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100Pure fun.
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100Sophisticated, funny, and joyously subversive animated bug epic.
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Antz, with its deadpan witticisms, its heart-stopping shifts of perspective, is completely entertaining, a kids' movie that will leave grown-ups quoting the best lines to one another.
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90A charmer, complete with cute critters voiced by the ultrafamous.
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90A dazzling delight.
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88It's sharp and funny--not a children's movie, but one of those hybrids that works on different levels for different ages.
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A bug-eyed marvel. [2 October 1998, p. 56]
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88Visually, it's more impressive than Disney's “Toy Story.”
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80Matching their superbly expressive computer-generated counterparts, the actors are all enjoyably hammy, but the real star of Antz is the art direction, a marvel of teeming detail wittier and more sophisticated than the script.
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80Sorry, stinging fire ants couldn't make me reveal the outcome of this witty and, yes, surprisingly suspenseful adventure.
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75Refreshingly naughty and nice.
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75A humongous animation event that ratchets up the level of the computer art that Hollywood is swooning over these days.
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75That's not to say the entertaining Antz" was made by Woody, just that it's full of his personality.
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75Think "Animal Farm" redone as Ant Farm. [2 October 1998, p. 11E]
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75This witty, star-packed and visually splendid kids' movie provides a small-is-beautiful message served on a parodoxically epic scale.
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70Katzenberg may or may not have stolen his idea from Pixar, but it's obvious in the film that he spent significant time at Disney. The plot of Antz is pure Disney pastiche:
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70The story is well-told, but so familiar that it renders the surrounding film a bright, shiny, dispensible bauble, an amusing diversion but not much more.
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70Antz works best just showing off its prodigious voice talent.
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70Kids may be puzzled by rebellious worker ants chanting Marxist slogans, but their parental guides may welcome the relief from the prevailing blandness of family films. [Oct 12, 1998 v152 n15 p116]
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70The latest showpiece for computer animation, with all the contoured, suspiciously gleaming perfection that this entails.
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60Adults also are more likely than kids to snicker at jokes.
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60Succeeds at pushing the technology as well as and offering intelligent family fare that won't leave adults bored. Great fun.
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60Sorry, Antz has no show-stopping song and dance numbers, no catchy melodies and no love songs either. The score, made up of old standards, does, however, enhance one of the movie's wittier episodes.
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50Without a doubt, the animation is vibrant and electrifying; it's only the story that lacks.
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50Brief enough, clocking in at 83 minutes, but its story is too predictable to make an impact even in such a short space. Unlike "Toy Story," the dialogue here, written by Todd Alcott and Chris & Paul Weitz, is pro forma all the way.
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50I suspect an account of all the complex business transactions would be more fun than anything in the movie, where you can't see a blue sky that isn't made up to resemble the Dreamworks logo.
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Guy!9For a dreamworks animation production, there is a lot of profanity, but incredibly funny nonetheless.
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