Review of Antz (1998) by No O — 12 Apr 2010

Antz: not exactly an ambicious title, it may look only like an animated film about ants made by people who can't even spell the word ants. But the film is much more than that.

Antz is the first film by DreamWorks Animation Studios. It was released in the same year of the much more popular Pixar's also ant-related film A Bug's Life. But Antz is, in my opinion, better. Antz features great animation, though I didn't like much the square visual of the ants. The voice acting is great, the likeable main character is voiced by Woody Allen but it also have vocal talents from Dan Aykroyd and Anne Bancroft. The jokes are all funny, but the film just doesn't look like a film aimed for kids, specially because of some scenes of violence, brutallity, genocide and words lie "anus", "crap" and "erotic".

But something that really called my attention in Antz is the satirical side of the film, it makes some harsh critics to the comunist system, when an ant is born the government of the colony already chooses if it is going to be worker or soldiers and they have no choice unless follow the orders of the government which keep saying to the workers that, their work is for the " good of the whole colony " and that "individualism is a problem " and the ants are locked in their jobs for ever without any freedom to choose what they want to do or to criticize the system.

Antz is delightful, entertaining in one hand, and in the other hand, it is serious, intelligent and satirical 8,2/10 - Just Amazing.