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Format:
Video disc
Title:
A bug's life
Uniform Title:
Bug's life (Motion picture)
Edition:
Collector's ed.
Publication Information:
Burbank, Calif. : Disney Enterprises Inc. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2003]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Contents:
Feature film: Main titles -- Flik's invention -- Red alert -- The grasshoppers arrive -- On trial -- Leaving Ant Island -- Flik's flight -- P.T. Flea's circus -- The city -- Bug Bar -- Flying home -- The warriors arrive -- Official welcome -- "Squish me now" -- A bird attacks -- Francis the hero -- Atta's apology -- Flik's plan -- Building a bird -- Hopper's hideout -- The celebration -- P.T. arrives -- The grasshoppers return -- To the clubhouse -- Dot goes for help -- Turning back -- Grasshopper occupation -- Showtime -- Flik's bird attacks -- Flik vs. Hopper -- Ant battle -- Rain -- Hopper's demise -- Springtime -- End credits/Outtakes (1998) (95 min.); Special features: Audio commentary with John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich.
Summary:
Cute and clever, "A Bug's Life" is a relatively straight retelling of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," except of course that the characters are bugs! Idealistic young ant Flik is a sweet-natured dreamer and inventor. But his innovative thinking makes him an outcast when one of his inventions goes awry and destroys the food sacrifice that the colony makes annually to a gang of grasshopper hooligans led by the sinister Hopper. Disgraced, Flik is sent to look for "warrior bugs," mercenaries to fight them. What he finds--and hires--are a motley crew of circus bugs including a preening master-thespian mantis, a glamorous gypsy moth, a cranky ladybug, a dimwitted beetle, and sundry other dimwitted, craven troupers. The ant colony is inspired by the troupe and mobilizes, but when they discover that the "warriors" are just circus clowns they lose faith. In the end, of course, Flik and crew save the day and free the colony from the oppressive grasshoppers
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: Rated G; Canadian Home Video Rating: Rated PG.
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