Search - A Bug's Life [Widescreen] on DVD

MPAA Rating: G Content Advisory: Excellent For Children Movie Release: 1998 DVD Release: 04/20/1999 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 35 mins Studio: Walt Disney Video Members Wishing: 127 Genres: Fantasy, Children's/Family, Children's Fantasy, Family-Oriented Adventure See Also: A Bug's Life [Special Edition], A Bug's Life [Widescreen/Fullscreen], A Bug's Life [Collector's Edition], A Bug's Life [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

John Lasseter, director of Pixar's movie phenomenon Toy Story, has set new standards in computer animation with this effort, another Disney-released children's epic entitled A Bug's Life. Blending classic Disney storytelling characters and the mysterious underground world of bugs, Lasseter has created a film that can be enjoyed by all audiences, and another franchise in the process. A Bug's Life is a computerized retelling of the Aesop fable -The Ant and the Grasshopper, made as a cartoon-short by the one-and-only, Walt Disney, in the mid-'30s. However, A Bug's Life has modernized the story with many new twists and celebrity voices. The story focuses on a colony of ants who seasonally gather food for themselves and a wild gang of rowdy grasshoppers. When bumbling worker ant Flik (David Foley) destroys the food supply, the angry grasshoppers, lead by the maniacally warped Hopper (Kevin Spacey), threaten to kill the ants if they don't produce a new supply of food by the time they return -- an impossible feat. Flik leaves the anthill in search of help in the form of bigger bugs, and to wage war against the grasshoppers. What he doesn't know is he has actually discovered a group of down-on-their-luck traveling circus insects in need of a job. When the ants realize that their heroes are really circus performers (and the circus bugs realize these grasshoppers are really big and mean), the situation goes from bad to worse. Ultimately, the ants use their large numbers to overcome the grasshoppers. ~ Chris Gore, All Movie Guide

Dave Foley - Flik
Kevin Spacey - Hopper
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Princess Atta
Hayden Panettiere - Dot
Phyllis Diller - Queen

If the medium of DVD was created to do justice to one specific genre then that genre must be animation, and computer animation at that. One of the best examples of this is Disney/Pixar's =A Bug's Life, which took the par set by their earlier =Toy Story and raised it to an even greater degree. It's simply impossible to find a crisper, more defined picture. Every pixel is crystal clear, and the colors are as lively as only an animated image can make them, down to the tiniest blade of grass. The video is enhanced anamorphically for 16 x 9 televisions, and a nice feature of the disc is that it allows viewers to choose whether they wish to view the widescreen or full-screen version of the film without having to flip the disc. Additionally, the sound quality is near-flawless with a very well balanced but bass-heavy 5.1 mix. The special features of the disc are not overwhelming, although there is one invaluable addition in the form of "Geri's Game," Pixar's Academy award-winning short film. Also included are both sets of outtakes originally present during the end credits of the film's theatrical run. This DVD is a must for animation fans. ~ Andrew Hercock, All Movie Guide