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A Bug's Life (Collector's Edition 2-Disc DVD set)

Reviewed on 02/22/08       Plays: 83

My review of A Bug's Life (Collector's Edition), starring Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis Dreyfuss, Richard Kind, and Denis Leary.

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Format: VHS: Gold Collection Edition, Bug's Life Format: VHS: Gold Collection Edition, Bug's Life

Release Date: 2000-08-01, Rating G (General Audience),

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Release Date: 1999-04-20, Rating G (General Audience),

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Format: VHS: Widescreen Version, Bug's Life Format: VHS: Widescreen Version, Bug's Life

Release Date: 1999-04-20, Rating G (General Audience),

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Format: DVD: 2 Disc Collector's Edition, Bug's Life Format: DVD: 2 Disc Collector's Edition, Bug's Life

Release Date: 2003-05-27, Rating G (General Audience),

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Release Date: 2002-09-17, Rating G (General Audience),

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Hello everyone. Playing here is this: this is the Two-Disc Collector's Edition of A Bug's Life. This is a Pixar movie that was produced in part with Disney and it's about a colony of ants who are frequently confronted with a group of grasshoppers who are bigger and really mean and the ants don't like them and the grasshoppers show up and just take all of their food that they've been accumulating for a very long time and here's one there arriving right now. They are not very nice guys. The main ant is voiced by Dave Foley who was part of The Kids in the Hall sketch comedy group and he does a pretty good job in this movie. They send him out to well he accidentally gets rid of the food. He loses it through an accident and it's his fault so the rest of the ants say you gotta go and get some help so he goes out to get some help and he finds a group of other bugs that appear to be able to solve their problem but they turn out just to be like a circus troupe so yeah they have to figure out a way to you know stop the grasshoppers you know from being jerks basically and it's a pretty good movie. It's you know a Pixar animated movie so of course it looks really good and this is a really good edition of this. It's a two-disc set. It has both the full frame version of the movie and the anamorphic widescreen edition of it. There's a commentary track with John Lasseter who directed this movie as well as the Toy Story movies and also on the commentary track is Andrew Stanton a co-director and co-writer of the motion picture and Lee Unkrich who is the supervising film editor. Disc Two has a whole ton of supplemental stuff and early presentation of a reel entitled Fleabie. There's a behind the scenes look at the creation of A Bug's Life and early production tests trailers and posters some hilarious outtakes and I don't know if they're hilarious myself. I was reading it. I don't vouch for the hilarity of said outtakes and yeah introductions and explanations by the filmmakers. There's a really neat track on the first disc that lets you watch the movie just with sound effects no dialogue and it gives you an idea of how much work the foley mixers had to do in terms of just you know gathering sound effects and everything and it's really cool. It's a fun movie. It's really great looking at it. It just looks fantastic. The animation is great. Other people who do voices are Dennis Leary and Julia-Louis Dreyfuss and Richard Kind and Kevin Spacey plays the head grasshopper who is the biggest jerk of all. It's a fun movie. It's a good looking movie. It's a kids movie but it's still fun and I enjoy it and recommend it.

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There was such a magic on the screen in 1995 when the people at Pixar came up with the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story . Their second feature film, A Bug's Life , may miss the bull's-eye but Pixar's target is so lofty, it's hard to find the film anything less than irresistible....

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There was such a magic on the screen in 1995 when the people at Pixar came up with the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story . Their second feature film, A Bug's Life , may miss the bull's-eye but Pixar's target is so lofty, it's hard to find the film anything less than irresistible. Brighter and more colorful than the other animated insect movie of 1998 ( Antz ), A Bug's Life is the sweetly told story of Flik (voiced by David Foley), an ant searching for better ways to be a bug. His colony unfortunately revolves around feeding and fearing the local grasshoppers (lead by Hopper, voiced with gleeful menace by Kevin Spacey). When Flik accidentally destroys the seasonal food supply for the grasshoppers he decides to look for help ("We need bigger bugs!"). The ants, led by Princess Atta (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), are eager to dispose of the troublesome Flik. Yet he finds help--a hearty bunch of bug warriors--and brings them back to the colony. Unfortunately they are just traveling performers afraid of conflict. As with Toy Story , the ensemble of creatures and voices is remarkable and often inspired. Highlights include wiseacre comedian Denis Leary as an un-ladylike ladybug, Joe Ranft as the German-accented caterpillar, David Hyde Pierce as a stick bug, and Michael McShane as a pair of unintelligible pillbugs. The scene-stealer is Atta's squeaky-voiced sister, baby Dot (Hayden Panettiere), who has a big sweet spot for Flik. More gentle and kid-friendly than Antz , A Bug Life's still has some good suspense and a wonderful demise of the villain. However, the film--a giant worldwide hit--will be remembered for its most creative touch: "outtakes" over the end credits à la many live-action comedy films. These dozen or so scenes (both "editions" of outtakes are contained here) are brilliant and deserve a special place in film history right along with 1998's other most talked-about sequence: the opening Normandy invasion in Saving Private Ryan . The video also contains Pixar's delightful Oscar-winning short, Geri's Game . Box art varies. --Doug Thomas
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