If you're confused about the General's plan, he wasn't really going to flood the ENTIRE colony.  He was just going to drown the workers, because he views them as weak when compared to his soldiers.  He planned to start a new colony from his select few soldiers.  That's what he meant when he said he wanted a "pure colony".

Here's the full history:

All of Disney's "weird" movies came from the Florida studio, which for a long time was a backup animation studio that did work the main Burbank studio didn't have time for.

Then in 1996 Disney decided to focus all their energy on transitioning to 3D animation. They acquired Pixar and started working on A Bug's Life.

They basically told the Florida studio (their only remaining full-time 2D animation studio) - "Eeeeeeh, do what you want."

And the Florida studio, for the first time, got to produce feature films:

Mulan (1998)

Tarzan (1999)

John Henry (2000)

The Emperor's New Groove (2000)

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

Lilo & Stitch (2002)

Brother Bear (2003)

Then in 2004 Disney decided to stop producing 2-D feature films altogether. They closed down the Florida studio and laid off all the Florida Studio animators.

Many of whom then got hired by Dreamworks.

I remember being creeped out on how the ants look in this movie as a kid😂

Before Shrek, this was the original “fu*k you” to Disney from Dreamworks.

That was a rather “unique” way of getting a phobia of mantises.

Okay, who's going to tell Sophia that there's a significant character in "A Bug's Life" that is a praying mantis?


I guess it's me.

I used to watch this movie so much as a kid, but now it low-key gives me the creeps after realizing that the main male character is voiced by Woody Allen.🤢

I wasn't shocked by the use of the word "anus". But when they used the word "bitching"....THAT I was definitely shocked by.

I love this movie so much! I saw it yearsss before A Bug's Life, so of course Antz is my preference. And I love the more adult tone. It made me feel more grown as a kid. 😂 Plus the social commentary is always relevant!

I forgot how adult this movie was 🤣🤣 I am genuinely surprised my parents let us watch it so often. For context, they fought with us over Harry Potter and anime all the way up until college, because they were so conservative. Nowadays they don’t mind, lol

at 6:18 the question of "how long do ants live" got me curious, so i looked it up, if these are Fire Ants which i would guess they are since red, turns out the size of the worker matters alot. small ones like Woody Allen only live 1-2 months, but the medium Old guy that tells bout insectopia can live 2-3 months.  Meanwhile the big ones can live 3-6 months, so Stallone's ant will pry live 3 times longer than Woody's.  Crazy

The difference between A Bug's Life and Antz is pretty simple: one is inspired by the Seven Samurai from Kurosawa while the other one is inspired by The Capital by Marx. Pretty weird choices for movies about insects.

5:53 Yeah...this was back when PG used to stand for what it actually meant.  Which was "Parental Guidance."  Nowadays, it more stands for "Practically G."

Fun fact about ants ants can hold their breath by taking air bubbles from water. You see water has to have air floating into it even if it's underground.

So ants linked together mouth to mouth to share oxygen until they get air bubbles. Unless they have enough air bubbles for the entire colony they link together into a massive ball to float onto the Rushing water. Underground then the workers begin to get to work ceiling and plugging the hole.

Some Aunt colonies have a special division of ants that specifically plug in Holes in underground water. Then interesting enough they ration that water out into other sections of the colonies to create mold that they eat.

So no ants are not going to die from rushing underground water

19:54 Well to be fair queen ants can live 30 years so there's bound to be ant out there older than you

After growing up watch both Antz and A bugs life, I have never before thought that they had similar plots??? I feel like in my mind they never needed to be compared to one another.
Edit: I haven’t watched this movie in so long, probably because it’s so damn dark 😱😅

I didn't hate this movie as a kid but the ant bully and a bugs life were definitely more appealing. Especially because this movies art style wasn't my favorite.

God the cringe shit Z pulls towards Bala (the way he hits on her, "I was gonna let you be part of my erotic fantasies") is so much more creeper in retrospect since he's voiced by Woody Allen. 🤢

So many scenes in this movie either confused me or terrified me as a kid 😭😭 and i cried when the nice ant died

seeing the headless ant as a child traumatized me 🤣😭 i refused to watch this movie again until i was an adult, & was still freaked out lmao the whole vibe of this movie is so confusing.. swearing, kidnapping, hyper-sexualized, war, politics, yet a children's movie hahaha would rather watch a bug's life 100% of the time.