Antz (1998)
74%RT Audience Score: 52%
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
6 wins & 14 nominations total
Featuring a stellar voice cast, technically dazzling animation, and loads of good humor, Antz should delight both children and adults
Antz is a movie that’s sure to make you laugh, but also make you wonder if you’re secretly living in an ant colony. With rebellious worker ants chanting Marxist slogans and a ton of incident, this movie is anything but bland. Plus, who doesn’t love a perfect picnic without pesky human interference? While it may not be for everyone, Antz is definitely worth a watch for those who want to escape reality and enter the world of ants.
Production Company(ies)
ARTE Bavaria Film International, Corazón International,
Distributor
DreamWorks SKG
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Universal City, California, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG for mild language and menacing action
Year of Release
1998
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:DTS Dolby Digital SDDS
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:1h 27m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Oct 2, 1998 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 7, 2005
Genre(s)
Adventure/Comedy
Keyword(s)
starring Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken, Danny Glover, directed by Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson, written by Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, PG, reviewed by Nell Minow, Richard Schickel, Peter Stack, Liam Lacey, Danny Graydon, Sean Collier, Rachel Wagner, PJ Nabarro, Tim Brayton, Kevin Courrier, Rob Gonsalves, box office gross $90.7M, budget, produced by Brad Lewis, Aron Warner, Patty Wooton
Worldwide gross: $171,757,863
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $315,199,897
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 479
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 34,372,944
US/Canada gross: $90,757,863
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $166,553,476
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 459
US/Canada opening weekend: $17,195,160
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $31,555,543
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 430
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $105,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $192,689,806
Production budget ranking: 131
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $103,763,460
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $18,746,632
ROI to date (est.): 6%
ROI ranking: 1,370
Sharon Stone – Princess Bala (Voice)
Gene Hackman – General Mandible (Voice)
Sylvester Stallone – Weaver (Voice)
Christopher Walken – Colonel Cutter (Voice)
Danny Glover – Barbatus (Voice)
Director(s)
Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
Writer(s)
Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Producer(s)
Brad Lewis, Aron Warner, Patty Wooton
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
6 wins & 14 nominations total
Academy Awards
All Critics (92) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (85) | Rotten (7)
Great effects, but surprisingly violent. Lacks kid appeal.
December 22, 2010 | Rating: 3/5
Nell Minow
Common Sense Media
TOP CRITIC
Kids 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.
September 4, 2008
Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine
TOP CRITIC
Visually striking and dynamically shot, this has strong characters and no shortage of incident.
June 24, 2006
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
TOP CRITIC
The filmmakers seem to have deliberately snubbed the traditional audience for animated features.
June 18, 2002 | Rating: 3/4
Peter Stack
San Francisco Chronicle
TOP CRITIC
It’s a perfect picnic, without the pesky human interference.
April 12, 2002 | Rating: 3/4
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
TOP CRITIC
Hilarious stuff, superbly achieving that elusive goal of being entertaining kids fare and having a lot to offer the adults.
December 17, 2001 | Rating: 4/5
Danny Graydon
BBC.com
TOP CRITIC
[Antz is] a bizarre, tonally dissonant mess of a movie. Apparently we were willing to overlook such issues 22 years ago.
March 27, 2020 | Rating: 4/10
Sean Collier
Box Office Prophets
In a world of cookie-cutter movies at least it tries a bunch of weird stuff.
March 12, 2019 | Rating: C+
Rachel Wagner
rachelsreviews.net
Amid all the ingenuity and smartness, the work fails to move and contains little wonderment – ironically appropriating the zealous industry of its on-screen ants.
December 2, 2018 | Rating: 3/5
PJ Nabarro
Patrick Nabarro
It’s the noble attempt by the doomed PDI to announce its worthiness to the world
July 29, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/5
Tim Brayton
Alternate Ending
A Engaging and awe-inspiring animation once again elevates Shrek’s world to fantastic heights, and the laughs are just as freewheeling as we have come to expect.
October 18, 2008 | Rating: 4/5
Kevin Courrier
Boxoffice Magazine
Appeals to your daydreams when you were a kid and you wondered about the daily physical hassles of an ant.
July 23, 2007 | Rating: 4/5
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com…
Plot
In an anthill with millions of inhabitants, Z 4195 is a worker ant. Feeling insignificant in a conformity system, he accidentally meets beautiful Princess Bala, who has a similar problem on the other end of the social scale. In order to meet her again, Z switches sides with his soldier friend Weaver – only to become a hero in the course of events. By this he unwillingly crosses the sinister plans of ambitious General Mandible (Bala’s fiancé, by the way), who wants to divide the ant society into a superior, strong race (soldiers) and an inferior, to-be-eliminated race (the workers). But Z and Bala, both unaware of the dangerous situation, try to leave the oppressive system by heading for Insectopia, a place where food paves the streets.
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