FLIK: We could leave the island. According to Jobs, Katzenberg came to Jobs after the success of Shrek (2001) and insisted he had never heard the pitch for A Bug's Life, reasoning that his settlement with Disney would have given him a share of the profits if that were so. (CRASHING)(ALL LAUGHING)(GROANING)I Ow! (LAUGHING) I'm sorry!Are you saying I'm stupid? ], [The bird flies over to its nest with Hopper. FLIK: Since you're gonna be queen soon, you could use this to oversee production. HEIMLICH: But I am flying! Oh! "[25] Despite the successful box office performance of both Antz and A Bug's Life, tensions would remain high between Jobs and Katzenberg for many years. I'm sorry. I-I don't think we can do that. Will you look at this colony? Thumper, down. 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! And here's the line again. FLIK: Wait! Oh! HEIMLICH: (groan) I hate performing on an empty stomach! What do I do? This ensured that no two ants were the same. And Hopper, Hopper's kicking and screaming, okay? HOPPER: Oh, I see. THORNY: All right, listen! [citation needed], A few days before world premiere, the film was screened at Camp David. (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE, GRUNTING, LAUGHING)(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE, GRUNTING)(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)Marker. I've spent a lot of time around rocks! GIRL ANT: The South Tunnel Elementary School second-grade class would like to present you with this, a mural we have drawn of you bugs helping us fight the grasshoppers away. FRANCIS: Stand back, ye flies! Wait, wait, wait, wait! I'm sorry! Right away, sir. FLIK: Excuse me. Soil! "It's a rock. Yes, sir. Come on. GRASSHOPPER: Yeah, but we can forget about him! They are in the middle of a top-secret meeting right now, and they really should not be disturbed now. 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That's very true, Hoppy. GRASSHOPPER: Then at least the genius will get smacked, and not us. HEIMLICH: (panting) Slow down, you flowers! Let me help you to finish it. Flea, who floats within it.]. You're doing great! After the grasshoppers have left, the colony stares at Flik. ATTA: I said, even Hopper's afraid of birds. [7] Disney approved the treatment and gave notice on July 7 that it was exercising the option of a second film under the original 1991 agreement between Disney and Pixar. Spacey was delighted and signed on immediately. Heh. [7] Lasseter liked the idea and offered some suggestions. ], [Hopper steps over Flik and walks slowly among the ants, eventually coming to a stop. Excuse me, Flik. ATTA: Come on! much to their fears and shock. Regardless, Lasseter publicly dismissed Antz as a "schlock version" of A Bug's Life. He looked funny at me. Sure, I'd like to take credit for all of this, but, well, that wouldn't be right. A Bug's Life Children's 1998 1 hr 34 min English audio G CC Buy or rent Journey inside the miniature world of bugs for bigger-than-life fun and adventure under every leaf! I outrank everyone here, remember that. "[57] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, gave the film a score of 77 out of 100 based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". I've told everyone you'll be stationed deep in the command bunker. They can't know the truth. Even when the going gets tough, this resourceful but misguided ant . I'm not gonna cry. (ALL SCREAMING). ATTA: I'm not going anywhere. [49][50][51] The film had also earned $46.5 million during the five-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend,[52] surpassing the previous record holder 101 Dalmatians. And this time, don't come back. FLIK: (scream) Ah! Hey, like the one that nearly ate you, you 'member? Schnell, schnell! How about a nice, tasty worm on a stick? Overhearing the plan, Dot persuades Flik and the Circus Bugs to return to Ant Island. I'm a royal ant, and I can't even fly yet. The shift in editing over to pages for the movies, characters, actors, directors, composers, crew and galleries is now fully in effect. -P.T. No! You and your husband are up now! In October 1995, when Lasseter was overseeing postproduction work on Toy Story at the Universal lot's Technicolor facility in Universal City, where DreamWorks was also located, he called Katzenberg and dropped by with Stanton. You guys burn me twice a night, I take a day off to heal. Ideas are very dangerous things. Hey, how do I look? [22] Katzenberg was further angered by the fact that Eisner scheduled Bugs to open the same week as The Prince of Egypt, which was then intended to be DreamWorks' first animated release. FLIK: I'm sorry. "[68], A Bug's Life won a number of awards and numerous nominations. FLIK: If you could just squish me, that would be great, because when they find out, I'm as good as dead. What a disappointment. QUEEN: I finally get a second to relax, and I got to get out of my chair. Thumper is a "pet" of Hopper. ], [The harvesters launch their stalks into the air, crashing into each other and producing firework-like showers of grain. The next day, there was a line of flies outside the tent, went on forever! WesternAnimati. FLEA: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present Manto the Magnificent and his lovely assistant, Gypsy! Ready to make some grasshoppers cry? Alright, let me try it again. GRASSHOPPER: Well then, get over there and check it out! The patient needs her rest, you know. I've got it! And they're gonna make me rich! P.T. [14] The story's scale also required software engineers to accommodate new demands. SOIL: I don't think we need to involve the queen in this. You've got a great rapport going with them, especially after that rescue. [P.T. One of those circle-of-life kind of things. I just keep forgetting.-(SCREAMING) -(CHIRPING, MECHINCAL BUZZING, CREAKING)Ooh! This inspires the ants and the Circus Bugs to fight back against the grasshoppers, driving all but Hopper away. [39] On August 1, 2000, these editions were re-released on VHS and DVD under the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection banner. I'm sorry, he made me laugh.-Please, I'll do it right this time. I-- I'm sorry for the way I am. ATTA: Ah! ], [Flik and Atta turn away as Hopper is lowered down to the chicks. DR. FLORA: Oh, yes, Princess Atta. P.T. FLIK: Hey, guys, this is Princess Atta! Hoopa hates his brother because he is stupid and he . I'm really, really sorry. And from way up here, you all look like little ants! That's Major Manny, young cadet. FLIK: You'll be gone before the grasshoppers ever arrive. What is going on? THORNY: It took the whole engineering department two days to dig him out. -Up-a, up-a, up-a, up-a, up-a! That loser's never coming back. And, um, I just wanted to thank you for giving me a chance, because it's an honor to work with creative giants such as yourself. QUEEN: And to make our official welcome complete Mr. (LAUGHING TRIUMPHANTLY), TUCK: (asks question in foreign language). Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. THORNY: Your Highness, I can't count when you hover like that. Feel my wing. She's the one that sent me to find you! Come on. You know, strictly B.Y.O.B. On stage! FLIK: Really? I'm stuck! One problem: too many bugs. Oh, come on! In the ensuing chaos, Hopper frees himself from the cannon and abducts Flik. [25] Lasseter recalled that Katzenberg began explaining that Disney was "out to get him" and that he realized that he was just cannon fodder in Katzenberg's fight with Disney. P.T. Where's the line? The circus life isn't so bad. I know it's not our tradition to do things differently, but if our ancestors were able to build this anthill, we can certainly rally together to build this bird! And there are insects out there that will take advantage of you. [P.T. Some party, huh? That's the signal! P.T. ATTA: Wait a minute. I got it, J.L.!Alright! Hopper leers down at them. Catmull asked for a short film to test and showcase subsurface scattering and the result, Geri's Game (1997), was attached alongside A Bug's Life in its theatrical release. [56], On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 92% based on 88 reviews and an average rating of 7.9/10. With the anthill now at peace, Flik improves his inventions to help gather food for the ants. Stanton and Ranft wondered whether they could find a starting point in Aesop's fable The Ant and the Grasshopper. I mean, you don't even like grain. Thorny and the harvester-wearing ants line up. Are you saying I'm stupid? It's the same, year after year. FLIK: I'm looking for tough warrior bugs. FLIK: Hey, hey, hey. I will be in my trailer. FLIK: Great. This allowed for the film's DVD release to retain its original 2.35:1 widescreen format. Flik and Atta hold hands as they and Dot continue waving goodbye. You can keep it. [8][25] Katzenberg casually responded that Jobs himself had taught him how to conduct similar business long ago, explaining that Jobs had come to Pixar's rescue by making the deal for Toy Story, as Pixar was near bankruptcy at that time. [Flik crafts a megaphone and hands it to Atta.]. You're not the queen. We'll be out of here before it rains. The ants pick the food, the ants keep the food and the grasshoppers leave! [Hopper slams Molt into a wall and pins him.]. One more for me!Speed!Marker!Action!Spinning a web of safety in less than 50-Okay, slide it. VIOLET ANT BOY: He's a stick, stupid. SOIL: Watch my eyes. MOLT: You're right. Ah, guys, I've been looking all over for you! Now you're gonna cry, right? Ease up, all right? No-no. A Bug's Life 2: Revenge of the Grasshoppers Directed by Josh Cooley Produced by Andrew Stanton and Jonas Rivera Screenplay written by Stephany Folsom, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter [Flik steps back in among the other ants. Although the animators and the art department studied insects more closely, natural realism would give way to the film's larger needs. Joe Ranft, member of Pixar's story team, played Heimlich the caterpillar at the suggestion of Lasseter's wife, Nancy, who had heard him playing the character on a scratch vocal track. Is that it, fly boy?! GYPSY: Aren't they adorable! [12] The Circus Bugs, no longer out to cheat the colony, would be embroiled in a comic misunderstanding as to why Flik was recruiting them. SLIM: Tra-la-la-la-la. Scene cuts to daytime as a conch sounds. Every summer, they are forced to give food to a gang of bullying grasshoppers, led by Hopper. DOT: You leave him alone. MR. Where do you think you're going? Eisner thought the idea was fine and they submitted a treatment to Disney in early July under the title Bugs. One day, a courageous but clumsy inventor ant named Flik inadvertently destroys the food offering with his grain harvester. He's gonna get the bestest, roughest bugs you've ever seen! -This couldn't have happened at a more inopportune time! It was the second feature-length film produced by Pixar. MANNY: And now, insectus transformatus! Please forgive me. FLIK: Oh, oh, oh, this is perfect. The site's critical consensus reads, "A Bug's Life is a rousing adventure that blends animated thrills with witty dialogue and memorable characters and another smashing early success for Pixar. [54], By late December 1998, A Bug's Life had earned over $100 million. He and Atta become a couple, and send Hopper's affable brother Molt and a few ants to help P.T. Well, if Dim stays, he's gonna need me here. ATTA: Flik, you are sentenced to one month digging in the tunnels. I got it. Help! You hit bugs with him. The streets'll be paved with golden retrievers, I'm rich, rich, rich, that's who I am! Okay, through the tunnel [Gypsy falls onto the timer, causing it to ding and signalling Dim to jump. A Bug's Life (Trailers) View source Contents 1 Original Teaser Trailer 2 Original Theatrical Trailer #1 3 Original Theatrical Trailer #2 4 Video and DVD Trailer #1 5 Video and DVD Trailer #2 ("Coming Soon" version) 6 Video and DVD Trailer #2 ("Now Available" version) 7 Video and DVD Trailer #3 Original Teaser Trailer Word of mouth got around. It was very brave. I couldn't resist.Really. [Hopper and the grasshopper swarm fly off.]. Enjoy. We'll just use our imaginations. Ow! DR. FLORA: Who would do a crazy thing like that? She let me go out and find you. I'm sorry, he looked funny.He looked funny at me. ], [Flik peers at Atta through the telescope. I promise to start thinking about paying you. Gaps happen. He is one of Hopper 's minions, alongside Molt. ], [Manny, Slim and Francis congratulate each other.]. [10], In The Ant and the Grasshopper, a grasshopper squanders the spring and summer months on singing while the ants put food away for the winter; when winter comes, the hungry grasshopper begs the ants for food, but the ants turn him away. Spring is in the air. Let's get moving, guys. HOPPER: Hmm. P.T. So who is the weaker species? Excuse me? FLIK: Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers! Iespecially didn't want to make you look bad, Princess. Atta and Dot become the new Queen and Princess, respectively. I'm gonna pick the hairs out of your head one by one! Flea! QUEEN: (whistle) Okay, everyone, single file. ANTS IN GRASSHOPPER COSTUMES: We are the grasshoppers! He got his name due to being fat, gloton and chubby. He wasn't supposed to actually find someone! Hey, how you guys doing? GRASSHOPPER: You moron! MANNY: From the most mysterious regions of uncharted Asia, I give you the Chinese Cabinet of Metamorphosis! (SCREAMING). [7] Lasseter and his story team had already been drawn to the idea of insects serving as characters. [40], On November 23, 1999, a 2-disc Collector's Edition DVD was released. No more picking individual kernels. But my invention will speed up production. ATTA: Yeah, yeah, that's fine, that's fine. Come on. Flaming Death is a huge hit! A colony of ants, led by the elderly Queen and her daughter Princess Atta, lives in the middle of a seasonally dry creekbed on a small hill known as "Ant Island". HOPPER: You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up. HEIMLICH: Mein wings! It was Axle and Loco's! Out! Come here! You, sir, are the charlatan in this scenario, touting your wares as a talent scout, preying upon the hungry souls of hapless artistes. DOT: (laughing) You're weird, but I like you. Molt (fat) is a character in A durant's life. (LAUGHING) I'm sorry! Believe me! My little sister, who is 8 now, wants me to recite them to her as I help brush her teeth every night Moments like . SOIL: Oh, nonsense. I mean, you're his brother. These are the transcripts for the deleted scenes of It's Tough to be a Bug. QUEEN: Just be confident, dear. Let's ride! Get it? FLIK: You're perfect! And as a tribute to Miss Francis, we've changed our bandannas! (SIGHS) Just like me. Fly! -Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis -You guys, I've got an idea! Oh Oh, you know, all right, fine. It's a great story! FLEA: You're a walking stick. Flea attempts to pull himself off.]. [Hopper breaks open the bottle and the three grasshoppers are buried under an avalanche of grain.]. I didn't-- Oh, sorry! HOPPER: I swear, if I hadn't promised Mother on her deathbed that I wouldn't kill you, I would kill you. Where Toy Story focused heavily on Woody and Buzz, with the other toys serving mostly as sidekicks, A Bug's Life required in-depth storytelling for several major groups of characters. I got confused! We can get rid of Hopper, and no one has to know that I messed up. FLIK: Exactly! I cannot work like this.I will be in my trailer.I need a break.Marker.Whoa, Flik, Honey.We are not about to(HAMMER POUNDING)Is someone hammering?Can we hold the work, please?People!Am I in this shot?You can- You can see me, right?And action!To infinity and beyond! MOLT: Yes, Mr. Flea. It's not a lot, but it's our life. QUEEN: Honey, relax. FEMALE ANT: We haven't collected any food for the grasshoppers! P.T. Whereas A Bug's Life relied chiefly on visual gags, Antz was more verbal and revolved more around satire. And I'm scared, okay? I'm not going anywhere near, okay? The queen removes Atta's tiara and gives her own crown to her. Ow! QUEEN: He's our resident thespian. SLIM: Ladies and gentlebugs! They are poo-poo heads! different color of eye or skin, different heights, different weights, etc.). Bird! ANT: A-Around the leaf? The circus troupe flies away from the island, now surrounded by water and whose tree now bears pink blossoms. [The Queen and Cornelius walk down toward the ants and circus bugs joyfully gathering among blooming flowers, [Dim opens his shell to reveal ant kids attempting to secretly ride him.]. ], [Dot and other ant kids are playing in the frame of the fake bird, now surrounded by flowers.]. End of story. I don't know what you're concocting in that little ant brain of yours, but we'll have no part of it. FLIK: Are you kidding? First rule of leadership: everything is your fault. [10] He thought the Circus Bugs were unlikable characters as liars and that it was unrealistic for them to undergo a complete personality change. Do I look stupid to you? MR. Speed.Marker.And action!Are you saying I'm stupid?No!Do I look stupid to you? We've been forced to prepare all this food. The ants shove Hopper into the circus cannon to shoot him off of the island, but rain suddenly begins to fall. Abba! He did it! Soil? Our Blueberry troop salutes you bugs for rescuing our smallest member, Princess Dot. No! It just went away. Gypsy remains inside the food container.]. FRANCIS: So! You're an ant! What are we gonna do?! [22][25] Lasseter grimly relayed the news to Pixar employees but kept morale high. [8] "I should have been wary," Lasseter later recalled. Okay, Atta. Where's Dot? FLIK: No! ? How? They talked fancy to me. Bye! QUEEN: Guys, go shade someone else for a while. This is nothing compared to the twig of '93. FLEA: I'm gonna be rich, rich, rich, I'm gonna be rich, rich, rich, I'm gonna be the richest flea in the land! Thank you, princess. MANNY: How dare you! "[20], When the trades indicated production on Antz, Lasseter, feeling betrayed, called Katzenberg and asked him bluntly if it were true, who in turn asked him where he had heard the rumor. (SIGHS) It's like they're all watching me, just Just Well, I haven't been that nice to you, and I'm sorry. Oh, you're such a cute little aphid. [Manny twirls a leaf and produces a large rock, handing it to Atta. [10][18] Fastened to the end of a stick, the Bugcam could roll through grass and other terrain and send back an insect's-eye outlook. (SCREAMS) (SCREAMS) Get out! "[66] Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune gave the film three and a half stars out of four, and compared the movie to "Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (with a little of another art-film legend, Federico Fellini, tossed in)." FLEA: Hey, Tiny! It was impractical for animators to control them individually, but neither could the ants remain static for even a moment without appearing lifeless, or move identically. Do you understand me? SLIM: Get him off me. HOPPER: Why am I even talking to you? It's so beautiful! All right, girls. He snarls, growls and fights for most of the time. Go ahead. [Inside, bugs sit, drink and talk as a saloon piano plays.]. [18] It was partly based on Reeves's invention of particle systems a decade and a half earlier, which had let animators use masses of self-guided particles to create effects like swirling dust and snow. I'm gonna be rich, rich, rich I'm gonna be rich, rich, rich I'm gonna be the richest flea in the land The streets'll be paved with golden retrievers I'm rich, rich, rich That's who I am - Poor fellow. So, please, everyone, enjoy the party. [22] Lasseter, who normally did not use profane language, cursed at Katzenberg and hung up the phone. - [Whimpering] Fuzzy Lumpkins: I'm sorry. For the colony and for oppressed ants everywhere! FLEA: Rosie, whole troupe! FLEA: I've just about had it with these losers! Then she's dead, they cry, boo-hoo, we go home. [55] At the end of its theatrical run, the film grossed $162.8million in the United States and Canada and $200.4 million in foreign countries, pushing its worldwide gross to $363.3million, surpassing the competition from DreamWorks Animation's Antz,[1] which earned $171.8 million worldwide. FLIK: Oh Oh, this! [The grassopper bends down and picks up a ladybug leaf cape, placing it on his head.]. [7] Walt Disney had produced his own version with a cheerier ending decades earlier in the 1934 short film The Grasshopper and the Ants. [33] Because the film is animated, no actual outtakes exist; they are animated specifically for the outtakes sequence. I'm serious!Oh, Stop the camera!-(LAUGHING) -(URINATING)Uh-oh. So you'll probably want to get going. HOPPER: What's the matter? HOPPER: Listen, if you don't keep your end of the bargain, then I can't guarantee your safety. There you go. Right, guys? It's just one ant! MOLT: Well, how can I answer? And I heard a grasshopper say that when they're finished, Hopper's gonna squish my mom! Look, I've been going from anthill to anthill. The colony is right. [19] Lasseter, who claimed to have never seen Antz, told others that if DreamWorks and PDI had made the film about anything other than insects, he would have closed Pixar for the day so the entire company could go see it. Katzenberg claimed Antz came from a 1991 story pitch by Tim Johnson that was related to Katzenberg in October 1994. Flik lures Hopper to the real bird's nest; believing the bird is another fake, Hopper taunts it, until it grabs him and feeds him to its chicks. (CHUCKLES) Yes. Marker.And action. Lasseter respected Katzenberg's judgment and felt comfortable using him as a sounding board for creative ideas. Boy, are those grasshoppers in for a big surprise! [8][23] Jobs and Katzenberg would not back down and the rivaling ant films provoked a press frenzy. ROSIE: Get back! I have to sayin all my years of watching Pixar films, I think "A Bug's Life" bloopers are the most FUNNIEST compared to the others!!! A splinter! We are the greatest warriors in all bugdom! Flik is the protagonist of Disney/Pixar's 1998 film A Bug's Life. They come, they eat, they leave. (SCREAMS, GRUNTS, WHIMPERING)Marker.Action.-Do you understand me? What do you know? Your instincts on that boy were right on the money. Oh, I-I could-- I could travel to the city. Excuse me, coming through. The bugs, in turn, mistake Flik for a talent agent, and agree to travel with him back to Ant Island. FLEA: Our pill bugs' only hope of survival is our mistress of the high wire, Rosie! DR. FLORA: You see? Gypsy, come. There you go! And that's how my 12th husband died. Just do it again. Get ready to roll. He's feral, vicious and almost doglike (and also attached to a leash collar). QUEEN: What did I tell you about trying to fly? Unfortunately, the "warriors" he brings back turn out to be an inept troupe of Circus Bugs. QUEEN: She's learning to take over from me, Hopper. VIOLET ANT BOY: Nah, he's bettin' you're gonna die. Look. [72][73][74][75][80], The film's theatrical and video releases include Geri's Game, an Academy Award winning Pixar short made in 1997, a year before this film was released. Stay here. She's entitled to her opinion, too. [71] Pixar's feud with DreamWorks as a result of Antz has also been regarded as a factor in A Bug's Life's legacy. FLIK: Yeah, and I've got something for you, too. ANT: No, no, no. Actually, it wasn't even my idea. "The bad guys rarely win," Jobs told the Los Angeles Times. Happening upon the aftermath of a chaotic bar fight, Flik mistakes a troupe of jobless Circus Bugs for the warrior bugs he seeks.

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