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Antz
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Screenplay by
Produced by
Starring
Edited byStan Webb
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byDreamWorks Pictures[1]
Release dates
  • September 19, 1998 (1998-09-19) (TIFF)
  • October 2, 1998 (1998-10-02) (United States)
Running time
83 minutes[4]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$42–105 million[5][6][7][8]
Box office$171.8 million[9]

Antz is a 1998 American computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson (in their feature directorial debuts) from a screenplay by Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz, and Paul Weitz. The film features the voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover and Gene Hackman. Some of the main characters share facial similarities with the actors who voice them.[10] Antz was the first film from DreamWorks Animation, and the third feature-length computer-animated film after Disney and Pixar's Toy Story (1995) and NDR Filmes's Cassiopeia (1996).

During its production, a public feud erupted between DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steve Jobs and John Lasseter of Pixar, due to the production of their similar film A Bug's Life, which was released a month later. This only worsened when Disney refused to avoid competition with DreamWorks' intended first animated release, The Prince of Egypt (1998).

Antz premiered on September 19, 1998, at the Toronto International Film Festival,[11] and was released theatrically in the United States on October 2, 1998, by DreamWorks Pictures. It grossed $171.8 million worldwide on a budget of $42–105 million. The film received positive reviews, with critics praising the voice cast, animation, humor, and its appeal towards adults.[12]

Plot

Z Marion-4195, or "Z" for short, is a neurotic and pessimistic worker ant who longs to express himself. While at a bar one night, Z falls in love with the ant colony's princess, Bala, when she visits the bar to escape her suffocating royal life.

The ant colony declares war on an encroaching termite colony and a large force of soldier ants is mobilized for an attack. To see Bala again, Z exchanges places with his soldier friend Weaver and joins the army, where he befriends staff sergeant Barbatus. Z is unaware that the army's leader and Bala's fiancé General Mandible is secretly sending the soldiers loyal to the Queen Ant to die so he can stage a coup d'état. At the base of a tree near nightfall, Z realizes he is marching into battle. Everyone except Z is killed by acid-shooting termite defenders. Before dying, Barbatus tells Z to think for himself instead of following orders. Meanwhile, while filling in for Z, Weaver meets and falls in love with Z's co-worker and friend Azteca.

Z returns home and is hailed as a war hero (despite not doing anything and left traumatized). Secretly irate, Mandible congratulates him and introduces him to the Queen. There he meets Bala, who eventually recognizes him as a worker. Z panics and pretends to take Bala hostage, causing him and Bala to fall out of the anthill via a garbage chute. Z decides to search for Insectopia, a legendary insect paradise. Bala attempts to return to the colony, but quickly rejoins Z after encountering a praying mantis.

News of the incident spreads through the colony and Z's act of individuality inspires the workers and some soldier ants, halting productivity. To gain control, Mandible publicly portrays Z as a self-centered war criminal, promotes the glory of conformity, and promises them a better life through the reward of completing a "Mega Tunnel" planned by himself. However, Mandible's second-in-command Colonel Cutter becomes concerned about Mandible's plans.

Z and Bala come upon a human picnic laid out on a cloth, which they take for Insectopia, but they are baffled by the wrappings on the food. A married couple of liberal wasps, named Chip and Muffy, befriend them, though with much condescension, and they all start to break into the food; but they are disrupted by being trampled by giant sneakers and swatted with a fly swatter. Z rescues Bala from the sneaker treads, but Muffy is killed by the swatter, leaving Chip heartbroken. He encourages the ants to move on.

They at last find Insectopia, a human waste bin overfilled with decaying food, where Bala begins to reciprocate Z's feelings. After interrogating Weaver, Mandible learns that Z is looking for Insectopia and sends Cutter to retrieve Bala and kill Z. That night, Cutter arrives in Insectopia and forcibly flies Bala back to the colony. Z finds them gone; seeing his desperation, a grieving Chip generously flies him back to the colony.

When Z arrives, he encounters soldiers who forcibly direct him toward the Mega Tunnel. Along the way, he finds Bala held captive in Mandible's office. After he frees her, they both discover that Mandible's "Mega Tunnel" leads straight to the puddle next to Insectopia which Mandible will use to drown the Queen Ant and workers at the opening ceremony. Bala warns the ants at the ceremony, while Z goes to the tunnel exit to stop the workers but fails, and the water leaks in. Z and Bala unify the workers into building a towering ladder of themselves towards the surface as the water rises.

Meanwhile, Mandible and his soldiers gather at the surface, where he explains his vision of a new colony with none of the "weak elements". When the workers break through, Mandible tries to kill Z, but Cutter rebels against Mandible and instead helps Z and the worker ants. Enraged, Mandible tries to lunge at Cutter, but Z pushes Cutter out of the way to save him and is accidentally tackled into the flooded colony with Mandible, who lands upon a root, dying on impact. Cutter orders the soldiers to help the workers and the Queen Ant up to the surface while he himself goes after Z. Although Z has seemingly drowned, Bala resuscitates him.

Z is praised for his heroism and marries Bala and Weaver marries Azteca. Together they rebuild the colony, transforming it from a military state into a community that values all of its members. As Z narrates how he now feels content about his place in the world, the camera zooms out to reveal that the whole story took place in a small part of Central Park in New York City.

Cast

  • Woody Allen as Z Marion-4195 "Z", an idealistic but anxious worker ant.
  • Gene Hackman as General Mandible, the mean-spirited and arrogant general officer of the ant military. He is also the fiancée of Princess Bala.
  • Sharon Stone as Princess Bala, the Queen Ant's daughter, Mandible's fiancée, and Z's love interest.
  • Sylvester Stallone as Corporal Weaver, a brave soldier ant and Z's best friend who becomes Azteca's boyfriend.
  • Jennifer Lopez as Azteca, another friend of Z's and a worker ant who becomes Weaver's girlfriend.
  • Christopher Walken as Colonel Cutter, a flying ant that serves as Mandible's patient and empathetic adviser who becomes disillusioned by the general's actions.
  • Danny Glover as Staff Sergeant Barbatus, a soldier ant who befriends Z during the fight against the termites.
  • Anne Bancroft as Queen Ant, Princess Bala's mother and the ruler of the ants.
  • Dan Aykroyd as Chip the Wasp, a wasp whom Z befriends.
  • Grant Shaud as The Foreman, the head of the worker ants.
  • John Mahoney as Grebs, a drunk ant scout who talked about Insectopia.
  • Jane Curtin as Muffin "Muffy" the Wasp, Chip's wife.
  • Paul Mazursky as Z's Psychiatrist
  • Jerry Sroka as the Bartender, the unnamed bartender of the bar that Z and Weaver frequent.

The cast features several actors from movies Allen wrote, starred in and directed, including Stone (Stardust Memories), Stallone (Bananas), Hackman (Another Woman), and Walken (Annie Hall). Aykroyd later co-starred in Allen's The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.

Production

Development and writing

In 1988, Walt Disney Feature Animation was pitched a movie called Army Ants, about a pacifist worker ant teaching lessons of independent thinking to his militaristic colony.[13] Years later, Jeffrey Katzenberg, then chairman of Disney's film division, had left the company in a feud with CEO Michael Eisner over the vacant president position after the death of Frank Wells. Katzenberg would later go on to help co-found DreamWorks Pictures with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, and the three planned to rival Disney with the company's new animation division.[14] Katzenberg at DreamWorks began developing projects he tried to pursue or suggested while at Disney, including The Prince of Egypt, a collaboration with Aardman Animations which resulted in Chicken Run, Sinbad, and Army Ants.

Production began in May 1996, after production had already commenced on The Prince of Egypt. DreamWorks had contracted Pacific Data Images (PDI) in Palo Alto, California to begin working on computer-animated films to rival Pixar's features.[15] Woody Allen was cast in the lead role of Z, and much of Allen's trademark humor is present within the film. Allen himself made some uncredited rewrites to the script, to make the dialogue better fit his style of comedic timing.[16] An altered line from one of his early directed films, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) was included – "I was going to include you in my most erotic fantasies..."

Feud between DreamWorks and Pixar

After DreamWorks' acquisition of PDI, Pixar director John Lasseter, Steve Jobs, and others at Pixar were dismayed to learn from the trade papers that PDI's first project at DreamWorks would be another ant film, to be called Antz.[17] By this time, Pixar's project, then similarly called Bugs, was well known within the animation community.[18] In general, both Antz and A Bug's Life center on a young male ant, a drone with oddball tendencies, who struggles to win a princess's hand by saving their society. Lasseter and Jobs believed that the idea was stolen by Katzenberg.[14][13] Katzenberg had stayed in touch with Lasseter after the acrimonious Disney split, often calling to check up. In October 1995, when Lasseter was overseeing postproduction work on Toy Story at the Universal Studios lot, where DreamWorks was also located, Lasseter and Andrew Stanton visited Katzenberg and they discussed their plans for Bugs in detail.[14][19] Lasseter had high hopes for Toy Story, and he was telling friends throughout the tight-knit computer-animation business to get cracking on their own films. "If this hits, it's going to be like space movies after Star Wars" for computer-animation studios, he told various friends.[13] "I should have been wary," Lasseter later recalled. "Jeffrey kept asking questions about when it would be released."[14]

When the trades indicated production on Antz, Lasseter, feeling betrayed, called Katzenberg and asked him bluntly if it were true, Katzenberg confirming it.[13] Katzenberg recalled Antz came from a 1991 story pitch by Tim Johnson that was related to Katzenberg in October 1994.[13] Another source gives Nina Jacobson, one of Katzenberg's executives, as the person responsible for the Antz pitch.[18] Lasseter refused to believe Katzenberg's story.[20] Lasseter recalled that Katzenberg was under the impression that Disney was "out to get him" and that he realized that he was just cannon fodder in Katzenberg's fight with Disney.[18][13] Eisner had decided not to pay Katzenberg his contract-required bonus, convincing Disney's board not to give him anything.[18] Lasseter grimly relayed the news of Antz to Pixar employees but kept morale high. Privately, Lasseter told other executives that he and Stanton felt terribly let down.[18]

Competition with Disney

At the time, the current Disney studio executives were starting a bitter competitive rivalry with Jeffrey Katzenberg and his new DreamWorks films. In 1995, Katzenberg announced The Prince of Egypt to debut in November 1998 as DreamWorks' first animated release.[13] A year later, Disney scheduled Bugs to open on the same weekend, which infuriated Katzenberg. Katzenberg invited Disney executives to DreamWorks to negotiate a release date change for Bugs, but the company refused to budge. DreamWorks pushed Prince of Egypt to the Christmas season and the studio had decided not to begin full marketing for Antz until after Prince of Egypt was released.[21] Disney afterward announced release dates for films that were going to compete with The Prince of Egypt, and both studios had to compete with Paramount Pictures, which was releasing The Rugrats Movie in November, based on the hugely-popular Nickelodeon cartoon. Katzenberg suddenly moved the opening of Antz from March 1999 to October 1998, in order to successfully beat A Bug's Life into cinemas.[18][20][22][23]

David Price writes in his 2008 book The Pixar Touch that a rumor, "never confirmed", was that Katzenberg had given PDI "rich financial incentives to induce them to whatever it would take to have Antz ready first, despite Pixar's head start".[18][20] Jobs furiously called Katzenberg to explain that there was nothing he could do to convince Disney to change the date.[13][20] Katzenberg said to him that Jobs himself had taught him how to conduct similar business long ago, explaining that Jobs had come to Pixar's rescue from near bankruptcy by making the deal for Toy Story with Disney.[20][24] He flat-out told Jobs that he had enough power with Disney to convince them to change specific plans on their films.[13] Lasseter also claimed Katzenberg had phoned him with a final proposition to delay Antz if Disney and Pixar changed the date of A Bug's Life, but Katzenberg vehemently denied this.[25] Jobs believed it was "a blatant extortion attempt".[26]

Release fallout and comparisons

As the release dates for both films approached, Disney executives concluded that Pixar should keep quiet on Antz and the feud concerning DreamWorks. Regardless, Lasseter publicly dismissed Antz as a "schlock version" of A Bug's Life;[27] however, Lasseter later admitted that he never saw the film. Lasseter claimed that if DreamWorks and PDI had made the film about anything other than insects, he would have closed Pixar for the day so the entire company could go see it.[13][28] Jobs and Katzenberg would not back down and the rivaling ant films provoked a press frenzy. "The bad guys rarely win," Jobs told the Los Angeles Times. In response, DreamWorks’ head of marketing Terry Press suggested, "Steve Jobs should take a pill."[20] Tensions would remain high between Jobs and Katzenberg for many years after the release of both films. According to Jobs, years later, Katzenberg approached him after the opening of Shrek, and insisted that he had never heard the pitch for A Bug's Life, reasoning that his settlement with Disney would have given him a share of the profits if that were so.[29] In the end, Pixar and PDI employees kept up the old friendships that had arisen from working in computer animation for years before feature films.[25]

The final product of both films are generally perceived to contrast one another in tone and certain plot points. Antz in the end seemed to be more geared towards older audiences, featuring moderate violence, mild sexual innuendoes, and profanity, as well as social and political satire. A Bug's Life was more family-friendly and lighthearted in tone and story. The two films especially differ in their artistic look: Antz played off more realistic aspects of ants and how they relate to other bugs, like termites and wasps, while A Bug's Life offered a more fanciful look at insects to better suit its story. PopMatters journalist J.C. Maçek III compared the two films and wrote, "The feud deepened with both teams making accusations and excuses and a release date war ensued. While Antz beat A Bug's Life to the big screen by two months, the latter film significantly out grossed its predecessor. Rip off or not, Antz's critical response has proven to be almost exactly as positive as what A Bug's Life has enjoyed."[30]

Music

Soundtrack

Antz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Film score by
Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell
ReleasedNovember 3, 1998
Recorded1998
GenreFilm score
Length49:02
LabelAngel Records[31]
ProducerHans Zimmer[31]
Harry Gregson-Williams film scores chronology
The Replacement Killers
(1998) 		Antz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(1998) 		Enemy of the State
(1998)
John Powell chronology
With Friends Like These...
(1998) 		Antz
(1998) 		Endurance
(1999)

The original music for the film was composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell. The soundtrack was released on November 3, 1998 by Angel Records.[31][32]

Initially, Jeffrey Katzenberg wanted Hans Zimmer to compose the music, but he was too busy with The Prince of Egypt among other projects. Instead, Zimmer suggested two composers from his studio — either Harry Gregson-Williams or John Powell — both of whom had already collaborated on Egypt.[33][34]

Songs featured in the film, but did not featured on the soundtrack

All tracks are written by John Powell and Harry Gregson-Williams

No.TitleLength
1."Opening Titles - Z's Theme"1:59
2."The Colony"1:55
3."General Mandible"2:21
4."Princess Bala"0:56
5."The Bar"1:27
6.""There Is A Better Place...""1:19
7.""Guantanamera" / "6:15 Time To Dance""3:16
8."The Antz Go Marching To War"3:48
9."Weaver and Azteca Flirt"1:53
10."The Death of Barbados"2:06
11."The Antz Marching Band"1:15
12."The Magnifying Glass"1:58
13."Ant Revolution"1:47
14."Mandible and Cutter Plot"2:05
15."The Picnic Table"2:43
16."The Big Shoe"2:08
17."Romance in Insectopia"2:29
18."Back To The Colony"2:26
19."Z To The Rescue"7:43
20."Z's Alive!"3:28
Total length:49:02

Release

Theatrical

On December 23, 1997, a teaser trailer for Antz, depicting the opening scene with Z in an ant psychiatrist office, first played in theaters in front of select prints of As Good as It Gets.[35] Anticipation was generally high with adult moviegoers rather than families and children.

Home media

Antz was released to VHS and DIVX on February 9, 1999,[36][37] and to DVD on March 23, 1999,[37][38] becoming the first feature-length CGI-animated film to be available on DVD.[39] The original release used a 35mm print of the film, rather than an encoded version from the original files.[40][41] A special edition version was released on February 14, 2003.[citation needed] The film was released on Blu-ray on October 16, 2018 for the film's 20th anniversary.[42]

Reception

Box office

The film topped the box office in its opening weekend, earning $17,195,160 for a $7,021 average from 2,449 theatres.[9] In its second weekend, the film held the top spot again, with a slippage of only 14% to $14.7 million for a $5,230 average and expanding to 2,813 sites. It held well also in its third weekend, slipping only 24% to $11.2 million and finishing in third place, for a $3,863 average from 2,903 theatres. The film's widest release was 2,929 theatres, and closed on February 18, 1999. The film altogether picked up $90,757,863 domestically, but failed to outgross the competition with A Bug's Life. The film picked up an additional $81 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $171.8 million.

According to DreamWorks, the film's budget was about $42 million,[5][6] while the numbers $60 million and $105 million were also reported.[43][44] According to Los Angeles Times, the first figure was doubted by the film industry, considering that other computer-animated films at the time cost twice of that amount, and that the budget did not include start-up costs of PDI.[6]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 92% based on 93 reviews and an average rating of 7.61/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Featuring a stellar voice cast, technically dazzling animation, and loads of good humor, Antz should delight both children and adults."[12] Metacritic gave the film a score of 72 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[45] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[46]

Roger Ebert praised the film, saying that it is "sharp and funny". The variety of themes, interesting visuals, and voice acting were each aspects of the film that were praised.[47] Ebert's partner, Gene Siskel, greatly enjoyed the film and preferred it over A Bug's Life.[48][49] Siskel later ranked it No. 7 on his picks of the Best Films of 1998.[50]

Accolades

Award Category Recipient(s) Result
AFI's 10 Top 10[51] Animated Antz Nominated
1999 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards[52] Top Box Office Films Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell Won
27th Annie Awards[53] Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson Nominated
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell Nominated
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production John Bell Nominated
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz Nominated
52nd British Academy Film Awards[54] The Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects Philippe Gluckman, John Bell, Kendal Cronkhite, Ken Bielenberg Nominated
1999 Golden Reel Awards Best Sound Editing in Animated Feature Film — Music Editing[55][56] Adam Milo Smalley, Brian Richards Won
Best Sound Editing in Animated Feature Film — Sound Editing Antz Nominated
Golden Satellite Awards 1998[57] Satellite Award for Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature Brad Lewis, Aron Warner, Patty Wooton Nominated

Other media

Video games

Title Release Date Platform Developer Publisher
Antz September 24, 1999[58] Game Boy Color Panet Interactive Infogrames
Antz Racing 2001 RFX Interactive Club Acclaim / Electronic Arts
Antz World Sportz November 30, 2001 Light & Shadow Production M4 Ltd.
Antz Extreme Racing August 28, 2002
September 5, 2002
September 19, 2002
November 20, 2002		 Microsoft Windows
Xbox
PlayStation 2
Game Boy Advance		 Supersonic Software
Magic Pockets (GBA)		 Empire Interactive

Cancelled sequel

A direct-to-video sequel was in development at DreamWorks at the time of the release of Antz. Like the first film, it was planned to be produced by Pacific Data Images, and was also considered for theatrical release.[59] By early 1999, when DreamWorks closed its television animation unit and merged the direct-to-video unit with the feature animation, the sequel was still planned, but eventually the project was cancelled.[60][61]

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