The Ant Bully Reviews

There are too many ant movies, first there was the very good 'Antz' followed by the good 'Bug's Life' and now this! 'The Ant Bully' is like 'A Bug's Life' mixed with 'Honey, I Shrunk The Kids'!

While it has good animation and the cast including Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Nicolas Cage and Paul Giamitti are good, the movie is just boring and to me it feels like we've seen these ants for hours already! Should've laid off the ant colony by now, and made something else.

There was a time when Disney was ruling the world of animation and barely had any competition. But then, Disney themselves trough Pixar released 'Toy Story' and the game completely changed. Since then, even though Pixar and Dreamworks have been dominating the market, you have seen many studios trying their hand at this business. As a result, you have this overdose of CGI animated features and most of them are not really interesting. This movie is a perfect example. Even though there was a star-studded voice over cast (Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Regina King, Bruce Campbell, Lily Tomlin), the whole thing was just terribly underwhelming. Indeed, I mean, the animation was decent but nothing really amazing and, above all, the plot was just really tedious. Only a few years back, the giants Dreamworks and Pixar already made their own ants themed animated features and there was no need or demand for a third one. Even the same year Luc Besson released the similar 'Arthur et les Minimoys' which wasn't really mindblowing either but at least featured some amazingly gorgeous animation. At the end of the day, this flick suffered from the competition and wasn't really interesting or even really entertaining to start with. To conclude, even though I have seen worse animated features, this one is still pretty average and it is not really worth a look, even if you like the genre like I do.