A fun-filled, enormously entertaining fable about family, friendship and fair play
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07/27/06
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The Ant Bully (2006)
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Reviews Counted:111
Fresh:70
Rotten:41
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: Sometimes inventive and witty, this animated adventure into an ant-sized world is a pleasant diversion.
Theatrical Release:Jul 28, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $28,133,159
Synopsis: A young boy learns the importance of teamwork and gains self-confidence in this animated feature written and directed by John A. Davis (JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS), and based on the book by John... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Bruce Campbell, Paul Giamatti, Allison Mack
Director: John A. Davis
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Reviews for The Ant Bully
A computer-animated gem as ingenious as a children's book you don't mind reading aloud again and again.
07/27/06
The Ant Bully won't ruin anybody's childhood. Neither is it likely to make anybody's day.
07/27/06
Top CriticIt may be too intense at times for wee ones, but kids of 5 and up testing the limits of their independence in the big world should relate to Lucas, dig the crazy insect world and embrace the imagination behind the colorful adventure.
07/27/06
The Ant Bully goes solidly about its own little task of telling a cheery, swift tale that is aimed directly at children.
07/27/06
Luc's transformation from ant destructor to ant protector illustrates a lesson told many times before, but rarely with such down-to-earth charm.
07/27/06
The film's heavyhanded lessons turn it from a fun romp through a cartoonish insect world to a predictable and preachy snoozefest.
07/27/06
The Ant Bully, in trying to match Antz or A Bug's Life, just digs itself into a big hole.
07/27/06
Top CriticIf you see [it] in IMAX-3D, the sheer visual extravagance may make up for its storytelling defects and acute lack of charm. Otherwise, you'll reach for the insecticide.
07/27/06
The Ant Bully, the latest computer-animated plea for interspecies understanding, provides a few moments of inventiveness and wit.
07/27/06
Top CriticIt all adds up to a peculiar whole; fun I suppose, but not what you'd call a picnic.
07/27/06
The Ant Bully is fun to look at, and Lucas' recognition of the strength in numbers leads to solid character growth.
07/27/06
Top CriticThe art direction and animation are superb, but it may be worth the extra bucks to see it in IMAX 3-D.
07/27/06
The Ant Bully is the first of the summer's many animated features that doesn't somehow feel familiar.
07/27/06
Top CriticYou'll likely step a little more carefully around an anthill after going on the delightful animated journey The Ant Bully.
07/27/06
The movie is an epic adventure with a rigorously moral point of view.
07/27/06
Top CriticPleasant, but not dynamic, it's old-fashioned feel and narrative deficiencies bound to leave most audiences cold.
07/27/06
Plenty of the script's stabs at humor bugged me, but The Ant Bully is at its best when showing how insignificant insect problems look to the human world above.
07/27/06
Wittily manipulating scale to generate the requisite fright factor, the movie is stuffed with visual delights both lyrical and visceral.
07/27/06
Has an ace in its anthill...political allegory that separates this one from the pack.
07/27/06
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