The company had grown in their success and had already been working on their second feature about an ant colony, a project that was originally referred to as simply “Bugs.” The movie about a grasshopper-threatened ant colony whose only hope lies in a group of misfit circus bugs, went through several versions before hitting theatres in the fall of 1998. The Sweatbox Review:īy 1998, Pixar had become famous for the worldwide success of their first feature, Toy Story, which had become the first fully computer-animated feature to be released in theatres. All of this happens as the grasshoppers are getting ready to return to the colony to teach the ants a lesson about not respecting the grasshoppers as superior species. As time passes, Flik gets romantically closer to Princess Atta, and the bugs become integrated into a community that admires them and gives them everything that they have ever wanted: applause. To save his own face, Flik tells the bugs to pretend to be warriors, while he figures out a way to save the colony. A feast is thrown for the brave “warriors” when they find out that they have actually been hired to fight against then grasshoppers, when they thought they had to entertain them. The bugs proclaim that they will give the grasshoppers a night they will never forget and that they will knock them dead. Once they arrive back at the colony, they are greeted by cheers and wonder by the ants who didn’t think that Flik would ever return alive. In order to get rid of Flik, the colony sends him out on this suicide mission to find these bugs and bring them back to the colony. As Flik awaits his punishment, and realizing the injustice of the grasshopper’s demands, he gets the dangerous idea of finding bigger bugs to fight the grasshoppers. The grasshoppers arrive and break into the ant hill threatening to destroy the colony if by their return at the end of the season when the last leaf falls they don’t get double the amount of offerings. Unfortunately for Flik and the rest of the colony, his machine knocks down the altar throwing the leaf and all of the grain into the stream. Flik, still trying to use his new contraption to put grains on top of the altar is struggling to get it to work before the grasshoppers arrive. At the sound of an approaching horde of grasshoppers, the ants hurry underground. Nearby, Flik, another ant and the hero of our story, is trying a new machine that will speed up the harvesting process, but is reprimanded for trying to do things differently. One of the royals of the colony, Princess Atta, is nervously overseeing the process as she tries to learn what it takes to be a queen from her mother. There, ants are busy harvesting grains and piling them up on a big leaf on top of an altar. A Bug’s Life begins with a spectacular shot of large tree on an island in the middle of a river bed.
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