Excellent but underrated film

Captivating movie !

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Is this perhaps the most underrated Pixar film to date? It could be, let's see: it's super entertaining, it has funny moments, creative bits of action and also small tender parts. The characters were built to know their place in this film, which in my personal view I would describe its plot as an "adaptation" (quote unquote because unofficially it is not) of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954), for they both consist of a small village or colony being subjugated by invaders demanding food during each invasion, but placed in a world of an animated colony of ants; so the protagonist, Flik, comes up with a great idea, to search for a group of "warrior" bugs (they are in fact members of a circus) to help them defeat the invaders, a group of malicious grasshoppers whose leader may be one of the best villains Pixar's creative team has ever offered, the evil Hopper. This movie also subtly touches the idea of revolution, as the ants ultimately wish to eradicate their raiders in order to live life peacefully. Another thing worth mentioning is the clever way in which they decide to deal with the grasshoppers, and although it is met with an unfortunate mishap, the denouement of the film is utterly satisfying, just wait and see if you haven't already! Oh, and the outtakes at the end of the movie are really ingenious and creative, not to mention funny! A great adventure that I would watch many many times, but I feel that with so many excellent films that Pixar has provided the public over the years this one may not rank as high as many others, which is why I believe that is somewhat underrated.

Such a great film. One of my favorites from Pixar.

A Bugs Life was Pixar's second offering after Toy Story, and who doesn't love a bit of Pixar? Even as an adult A Bugs Life is a film I can watch over and over again, it just has that charming appeal that is attractive to adults too!The animation is superb, high-end, spectacular and oh so colourful..., no it doesn't look "real", but actually it looks "better" than real life does, I like how in animation, particularly with Pixar, they create such life like characters and backdrops while maintaining the allure that animation duly brings. Flick, the ant and protagonist of A Bugs Life is highly relate-able, a struggling inventor who strives to do right, but inevitably ends up doing wrong, such is so, that in the first act of the film, Flick's latest invention, the harvester that can slash production time in half, misfires and causes some serious chaos. This mishap lands Flick in some serious hot water with the ant council and Flick voluntarily banishes himself from ant island, to which the council agrees.The action heads to the "city" (a dirty little place under someones trailer), there Flick seeks out warrior bugs, and finds them in the form of Slim, Francis and the gang.The gang, including Flick head back to ant island, where the majority of the film will now take place, ups and downs and lovely subtle comedy ensue, resulting in the island hatching a plan to take down Hopper and the evil grasshoppers.Call me a baddie, but my favourite character was actually the films baddie, antagonist Hopper, he was so cool, but in a toned down kind of way, nothing genuinely nasty, like all lifeforms he's simply doing what he needs to to survive.The music was typical of any Disney or Pixar film, perfect in other words, it evoked excitement and calm at the same time, never once getting out of hand or too much, perfect for kids.Nature, the very essence of the plot, nothing in the story was false, every element was true to how would be in nature, only in an exaggerated way, oh so simple, to produce magic from a story so simple shows true genius, and they don't get much better than Pixar.As for the ending, a little weepy for the faint hearted, as the bugs and the circus they are employed by disappear off into the sunset, their work complete, Flick, the newly appointed Queen Atta, and the newly appointed Princess Dot watch on as streams of wheat act as fireworks being propelled into the sky and the whole ant colony waves goodbye. The ending was as simple as the rest of the story, and it just worked completely.Altogether an outstanding film, very enjoyable and one the whole family can watch, plus the runtime isn't too long (as with all Pixar films).

Pixar has had a lot of great movies and I loved all of them they have great stories and wonderful funny characters. I have been a huge fan of Toy Story I loved the plot of the film of being about two toys being separated from their owner and ending up at an evil nasty toy abuser who turns toys into horribly nasty looking things. After Toy Story was a huge hit at the box office pixar deiced to make of film about bugs which the idea came around in 1995 around the same time when toy story came out. But Dream works copy their idea and making a film about ants which is also a bug's life is also about. And people are saying that these two films are the same movie but their not while Antz is dark and the CGI is very lack. But A bug's life is also dark but Funny and enjoyable. Hooper is a great villain he has to be best pixar villain and one of the best Disney villains of all times. But Flik is the one who steals the show as He is kind funny and very smart which I can related to him a lot. While Antz is a good movie I not a fan of it but A bug's life is a I can watch over and over again the song from Randy Newman the time of your life is very catchy as gets stuck in my head telling me to enjoy my life while I can and to now to worry about the past or the further 8/10