The overuse of big star Hollywood actors as opposed to actual voice actors that know what they're doing. Or how the attempted realism makes the film age so much worse than its counterpart from Disney or the whole weird contrivance with Disney. But at the end of the day this movie is so generic and unoffensive that I can't be bothered to care about it.
There's certain aspects to the film that I like.
I like the idea of the class system and how everybody just kind of gets along with their day because their literal ants living in a colony and they've never conceived the motion of trying to be anything that they're not.
But then the film gets bogged down in silly little character dramas and dumb dialogue between our Hollywood actors who don't give two flying craps about what they're actually doing. They're just giving out a voice and then moving on with their day. I guess Gene Hackman dose an okay job. He plays the general and gives a pretty stoic response but everybody else is just calling it in. Not that I can blame them for calling it in, as this was some awkward looking bug fiend movie that was coming out on computer Graphics at a time when nobody knew what to do with the darn thing.
So I didn't want to devolve into why does A B C or D happen. Because that kind of crap is never that entertaining to look at. But there's one that really confuses me. Why do the basic worker ants and soldier ants like each other?
As in why do the male ants want to get in with the female ants. They're all technically related and the only way the queen can get impregnated is by a male ant from A Different Colony. They even make reference to that when the main character Z is sitting in this very pissed office talking about how he never knew his father.
So something strange just happened to me while typing out my thoughts on this film. I completely lost the train of thought. Now I can't remember what it is I was on about. I was talking about the inconsistency of colony of all related ants wanting to have relationships with each other. But then my brain just stopped. And now everything I was going to say about this movie is out of my head. Because when you get down to it this film has a million questions that never answers but the whole film is presented in such a Mindless and deinteresting way but I can't be bothered to think about it for more than a few minutes.
Really that's the main problem with this film. It's just kind of forgettable. I could try to remember the big Ants vs termite battle or the stupid quasi romance between Z and the princess but it doesn't matter in the end. Kind of guess where everything is going to go you know exactly who's going to win exactly is going to lose and the Practical set up from the very beginning. It's just an easily spelt out movie with little to no serious effort put in. Cookie cutter Story made simple for children combined with a little bit of swearing and some sexual innuendo for the adults.
The big question is: Is it better than bugs life?
I kind of wish there was a movie revolving around the two wasps characters. They're these insufferable assholes with this weird East Coast semi-Atlantic accent, going around being pompous with each other. And I was instantly more connected to them that I was any other character in this dumb movie.
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