The Ant Bully (Blu-ray)

     Warner Brothers Ant Bully (Blu-ray) When you're as small as an ant, the world is big-and adventure is bigger! That's what young Lucas discovers after he aims his water pistol at some hapless ants. They retaliated with a secret potion that shrinks the Destroyer to their size, and turns an anthill into a mountain of thrills, action and laughs! Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Paul Diamatti head the voice cast of this rollicking, warm-hearted family treat. It Takes a Colony: Explore the Giant Filmmaking Process from Tiny Perspective* Ant Habitat TV Screensaver      An all-star cast--including such A-list stars as Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, and Meryl Streep--lend their voices to The Ant Bully. Social misfit Lucas gets bullied by the bigger boys in his neighborhood, so he takes out his frustrations on the only things around smaller than him: An ant hill on his front lawn. After being flooded and stepped on, the ants fight back when ant wizard Zoc (Cage, National Treasure) develops a potion that shrinks Lucas down to bug-size. But Zoc's thirst for revenge gets foiled when the beatific ant queen (Streep, The Devil Wears Prada) decrees that Lucas must learn to live like an ant, and Zoc's girlfriend Hova (Roberts, Runaway Bride) takes up the task of teaching the unhappy boy how to value others over himself. The animation of The Ant Bully makes good use of scale as Lucas grapples with the gigantic world around him, but the writing is not so imaginative; the name actors are thrown away on bland characters and lackluster dialogue. The lessons Lucas learns are admirable (and amusingly Communist in flavor), but the way he learns them feels contrived and uncompelling. It's too bad, because there probably won't be many other movies featuring the combined talents of Meryl Streep and Bruce Campbell (Army of Darkness). Also featuring Ricardo Montalban (Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan), Lily Tomlin (Nashville), and Paul Giamatti (Sideways) as a sleazy exterminator.

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    Great images, fun to watch, my favorite of my kid's movies that I have all seen 700 times by now.....MY child has watched this movie over and over... What's not to like about that...This movie has a great story behind it with cool graphics. This is definitely a must have to the Disney/Pixar collector. Kids laugh all the way through... There is a bit of crude humor, but nothing over the top. It compares closely to Antz and A Bugs Life. Purchased this for my neice and nephew. They have every DVD under the sun :) I have not seen it, but they love it....This is a very cute movie. There are a few parts that I sort of cringe at while watching with my 3- and 4-year-olds because it shows some behaviors I don't want my young ones to learn. (After all, the movie is rated PG - not G.) But for the most part, the movie is great! The script is original, the acting is fantastic, and the animation is flawless.