WHICH IS BEST? - Antz x A Bug's Life

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[@UltraVioletKnight]

The Termites weren't an external threat to the colony. They had peace with the ants, but the General ordered a war in order to get rid of soldiers loyal to the Queen. They were acting in self-defense.

[@blitzowl666]

Antz lore

[@TruthinessChibiOtaku]

Though this is framed as them still being savages with how the soldiers are brutalized until the true enemy is revealed.

[@jimtaylor294]

Depending how you read the scene; the Termites were actually incursing upon Ant territory, and General Mandible mooted the queen's notion of sending a diplomatic envoy (to negotiate, as they'd been doing successfully prior to then) because he knew it was the oppotunity he needed to eliminate the troops least likely to side with him.

[@lukedrotos8718]

I noticed that the bird plan ultimately failed because scaring an enemy with the false promise of a bigger threat is exactly what the Grasshoppers did, which would've made the ants' goal hypocritical if it actually worked.

[@disgustof-riley8338]

Can't believe there was a time when 2/3 of all 3D animated movies were about ants Edit: Wrong fraction

[@Silver_Sonic_23]

And the other 1/3 was about creatures that are also smaller than humans.

[@HypercatZ]

@@Silver_Sonic_23 It's because the CG was still very primitive, so they got around the problem by using subjects that would fit a very plastique looking: toys and insects.

[@Da1Dez]

Plus there was a French CGI TV series made a year before Toy Story in 1994 called Insektors. It's so similar to Antz and A Bug's Life.

[@lizardlord4k]

Antz always felt like a movie that was confused about itself and didn't know what audience it was being made for, which to be fair fits Dreamworks as a whole at the time.

[@l4zrh4wk]

Wrong

[@jimtaylor294]

^ One word without any substantiation... how cliche.

[@SevenEllen]

I don't think it was confused at all. I think it wanted to compete with Disney by making itself as similar as possible without being a ripoff.

[@TheDerpyBoi]

Im guessing the audience for Antz would be more suitable for teens

[@swiftstreak98]

If Anything they wanted to be the opposite of Disney and at times still are

[@dianelavalentina8666]

I really love her little "I wanna talk... about~" at the start of every video :3

[@awesomealiza4351]

Same!!!

[@Penguinmanereikel]

Plus the “thank you…for watching” and the final end card “mmmmbyeeee”

[@harukatakahashi8822]

It's kawaii:3

[@snappwolftv]

@@harukatakahashi8822 uber kawaii ^-^

[@harukatakahashi8822]

@@snappwolftv x3 hehe

[@sbadapple3473]

Woody Allen was not the answer I was expecting when I looked up who voiced the ant.

[@HypercatZ]

But he fitted the role very well.

[@trentlane250]

what I thought everyone already knew that

[@prowlandsasuke]

As I got older I realized a bugs life was based on the story called the ant and the grasshopper. The ant during the summer and fall spends his time collecting food and supplies to get ready for winter while the grasshoppers tells the ant to have fun and it can wait but the ant tells him he doesnt have time and it's always good to be prepared. The grasshopper doesnt care for the warning and waste his time playing instead of preparing so when winter comes he has nothing and begs the ant for food and shelter. A bugs lifestyle twist the story a bit by the fact the grasshoppers are lazy and force the ants to do the work before winter. The grasshopper get to have fun while the ants are forced to do extra labor

[@TindraSan]

It's also based on the japanese film Seven Samurai

[@gildanonofyabiznez6430]

Yooo I remember that story! Jesus Christ you just unlocked s childhood memory of mine, they used to have these little shorts of animal stories with a message on discovery kids and this story was one of them omg

[@zeonianking2983]

I too, have nostalgic attachment to A Bug's Life. But one thing that always bothered me about it, is it's "liar reveal" scene; where Flik is made to feel ashamed for not telling the colony that his friends were circus bugs all along. Even as a kid, I felt Flik had no choice but to keep the lie going because the colony would never give him a chance otherwise. If he had told the truth, he would've gone right back to being a loser and an outcast. All he wanted was to be accepted, so of course he wouldn't want to give that up #Flikdidnothingwrong

[@sarahsims6164]

Tell me about it, not to mention the fact that Flik was also forced to think that his idea wouldn't work when it was actually freaking BRILLIANT. He had the whole right logic all along, but all the other ants (sans Dot) just wanted to keep sucking up to those grasshoppers. To this day I still can't stand that scene, especially since it detracts from that amazing heartfelt earlier one where Atta admits how she herself feels insecure as she prepares to become queen. #Flikdidnothingwrong

[@zeonianking2983]

@@sarahsims6164 I forgot to mention that the main reason they let Flik leave the island to get help in the first place was to get rid of him. I wish that was addressed too. Honestly, I feel this scene could have worked if instead of feeling ashamed, Flik stood up for his beliefs and his friends. They may have been circus bugs, but they had proven their worth time and time again. And when princess Atta tells Flik to leave and never come back, he responds with a sarcastic "with pleasure, your highness" as sort of a kid friendly f**k you to her and the colony.

[@sarahsims6164]

@@zeonianking2983 I also would've liked to see Dot stand up for him and snap at Atta, being all "I hate you! All Flik wants to do is help but you just keep turning him away! You don't DESERVE to be queen!"

[@zeonianking2983]

@@sarahsims6164 I think this would cause a change to a following scene; where Dot has to convince Flik and the others to come back and save the colony from Hopper. You could have her say that the colony is worth saving; that they just need something to believe in, weather that's the bird or themselves.

[@fruitlion8]

I agree, especially because Flik never told a lie when he brought the bugs along. He genuinely believed they were warriors, but by the time he realises, it's too late to do anything about it so he makes the best of it.

[@MissFxna]

Honestly Antz I like more because of how the characters interact with each other and the dialogue shared, it had me laughing and cheering on the main character even more

[@koatam]

Bug's Life is a parody of Samurai 7/Magnificent 7. A group of warriors with large personalities help peasants fend off bandits that come each year to steal their harvest. The major theme being that the warriors help the peasants learn the strength they have within themselves, enabling them to defend themselves in the future. The twist being that the warriors are total frauds in Bug's life. One of the sad things about those movies was that the bandits were former soldiers that were abandoned by their governments, left to fend for themselves and had to turn to banditry to survive. The Samurai that assisted the peasants were in the same boat, but instead of turning to villainy they decide to hold on to their honor and fight for what's right.

[@vladthecon]

2 things i liked about that film were that the peasants were absolutely terrified of the heavy cavalry even after they killed most of them and that at the end they point out how the manipulative peasants made the honorable samurai sell their lives for a few bowls of food while they kept all their loot and lives.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Isn't that Jeffrey Katzenberg the same guy who is responsible on why _The Black Cauldron_ had failed at the box office? The film was originally supposed to be darker as the first R-Rated Disney film (or in this case, PG rated), but later Jeffrey joined in and cut down the content because it's too scary for kids. Adding insult to injury is that _The Care Bears_ movie is more successful than the Black Cauldron in the box office, which it remained in the theaters for 3 months. (Like cute sugary-sweet animals beats creepy evil villains with sunshine and rainbows)

[@MmMm-sf7pe]

Okay, but Care Bears had a creepy evil villain. That evil book had more personality than any character in The Black Cauldron.

[@Haunted_Plush]

also the care bears movie slapps fight me

[@brandonspain12345]

He was also the same guy who wanted Toy Story to be edgier and more mature than the actual movie with Woody being more of a unlikable douchebag than he was in the 1st movie. With The Black Friday Reel in 1993 before restarting from scratch all over again.

[@dangerfloof4710]

I dont really think that the concept of "who wanted to make a bug movie first" can really be debated considering that katenzburg went on to copy the concepts of several other movies to follow (ie finding nemo/shark tale) to confuse general audiences and ride the coattails of other companies. i do feel bad for the artists who worked for dreamworks to make these movies though, as they put lots of work into making something to be proud of, but it will be seen by many as simply a cheap knockoff. corporate in this case is definitely doing some scummy idea stealing, but i hope the lower level workers who made it are happy with what they created, as the work they did certainly is nothing to scoff at

[@djjamz2887]

The oddest part is when it work in reverse that one time. Whether you like it or not, everyone knows the Madagascar films, and then there is The Wild. And before someone says it, yes that really was by Disney.

[@steamboatwill3.367]

@@djjamz2887 ) actually it was a different animation studio, Disney just released it.

[@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess]

This comment is incredibly stupid and you're an ignorant person. You're trying to push an agenda for your bias Antz is not a copy of Bug's life.

[@technopoptart]

i must confess, as a dirty lil' casual i preferred bug's life exclusively based on it being less ugly

[@fataleflare]

Yeah I don’t like the flesh colored Ants in Antz. Even now I still don’t watch things because they are ugly.

[@biabarreto1434]

It's a shame KZbin is so strict with copyright because you could've easily thrown in a reference to that iconic A Bug's Life VHS trailer that had *NSYNC playing in the background.

[@ariellemcbroom7691]

*When the class all gets the same writing prompt*

[@paulscouten1868]

I TOTALLY have Antz nostalgia here and I feel like it's depth totally makes it the better movie😋 but your opinion is totally valid and I still love your discussion of the movies anyway! Thank you for entertaining us yet again! Great content!

[@zinclaire369]

Same here!

[@ManicShorty]

To answer your closing question, I never burned ants with a magnifying glass either. I didn't even understand how it worked until I was too old to think it would be fun in any way.

[@LokiStarOmen]

I grew up with both of these movies, and as always I love hearing your thouights on these ^^ I love both these movies for different reasons tbh. I agree with everything you said about A Bugs Life but I disagree with a few things you said about Antz. I think I identify with and enjoy Antz because even when I was little I was an outcast. Living with undiagnosed autism, ADHD and CPTSD since I was 4 (when this movie came out) made the world seem a lot like the world in Antz. And as I grew up I found that the government in my country were doin the same thing in the villians of the story. They want to wipe out people they deem weak and useless, people with mental illnesses, neurodivergent people, disabled people,. Hell, over Covid the current political leaders basically admitted they were hoping the disease would kill off the "burden" of disabled people like me because all they see us as is a drain on resorces, which is why they refused to put restrictions in place even after the US started to. I dont think Antz is as much about a dictatorship as it is about what society can feel like when you are incapable of falling in line with arbitrary rules that were made only with the "default settings" people in the world in mind, IE: neurotypical, able-bodied people who will take orders and accept poor pay for their work without question or complaint. I dont think the end is supposed to be about finding an idealised capitalist life, but in finding a life where people can choose their own fate and regardless of physical/mental ability or wants in life, they have the opportunity to choose what they want in life and look after their personal needs and mental health while still benefiting the society they are a part of. But that's just what I see from where I'm standing I guess. Loved the video as always and sorry for this mile long comment XD x

[@dogmanauto8422]

Antz went over a lot of ppls heads, a bugs life had a bigger budget but Antz was still top tier and a very woke type of kids movie.

[@ewwpoorpeople5684]

As the great Robin Williams once said: "Jeffrey Katsen-bug"

[@edwinreid8355]

I'm more familiar with Antz than a Bug's Life. In fact, I can relate to Z feeling undervalued in terms of having skills that go unnoticed like in my last job for example. But now I'm pleased to say that I am getting more variety in my current job.

[@fruitlion8]

I can't believe I never noticed why Antz has a Z in the title. It's not just "Ants" it's "Ant-Z" as in an ant named Z. Very clever considering most of the story is about him fighting for an individual identity.

[@MoonlightAoAO]

I was always curious about a bug's life growing up because I saw commercials for it in front of other pictures but the movie itself was never made accessible to me. YET Antz was every where and I did end up watching it. It wasn't memorable enough to stick with me but my lingering questions of a bug's life remain. This video has convinced me to check it out! Thanks. P.S. I really appreciate your style of cinematic breakdowns and how you never take a hostile or My Opinion is Better Than Yours and is the only one you should Believe Approach. It's refreshing, and really encourages a more level and fair assessment of content in my opinion. So, thank you for that. I feel it personally helps me be fairer to others I disagree with tbh.

[@q.h.s5051]

I personally always enjoyed Antz more even as a kid. It’s been almost 17 years since I first watched it and to this day I still adore it. I remember we turned it on in school one day after finals a few years ago and I mentioned “Oh yes I love Antz! I always liked it more than Bugs Life” and two of my friends were like “HOLD ON A MINUTE! WHAT ARE YOU ON?” Super fun times

[@casir.7407]

i remember projecting Hard onto Flik, like i really felt like i had to turn down my hobbies and preferences in order to fit in, no matter how much i wanted to belong in the crowd. i do want to point out that for some reason my parents, especially my father, used to enjoy antz a lot more than i did when i was a kid. in that sense i feel like antz was done... with a less "family friendly" approach than a bugs life, and that is pretty evident both in its humour and the darker subjects it touches on. that probably was a reason why i enjoyed a bugs life more, because it had a simpler story and two very defined groups, grasshoppers vs ants, that was easy for a kid like me to identify. also, perhaps there is something to be said about how a child may identify more strongly with a main character who is bullied or seen as an outsider but still wants to belong and fit in the larger community, and how an adult might relate better with an alienated worker who finds no joy in his rutinary work and thinks that even those who say that they enjoy the grueling grind are lying just to keep face. in that sense, i do feel like the worst thing about antz is the wasted potential to be a more focused parable on the dangers of a society so focused on labor that it completely destroys the ability of its workers to enjoy the fruits of it. it is inherently difficult to do so without reestructuring how actual ants work in real life, since that would mean a defying of the status quo in which sectors are so clearly delineated by birth... which the movie antz doesnt really blame on anything, keeping it more as a dark joke, while pointing the problem towards the military authority, not the system itself that generated that military authority; after all, if there are outside threats, what will the ants do to prevent it? will they eschew all birth-assigned jobs? will they keep having a military that could potentially hoard power and have a puppet government? will they overthrow the queen and create a commune? who knows! (also, what was the plan of the general in antz? kill all the workers? is he that stupid to think he would last long without those who actually do the labor in the colony? who wrote this movie???)

[@steamboatwill3.367]

agreed

[@TruthinessChibiOtaku]

Megalomaniacs like Mandible are Social Darwinists who believe once the ants they deem as strong enough to become soldiers are the only ones remaining that there will be nothing challenging their rule and they will be protected from any forces that could harm them. Except that soldier ants can't become worker ants, so Mandible's reign will not last long without a clear means of production to control for the survival of those he deems worthy of receiving societal benefits (like himself). His actions are virtually pointless, but that's the whole idea. He is so arrogant to believe he could survive without the workers and with only an army and rebuild society anew that he does not even consider the consequences. Totalitarians have the same viewpoint, and I resent that this film would be seen as a Red Scare film for portraying both what Hitler and the Castros and Stalin alike did under what was not actually socialism but state capitalism. These men believe in utilitarian values that they claim are inherently selfless, but they are entirely devoted to having all the efforts of their citizens selfishly dedicated to them alone. Venture capitalists and the top brass are all like this. Fascism is the end goal of capitalism (though a dictatorship of the proletariat will merely continue the cycle of oppression and scarcity/privatization under new hands that initially only created yet never owned anything). Though ironically their actions create a completely different status quo that will be very unsustainable in the long run (Hitler literally bankrupted Germany again by continuing the war, and I think of the richest men alive today and how if they do allow us to die they won't have infinite resources available to them that can continue being replenished so that they can continue to survive. Which makes me view them as a suicide cult that wants to outlive us even if they know they're not immortal and never will be. None of that matters because of how determined enough they are to let us die before them even if that is their fate). I do agree that Antz doesn't go far enough with suggesting how the rich would survive, what will the colony do without its army and it doesn't really say the monarchy is bad, but the motivations of the villain are pretty clear. I think its why Z still offers his hand to the man that tried to kill him and all the other ants trying to save themselves. He knows that for all the horrible things Mandible has done, they still can't exist without one another. Unfortunately this lens doesn't actually work in human terms, because the rich have already reaped the resources provided by their workers for their own self-preservation. However, naive as it may be, it always struck me that Z's journey from being isolated from society and simply treated as another one in the chain/cog in the machine culminates in this moment where he even tries to compromise with his oppressors, futile as that may be.

[@naxshawaryx4000]

With Antz, it's all about balance. okay with a community you can be proud of. The "paradise" Z finds isn't true paradise because you can't run away from your problems and live a life without purpose. There's issues when living in a society. It's not all cupcakes and rainbows. There's war, theirs diplomacy, but you have to find a way to juggle these issues in the proper manner. At the start of the movie, it's clear that reducing yourself to a mindless drone devoid of any individuality is no way for anyone to live and live happily. Flick didn't have to do any self growth, he was already in that mentality. Z had to realize that, as much as he wanted to live free, he also had to find that proper balance between being himself and being part of that community. In a way, you could say that Antz is a sort of prequel to A Bug's Life.

[@mejorge420]

i wouldnt go as far as to say that antz thinks being part of a community is bad, moreso that taking it as far as removing your individuality is wrong

[@jimtaylor294]

This ^_^

[@DiegoMagengo]

Right, he only thinks that way because the colony as it stood was so rigid and left no room for creativity, spontaneity, individuality. It’s not to say that the concept of community is bad, it’s just saying that community should be more open to all walks of life.

[@Monkey-D-Luffy911]

Antz was literally a fever dream of mine, watched it when I was sick and rewatched it a few years back in horror

[@Roxanne13579]

I never burned ants with a magnifying glass either. Thought it was needlessly cruel D: I did use a magnifying glass to burn leaves though

[@MsPiggie099]

Am I the only one who see a Bug's Life as the alternative version of Aesop's Fables, "The Ants and the Grasshopper"?

[@alechorowitz5279]

Real people: We need to figure out health care Hollywood people: I’ll make my animated movie about bugs before you, mark my words!

[@moomindove9010]

I forgot Antz existed lots of my memories of that movie mashed with my memories with The Ant Bully and for a long time I thought that a lot of the scenes from Antz was from The Ant Bully

[@ultrairrelevantnobody1862]

Neither films are all that great, but A Bug's Life has the advantage of having a superb PS1 game by Traveller's Tales.

[@DrawpinionDump]

in this house we love and support Tt games

[@ultrairrelevantnobody1862]

@Drawpinion Dump 😍😍😍

[@MiharuHiramu]

I remember that, loved the game! In fact I played the game 100% even before seeing the film :D

[@harrietpotter649]

Antz doesn't have a Z in the title because it's the nineties, it has a Z in the title because the protagonist is called Z.

[@friend_trilobot]

A bug's life is still a favorite of mine, I love the scenery and textures of ant island, all the small stones and nicely rendered green plants, and the fake birds is pretty cool - I love birds 😊

[@AgentXRifle]

Also kevin spacy as hopper, probably as bad as woody allen 😂 That aspect i find funny about both these movies.

[@TheCoolCryptid]

I saw the title and for a sec I though we were shipping the movies together

[@jam-vg3dd]

Me: oh ive never realized the antz voice cast! I wonder who voices the main guy Me: 😬😬😬

[@violetpencil9614]

You know I was quite the opposite I grew up with a tape for ANTZ and never really watched a bugs life to its completion growing up. I have good memories of that movie although it did have some crazy scenes But it was like my movie. bugs life was just kind of boring to me it just seems like every liar revealed movie I’ve ever seen it’s not really special to me at all.

[@accleria3892]

I always liked the aesthetics and tone of Antz but found animation of Bug's Life to be better as a kid

[@reinierdash9020]

my nostalgia is from antz sorry

[@aratinatophat1072]

You forgot another copy: A bee movie (Only joking but it’s surprisingly similar lol)

[@DemonicEngineer]

As a kid i compared these movies a lot, but i concluded Antz was better, because of the gruesome violence.. i will remind you i was a kid, and termites that could shoot acid looked awesome to me. I'm almost ashamed of having been so shallow.

[@wessyde9476]

Same, It's kind of sloppy, but it's more interesting in terms of realistic bug science and the gritty semi-realistic animation. Anz wasn't trying to be a bug's life, because a bug's life made ants look submisisve and weak. Capitalism and socialism aside ig also flick is so annoying that I'm just biased

[@DemonicEngineer]

@@dartheverstar9564 Did you miss the part where I said "As a kid"? Of course I had stupid reasons for my opinions!

[@DemonicEngineer]

@@dartheverstar9564 I even followed up by calling my former self shallow. Did you even read my comments?

[@steamboatwill3.367]

@@wessyde9476 ) if Antz was "realistic" they would all be girls.

[@danyellemint2158]

Has anyone seen Ant Bully or was that a childhood fever dream I had for a long time?

[@bradleyadams5252]

Nah, it was real. I think it's on Netflix.

[@TriplaHHH]

There's actually a third, much earlier animated Ants-film. It's called "Gallavants: Another Ant's Life" (1984)

[@nani-jo5wu]

This is one of my favorites KZbin channels ;) great video

[@Mossy-Kat]

I never saw Antz as a kid and only knew about it later. But I watched A Bug's Life and fell in love. I used to watch it over and over.

[@jacotromp59581]

Antz were the best out of the two

[@lpsfankanr1]

I like them both and don't feel like there needs to be a competition lol

[@Rawxnama98]

1998 and 1999 was the best year of my life because I was born 98 and the fact that my favorite two movies of all times came out in those years is amazing❤️💯

[@TheCoolCryptid]

You're really going to talk about ant movies but forget about the ant bully? SHAME (This is sarcastic)

[@DrawpinionDump]

I prefer living without acknowledging that movie...

[@technopoptart]

@@DrawpinionDump as we all should.

[@steamboatwill3.367]

@@DrawpinionDump ) but it is interesting how that film works with the other ones. In that one, an outcast individual takes out his anger on the ants and the ants must teach him a lesson by having "become an ant" and part of the colony. It's kinda in-between thematically.

[@quinbatcheller5805]

I like Antz more. Saw them both in the theater as a child, and Antz unapologetic weirdness just really has a special place in my heart. I'm a sucker for weird stuff, and A Bugs Life was just too much of a typical kids movie for my discerning taste at 8 years old.

[@leasebergfladstad167]

Before I watched A Bug's Life or Antz for the first time, at first I thought that both the movies were same movie when I still was a little kid.

[@emmareiman64]

Had no money for Disney movies as a kid, but they showed Antz on the TV several times, so I got to see it many times as a kid. Never seen a Bug's Life xD Sure I don't remember much of Antz since it's been probably like... 15 years since I last saw it, but I di remember some scenes (the termite fight, the outside world, buff mining friend ant & the ending sequence with the water and teamwork) I think the middle part with the journey outside never really quite got me, but the stuff that happened inside the colony felt exiting, mature and cool in its own way. Was probably because of that termite war & the 'let's kill the weak ones' kinda bits, those are not exactly soft things for kids to see xD Yeah Antz isn't a masterpiece, but it's not a bad movie either. I like the 'let people have a choice, they'll be happier for it' kinda message. If you want to have parallels, you could say a Bug's Life has a colony that lets Flick do his invention things. They throw him out rather than forcefully keep him in to convert him to do what everyone else does - if you want to see it that way. But I do also like the 'if you work together, you can achieve great things' which is what both movies have in the end Both have and like individuality, both have team work in good light. They just choose to focus on different angles~

[@Gnomelander1400]

A bug’s life is better IMO 1. It Doesn’t try too hard to look grim and scary 2. You don’t need a grim and dark world to make a social commentary on power and control, it can be as simple as ants gathering food 3. The characters aren’t ugly as hell 4. There’s no adult references every 10 seconds

[@SevenEllen]

You make a very good point of Z not learning anything by the end of his movie. He's selfish at the beginning and selfish at the end, whereas Flik is selfless at the beginning and shunned for it, but his ideas are embraced by the end and he at least appreciates the importance of community and teamwork. It's one to be unhappy in a bad job, like Z, but another to fight for your community, like Flik. At the end of the movie, it's the workers who save themselves from themselves in Antz AND A Bug's Life from their oppressors, NOT the main character. The hero of these stories are the united masses.

[@krbthewitch]

When I first watched Antz, I had no idea why the bad guy was doing what he was doing. It was very unclear to me what his motivations were and I left the movie confused. Frankly the whole thing confused me as a kid.

[@lixard_]

I’ve never watched either of these movies, but from the way you described Antz, it sounded EXACTLY like how the plot of Bee Movie goes

[@ferminmarkpousada1455]

Great analysis. I'm more of the A Bugs Life side. I like the characters, setting, story, visuals, humor and message, and it's always a blast to re-watch it whenever a special occasion... Antz on the other hand, I don't really like it. It's very disgusting looking, with it's inconsistent tone and story, it's mostly unfunny and terrifying and didn't care any of the characters. But I like how you explained what the movie is trying to say about the importance of individuality. Still, I'm in Bugs Life side for life nonetheless.

[@inkandvinegar]

The acid scene with the termites gave me nightmares as a kid. Also ew, I didn't know who the main character was voiced by until now.

[@xanderg.1070]

Remember how old Dreamworks movies used to swear, like saying damn and hell, and even have sexual content.

[@jamesnicks5367]

Flik will always be my favourite movie character and Bugs Life truly is one of my top 5 movies

[@zinclaire369]

Great video, ALTHOUGH I have to disagree since I also have a bias opinion like you except my bias is towards ANTZ, I had the VHS :)

[@brandonspain12345]

One of the things I prefer A Bug's Life over Antz is that the characters doesn't look like hell spawns.

[@El-Mac795]

Love both, but if I had to pick one it would be antz.

[@SevenEllen]

3:32 I wouldn't say that's where the similarities end at all: They both have a political theme of class struggle, the ants being the workers, the royal family being the richest, and the general in Antz and Hopper in A Bug's Life being the evil billionaire-like characters who want to take all the power or food (currency), respectively, for themselves. Edit: 3:57 Ah! Sorry. :D

[@rickydiscord7671]

here's an easy answer. A Bug's Life ants countered by the crime lord or just a gang. Antz ants government system issue.

[@tomeeshahaller4226]

So the only scene I remembered from the movie "Antz" was Z talking to the decapitated ant. And for some reason I thought it had been from A Bug's Life and not Antz.

[@astonbean]

I personally vibe with the message of a bugs life more, and i also think it just looks way better

[@leafbranchthewarriorcat5869]

My social teacher shared Antz with the whole class because of its deeps themes of individualism and collectivism. And thats in grade 12.

[@pootisengage6672]

Can't stop watching the content on this channel! Keep up the good work!

[@TheSlipperyNUwUdle]

I don’t remember liking either of these movies, tbh. I remember more plot points from A Bugs Life, though.

[@Da1Dez]

I used to love A Bug's Life as a kid, but I think Antz is the better film now.

[@wessyde9476]

As a person who had Antz on VHS, it depends what you're exposed to first. Personally I feel a bug's life is boring and flick makes me want to step on him with the way he laughs and talk. Antz, is weird and mature, but "ye-OUch" and the heavy realistic bug death will top scary grasshopper man and feral other grasshopper. Only thing I liked about Abl was the Mantis/moth couple, the spider, ladybug, and "poopoo platter". Antz was all over, but It was eventful, and they used a lot of scientifically accurate insect things, like ant ladders, and living with a severed head, smaller insects being their drinks, (alcoholic) Being insignificant, tunnel flooding, wasps being around picnics. Except for the main character male ant being small and weak, next to the other macho buff male ants, which would have been female, there is one female worker, and she was kickass, but it wasn't enough. Honestly the ants in Antz are really diverse, Zee could easily fit a trans, nb or intersex role along with others. Antz is more accurate in the sense ants have colonies, and they play into that whole war thing that ants commonly do, because they really are stronge in numbers and attack other colonies. A bug's life makes ants look weak and submissive, when they'd realistically flambe those grasshoppers

[@steamboatwill3.367]

I'm no insect expert, but just looking at IMDBs goofs section pretty much says to me the film is far from accurate.... Just one example that i do know. ALL the Workers and Soldiers would be girls.

[@Snowflakes-s9u]

Ngl I love both movies:)

[@MediaLoverChris02]

I have ALWAYS preferred Antz. It’s just such an awesome and special and underrated movie.

[@aurairah-1550]

Finally, somebody else who’s got a bias towards, A Bugs Life. I was obsessed with this movie as a kid. Hopper is a good Disney villain.

[@aaunyea4799]

*Googles who voices the main ant* Oh no

[@RubberJunk1]

What I like about Z over Flik is Z could be anyone, he isn’t unique or talented. He isn’t special because he can do something others cant, he has inherent self worth and discovers personal autonomy. I feel Antz hints a lot more to self realisation than A bugs life.

[@Micahthebee]

okay but hear me out... *The Ant Bully*

[@crocodile3805]

A bugs life made me feel uncomfortable. Antz made termites put the fear of god in me.

[@almostliterally593]

Antz is much more nuanced movie

[@johncohagen2793]

A Bug’s Life is the superior movie overall with its superior visuals, characters, plot, and the villain’s death. Plus, it’s video game is superior.

[@frozendragonsfan9298]

A bug's Life is a g rating film it had a great story and all that and it's for kids but ants is a PG rating film and it's more for adults to understand.

[@TheTC]

When I was a kid I liked Antz way better, but now I kinda don't like either, like I'd only watch if was on couch and too lazy to get up

[@l4zrh4wk]

Antz was hands down the better movie

[@Alexander-is9jo]

I always felt like the design of antz ants was more accurate and for some reason that's why my kid mind decided to not watch A bugs life

[@sithiboo]

ant bully is the only ant related carton movie i ever watched and i remember it being good edit: nah cuz why did i want to eat some of tht green goopy shit it looked delicious edit 2: also the girl ant is hot

[@madsceptictrooper6803]

Bug's Life and Antz, along first two Toy Story movies, were the first CGI animated movies that I have seen as a young child before Shrek was released. I used to like both of them when I was kid but as grown up I don't care much about neither of them. But there's a bug movie that I prefer over Bug's Life and Antz, The Bee Movie. The Bee Movie is more leftist than Bug's Life because the bees live in a society that is a community of worker bees and isn't ruled by any monarch. Also some of villains are human capitalists. I do knowledge how The Bee Movie demonizes people with allergy towards bees which isn't cool at all.

[@TindraSan]

never seen Antz but the way you describe it gives me a bit of an Ayn Rand vibe, down to the "Utopian Society of Individualism"

[@katarinakrnjevic8183]

I liked both of them but bug's life story is more original .Bala and Z are like every other protagonist in animated movies who don't like each other at first but they need work together to find way home . Buzz and Woody , Sherk and Donkey and Judy and Nick are very similar to Bala and Z.

[@kiriki4558]

9:10 the same happened to me when i was little. Just that i catched it a few seconds before the battle. And i had a nightmare related to it that night😣.

[@SuperBadspeller]

1:22 you're lucky I watch the rest of your video before commenting on this other wise...... let's just say you put a dangerous hand back there Doll.

[@cofeespear4992]

I watched both and have both tapes but I have no recollection of the movie Antz

[@alicorn8614]

A Bug's Life was one of many Disney movies I watched once as a kid and got too scared to watch again due to a giant monster scene. That being the bird. Despite it not being in the game yet, I started watching it again after playing Kingdom Hearts. After that, to this day it is still one of my favorite Pixar movies and tbh the Pixar movie I want most in a future Kingdom Hearts title now that we got Toy Story. As for Antz, I've only seen it maybe 3-4 times and only once from beginning to end. Not cause I didn't like it, but because I never had the VHS at home, so the only time I ever saw it was whenever it was on TV or at a friend's/cousin's house. I did enjoy the movie, I just don't have any nostalgic attachment towards it like A Bug's Life. TL;DR A Bug's Life>Antz is my final answer

[@TheYoungGeninSasuke]

I love both c:

[@Horracioz]

I enjoyed Antz more as a child and as an adult. While Bugs Life was ok for me as a kid it didn’t age well into adulthood aside from the Hopper scenes. Hopper was the bright spot of the movie, S tier villain. I always found Flick to be really annoying.

[@harukatakahashi8822]

The movie in a bug's life is mostly insects

[@theimaginator6365]

DD: which movie is better (A Bug’s Life it’s definitely a Bug’s Li-)

[@GeryNH]

I liked AntZ better. Watched it several times. Bug's Life story felt more generic and predictable. Also the designs looked weirder than AntZ's... 😅

[@DarkHeroesForever]

Quite the contrary in terms of the designs. While I'm the camp that thinks A Bug's Life is better, I could understand some preferring Antz more, despite its inconsistent tone, but really you're telling me that human looking faces on the ants are less weird than cartoon-ish looking faces. I mean that's almost like saying the designs in Finding Nemo are wierder than the designs in Shark Tale.

[@DocKrazy]

Personally I view both movies as an exploration of neurodivergence.