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.
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Antz (1998)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:23
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Wonderful animation backed by humor and the vocal talents of its cast make for an entertaining movie.
Runtime: 83 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Z-4195 (Woody Allen) is just a worker ant - one in a billion - and his odds of landing the beautiful Princess Bala (Sharon Stone) are about the same. Undaunted by the colony's unyielding caste... [More]
Starring: Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone
Director: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
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Reviews for Antz
Top CriticThe filmmakers seem to have deliberately snubbed the traditional audience for animated features.
06/18/02
Top CriticIt's a perfect picnic, without the pesky human interference.
04/12/02
Top CriticAntz is refreshingly naughty and nice.
05/11/01
Top CriticAntz is brief enough, clocking in at 83 minutes, but its story is too predictable to make an impact even in such a short space.
02/14/01
Top CriticAntz crawling with detail, humor, Woody Allen style.
01/01/00
Top CriticA kids' movie that will leave grown-ups quoting the best lines to one another.
01/01/00
Top CriticA film of small, transient pleasures, diminished slightly by the clunkiness with which it wields it pat, Disney-esque self-determination moral.
01/01/00
Top CriticDistinctive, delightful!
01/01/00
Top CriticVisually, it's more impressive than Disney's Toy Story. On a script level, it was developed as much with a mature audience in mind as with the usual pre-pubescent crowd.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe kids will like it. You'll laugh.
01/01/00
Top CriticAntz works best just showing off its prodigious voice talent and playing lightheartedly with the curious possibilities of a buggy world.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's fresh, exhilarating, funny, able to tell an old story in a beguiling new way!
01/01/00
Top CriticThe film breaks new ground in its dazzling re-creation of life from an ant's-eye view!
01/01/00
Top CriticAntz is about the relief felt by star actors freed from the constraints of their physical selves and the egos that go with them.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's a well-written, witty tale, expertly executed!
01/01/00
Top CriticThat's Ant-ertainment!
01/01/00
Top CriticThe computer animation is first rate and filled with the kind of "Wow! Look at that!" wizardry that is eventually going to make Toy Story look about as technically sophisticated as South Park.
01/01/00
Top CriticAllen provides plenty of comic relief, and the computer-generated animation is pretty impressive.
01/01/00
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