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A Bug's Life
File:Bugslifeposter.jpg Original theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Lasseter
Produced by	Darla K. Anderson Kevin Reher
Screenplay by	Andrew Stanton Donald McEnery Bob Shaw
Story by	John Lasseter Andrew Stanton Joe Ranft
Starring	Dave Foley Kevin Spacey Julia Louis-Dreyfus Hayden Panettiere
Music by	Randy Newman
Cinematography	Sharon Calahan
Editing by	Lee Unkrich
Studio	Pixar
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	November 25, 1998 (1998-11-25)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$60 million
Box office	$363,398,565

A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer animated adventure comedy film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States on November 25, 1998. Directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Andrew Stanton, the film is the second Disney-Pixar feature film after Toy Story, and the third American computer-animated film after Toy Story and DreamWorks' Antz. Based on Akira Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai, and Aesop's fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper", it tells the tale of an oddball individualist inventor ant named Flik who hires what he thinks are "warrior bugs" — actually circus performers — to fight off a small band of grasshoppers who have made the ant colony their servants. The film received positive reception and was a box office success.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Music
5 Reception
6 Release
- 6.1 Home media
7 Media and merchandise
8 References
9 External links

Plot [link]

Flik is an individualist and would-be inventor in a colony of ants — led by Princess Atta and her mother, The Queen — living on a small island in the middle of a creek. Flik is different and always unappreciated because of his inventions causing trouble. The colony is constantly oppressed by a gang of marauding grasshoppers who arrive every season demanding food from the ants. However, when an offering that the ants were putting together to appease the grasshoppers is accidentally knocked into a stream by Flik's latest invention, a harvester device, the grasshoppers demand twice as much food at the end of the season. Given a temporary reprieve by the grasshoppers, the ants pretend to agree to Flik's plan to recruit "warrior bugs" to fight off the grasshoppers. While Flik actually believes in the plan, the other ants see it as a fool's errand to get rid of Flik.

Flik finds his way to the "big city" (a heap of trash under a trailer), where he mistakes a group of circus bugs, whose act collapses into chaos, for the warrior bugs he's seeking. The bugs meanwhile mistake Flik for a talent agent, and agree to travel with him back to Ant Island.

The bugs earn the ants' respect after they save the Queen's youngest daughter, Dot, from a bird. The bird attack inspires Flik into making a plan to build a fake bird that they can use to scare Hopper away, leader of the grasshoppers, who is deeply afraid of bug-eating birds. Eventually, the troupe's former ringmaster, P.T. Flea, arrives searching for the circus bugs. Angered at Flik's deception, the ants exile him.

The ants desperately try to pull together enough food for a new offering to the grasshoppers, but are unable to do so. After overhearing Hopper's plan to kill the queen after the offering, Dot leaves in search of Flik and convinces him to return and save the colony with his original plan. The plan nearly works, but P.T. Flea mistakes the model for a real bird and sets it on fire, causing Hopper to realize that he has been tricked. He orders Flik to be beaten, and before finishing him off Princess Atta steps in and defends Flik, prompting the rest of the colony to stand up to the grasshoppers and drive them out of the colony. In the chaos, Hopper viciously pursues Flik, who leads him to an actual bird's nest, where he is ultimately eaten by the bird and its chicks, ending his menace.

Some time later, Flik has been welcomed back to the colony, and the circus bugs join him in a celebration; he and Atta are now a couple, and Atta is crowned the new Queen. The circus troupe then departs as Flik, Atta and Dot watch and wave farewell from a tree branch.

Cast [link]

Dave Foley as Flik: An ant who wants to make a difference for his colony.
Kevin Spacey as Hopper: The leader of the grasshoppers.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Princess Atta: The eldest daughter and heir of The Queen, Dot's older sister and Flik's love interest.
Hayden Panettiere as Dot: The Queen's youngest daughter, Atta's younger sister and one of Flik's friends.
Phyllis Diller as The Queen: Atta and Dot's mother and the leader of the ants.
Richard Kind as Molt: Hopper's younger brother.
David Hyde Pierce as Slim: A Walking Stick who is part of P.T. Flea's circus troupe.
Joe Ranft as Heimlich: A Caterpillar who is part of P.T. Flea's circus troupe; likes to eat.
Denis Leary as Francis: A Ladybug who is part of P.T. Flea's circus troupe; has a bad temper due to often being mistaken for a female.
Jonathan Harris as Manny: A Praying Mantis who is part of P.T. Flea's circus troupe.
Madeline Kahn as Gypsy: A Gypsy Moth who is part of P.T. Flea's circus troupe; Manny's wife.
Bonnie Hunt as Rosie: A Black Widow Spider who is part of P.T. Flea's circus troupe; acts like a mother figure to Dim and the younger ants in the colony.
Mike McShane as Tuck and Roll: Two Woodlice who are part of P.T. Flea's circus troupe.
John Ratzenberger as P.T. Flea: A Flea who is the boss of the circus troupe.
Brad Garrett as Dim: A Rhinoceros Beetle who is part of P.T. Flea's circus troupe; acts like a son to Rosie.
Roddy McDowall as Mr. Soil: The head ant in the colony and a thespian. This is McDowall's last film after his death in October.
Edie McClurg as Dr. Flora: The doctor of the ant colony.
Alex Rocco as Thorny: A member of the Council of Ants.
David Ossman as Cornelius: An elderly ant.

Production [link]

In 1988, Disney had considered producing a film entitled "Army Ants", that centered around a pacifist ant living in a militaristic colony. However, the idea never fully materialized.^[1]

In 1994, while working on Toy Story, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter and Joe Ranft attended a lunch to discuss future projects. They talked about doing Aesop's fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper", but with a twist. They eventually decided that instead of having the Grasshopper beg for food, it would demand it.^[2] The Japanese film Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa influenced the story. In early versions, Flik was an ant named Red and was part of P.T's Circus. However this created several story problems and he was changed to the ant sent to hire the warrior bugs.^[3] The characters of "Tuck and Roll" were inspired by a drawing that Andrew Stanton did of two bugs fighting when he was in Second Grade.^[2]

Kevin Spacey met John Lasseter at the 1995 Academy Awards (Spacey being there for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Usual Suspects and Lasseter being there for Academy Special Achievement Award for Toy Story). When Lasseter asked Spacey if he would be interested in doing the voice of Hopper, Spacey was delighted.^[3]

For research, Pixar ordered a tiny camera, put Lego wheels on it, attached it to a stick and named it the "Bug-Cam". The "Bug-Cam" was then wheeled out onto the garden of Pixar in order to see what small objects looked like from a bugs point of view. The artists were amazed by the translucency of the world. Lasseter claimed "It was like living in a world of stained glass windows." The animators also studied the movement of insects to apply to the characters.^[4]

The technical artists created crowd simulation, allowing the film makers to create over 430 shots with over 800 characters in the frame without having to animate every single ant. The animators would only animate 4–5 groups of approximately 8 individual universal ants. Each one of these universal ants would later be randomly distributed throughout the digital set. The program also allowed each ant to be automatically modified in subtle ways (e.g. different eye color, different skin color, different heights, different weights etc.). This made sure that no two ants were the same.^[4]

DreamWorks Animation's similar film Antz was released a little more than a month before A Bug's Life. DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg left Disney in 1994 and said the idea for Antz came from a 1991 story pitch by Tim Johnson that was related to Katzenberg in October 1994. Pixar head John Lasseter said he felt "betrayed" when he learned Antz was scheduled for release before A Bug's Life.^[1] According to Lasseter and Steve Jobs, Katzenberg offered to stop development of Antz if Disney moved the release date of A Bug's Life, which was coming out opposite DreamWorks Animation's The Prince of Egypt. Pixar refused.^[1]

The release date of Antz was moved up from March 1999 to October 1998 in response to Pixar's refusal.^[5] Even though A Bug's Life was the first to be pitched, Antz was finished and released first.^[5] A Bug's Life, however, was a bigger success.

Music [link]

A Bug's Life: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack

File:ABugsLife Soundtrack.jpg

Soundtrack album by Randy Newman

Released

October 27, 1998

Recorded

1997–1998

Genre

Score

Length

47:32

Label

Walt Disney

Pixar soundtrack chronology

Toy Story
(1995)

A Bug's Life
(1998)

Toy Story 2
(1999)

A Bug's Life: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the original soundtrack album to A Bug's Life, produced by Walt Disney Records. The first track of the album is song called "The Time of Your Life" written and performed by Newman, while all the other tracks are orchestral cues. The album has gone off the market but is available for purchase on iTunes.

The score won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition

All songs written and composed by Randy Newman.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Time of Your Life" (performed by Newman)	3:16
2.	"The Flik Machine"	2:54
3.	"Seed to Tree"	1:01
4.	"Red Alert"	1:49
5.	"Hopper and his Gang"	3:21
6.	"Flik Leaves"	2:37
7.	"Circus Bugs"	1:27
8.	"The City"	2:35
9.	"Robin Hood"	0:59
10.	"Return to Colony"	1:33
11.	"Flik's Return"	1:24
12.	"Loser"	2:43
13.	"Dot's Rescue"	4:00
14.	"Atta"	1:08
15.	"Don't Come Back"	1:07
16.	"Grasshoppers' Return"	3:01
17.	"The Bird Flies"	2:38
18.	"Ants Fight Back"	2:14
19.	"Victory"	2:33
20.	"A Bug's Life Suite"	5:12
Total length:		47:32

Reception [link]

Critical reception [link]

The film received very positive reviews upon release. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 92% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 81 reviews, with an average score of 7.9/10. The critical consensus is "Blending top notch animation with rousing adventure, witty dialogue, and memorable characters, A Bug's Life is another Pixar winner."^[6] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 77 based on 23 reviews."^[7]

Box office [link]

A Bug's Life grossed approximately $33,258,052 on its opening weekend, ranking #1 for that weekend. It managed to retain its #1 spot for two weeks. The film eventually made $162.7 million in its United States theatrical run, covering its estimated production costs of $45 million. The film made $200,600,000 in foreign countries. The film made a worldwide gross of $363.3 million, surpassing the competition from DreamWorks Animation's Antz.

Awards [link]

Main article: List of Pixar awards and nominations (feature films)#A Bug's Life

American Film Institute [link]

The American Film Institute nominated A Bug's Life for its Top 10 Animated Films list.^[8]

Release [link]

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Home media [link]

The DVD of the film was the first wholly digital transfer of a feature film to a digital playback medium. No analog processes came between the creation of the computer images and their representation on the DVD.

The pan and scan or 'full screen' version of the video (on the DVD as well as VHS releases) has been reframed and restaged; rather than sacrifice image in some parts of the film, the frame has been extended or objects moved to fit the narrower aspect ratio. Pixar continued this process on its later video releases. Also, different characters (Flik, Dot, Francis, Hopper, and Heimlich) were on one (by themselves) cover of the video cover, considered a collectible in many cases.^{[citation needed]}

To show off its new DVD capabilities, a copy of the film was included with the Apple iMac DV, which made its debut on October 8, 1997. A laserdisc version was also released in Japan by Pioneer, one of the last. The film was released on August 15, 2000 on VHS and DVD in the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection.

The widescreen version of the film preserves its original aspect ratio of 2.40:1. A Bug's Life is the first fully computer animated feature to be created with this ratio.

A set of "fluffs" and "outtakes" was included, in which various animated characters corpse or "blow" their dialog. In one, Flik yells the line "To infinity, and beyond!", quoting Buzz Lightyear from an earlier Pixar film, Toy Story. Later, Woody leans into view with an upside down clapperboard to mark the end of a botched take.

On July 19, 2005, another DVD was released as a Special Edition. This DVD is fully remastered and has substantial bonus features about the film, and is the current DVD release today. On May 19, 2009, a Blu-ray version was released. These versions included a DisneyFile Digital Copy.

A Bug's Land is a section of Disney California Adventure Park is entirely dedicated to A Bug's Life. One of the main attractions is the 3D show It's Tough to Be a Bug! which is also in Disney's Animal Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort. The Disney California Adventure Park attraction, World of Color features a segment focused on A Bug's Life.

References [link]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Antz vs. Bugs". Business Week. November 23, 1998. http://www.businessweek.com/1998/47/b3605013.htm.
^ ^a ^b Pixar Animation Studios, official website, feature films, A Bugs Life, The inspiration
^ ^a ^b A Bugs Life, DVD Commentary
^ ^a ^b A Bugs Life, DVD Behind the Scenes
^ ^a ^b "Of Ants, Bugs, and Rug Rats: The Story of Dueling Bug Movies". AP. October 2, 1998. http://laprensa-sandiego.org/archieve/october02/ants.htm.
^ "A Bug's Life Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bugs_life/. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
^ "A Bug's Life Reviews, Ratings, and more at Metacritic". Metacritic. http://www.metacritic.com/movie/a-bugs-life/. Retrieved July 22, 2011.
^ AFI's 10 Top 10 Ballot

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Pixar

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Released	Toy Story (1995) A Bug's Life (1998) Toy Story 2 (1999) Monsters, Inc. (2001) Finding Nemo (2003) The Incredibles (2004) Cars (2006) Ratatouille (2007) WALL-E (2008) Up (2009) Toy Story 3 (2010) Cars 2 (2011)

Upcoming	Brave (2012) Monsters University (2013) The Good Dinosaur (2014) Untitled Pixar Movie that Takes You Inside the Mind (2015) Dia de los Muertos themed movie (2015)

Shorts

Original	Luxo Jr. (1986) Red's Dream (1987) Tin Toy (1988) Knick Knack (1989) Geri's Game (1997) For the Birds (2000) Boundin' (2003) One Man Band (2005) Lifted (2006) Presto (2008) Partly Cloudy (2009) Day & Night (2010) La Luna (2011)

Feature-related	Mike's New Car (2002) Jack-Jack Attack (2005) Mater and the Ghostlight (2006) Your Friend the Rat (2007) BURN-E (2008) Dug's Special Mission (2009) Hawaiian Vacation (2011) Small Fry (2011)

Short series	Cars Toons (2008–) Toy Story Toons (2011–)

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Tiny Toy Stories (1996)
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The Pixar Story (2007)

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