A Bug's Life (film)

A Bug's Life
(film)

A Bug's Life made approximately $162 million in its U.S. theatrical run, easily covering its estimated production costs of $45 million. The film also earned £28,824,239 in its United Kingdom theatrical run.

A Bug's Life is a computer animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on November 25, 1998, in Australia on January 12, 1999 and in the United Kingdom on February 5, 1999. A Bug's Life was the second Disney / Pixar feature film. It tells the tale of an oddball individualist ant who hires what he thinks are "warrior bugs" (actually circus performers) to fight off greedy grasshoppers. The film was directed by John Lasseter.

The story of A Bug's Life is a parody of Aesop's fable of The Ant and the Grasshopper. It is similar to the comedy ¡Three Amigos!, which is about out-of-work actors defending a town while thinking they're merely giving a performance. It also gives an obvious nod to Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as well as its Hollywood remake, The Magnificent Seven), which is about Japanese villagers hiring a rag-tag group of swordsmen to fight off rampaging bandits.

Reviews for A Bug's Life were overwhelmingly positive at the time of the film's release, and it has remained popular since.

One Pixar tradition is to create one trailer for each of their films that contains no footage from the actual unreleased film. The trailers for this film:

Flik and all the insects from the circus troupe gather onto a leaf right before Heimlich bites the end of it off, causing them to fall.

Tagline : An epic of miniature proportions.

Cast

Dave Foley - Flik

Kevin Spacey - Hopper

Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Atta

Hayden Panettiere - Dot
Phyllis Diller - Queen

Richard Kind - Molt

David Hyde Pierce - Slim
Joe Ranft - Heimlich

Denis Leary - Francis

Jonathan Harris - Manny
Madeline Kahn - Gypsy Moth

Bonnie Hunt - Rosie
Michael McShane - Tuck / Roll

John Ratzenberger - P.T. Flea

Brad Garrett - Dim

Roddy McDowall - Mr. Soil

Edie McClurg - Dr. Flora

Alex Rocco - Thorny
David Ossman - Cornelius
Carlos Alazraqui - Additional Voices
David L. Lander - Thumper
Jack Angel - Additional Voices
Bob Bergen - Additional Voices

Kimberly J. Brown - Additional Voices
Rodger Bumpass - Mosquito

Anthony Burch - Additional Voices
Jennifer Darling - Additional Voices
Rachel Davey - Additional Voices

Debi Derryberry - Baby Maggots

Paul Eiding - Additional Voices

Jessica Evans - Additional Voices
Bill Farmer - Additional Voices
Sam Gifaldi - Additional Voices
Brad Hall - Additional Voices
Jess Harnell - Additional Voices
Brenden Hickey - Additional Voices
Kate Hodges - Additional Voices
Denise Johnson - Additional Voices
John Lasseter - Additional Voices
Sherry Lynn - Additional Voices
Courtland Mead - Additional Voices

Christina Milian - Additional Voices
Kelsey Mulrooney - Additional Voices
Ryan O'Donohue - Additional Voices

Jeff Pidgeon - Additional Voices

Phil Proctor - Additional Voices

Jan Rabson - Additional Voices
Jordan Ranft - Additional Voices
Brian M. Rosen - Additional Voices
Rebecca Schneider - Additional Voices
Francesca Smith - Additional Voices (as Franchesca Smith)

Andrew Stanton - Additional Voices
Hannah Swanson - Additional Voices
Russi Taylor - Additional Voices (as Russie Taylor)
Travis Tedford - Additional Voices

Ashley Tisdale - Lead Blueberry Scout
Lee Unkrich - Additional Voices
Jordan Warkol - Additional Voices
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mickie McGowan - Additional Voices (as Mickie T. McGowan)

Plot

Flik is an oddball, an individualist, and a would-be inventor among a colony of ants that is being oppressed by a gang of grasshoppers. The grasshoppers arrive once a season to extort food from the ants, supposedly in return for protection from "bigger bugs". While working with an invention by which to pick grain more efficiently, Flik accidentally destroys the annual offering that the ants were collecting to appease the grasshoppers. In exchange for a temporary reprieve from the grasshoppers, the ants are given until the end of autumn to produce an offering of twice the usual amount. Later, while he is being admonished by the royal council of the colony, Flik proposes a plan to recruit "warrior bugs" to fight off the grasshoppers. When the council agrees to his proposal, Flik actually believes they have accepted the merits of his plan, whereas the council actually sees it as a convenient way of simply keeping Flik from wreaking any more havoc on their food-gathering activities.

Flik finds his way to the "city"; an insects' metropolis built of discarded boxes and vessels, where he mistakes a group of recently-fired circus performers, whose act had collapsed into chaos, for the warrior bugs he seeks. The bug troupe, meanwhile, mistakes Flik for a talent agent who wants to book their act, and agrees to travel with him back to Ant Island.

Both Flik and the circus troupe soon become aware of their respective mistakes. However, the rest of the ant colony had become convinced that these newcomers are indeed the warriors for which they had hoped when the circus bugs help Flik pull off a daring rescue of Dot (a young "princess" ant of the colony, who idolizes Flik) and a wounded Francis (a ladybug performer of the circus bug troupe) from a hungry bird.

Caught between the opportunity to change his fortunes within the colony and the knowledge that the bug troupe are not who they appeared to be, Flik advocates building a fake bird to scare away Hopper, the leader of the grasshoppers, who is deeply afraid of bug-eating birds. The ants unite behind Flik's plan until the circus' ringmaster, P.T. Flea, arrives to retrieve his performers, thereby blowing Flik's cover. As punishment for deceiving the colony, Atta (the older sister of Dot and soon-to-be queen of the colony) banishes Flik, who sadly joins the circus.

Having spent an enormous amount of time pursuing Flik's plan, the ants try desperately to gather enough food for a new offering, but due to the rapidly-approaching winter season, they cannot find enough food to meet the quota. When the grasshoppers return, they are angered by the meager offering. Dot overhears Hopper's plan to kill the queen after receiving the full offering. She therefore goes after Flik; having found him, she convinces him and the circus bugs to return and put the bird plan into action. It nearly works; when a confused P.T. inadvertently incinerates the bird, Hopper realizes he has been tricked and takes out his anger on Flik. After absorbing a beating from Hopper's dog-like grasshopper Thumper, Flik declares, in response to Hopper's claims of species superiority, "Ants don't serve grasshoppers! It's you who need us! We're a lot stronger than you say we are - and you know it, don't you?"

Because Hopper knows, and fears, the ants' superior strength — the suppression of any cause of this fear being the true reason for his return — he threatens to squish Flik. However, the ant colony collectively realizes that they vastly outnumber the grasshoppers; therefore the ants all rise up in a wave of fury and chase the grasshoppers out forever. Hopper, alone and reduced to a bare minimum of rational thought, desperately tries to take revenge on Flik. A pursuit scene follows, where Hopper attempts to steal Flik and kill him while Atta and the circus performers try to retrieve him. The performers are left behind, claiming only one of Hopper's antennae as a prize, while Atta rescues Flik. Moments later, Flik lures Hopper into the nest of the bird from whom Dot was rescued, whereupon the bird feeds Hopper to her chicks.

Later, the colony adopts Flik's harvesting machine and bids farewell to the circus performers, who depart from the island.

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