Film

A Bug's Life 1998

Directed by John Lasseter

  • Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
  • 95 min
  • G

An epic of miniature proportions.

On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.

AdventureAnimationComedyFamilyfightcircuswinterant-hillantvillaininventioncollectoranthropomorphismgrassfoodduringcreditsstinger

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Resolved, classical in form, effortless and plot-driven.

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