Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1436 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-03-19
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Animated, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Dutch
• Dubbed in: Dutch, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 113 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Woody Allen as a worker ant with an inferiority complex? Sylvester Stallone as an affable soldier ant who discovers that digging tunnels is cool? The animation playground we all knew so well is turning into a theme park full of in-jokes for grownups. Antz explores age-old topics (one person--err, insect--can make a difference, individuality and social responsibility must exist side by side, war is hell) with comic asides and Woody Allen's funniest quips this side of PG (adults will chuckle at the socialist slogans bandied about as he campaigns for workers' rights). Sharon Stone voices the rebellious princess with a fun-loving streak that doesn't quite overcome her royal bearing and court training, but she can learn. Gene Hackman is all teeth (ants have teeth?) and menacing grins as the Army general plotting insect-icide. This bug's-eye view of life on Earth gives Allen's neurotic nonconformist an epic adventure of microscopic proportions: a devastating war with a termite colony, an odyssey to the fabled land of plenty (a picnic ground), and a race to save his fellow workers from certain death. Other voices include Anne Bancroft as the Queen, Christopher Walken, Jennifer Lopez, Danny Glover, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin and John Mahoney. The computer animation isn't exactly realistic but feels as solid and contoured as puppet animation with the smoothness and slickness of traditional cell cartoons, and the character designs and animation offer a marvellous range of expressions. The PG rating includes a gritty battle sequence that may frighten youngsters. --Sean Axmaker

Video Description
DVD Special Features :

Audio Commentary
Behind the Scenes Featurette
Basics of Computer Animation
Facial Animation
Character Design
Theatrical Trailer
Four-Page Booklet with Production Notes
16:9 anamorphic widescreen
Dolby Digital 5.1
Soundtrack: English, French, German, Dutch
Subtitles: English for deaf and hard of hearing, French, Dutch

Synopsis
A restless worker ant changes roles with a soldier ant in order to get the girl, who just happens to be a princess. The animation is breathtaking in this story of true love amid a totalitarian state.

Customer Reviews

Deserves More Recognition!
I loved this film as a kid, and am glad that it hasn't lost any of it's magic now that I've grown up a bit! I'd assume this film gets many comparison's with Pixar's 'A Bug's Life', well, don't tell them I told you so, but I actually think Antz has the edge over that film. The animation is faultless, the story line suitable for both a younger and older audience, theres characters you love, and others you love to hate, and a feel good message at the end of it all - don't be afraid to dream, and if we all stick together, we can achieve anything. Great film!

Cartoon yes, kiddies movie..NOT !!!
Despite how it was promoted, this is not a children's movie. First of all, the swearing is a little too much for a child, and there are some pretty graphic sequences. Secondly, though this is nothing against the movie, the themes are too deep for a child to truly comprehend. A better kid's film about insects is "A Bug's Life" (which is also a fantastic movie). The anti-communistic motives and themes of individuality are well presented, and the voice acting is superb (Allen as the puny Z presents a perfectly whiny voice, that fits his character to a tee.) The menacing General Mandibly and his henchman, Cutter, are perfectly crafted by their respective voice actors. The overall plot is also terrific, and for what was to be a children's film, the termite v. ant battle is spectacularly done- very exciting. The overall idea of a lowly worker becoming a leader of his people has been done many times, and "Antz" sticks with a tried and true notion. If you can see the true ideas behind the cutesy insect animation, you wont be disappointed with "Antz."

Woody Allen Antz at its best
This is an American Film, a novel equal to an eatern-german novel called "Effi Briest", about a girl which rans insane because society doesn't allow her to marry the one she wants.

Antz can be seen as an update to this 200 years old novel: a workers-ant (spoken by woody allen) makes a therapy because he wants more. he fells in love with the beautiful daughter of the antz-queen and rescues the whole antz-society from an overflow arranged by the mean general.

The film is not only super-great, but the finish opens this computer animated film up to the small human mind, so that people can understand, that the kind of antz-war is possible everywhere and allways and to every single human being who just is brave and trustful enough to make targets and go for it.