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unworthwhile
The creators of this movie could have accomplished far more in making a worthwhile children's movie if they omitted all the unnecessary violence, humiliation, name calling, hostage taking of a child bug, reference to suicide, etc.. How removed these movie makers are from what childhood is about. Just another typical bad modern kid's movie.
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classic
great for kids, they'll love it! a classic pixar.
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Plenty of frightening and intense scenes such as one where an ant gets beaten by a grasshopper. Other than that it's good stuff.
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After the success of Toy Story, they take another interesting chance, fantastic till the end.
A Bug's Life is the 2nd installment in the Pixar history. It is memorized for its ENTIRELY non-human cast. Though released after Antz, it was more successful in reviews and box office. This is actually the parody to The Ant and the Grasshopper, an Aesop fable. It is about a misfit ant recruiting for soldiers to wipe out greedy grasshoppers out of his colony, only though finding a circus troupe. With unique characters and places, with funny lines to keep the movie going on, it is incredible from start to finish.
Princess Atta: "You see Hopper, Nature has a certain order. The ants pick the food, the ants keep the food, and the grasshoppers leave!" is a very memerable quote in this movie, reflecting that the ants need to stand-up to themselves from the grasshoppers. John Lasseter, the director of this film, is known in Disney and Pixar for his story plots, animations, and more, and its no surprise this is one of his most memorable directing moments in history. It reminds me of Seven Samurai, with the plot almost the same. From watching Toy Story I knew this would be good, and boy was I right : ^ ).
There is a vast set of characters, from a caterpillar, spider, praying mantis, and grasshoppers, each with unique personalities. From the Las-Vegas style "city" to the ant hill, you can tell it took a lot of time to come up with these ideas. And definitely the funny lines help the movie go on strong with the plot. For a family-movie, this may be one of the most promising ones.
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Not my favourite pixar movie, but good nevertheless. Good morals and good role models, another creative movie.
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Kid, 12 years old
May 25, 2010
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Violence (G): The evil grasshoppers may seem scary to little kids.
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would never 5-8 year olds see this
If you remove the little bug creatures, this movie becomes an adult movie, with all its ingredients of violence and language abuse. The gang mentality to squash or diminsh other groups; the beating up; the threatening. Replace Hoper and the little ant heroe during his beating by Hoper for human beings, try to imagine it as you hear the sounds, and then decide for yourself you if would ever want your young children to see this. When we start at such early age to expose our children to such level of aggression, we are actually working towards disensitizing them.
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Cute movie, some iffy language
We have a two daughters - a 5 year old and a 2 year old. Obviously there are certain words & phrases that we do not use in our house - two of them are "stupid" and "shut up", both of which were used quite a bit in this movie.
The movie is very cute - our girls loved it, but they, especially the 5 year old, caught every "bad" word and pointed them out to us each time they were mentioned. I probably wouldn't have let them watch this movie if I known ahead of time that these words would be used.
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hopper is maybe a little sadistic and make young kids and toddlers scary.But the positive messages is like
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the funniest movie of all time
This is a funny movie. this is a cool movie. It's fun. It's cool. I like it. I highly recommeded it
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it's good I'm 14 and I loved it
I watched it all the time when I was little. It was my favorite pixar movie and still is. It's kind of violent or scary though, I really think it should be PG. There is blood when there is a picture of the caterpillar cute in half and it made me wince. The queen says it's suicide to go away from the island and the bird catches on fire, and the grasshoppers can scare little kids. Thumper scared me a little when I was little, and I wasn't easily scared. But it's a really good movie, you cant miss it. It's good for adults, too, not just kids. You have to get past the fact that they're bugs and be open with it.
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Kid, 12 years old
May 30, 2009
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Astonishing! Pixar follows up 'Toy Story' with another HIT!
Parents should know that the grasshoppers can be quite scary for young, particularly one of them. There are also moments of peril, including getting chased by a bird. There is talk of "Sqishing" the queen ant. Aside from that, I highly reccomend this film to anyone and EVERYONE 6 and older.
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Astonishing! Pixar follows up 'Toy Story' with another HIT!
Parents should know that the grasshoppers can be quite scary for young, particularly one of them. There are also moments of peril, including getting chased by a bird. There is talk of "Sqishing" the queen ant. Aside from that, I highly reccomend this film to anyone and EVERYONE 6 and older.
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Kid, 11 years old
May 30, 2009
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Astonishing! Pixar follows up 'Toy Story' with another HIT!
Parents should know that the grasshoppers can be quite scary for young, particularly one of them. There are also moments of peril, including getting chased by a bird. There is talk of "Sqishing" the queen ant. Aside from that, I highly reccomend this film to anyone and EVERYONE 6 and older.
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Nothing bad
There is nothing that parents should find offensive in this movie other then the grasshoppers who might frighten young children.
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Suicide?!?!
If your child is curious about language, brace yourself to explain this line...
"Oh, because it's suicide" - Queen ( A Bug's Life)
Perhaps it's just me, but I don't think the word suicide should be in a child's vocabulary.
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My Rating: B
I have had this movie since I was 3! I loved it then and I love it now!
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Not the best Pixar movie, but okay
It was overall an okay movie. For a G rated movie there are some pretty intense scenes (just the violence) that may scare kids under 7.
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There are some scary bugs
I saw this movie in theaters when I was 4 and I had to leave the movie theater early because I was really scared of some bugs. Yes I was crying when I was scared. It was still a great film, sometimes the language isn't right for a rated G movie. Anyway it was really good actually when I saw it on Blue-ray. So now I like it. It's just that sometimes in a movie theater the movie has really loud sounds so if you see a scary movie, it gets even scarier.
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