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Woody Allen as a worker ant with an inferiority complex? Sylvester
Stallone as an affable soldier ant who discovers that digging
tunnels is cool? The animation playground we all knew so well
is turning into a theme park full of in-jokes for grownups. Antz
explores age-old topics (one person--err, insect--can make
a difference, individuality and social responsibility must exist
side by side, war is hell) with comic asides and Woody Allen's
funniest quips this side of PG (adults will chuckle at the socialist
slogans bandied about as he campaigns for workers' rights). Sharon
Stone voices the rebellious princess with a fun-loving streak
that doesn't quite overcome her royal bearing and court training,
but she can learn. Gene Hackman is all teeth (ants have teeth?)
and menacing grins as the Army general plotting insect-icide.
This bug's-eye view of life on Earth gives Allen's neurotic nonconformist
an epic adventure of microscopic proportions: a devastating war
with a termite colony, an odyssey to the fabled land of plenty
(a picnic ground), and a race to save his fellow workers from
certain death. Other voices include Anne Bancroft as the Queen,
Christopher Walken, Jennifer Lopez, Danny Glover, Dan Aykroyd,
Jane Curtin, and John Mahoney. The computer animation isn't exactly
realistic but feels as solid and contoured as puppet animation
with the smoothness and slickness of traditional cel cartoons,
and the character designs and animation offer a marvelous range
of expressions. The PG rating includes a gritty battle sequence
that may frighten youngsters.
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