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Synopsis: At an annual pace, a huge colony of ants is forced to collect every piece of food that grows on their island for a group of menacing grasshoppers. But that all changes when a misfit inventor ant named Flik accidentally knocks over the offering pile thus forcing the grasshoppers' devious leader Hopper to force the ants to redo their gathering of food. Despite the fact that his friends don't believe him and desperate to help save the colony, Flik volunteers to go out into the world and search for a group of 'warrior' bugs. Instead, what he got was a talented group of circus performers. But when the grasshoppers return and take control of the island, Flik must prove himself a true hero before it's too late.
Director(s): John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton (co-director)
Production: Buena Vista Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 14 wins & 20 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
77
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
G
Year:
1998
95 min
Website
18,785 Views


Spring's in the air.

And I'm a flower with

nothing interesting to say.

- [ Screams ]

- A bee!

I am a cute little bumblebee!

Here I come!

[ Screams ]

Slow down, you flowers!

[ Groans ]

Candy corn! Here,

let me help you to finish it.

Hey, cutie! Wanna pollinate

with a real bug? [ Laughs ]

Ooh, come to papa!

So, bein' a ladybug automatically makes

me a girl, is that it, flyboy? Huh?

- She's a guy!

- Francis, leave them alone.

- They are poo-poo heads!

- Not again.

Judging by your breath, you must have

been buzzin' around a dung heap all day.

- Come on, Francis.

You're making the maggots cry.

- [ Wailing ]

[ Vocalizing ]

All right, we're dyin' out there.

Gypsy, quick! You and Manny--

- Shh! He's in a trance.

- [ Humming ]

Well, get him out of it!

You and your husband are up now.

Manny, we're on.

Oh? Yet again it is up to me

to rescue the performance.

- Gypsy, come.

- [ Humming ]

[ Crashing ]

- The stage is the other way, dear.

- Yes, of course.

Anytime, pal!

- I'm gonna pick the hairs

out of your head one by one!

- Take your best shot!

- You name the place!

- Oh, yeah?

- Yeah, 'cause when you

get there, you are dead!

- Francis, let me handle this.

- That's no way to speak to a lady.

- I heard that, you twig.

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me

to present Manto the Magnificent...

and his lovely assistant, Gypsy!

From the most mysterious

regions of uncharted Asia,

I give you the Chinese Cabinet...

of Metamorphosis!

Rosie, whole troupe.

Onstage! Finale! Now!

- Okay, I just need time to--

Coming, coming.

- Now!

Tuck, Roll, let's get moving, guys.

We're up next.

[ Speaking Foreign Language ]

Don't you understand?

We are up!

- " Up-a."

- [ Chattering ]

- Hey!

- Hey! They don't understand me.

I summon the voice

of Confucius--

Get off the stage,

you old hack!

[ Shrieks ]

I demand to know who said that!

- [ Laughing ]

- How dare you!

Ingrates!

[ Gypsy ]

Manny? Manny!

I only got 24 hours to live

and I ain't gonna waste it here.

Come on.

[ Screams ] I've just about

had it with these losers!

Flaming death!

I hold in my hand the match--

the match that decides whether two bugs

live or die this very evening.

In a moment, I will light

this trail of matches...

leading to a sheet of flypaper

dowsed in lighter fluid!

Aimed directly at the flypaper

are Tuck and Roll,

the pill bug cannonballs!

The cannon

will be triggered by Dim,

trained to jump

at the sound of this bell...

set to go off in 15 seconds.

Our pill bugs' only hope

of survival is...

our mistress

of the high wire, Rosie!

Secured to a web line

of exact length,

Rosie will plummet down

to these two posts,

spinning a web of safety

in less than 15 seconds!

Not good enough, you say?

Well, what if they were all...

blindfolded!

Ladies and gentlemen,

may I suggest that those of you...

with weak constitutions

leave the arena,

- for this act is so dangerous...

- [ Bickering ]

that if the slightest thing

should go wrong--

- No!

- Go? Okay, through the tunnel--

- Whoa!

- [ Bell Dings ]

- [ Chuckling ]

- Whoa!

- [ Screams ]

- P.T!

- Oh, no!

- Oh!

- [ Whimpering ]

- Water! We need some water!

- Water, water, water!

- [ Laughing ]

- [ Grunting ]

Get me outta here!

Oof!

[ Laughs ]

- [ Laughing ]

- Wow!

- It's the web. I'm sorry.

- You're all fired.

- We got the water!

- Here we come, P.T!

Whoo! Whoa!

Burn 'im again!

No, Harry, no!

Don't look at the light!

I can't help it!

It's so beautiful!

[ Screams ]

Try not to look

like a country bug.

Blend-- blend in.

[ Male Voice ]

Hey, buggy!

What do you expect?

The guy's a tick.

Wow! The city!

[ Laughing ]

Wow!

Whoa-whoa-whoa!

Making all stops to the septic tank,

including standing water,

empty bean can and dead rat.

- Watch your stingers. All aboard!

- Whoa!

- Hey! Oh, sorry.

- Get out of the way!

- Watch where you're goin'!

- I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that.

- [ Violin Sound ]

- [ Gasps ] Oh, sorry!

Oh. I'm really, really sorry.

That was

an-an-an ac-ac-accident.

- Hey, let go of me!

- I'll show ya who's tough!

- And stay out!

- Tough bugs!

- I knew an old lady

who swallowed a fly--

- Wow!

- Move it!

- Whoa!

[ Male Fly ]

Hey, waiter! I'm in my soup!

I've been workin' out.

Feel my wing.

Yo!

Two Black Flags over here!

- All right.

- Hair of the dog you bit.

Hey, who ordered

the pu-pu platter?

Here ya go, slick. Enjoy.

Ow! Aah!

Hey, I said no salt!

Pardon me, sir.

I represent a colony of ants,

and I'm looking for tough bugs,

you know, mean bugs--

Fired by a flea--

how humiliating!

Let's face it: We stink.

- You fired!

- You fired!

- Oh, will you shut up?

- You fired!

Someday I will be

a beautiful butterfly,

and then everything

will be better.

I can't believe the troupe is

breaking up. We've always been together.

- Farewell, my friends.

- To the audience we'll never have.

[ Gasps ] Francis! Your boyfriends

from the circus are here!

- [ Gasps ]

- There she is.

- Hello there, girly bug.

- Shoo, fly. Don't bother me.

Say, why don't you

tell our pal, Thud,

- what you said to us at the circus.

- Yeah.

- Somethin' about buzzin'

around a dung heap?

- [ Growls ]

Excuse me. Hi. I represent

an ant colony, and we're--

Hey, bartender!

Bloody Mary, O-positive.

Aha!

- [ Sighs ]

- Sir?

Ladybug, ladybug

fly away home

- [ Laughs ]

- Not so tough now, are you?

All right, clown.

Get up and fight like a girl.

- Get ready to do the Robin Hood act.

- I want to be Little John!

- What part can I play?

- You see, I'm looking for

tough, warrior bugs.

Stand back, ye flies! We are

the greatest warriors in all bugdom!

- Warrior bugs!

- My sword!

Swish, swish. Clang, clang.

- Little John?

- What ho, Robin?

Justice is my sword

and truth shall be my quiver!

Wait, wait! No, no!

I want to watch this!

-Jawohl!

- Thrust, parry, lunge!

- [ Growls ]

- Me thinketh it's not working!

[ Gasps ]

Back to Sherwood Forest!

- Schnell! Schnell!

- What's going on in there?

[ All Screaming ]

Help! Help! Get me out!

[ Grunting ]

Wow.

- Oh, ow-ow-ow-ow.

-[ Flik ] You're perfect!

Oh, great ones! I have been scouting

for bugs with your exact talents!

- [ Gasps ] A talent scout.

- My colony's in trouble.

Grasshoppers are coming! We've

been forced to prepare all this food.

- Dinner theater!

- Food?

Please!

Will you help us?

- [ Growling ]

- Where are they?

- We'll take the job!

- Really?

- Yes, yes, yes!

You can explain

the details on the way.

Hey!

[ Chattering ]

- Okay, come on, everyone. Break a leg!

- Whoa, you're vicious!

Hold on, Mr. Ant.

Amazing!

This is too good to be true!

[ Laughs ]

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John Lasseter

John Alan Lasseter (born January 12, 1957) is an American animator and filmmaker, and former chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and the defunct Disneytoon Studios. He was also the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering.Lasseter began his career as an animator with The Walt Disney Company. After being fired from Disney for promoting computer animation, he joined Lucasfilm, where he worked on the then-groundbreaking use of CGI animation. The Graphics Group of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm was sold to Steve Jobs and became Pixar in 1986. Lasseter oversaw all of Pixar's films and associated projects as executive producer. In addition, he directed Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Cars (2006), and Cars 2 (2011). From 2006 to 2018, Lasseter also oversaw all of Walt Disney Animation Studios' (and its division Disneytoon Studios') films and associated projects as executive producer. The films he has made have grossed more than $18 billion U.S. dollars, making him one of the most consistently successful filmmakers of all time. Of the seven animated films that have grossed more than $1 billion U.S. dollars, five of them are films executive produced by Lasseter. The films include Toy Story 3 (2010), the first animated film to pass a billion, Frozen (2013), the current highest grossing animated film of all time, as well as Zootopia (2016), Finding Dory (2016) and Incredibles 2 (2018). He has won two Academy Awards, for Best Animated Short Film (for Tin Toy), as well as a Special Achievement Award (for Toy Story).In November 2017, Lasseter took a six-month sabbatical from Pixar and Disney Animation after acknowledging "missteps" in his behavior with employees. According to various news outlets, Lasseter had a history of alleged sexual misconduct towards employees. In June 2018, Disney announced that he would be leaving the company at end of the year, but is taking on a consulting role until then. more…

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