Bug Bites: An Ant's Life

1998 "What really goes on in your backyard."
1.3| 0h25m| PG| en
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Thang, Rose and Didi help the young Queen Jo build a new ant hill while avoiding the sinister geckos and keeping Sal Caterpillar out of trouble.

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CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Caryl It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.
jdsanders-21163 Michael Schelp movies are not all that bad like you think. I will admit the animation quality is not good, but the basic animation has a nostalgic at home feel to it. I love it! And this is the first computer animated movie made that was not from a major company, which at the time, Pixar and Dream Works were the only ones doing computer animated films. An Ant's Life is actually a pretty cute movie to watch. It is amazing what a hand full of people can do with what they have! And his movies are not rip offs as the plot is not similar at all. And this particular film is more mature and realistic than the movies people say it is a rip off of. So over all, it is kind of fun to watch what people can make with what they have. :)
Tommy Wiseau This sequel to A Bug's Life was by far superior. The animation style was flawlessly done, with voice acting that left A Bug's Life in the dust. Michael Schelp did a spectacular job with Bug Bites, and your children will love it. It would have been better, though, had Tommy Wiseau directed it. Claudine Ohayon as Thang deserved an award for voice acting that rivals Dave Foley's role as Flik. You don't like this movie? Then you can go f*ck yourself because this is greatest artwork of all time. F*ckin' 1v1 me if you think otherwise. My Xbox username is xXPu55yD3stroy3rXx, so if you got sh*t, you can fight me. Comment, Like, and Subscribe for more amazing content. Tomorrow we will be doing a review of The Amazing Bulk!!!~With Love, Tommy Wiseau
TheLittleSongbird That it is a blatant rip-off of A Bug's Life, but with none of its great entertainment and charm, is the least of Bug Bites: An Ant's Life's problems. Of all the animated mock busters, this has to be one of the worst of those not with Video Brinquedo or Spark Plug Entertainment's names on them, it is atrociously bad and has no redeeming features whatsoever.What was especially bad here was the animation. Quite frankly it is some of the worst computer animation I've ever seen, on par with the worst of Video Brinquedo and Spark Plug Entertainment. The character designs are creepy-looking, with the worst case being the geckos(designed in a way that doesn't ever blend within the colours and the background), there is absolutely no detail, smoothness or depth in the backgrounds, instead everything looks blocky and sparse, and the colours have no vibrancy and look incredibly flatly textured instead. The music is intrusive and has no sense of pace to it, not really gelling with the rest.In Bug Bites: An Ant's Life, the script-writing is incredibly lazy and doesn't even try to make sense. While the target audience situation is nowhere near as bad as it in in A Car's Life and most of the Video Brinquedo output, Bug Bites: An Ant's Life has very little appeal for children(except for maybe the very little) or adults, adults especially will find it insultingly juvenile and children may find themselves squirming in their seats from how much boredom the story has. The story in Bug Bites: An Ant's Life is so bland and tissue-thin that it doesn't feel like there is one, a lot of scenes needlessly stretched with dialogue that has no relevance and only there to pad the running time. Apparently, this is the shortest animated mock buster, being twenty five minutes, but you wouldn't think so because it really does not feel that short(feeling over twice as long).The characters are insufferably annoying, with the ants adding very little charm or personality and the geckos aren't sinister whatsoever, the chemistry between them aimless. The voice acting is even worse. All the ants sounded disengaged and like they didn't care about the situation they were in and did the geckos really need to speak in that grating monotone and croaky tone all the time? In conclusion, atrociously and irredeemably bad. 0/10 Bethany Cox
joebrian55 This has got to be one of the worst cartoons of all time. Even though it was produced in the 1990's when independent films produced with computer animation were not between barely and not at all like Pixar and DreamWorks, it still sucks.This whole mess of a CGI cartoon film is so awful that the only age group that could possibly like it would be little children who can't tell a knock-off from a blockbuster hit. The character designs are completely crappy, there seem to be at least only a couple pieces of music (played over and over at parts mind you) and the geckos look more like Kermit the Frog was turned into a lizard.In one scene, the caterpillar eating a leaf is actually the caterpillar moving its mouth while a corner of the leaf is suspended from the ground! The animation is so crappy that it makes a VeggieTales tape seem like Toy Story.I purposely watched it after I saw the DVD at my local library, and knew from looking at the cover that it is a ripoff of A Bug's Life. If you want a movie about bugs, get A Bug's Life or Antz, and not this piece of junk!