Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Robert When I saw the movie coming up way back in 2006, I was excited to see it. Four years later, I now have.I'm very impressed by the realism that it has. I like the message they give.I know it was probably a children's movie, but I still feel that it was pushing it a bit. First, the stereotypical characters were a bit extreme. I mean, just look at the mom! And I never did crack up that much at all. Maybe once. I know, I know, you're 17, it won't be funny. Well the adult jokes weren't either. In fact, I wondered why they has made such a big deal when referring to the jokes.But all in all it was okay. I still think Bugs Life is way better, but it's not as bad as Antz was.

Jackson Booth-Millard From director John A. Davis, and the rest of the team that created Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, I wasn't expecting much from this computer animated film, but I still went for it. Basically ten-year-old Lucas Nickle (Zach Tyler), moved in a new neighbourhood, has no friends, and is the target for a local bully and his gang. The only thing Lucas can do to express his anger is bully the ants in his front garden, and the ants themselves are living in fear of the giant "Destroyer". Wizard ant Zoc (Nicolas Cage) has invented a magic potion that he is sure will shrink Lucas down to their size, and it works, and they drag him down to their colony. As punishment for endangering all the ants, Lucas is sentenced to live and work amongst the insects, and slowly this does open his eyes up, not just to what he has been doing, but to what the ants get up to, e.g. teamwork. But Lucas forgot that he signed a form to get the help of bug exterminator Stan Beals (Paul Giamatti) to vaporise the colony, so with the help of all ants and some wasps, they team up to save everyone. Also starring Julia Roberts as Hova, Meryl Streep as Queen, Jerry Maguire's Regina King as Kreela, The Evil Dead's Bruce Campbell as Fugax, Lily Tomlin as Mommo, Scary Movie's Cheri Oteri as Doreen Nickle, The Nutty Professor's Larry Miller as Fred Nickle, Allison Mack as Tiffany Nickle and Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan's Ricardo Montalban as Head of Council. This film was obviously very hyped with the list of big stars providing their voices, and while the animation is good, the story that goes with it is a little dry, but I suppose there is some fun to be had for the family. Okay!

dbborroughs This would have been awesome in IMAX 3D. The movie as it stands is okay. The story of a picked on kid who picks on ants and then is shrunk down and forced to live among the ants has some great sequences, but also too many dead spots. Its as if the filmmakers had some good ideas but couldn't tie them together properly or that they simply couldn't sustain the momentum. It reminded me in ways of other better movies- and even Arthur and the Minimoys. Not bad but not worth taking the effort to track down a copy so you can sit down and watch.Wait to catch it in pieces on cable. 5 out of 10

freakfire-1 Sometimes animated movies can surprise you. And this was one of those movies. While it did not wow me, it did have a nice storyline and good voicing talent and that was good enough.Cage and Roberts play two ants. The thought of those two as ants at first seemed funny. But since they made them human, everything turned out alright. Enter actual conflict with other insects and it makes for a descent film.The concept, however, has been used before. Animals/insects/aliens being threatened by humans is all too familiar. But it gets over such a thing with making it similar to Western English Europeans dealing Native American Indians to a small extent and that familiarize the audience with the conflict between ant and boy.Overall, not bad. "B-"