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 he hardworking ants are terrorized by a gang of grasshopper bullies, who demand most of their harvest every year as a tribute. Princess Atta, who is preparing to assume the throne, just wants to appease the nasty grasshoppers and their leader, Hopper, but a young ant named Flik accidentally ruins the offering with a harvester gadget he has constructed. To make things right, Flik heads off in search of warrior bugs tough and mean enough to defeat the grasshoppers. He happens upon a group of unemployed circus bugs whose act has gotten them fired. Mistaking them for warriors, he takes them back to the anthill, but they refuse to fight. When little ant princess Dot is threatened by a bird, however, the circus bugs act heroically to save her. The ants embrace the bugs as heroes, and they agree to stay and help Flik in his plan to build a giant bird effigy and frighten the grasshoppers away. The ants stumble upon the truth -- these bugs are not fighters, just clowns and acrobats -- and throw the bugs and Flik out. When the grasshoppers plot to work the ants to death and squish the Queen, Flik and his allies return to save the day. Atta has a new hero in Flik, and the circus bugs leave, knowing that their friends are safe from the grasshopper menace. |
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"A Bug's Life" is the second full-length computer-animated feature produced by the partnership of Disney and Pixar Studios. It represents the next step forward in computer-animation technology from "Toy Story," the first film, with more elaborately rendered backgrounds and more complex characters. Each frame of "A Bug's Life" took from one to 20 hours of computation to render. The plot of the film is loosely based on Aesop's fable "The Ants and the Grasshopper." |
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"A Bug's Life" features the voices of Dave Foley (Flik), Kevin Spacey (Hopper), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Princess Atta), Hayden Panettiere (Princess Dot), Phyllis Diller (The Queen), Richard Kind (Molt), David Hyde Pierce (Slim), Joe Ranft (Heimlich), Denis Leary (Francis), Jonathan Harris (Manny), Madeline Kahn (Gyspsy), Bonnie Hunt (Rosie), Michael McShane (Tuck & Roll), John Ratzenberger (P.T. Flea), Brad Garrett (Dim), and Roddy McDowall (Mr. Soil). |
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