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A Bug's Life

DOWN & DIRTY:
Comedy/Animated: An ant recruits a group of insect circus performers, believing them to be fierce warriors, hoping they'll defend his colony from a gang of greedy grasshoppers.

NITTY GRITTY:
Every summer, the hungry grasshoppers descend on Ant Island eating a large portion of the ants' annual food harvest.

But this time, an ant, Flik (voice of DAVE FOLEY), accidentally causes the food offering to be lost. When the grasshoppers arrive and see no food they're not very happy.

The leader, Hopper (voice of KEVIN SPACEY), threatens the ants and gives them until the end of the summer to gather up another offering.

After the grasshoppers leave, the Queen (voice of PHYLLIS DILLER) gets the colony working double time gathering food. Most of the ants don't believe they'll be able to meet the quota and they fear there won't be any food left over for them.

Realizing this is all his fault, Flik leaves to find some bigger bugs to fight the grasshoppers. Only Dot (voice of HAYDEN PANETTIERE)believes Flik's plan will work, but the other ants agree just to get Flik out of their way.

Flik finds his "warriors," but they are just some lowly insect circus performers who've just been fired. Among them is Manny(voice of JONATHAN HARRIS), a praying mantis magician, his partner, Gypsy (voice of MADELINE KAHN), a multicolored moth; and Rosie (voice of BONNIE HUNT), a black widow spider.

Also in the troupe is Slim (voice of DAVID HYDE PIERCE), an intellectual walking stick; Heimlich (voice of JOE RANFT), a scaredy-cat overweight caterpillar; Francis (voice of DENIS LEARY), a manly ladybug; Dim (voice of BRAD GARRETT), a dimwitted rhino beetle; and Tuck & Roll (voice of MICHAEL McSHANE), a pair of acrobatic Hungarian pill bugs who always smile because they can't understand a word anyone is saying.

Believing that Flik has hired them for their circus act, the insects head back with him to the island. When they and Flik learn of the others' true identity, it's clear the ants may be in trouble when the grasshoppers return.

THE ENDING:
Flik discovers that Hopper and the other grasshoppers are afraid of 'the bird', so the ants and the circus insects build a giant fake bird. The grasshoppers return and are mad because the ants haven't gathered their food. The ants launch the fake bird and it scares most of the grasshoppers away. Then the 'bird' catches fire and Hopper sees through the deception.

Hopper goes after Flik and Dot. When all looks lost, Flik gets an idea and maneuvers Hopper to the nest of the 'real' bird. The bird grabs Hopper and feeds him to her hungry chicks. End of Hopper.

Flik is a hero and he and the other ants live happily ever after.

WHAT EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT:
The hilarious bug 'bloopers' during the end credits.


 
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