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The Ant Bully (Widescreen) (Dual-layered DVD)
- Starring: Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep
- Director: John A. Davis
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A kid who hates ants finds himself living among the six-legged critters in this computer-animated comedy-adventure. Lucas Nickle (voice of Zach Tyler Eisen) is a ten-year-old boy whose family has just moved to a new town, and Lucas isn't enjoying it much -- he hasn't made any friends yet, his big sister ignores him, his parents (voices of Larry Miller and Cheri Oteri) are occupied with their upcoming vacation in Mexico, and his loving but slightly crazy grandmother (voice of Lily Tomlin) is convinced space aliens are casing out the neighborhood. To make matters worse, the local bully has found Lucas and is making his life miserable, so the boy looks for someone he can push around -- and he soon finds a large colony of ants in his yard. Lucas takes out his frustrations by stomping, drowning, and burying the bugs, little realizing the ants see him as a threat to their safety and aren't about take his attacks lying down. Zoc (voice of Nicolas Cage) is a "wizard ant" who creates a formula that shrinks Lucas to the size of an insect, and the tiny boy is brought before the leader of the Ant Council (voice of Ricardo Montalban) and the Queen of the Colony (voice of Meryl Streep) to answer for his crimes against the ants. Showing compassion, the queen sentences Lucas not to death, but to live among them and see how difficult their circumstances can be. Nurse Ant Hova (voice of Julia Roberts) is put in charge of looking after Lucas, and with the help of Scout Fugax (voice of Bruce Campbell) and Forager Kreela (voice of Regina King), Lucas gets an eye-opening picture of how the other half lives -- just in time for Lucas to help the ants in an all-out battle against Stan (voice of Paul Giamatti), a pest-control man brought in to get rid of the bugs. Produced by Tom Hanks, The Ant Bully was written and directed by John A. Davis, who handled the same chores on the film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Features
- Genre: Comedy
- Category: Fantasy Comedy
- Theme: Bullies, Curses and Spells, Getting Along, Shrunken People
- Release Date: November 28, 2006
- Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)Rating Opens in New Window - Scatological Humor
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- Lead Actors: Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Zach Tyler Eisen
- Supporting Actors: Laraine Newman, Earl Boen, Tom Kenny, Billy West, Regina King, Bruce Campbell, Lily Tomlin, Cheri Oteri, Larry Miller, Allison Mack, Ricardo Montalban, Myles Jeffrey, Jake T. Austin, Rob Paulsen, Scott S. Bullock, Mark de Carlo, Frank Welker, Paul Greenberg, David Kaye, Alfred Jackson
- Director: John A. Davis
- Picture Format: Widescreen
- Run Time: 1 hr 29 min
- Language: English, French, Spanish
- Subtitle Language: English, French, Spanish
- Format: DVD
Additional Information
- DPCI: 058-10-1650
- ASIN: B002FMBA5A
- Catalog #: 11296922
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 7.51 inches length x 5.47 inches width x 0.57 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.16 pound.
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The glut of digital animation that hit theaters in 2006 finally took its toll -- on the wrong movie. Despite first-rate visuals, an all-star vocal cast and a new spin on some familiar territory, The Ant Bully trickled out of the top 10 within three weekends, leaving Warner Brothers and producer Tom Hanks with a certified flop. Meanwhile, Barnyard's box office continued to prove the earning power of far less inventive films. Antz and A Bug's Life may have gotten to this microscopic world eight years earlier, but it took The Ant Bully to explore the age-old one-sided battle between ants and "human destroyers" -- i.e., cruel children who stomp on anthills. Director John A. Davis and company have developed an imaginative variation on the landscape their predecessors established, one that's surprisingly unburdened by what came before. Plus, they've provided children a positive message on perspective that has both a literal interpretation (don't kill other living creatures) and a figurative one (don't pick on the little guy). Although Lucas Nickle adapts unnaturally quickly to his change in circumstances -- nary a freakout about his shrunken size -- his immersion in the colony and eventual bonding with its members are both handled well. This sets up a series of strong set pieces, including a wasp attack, a mission into Lucas' house to get "sweet rocks" (jelly beans), and a narrow escape from a determined bullfrog. The climactic battle against the exterminator -- voiced by Paul Giamatti in a regrettably brief showpiece of vulgarity -- is a final summary of all the film's clever decisions about size and the possibilities therein. If audiences finally decided they preferred something really "different," it was a poor time to reach that conclusion. Better to give fresh life to old material than approach new material in a derivative way. Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide
