. I know the whole story involving Disney and Katzenburg but don't get me started on that. The film did come out before A Bug's Life meaning that maybe A Bug's Life is the least creative. So with that said, Antz is the more original film. There however isn't much else to gripe about and the animation is just a nitpick, in 1998 it does look very impressive. Luckily, unlike Don Bluth, Amblimation, and Fox Animation, DreamWorks managed to stay for a long time to come. Antz helped to kick off one of the best companies working today. Now to grade. Story: B Characters: A- Animation: B- Voice Acting: A Music: A- Overall: A-

This is not a kids movie. I hesitate to even call it a family movie. I think that an adult would get more out of the movie. It's about the structure of society and it also discusses the subject of war and it's quite a lot of death in the movie. It also explores individualism. The voice work is great but what else can you expect from Hollywood legends like Christopher Walken and Sylvester Stallone. The stand out being the great Gene Hackman as the villain. It is not a movie you should show your kid they will either be bored or confused. Many of the jokes will also go over the children's heads. But that doesn't mean this is a bad movie. It a very good movie smart and well-written. Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz and Todd Alcott has done a good job and Antz is well-made.But don't bother to show this movie to your kids and if your kids doesn't speak English or can't read subtitles really don't bother to showing this movie to your kids half of the fun comes from the celebrity voices.

I was one to dismiss all conspiracy theorists as paranoid and their conspiracy theories themselves as unfounded eyewash, till seeing these two movies confirmed what I long suspected and deep down always expected. All said and done, a crow cannot sing like a cuckoo.Ever come across an ant that made its own meal and not steal it or come across a bee that drank its own nectar. Ever seen a selfish bee or a selfless ant. The only bees I have seen that didn't make any honey were in Bee movie and the only ants I have seen that didn't help themselves but help others were in Antz. It is not for nothing that ants carry more than their own weight. The number one killers on land are African army ants whose war path one had better not cross when they go on a binge or feeding spree. Their scourge is on land what the feeding frenzy of shoal's of vicious fish is on water. On the other hand, all one needs to do to not be stung by a bee is to not disturb it. The Guinness records, Ripley's believe it or not, and such other shows featuring daring human feats are a testament to this fact. One who has to smoke the hive and/or invade it to evict the bee to steal its honey is certainly a thief. I have always maintained that the only one worthy of the silk is the worm that makes it. It is the only thing more precious and more priceless than the silk itself. The only one worthy of the honey is the bee which produces it. It is the only thing more precious than the honey itself. The only one worthy of the nest, is the bird which builds it. It is the only thing more precious than the nest itself. The only one worthy of the web is the spider which spins it. It is the only thing more sinister than the web itself. And here is the good news of the gospel. The only one worthy of the truth is the one who tells it. For being the humble steward and the servant of the truth, and for upholding it, that one is certainly more precious than the truth itself. One can never hope to better the standard by always lowering it, yet always going under it and always falling short of it.Clearly, these movies are directed towards an innocent and infantile audience, readily trusting, easily impressionable, with tremendous grasping power. Do they need to be fed such a lopsided and perverted truth at this young age ? They will take it to heart and passionately consume it and eventually be consumed by it.What is it, if not a conspiracy theory to suggest that one must not eat of the fruit of the tree of good and evil; that to discriminate between good and evil, between right and wrong, is in-fact not good but evil ? What is it if not a deep-seated conspiracy and lie to suggest that being good is neither important nor necessary nor required, to go to heaven, and the criteria for getting to heaven is to just believe in God, not even to believe in being, much less in actually being good ? What is it if not a conspiracy to suggest that God can forgive all the banalities and sins of the evil people and welcome them into his heaven, but cannot forgive the one sin of the good people of not believing in him ? What was eden, if not a garden and I am sure that it was not a lawn, or a portico, or a terrace, or a hanging, or a bonsai, garden ? What did the Lord and the son refer to himself as, but the true-vine and refer to his father as, but the gardener ? In all my life I have never come across a dead vegetable or a live wire. I have never tasted junk and unhealthy food, or swallowed nutritious and healthy medicine. There are no such things. What is it if not an out and out seditious and subversive conspiracy theory to suggest that a little evil is good but a lot of good is evil; that a little poison makes it elixir and a lot of elixir makes it poison, upon which a malicious system of medicine is founded ? Just how much poison in solid food will actually make it better and not contaminate it. What if this contaminant was slyly introduced into the food product as a chemical preservative or as a false nutritive or as an additive of some sort, or into the food cycle itself as a chemical pesticide, or even artificial manure ? Does not a drop of poison in drink make the whole drink poisonous ? The dispersion is least in solids, more rapid in liquids, and a lot more pronounced in gases. What sort of poisonous gases emerge and emanate from the breath of smokers and from the exhaust fumes of vehicles ? That fossil fuel is not even good for the very machine and engine that it drives and will rapidly wear out that engine and deteriorate that contraption. BTW, if you are wondering, where did all this prodigious underground reserves of fuel come from and at the same time are also wondering what happened to all the Dinosaurs, now you know. The plain fact of the matter is that one can never have too much of what is good nor have too little of what is evil.What is it, if not a conspiracy theory to project false values in movies, all of which glamorize and glorify the unjust and the evil, and denigrate the just and the good, these ones included ?Does one have to scope and scout the universe to detect aliens ? Do they not dwell among us ?