Antz (1998)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 88
Fresh: 84 | Rotten: 4
Featuring a stellar voice cast, technically dazzling animation, and loads of good humor, Antz should delight both children and adults.
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 1
Featuring a stellar voice cast, technically dazzling animation, and loads of good humor, Antz should delight both children and adults.
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DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images collaborated on this all computer-animated comedy-adventure about the ant angst of misfit worker ant, Z (voice of Woody Allen), who feels trapped by the conformist confines of his totalitarian ant civilization and eventually sets forth in search of Insectopia. After DreamWorks began animating Prince of Egypt June 1, 1995, the company launched Antz in Palo Alto a year later (5/20/96), the same month the DreamWorks/PDI partnership was announced. The screenplay by
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Sharon Stone
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Sylvester Stallone
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Gene Hackman
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Christopher Walken
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Danny Glover
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Dan Aykroyd
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Jennifer Lopez
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John Mahoney
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Jane Curtin
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Paul Mazursky
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Anne Bancroft
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All Critics (89) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (84) | Rotten (4) | DVD (20)
Kids may be puzzled by rebellious worker ants chanting Marxist slogans, but their parental guides may welcome the relief from the prevailing blandness of family films.
Top CriticVisually striking and dynamically shot, this has strong characters and no shortage of incident.
The filmmakers seem to have deliberately snubbed the traditional audience for animated features.
It's a perfect picnic, without the pesky human interference.
Antz is refreshingly naughty and nice.
Antz is brief enough, clocking in at 83 minutes, but its story is too predictable to make an impact even in such a short space.
Great effects, but surprisingly violent. Lacks kid appeal.
A Engaging and awe-inspiring animation once again elevates Shrek's world to fantastic heights, and the laughs are just as freewheeling as we have come to expect.
By any standard, the film is a remarkable technical achievement.
The artwork is spectacular, vocal performances uniformly capable and the jokes appealing to both adults and children.
Appeals to your daydreams when you were a kid and you wondered about the daily physical hassles of an ant.
Though the story is standard formula kids' fare, the Allen presence brings an adult swing to it, making it more than passable for both.
Succeeds at pushing the technology as well as and offering intelligent family fare that won't leave adults bored. Great fun.
A clever, funny, fascinating to watch film that could have been more.
...the message of Antz is this: Freedom of choice is important, but one should use their freedom to be decent, responsible, humble, and helpful.
A few chuckles here and there, and a semi-interesting story line, but nothing too outstanding.
Has enough of a story to keep a child engaged and a script clever enough to keep an adult amused.
exciting, often hilarious and frequently wondrous film... Adults who live in fear of seeing non-Disney animated movies would be well-advised to overcome their prejudices.
Star-studded, gloriously animated, beautifully written, this cartoon will appeal just as much, if not more, to adults as to children.
How often have you been happy to find ants marching in your own back yard? This may mark the one and only time.
There's plenty of action in this computer-animated comedy, but it's no match for Toy Story in humor and originality.
...A spectacular computer-animated cartoon that is sure to give Disney's upcoming A Bug's Life a run for its sugar grains.
Antz is, quite simply, a delight.
Antz is crawling -- you'll excuse the pun -- with classic movie comedy.
Audience Reviews for Antz
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- Z: [as face on penny appears] Who the hell is that?
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- Bala: Z, I've gotta help my Mom!
- Z: Don't worry, I know almost exactly what I'm doing!
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- Bala: Labor? What you YOU know about labor? How would YOU feel if you were expected to give birth every 10 seconds for the rest of your life?
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- Azteca: Labor? What you know about labor? How would you feel if you were expected to give birth every 10 seconds for the rest of your life?
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- Azteca: Come on, Z. Help us build a bigger, stronger colony, and for crying out loud, try to be happy about it!
- Z: Sure why should I be unhappy being a piece of construction equipment?
- Azteca: Aw Z!
- Z: Yes, yes, I understand. I dropped the ball!
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- Bala: I've meen kindapped by the village idiot!
- Z: Who's the bigger idiot? The idiot, or the idiot who gets kidnapped by the idiot?
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