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** Let's see here: [[WoodyAllen]], WoodyAllen, Sharon Stone, [[SylvesterStallone]], [[JenniferLopez]], SylvesterStallone, JenniferLopez, Dan Aykroyd, Gene Hackman, Christopher Walken, Jane Curtin, Anne Bancroft, John Malhoney, [[PaulMazursky]].and Paul Mazursky, the guy who directed DownAndOutInBeverlyHills and BobAndCarolAndTedAndAlice.
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The protagonist is a worker ant named Z, voiced by WoodyAllen. He is somewhat neurotic and maladjusted to life in an ant colony, where each individual is treated as an insignificant part of a greater society. One day, he hears a drunk veteran soldier ant rant about some place called Insectopia, where food is plentiful, there are no rules, and everyone lives in peace. Z and his soldier friend Weaver (voiced by SylvesterStallone) snicker at the old ant behind his back and think the idea of an "Insectopia" is hilarious.
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The protagonist is a worker ant named Z, voiced by WoodyAllen.Creator/WoodyAllen. He is somewhat neurotic and maladjusted to life in an ant colony, where each individual is treated as an insignificant part of a greater society. One day, he hears a drunk veteran soldier ant rant about some place called Insectopia, where food is plentiful, there are no rules, and everyone lives in peace. Z and his soldier friend Weaver (voiced by SylvesterStallone) snicker at the old ant behind his back and think the idea of an "Insectopia" is hilarious.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: At the beginning of the movie, Z said that he would've preferred to be a soldier. 20 minutes later, he gets his chance - [[WarIsHell and it's not pretty]].
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** There's some TruthInTelevision here, as some species of termites have a facial appendage called a "fontanellar gun" that sprays a noxious substance, though it's more of a toxic glue rather than acid. This is most likely what the termites in the movie spray regardless, as instead of melting the ants that it lands on it seems to just stick on their bodies. Then again, melting ants probably wouldn't be too good to show in a theater full of kids.
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''Antz'' is a computer-animated film created by Creator/DreamWorks in 1998, the first feature film by DreamworksAnimation and the third feature-length CGI movie ever released (the Brazilian ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiop%C3%A9ia Cassiopéia]]'' was the second feature-length CGI movie ever released while the American ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' was the first). Most of the time, if someone mentions it, they're either [[DuelingMovies comparing it]] or [[AllAnimationIsDisney confusing it]] with Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', which is also a computer-animated film about ants released in 1998. However, ''Antz'' is far DarkerAndEdgier than ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', as it was geared more towards adults and teenagers--who all [[AnimationAgeGhetto brought their children and younger siblings to see it.]]
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''Antz'' is a computer-animated film created by Creator/DreamWorks in 1998, the first feature film by DreamworksAnimation Creator/DreamWorksAnimation and the third feature-length CGI movie ever released (the Brazilian ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiop%C3%A9ia Cassiopéia]]'' was the second feature-length CGI movie ever released while the American ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' was the first). Most of the time, if someone mentions it, they're either [[DuelingMovies comparing it]] or [[AllAnimationIsDisney confusing it]] with Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', which is also a computer-animated film about ants released in 1998. However, ''Antz'' is far DarkerAndEdgier than ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', as it was geared more towards adults and teenagers--who all [[AnimationAgeGhetto brought their children and younger siblings to see it.]]
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''Antz'' is a computer-animated film created by DreamWorks in 1998, the first feature film by DreamworksAnimation and the third feature-length CGI movie ever released (the Brazilian ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiop%C3%A9ia Cassiopéia]]'' was the second feature-length CGI movie ever released while the American ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' was the first). Most of the time, if someone mentions it, they're either [[DuelingMovies comparing it]] or [[AllAnimationIsDisney confusing it]] with Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', which is also a computer-animated film about ants released in 1998. However, ''Antz'' is far DarkerAndEdgier than ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', as it was geared more towards adults and teenagers--who all [[AnimationAgeGhetto brought their children and younger siblings to see it.]]
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''Antz'' is a computer-animated film created by DreamWorks Creator/DreamWorks in 1998, the first feature film by DreamworksAnimation and the third feature-length CGI movie ever released (the Brazilian ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiop%C3%A9ia Cassiopéia]]'' was the second feature-length CGI movie ever released while the American ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' was the first). Most of the time, if someone mentions it, they're either [[DuelingMovies comparing it]] or [[AllAnimationIsDisney confusing it]] with Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', which is also a computer-animated film about ants released in 1998. However, ''Antz'' is far DarkerAndEdgier than ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', as it was geared more towards adults and teenagers--who all [[AnimationAgeGhetto brought their children and younger siblings to see it.]]
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''Antz'' is a computer-animated film created by DreamWorks in 1998, the first feature film by DreamworksAnimation and the third feature-length CGI movie ever released (the Brazilian ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiop%C3%A9ia Cassiopéia]]'' was the second feature-length CGI movie ever released while the American ''ToyStory'' ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' was the first). Most of the time, if someone mentions it, they're either [[DuelingMovies comparing it]] or [[AllAnimationIsDisney confusing it]] with Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', which is also a computer-animated film about ants released in 1998. However, ''Antz'' is far DarkerAndEdgier than ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', as it was geared more towards adults and teenagers--who all [[AnimationAgeGhetto brought their children and younger siblings to see it.]]
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''Antz'' is a computer-animated film created by DreamWorks in 1998, the first feature film by DreamworksAnimation and the second American - and third worldwide - feature-length CGI movie ever released (the Brazilian ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiop%C3%A9ia Cassiopéia]]'' was the second feature-length CGI movie ever released and the first one made outside America, while the American ''ToyStory'' was the first feature-length CGI film ever released).first). Most of the time, if someone mentions it, they're either [[DuelingMovies comparing it]] or [[AllAnimationIsDisney confusing it]] with Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', which is also a computer-animated film about ants released in 1998. However, ''Antz'' is far DarkerAndEdgier than ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', as it was geared more towards adults and teenagers--who all [[AnimationAgeGhetto brought their children and younger siblings to see it.]]
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''Antz'' is a computer-animated film created by DreamWorks in 1998, the first feature by DreamworksAnimation and the second American - and third worldwide - feature-length CGI movie ever released (the Brazilian ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiop%C3%A9ia Cassiopéia]]'' was the second feature-length CGI movie ever released and the first one made outside America, while the American ''ToyStory'' the first feature-length CGI film ever released). Most of the time, if someone mentions it, they're either [[DuelingMovies comparing it]] or [[AllAnimationIsDisney confusing it]] with Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', which is also a computer-animated film about ants released in 1998. However, ''Antz'' is far DarkerAndEdgier than ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', as it was geared more towards adults and teenagers--who all [[AnimationAgeGhetto brought their children and younger siblings to see it.]]
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''Antz'' is a computer-animated film created by DreamWorks in 1998, and the second full-length American - and third worldwide - feature-length CGI movie ever released (after ''ToyStory'').(the Brazilian ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiop%C3%A9ia Cassiopéia]]'' was the second feature-length CGI movie ever released and the first one made outside America, while the American ''ToyStory'' the first feature-length CGI film ever released). Most of the time, if someone mentions it, they're either [[DuelingMovies comparing it]] or [[AllAnimationIsDisney confusing it]] with Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', which is also a computer-animated film about ants released in 1998. However, ''Antz'' is far DarkerAndEdgier than ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', as it was geared more towards adults and teenagers--who all [[AnimationAgeGhetto brought their children and younger siblings to see it.]]
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* SomeKindOfForceField: Word-for-word, even, when Z and Bala encounter a picnic lunch...covered in Saran Wrap.
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''Antz'' is a computer-animated film created by DreamWorks in 1998, and the second full-length CGI movie ever released (after ''ToyStory''). Most of the time, if someone mentions it, they're either [[DuelingMovies comparing it]] or [[AllAnimationIsDisney confusing it]] with Pixar's ''ABugsLife'', which is also a computer-animated film about ants released in 1998. However, ''Antz'' is far DarkerAndEdgier than ''ABugsLife'', as it was geared more towards adults and teenagers--who all [[AnimationAgeGhetto brought their children and younger siblings to see it.]]
The protagonist is a worker ant named Z, voiced by WoodyAllen. He is somewhat neurotic and maladjusted to life in an ant colony, where each individual is treated as an insignificant part of a greater society. One day, he hears a drunk veteran soldier ant rant about some place called Insectopia, where food is plentiful, there are no rules, and everyone lives in peace. Z and his soldier friend Weaver (voiced by SylvesterStallone) snicker at the old ant behind his back and think the idea of an "Insectopia" is hilarious.
Meanwhile, the lovely Princess Bala (voiced by SharonStone) is living in the palace, but finds it dull and does not happily anticipate her upcoming marriage to General Mandible (voiced by GeneHackman), or the idea of giving birth every ten seconds as Queen. She drags two serving girls down to the workers bars, where she dances with Z, who falls for her instantly. Z soon realizes however that he'll never see her again, so he convinces his friend Weaver to switch places with him for a day, just to see Princess Bala at a royal inspection, while Weaver gets to interact with some of the worker girls.
All does not go according to plan however, as it turns out the royal inspection was just before being sent into an unexpected war with a nearby termite mound. Z is the only survivor through pure luck.
Meanwhile, Weaver, who has fallen for the career girl (and Z's work friend) Azteca (voiced by JenniferLopez), feels terrible about switching places, even though he too had no idea the army was about to go to war. However when he learns Z is the surviving ant and is now a war hero, he is ecstatic.
When Z meets the Queen (voiced by AnneBancroft) and Bala again, she recognises him as the worker from the bar. Mandible is furious that a worker danced with his fiance, and the nervous Z hides behind Bala, but it is assumed that he is taking her hostage. She beats him off quite easily, but in doing so they fall down a garbage chute.
ItGetsWorse. Z is forced by a series of his own mistakes to flee the colony with a troop of soldier ants in pursuit. Since he cannot go back, he decides to go out looking for Insectopia. Bala doesn't know how to get back home on her own and has little choice but to go with him.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Z
* AnAesop: Z runs away from the colony because he hates being an insignificant part of some huge thing. In the end of the film, he realizes the colony is able to survive because while individually insignificant, the ants are ''mighty'' when they all work together.
* AlienGeometries: Over half the film does take place inside an ant colony, after all.
* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: PlayedForLaughs, given all the characters are ants, and have no interaction with their parents.
* AllStarCast: The billing goes ''twelve'' deep before we even see the title.
* AntWar
* ArrangedMarriage: Between Princess Bala and General Mandible.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Z, Weaver, Mandible, Bala, Cutter, Barbatus, Azteca... no-one here has a normal name.
** Weaver, Bala, Barbatus and Azteca are the names of [[PunnyName species of ants]]. Cutter probably refers to leafcutter ants.
* BigApplesauce: The [[TheReveal big reveal]] at the end is that the entire film [[spoiler:took place around a water fountain in Central Park's Great Lawn.]] (Of course, the film stars WoodyAllen.)
* {{Bowdlerize}}d: Whenever it is shown on TV, all the swear words are edited out. And there's quite a lot of petty swearing in the movie, so some of the dialogue is almost completely out of context. This is all to keep it in the AnimationAgeGhetto.
-->'''General Mandible:''' We ''will'' finish this tunnel, ''on schedule.'' Come [[hottip:-:hell or]] high water.
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-->'''Mandible:''' [[hottip:-:Damn]]! [[LastSecondWordSwap ...good!]] [[hottip:-:Damn]] good!
** The cover of the movie also used to feature the World Trade Center quite prominently, until 2001.
* BigBad: General Mandible.
* [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Boxes Always Spoil]]: The DVD case shows Z with New York City in the background.
* CallToAdventure: The old veteran's rant about "Insectopia" at the bar.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable
* DeadpanSnarker: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} with Z, who only deadpan-snarks when he is nervous.
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: The worker foreman doesn't like Azteca's attitude when she stands up to him on behalf of Weaver, so he denies her that day's rations.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:After the climax of the movie, Z appears to have drowned. Bala manages to revive him with [[CPRCleanPrettyReliable CPR.]]]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: General Mandible. Subverted, as unlike most Disney villain deaths, they did show the aftermath (General Mandible was impaled on a root).
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** Heeeeeeeere's COMMUNISM!
** The wasps are wasps both literally and [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant figurtively.]]
* TheDragon: Cutter.
* DuelingMovies: Dueled ''ABugsLife'', but both ended up being highly critically praised and smash hits at the box office.
* FantasticRacism: Or rather, Fantastic Caste-ism between the soldier ants and the worker ants.
** Also touched upon between wasps and ants when the species meet in Insectopia.
* FatAndSkinny: Bala's two friends.
* GenderIsNoObject: Not only are there male and female workers, but there are also male and female soldiers.
* GeneralRipper: General Mandible.
* GentleGiant: The wasps, Chip and Muffy (hey, they're giant from an ant's point of view!)
** Well, Muffy moreso than Chip, who mildly admonishes her for her charity towards "lowly" crawling insects like ants when they first met Z and Bala.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Granted, it was geared towards adults and teens, but nevertheless, aside from swearing, there was also a scene where Z mentions that he wants to place Princess Bala in his wildest erotic fantasies. Ironically, they edited out sexual (the original line being "erotic sexual fantasies") to keep the PG rating despite "erotic" being an even dirtier use of the word. Also, Chip the wasp is clearly drunk at one point.
** The scene where Azteca is briefly tortured off-screen comes across as disturbingly rapey.
* GoodLipsEvilJaws: The Large-jawed Termites are evil, whereas the ants with lips are good.
** Though the termites aren't actually evil (the Queen mentions that they have been at peace with them for years, the battle in the film was all Mandible's doing), they're definitely meant to be scary.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Colonel Cutter]] right at the end.
* HiveCasteSystem
* HumansAreCthulhu: The kid with the magnifying glass, and the one who stomps Bala and Z.
** Also, whoever wielded the flyswatter that nearly got them while killing Muffy.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: General Mandible, after his DisneyVillainDeath, fell straight onto a root.
* InkSuitActor: Nearly everyone has some resemblance to their voice actor, of course turned into anthropomorphic ants. It is actually quite unnerving watching Weaver channel the expressions of SylvesterStallone. The irony is that, according to the DVDCommentary, the characters were all designed *before* the actors were cast, as was the decision to give Weaver "Stallone-esque" lips.
* InsectGenderBender: Ants shouldn't have gender as we define it anyway, much less love interests.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Right before the termites ambush the ant army.
* KnightTemplar: General Mandible.
* LargeHam: General Mandible.
* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: Bala and Z leave Chip and Muffy alone when they become distracted by their affections.
--> '''Z:''' Oh brother. I think I've lost my appetite.
* LosingYourHead: [[spoiler:Barbatus, the soldier ant who takes Z under his wing. Z has a [[TearJerker sad]]/[[NightmareFuel disturbing]] moment with his head before he actually dies.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: Z with Bala, Weaver with Azteca (and vice-versa?)
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: [[spoiler: Colonel Cutter]].
* MomentKiller:
** At the campfire in Insectopia, right as Z and Bala are about to kiss, one of the hippie bugs asks Z to get more firewood. As Z goes to get it, he asks them if they know why they're called "pests".
-->'''Z:''' Great, nothing like a little manual labor on the most romantic night of my life!
** Muffy is smacked with a flyswatter and killed while she and Chip... uh... made Z lose his appetite.
** When Weaver is flirting with Azteca, the foreman comes along.
* TheMourningAfter: Chip does this after his wife Muffy is swatted. When Z decides to follow Cutter back to the Colony (after he picks up Bala), Chip offers to help him get there, coming out of a discarded bottle of scotch, drunk from grief.
* MouseWorld
* MyEyesAreUpHere: When Weaver first meets Azteca, he spends a bit too much time admiring her legs, causing her to invoke this trope.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: General Mandible and [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Colonel Cutter]].
* NeverTrustATrailer: Despite what the trailer tells you, Antz is not a comedy flick for kids or a direct contender for ABugsLife. It's completely different.
* NonActionSnarker: Z.
* OfficialCouple: Z and Bala, Weaver and Azteca, Chip and Muffy.
* OneLetterName: Guess who.
* PettingZooPeople
* PleaseWakeUp: [[spoiler:Bala, to Z.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: While the f-bomb itself is never dropped, characters do swear in this movie; the first time caught many viewers off-guard.
* ProductPlacement: Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and Reebok make appearances, albeit believable and unobtrusive ones.
* PunchClockVillain: Colonel Cutter. Probably a decent guy, if he wasn't taking orders from the BigBad.
** Word has it that in an early script, Cutter was going to have a lady friend among the palace workers, who would double as Bala's best friend. But this would have taken attention away from the main romances, which were Z and Bala, and Weaver and Azteca.
* RebelliousPrincess: Bala.
* RedOniBlueOni: Out-of-universe and probably unintentional example: The ants in {{Antz}} are red while the ants in ABugsLife are blue.
* RefusalOfTheCall: At first, Z laughs when he hears the legend of Insectopia.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified
* RichBitch: Princess Bala [[spoiler:[[CharacterDevelopment for a while]].]]
* SaveThePrincess: From the [[NiceJobBreakingItHero mess you got her into]], and later from [[BigBad General Mandible]].
* ShoutOut: To IndependenceDay.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: "[[LargeHam I AM the colony!]]"
** Which also qualifies as an IronicEcho, as this was stated to Colonel Cutter when he helps the colony escape immediately after Z tells Mandible that they are the colony in response to Mandible's claims that letting the colony drown was for the good of the colony.
* SickeninglySweethearts: The wasps, Chip and Muffy. From mild bantering to "Cuddly Widdles" and "my big, strong pheromone factory".
* SlidingScaleOfLibertarianismAndAuthoritarianism: this film lies somewhere in the middle. [[spoiler:Closer to the authoritarian end -- Insectopia exists only because the ant colony allows it, and cannot resist General Mandible.]]
* SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass: A giant magnifying glass fries one of the soldier ants sent to arrest Z and Bala.
* SomeKindOfForceField: Word-for-word, even, when Z and Bala encounter a picnic lunch...covered in Saran Wrap.
* {{Squick}}: {{Invoked|Trope}} and {{Discussed|Trope}} by Z when Weaver asks him if he's going to drink his Aphid Beer.
-->'''Z:''' Call me crazy, but I have a thing about drinking from the anus of another creature.
* TalkToTheFist: When Cutter arrives in Insectopia, he is immediately greeted by a hippie bug.
--> '''Hippie:''' Hey, man, welcome to Insec-'''WHACK!''' ''* groan* ''-topia.
** Weaver's interrogation scene qualifies as well.
* ThatsNoMoon: That's a mantis.
* TooDumbToLive: Z stopped the workers from digging because they're near water. But the worker foreman wants them to continue digging because those are orders.
-->'''Z:''' What if someone told you to jump off a bridge? I mean-\\
[Foreman puts hand to chin and contemplates]\\
'''Z:''' Ah, geez, I'm talkin' to the wrong guy here!
* TortureAlwaysWorks: While beating up tough ant SylvesterStallone doesn't work, bring in his new girlfriend Azteca and start implying pain on her part and he sings like a bird.
* {{Ubermensch}}: [[spoiler:Z gradually [[CharacterDevelopment develops]] into something like this]].
* UptownGirl: The lowly worker ant pretends to be a soldier to impress a princess.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: General Mandible thinks so.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: General Mandible
* VisualPun: Chip and Muffy, the Yellowjackets, are portrayed like stereotypical upper-class [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASPs.]]
* WarIsHell
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: It very well might be.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Queen sees General Mandible as this for failing to bring back her daughter. Of course, she didn't really like him that much to begin with despite seeing him as a suitable mate for her daughter.
* YoureInsane: Said by Bala to General Mandible after she learned the true purpose of the Mega Tunnel.
-->'''Princess Bala:''' You're crazy!\\
'''General Mandible:''' ''(smiles and replies calmly)'' I believe history will see things differently.
* ZergRush: (Ants really do fight like this, minus the tiny spears obviously.)
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''Antz'' is a computer-animated film created by DreamWorks in 1998, and the second full-length CGI movie ever released (after ''ToyStory''). Most of the time, if someone mentions it, they're either [[DuelingMovies comparing it]] or [[AllAnimationIsDisney confusing it]] with Pixar's ''ABugsLife'', which is also a computer-animated film about ants released in 1998. However, ''Antz'' is far DarkerAndEdgier than ''ABugsLife'', as it was geared more towards adults and teenagers--who all [[AnimationAgeGhetto brought their children and younger siblings to see it.]]
The protagonist is a worker ant named Z, voiced by WoodyAllen. He is somewhat neurotic and maladjusted to life in an ant colony, where each individual is treated as an insignificant part of a greater society. One day, he hears a drunk veteran soldier ant rant about some place called Insectopia, where food is plentiful, there are no rules, and everyone lives in peace. Z and his soldier friend Weaver (voiced by SylvesterStallone) snicker at the old ant behind his back and think the idea of an "Insectopia" is hilarious.
Meanwhile, the lovely Princess Bala (voiced by SharonStone) is living in the palace, but finds it dull and does not happily anticipate her upcoming marriage to General Mandible (voiced by GeneHackman), or the idea of giving birth every ten seconds as Queen. She drags two serving girls down to the workers bars, where she dances with Z, who falls for her instantly. Z soon realizes however that he'll never see her again, so he convinces his friend Weaver to switch places with him for a day, just to see Princess Bala at a royal inspection, while Weaver gets to interact with some of the worker girls.
All does not go according to plan however, as it turns out the royal inspection was just before being sent into an unexpected war with a nearby termite mound. Z is the only survivor through pure luck.
Meanwhile, Weaver, who has fallen for the career girl (and Z's work friend) Azteca (voiced by JenniferLopez), feels terrible about switching places, even though he too had no idea the army was about to go to war. However when he learns Z is the surviving ant and is now a war hero, he is ecstatic.
When Z meets the Queen (voiced by AnneBancroft) and Bala again, she recognises him as the worker from the bar. Mandible is furious that a worker danced with his fiance, and the nervous Z hides behind Bala, but it is assumed that he is taking her hostage. She beats him off quite easily, but in doing so they fall down a garbage chute.
ItGetsWorse. Z is forced by a series of his own mistakes to flee the colony with a troop of soldier ants in pursuit. Since he cannot go back, he decides to go out looking for Insectopia. Bala doesn't know how to get back home on her own and has little choice but to go with him.
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!!''{{Antz}}'' provides examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Z
* AnAesop: Z runs away from the colony because he hates being an insignificant part of some huge thing. In the end of the film, he realizes the colony is able to survive because while individually insignificant, the ants are ''mighty'' when they all work together.
* AlienGeometries: Over half the film does take place inside an ant colony, after all.
* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: PlayedForLaughs, given all the characters are ants, and have no interaction with their parents.
* AllStarCast: The billing goes ''twelve'' deep before we even see the title.
* AntWar
* ArrangedMarriage: Between Princess Bala and General Mandible.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Z, Weaver, Mandible, Bala, Cutter, Barbatus, Azteca... no-one here has a normal name.
** Weaver, Bala, Barbatus and Azteca are the names of [[PunnyName species of ants]]. Cutter probably refers to leafcutter ants.
* BigApplesauce: The [[TheReveal big reveal]] at the end is that the entire film [[spoiler:took place around a water fountain in Central Park's Great Lawn.]] (Of course, the film stars WoodyAllen.)
* {{Bowdlerize}}d: Whenever it is shown on TV, all the swear words are edited out. And there's quite a lot of petty swearing in the movie, so some of the dialogue is almost completely out of context. This is all to keep it in the AnimationAgeGhetto.
-->'''General Mandible:''' We ''will'' finish this tunnel, ''on schedule.'' Come [[hottip:-:hell or]] high water.
** Later:
-->'''Mandible:''' [[hottip:-:Damn]]! [[LastSecondWordSwap ...good!]] [[hottip:-:Damn]] good!
** The cover of the movie also used to feature the World Trade Center quite prominently, until 2001.
* BigBad: General Mandible.
* [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Boxes Always Spoil]]: The DVD case shows Z with New York City in the background.
* CallToAdventure: The old veteran's rant about "Insectopia" at the bar.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable
* DeadpanSnarker: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} with Z, who only deadpan-snarks when he is nervous.
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: The worker foreman doesn't like Azteca's attitude when she stands up to him on behalf of Weaver, so he denies her that day's rations.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:After the climax of the movie, Z appears to have drowned. Bala manages to revive him with [[CPRCleanPrettyReliable CPR.]]]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: General Mandible. Subverted, as unlike most Disney villain deaths, they did show the aftermath (General Mandible was impaled on a root).
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** Heeeeeeeere's COMMUNISM!
** The wasps are wasps both literally and [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant figurtively.]]
* TheDragon: Cutter.
* DuelingMovies: Dueled ''ABugsLife'', but both ended up being highly critically praised and smash hits at the box office.
* FantasticRacism: Or rather, Fantastic Caste-ism between the soldier ants and the worker ants.
** Also touched upon between wasps and ants when the species meet in Insectopia.
* FatAndSkinny: Bala's two friends.
* GenderIsNoObject: Not only are there male and female workers, but there are also male and female soldiers.
* GeneralRipper: General Mandible.
* GentleGiant: The wasps, Chip and Muffy (hey, they're giant from an ant's point of view!)
** Well, Muffy moreso than Chip, who mildly admonishes her for her charity towards "lowly" crawling insects like ants when they first met Z and Bala.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Granted, it was geared towards adults and teens, but nevertheless, aside from swearing, there was also a scene where Z mentions that he wants to place Princess Bala in his wildest erotic fantasies. Ironically, they edited out sexual (the original line being "erotic sexual fantasies") to keep the PG rating despite "erotic" being an even dirtier use of the word. Also, Chip the wasp is clearly drunk at one point.
** The scene where Azteca is briefly tortured off-screen comes across as disturbingly rapey.
* GoodLipsEvilJaws: The Large-jawed Termites are evil, whereas the ants with lips are good.
** Though the termites aren't actually evil (the Queen mentions that they have been at peace with them for years, the battle in the film was all Mandible's doing), they're definitely meant to be scary.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Colonel Cutter]] right at the end.
* HiveCasteSystem
* HumansAreCthulhu: The kid with the magnifying glass, and the one who stomps Bala and Z.
** Also, whoever wielded the flyswatter that nearly got them while killing Muffy.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: General Mandible, after his DisneyVillainDeath, fell straight onto a root.
* InkSuitActor: Nearly everyone has some resemblance to their voice actor, of course turned into anthropomorphic ants. It is actually quite unnerving watching Weaver channel the expressions of SylvesterStallone. The irony is that, according to the DVDCommentary, the characters were all designed *before* the actors were cast, as was the decision to give Weaver "Stallone-esque" lips.
* InsectGenderBender: Ants shouldn't have gender as we define it anyway, much less love interests.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Right before the termites ambush the ant army.
* KnightTemplar: General Mandible.
* LargeHam: General Mandible.
* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: Bala and Z leave Chip and Muffy alone when they become distracted by their affections.
--> '''Z:''' Oh brother. I think I've lost my appetite.
* LosingYourHead: [[spoiler:Barbatus, the soldier ant who takes Z under his wing. Z has a [[TearJerker sad]]/[[NightmareFuel disturbing]] moment with his head before he actually dies.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: Z with Bala, Weaver with Azteca (and vice-versa?)
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: [[spoiler: Colonel Cutter]].
* MomentKiller:
** At the campfire in Insectopia, right as Z and Bala are about to kiss, one of the hippie bugs asks Z to get more firewood. As Z goes to get it, he asks them if they know why they're called "pests".
-->'''Z:''' Great, nothing like a little manual labor on the most romantic night of my life!
** Muffy is smacked with a flyswatter and killed while she and Chip... uh... made Z lose his appetite.
** When Weaver is flirting with Azteca, the foreman comes along.
* TheMourningAfter: Chip does this after his wife Muffy is swatted. When Z decides to follow Cutter back to the Colony (after he picks up Bala), Chip offers to help him get there, coming out of a discarded bottle of scotch, drunk from grief.
* MouseWorld
* MyEyesAreUpHere: When Weaver first meets Azteca, he spends a bit too much time admiring her legs, causing her to invoke this trope.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: General Mandible and [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Colonel Cutter]].
* NeverTrustATrailer: Despite what the trailer tells you, Antz is not a comedy flick for kids or a direct contender for ABugsLife. It's completely different.
* NonActionSnarker: Z.
* OfficialCouple: Z and Bala, Weaver and Azteca, Chip and Muffy.
* OneLetterName: Guess who.
* PettingZooPeople
* PleaseWakeUp: [[spoiler:Bala, to Z.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: While the f-bomb itself is never dropped, characters do swear in this movie; the first time caught many viewers off-guard.
* ProductPlacement: Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and Reebok make appearances, albeit believable and unobtrusive ones.
* PunchClockVillain: Colonel Cutter. Probably a decent guy, if he wasn't taking orders from the BigBad.
** Word has it that in an early script, Cutter was going to have a lady friend among the palace workers, who would double as Bala's best friend. But this would have taken attention away from the main romances, which were Z and Bala, and Weaver and Azteca.
* RebelliousPrincess: Bala.
* RedOniBlueOni: Out-of-universe and probably unintentional example: The ants in {{Antz}} are red while the ants in ABugsLife are blue.
* RefusalOfTheCall: At first, Z laughs when he hears the legend of Insectopia.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified
* RichBitch: Princess Bala [[spoiler:[[CharacterDevelopment for a while]].]]
* SaveThePrincess: From the [[NiceJobBreakingItHero mess you got her into]], and later from [[BigBad General Mandible]].
* ShoutOut: To IndependenceDay.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: "[[LargeHam I AM the colony!]]"
** Which also qualifies as an IronicEcho, as this was stated to Colonel Cutter when he helps the colony escape immediately after Z tells Mandible that they are the colony in response to Mandible's claims that letting the colony drown was for the good of the colony.
* SickeninglySweethearts: The wasps, Chip and Muffy. From mild bantering to "Cuddly Widdles" and "my big, strong pheromone factory".
* SlidingScaleOfLibertarianismAndAuthoritarianism: this film lies somewhere in the middle. [[spoiler:Closer to the authoritarian end -- Insectopia exists only because the ant colony allows it, and cannot resist General Mandible.]]
* SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass: A giant magnifying glass fries one of the soldier ants sent to arrest Z and Bala.
* SomeKindOfForceField: Word-for-word, even, when Z and Bala encounter a picnic lunch...covered in Saran Wrap.
* {{Squick}}: {{Invoked|Trope}} and {{Discussed|Trope}} by Z when Weaver asks him if he's going to drink his Aphid Beer.
-->'''Z:''' Call me crazy, but I have a thing about drinking from the anus of another creature.
* TalkToTheFist: When Cutter arrives in Insectopia, he is immediately greeted by a hippie bug.
--> '''Hippie:''' Hey, man, welcome to Insec-'''WHACK!''' ''* groan* ''-topia.
** Weaver's interrogation scene qualifies as well.
* ThatsNoMoon: That's a mantis.
* TooDumbToLive: Z stopped the workers from digging because they're near water. But the worker foreman wants them to continue digging because those are orders.
-->'''Z:''' What if someone told you to jump off a bridge? I mean-\\
[Foreman puts hand to chin and contemplates]\\
'''Z:''' Ah, geez, I'm talkin' to the wrong guy here!
* TortureAlwaysWorks: While beating up tough ant SylvesterStallone doesn't work, bring in his new girlfriend Azteca and start implying pain on her part and he sings like a bird.
* {{Ubermensch}}: [[spoiler:Z gradually [[CharacterDevelopment develops]] into something like this]].
* UptownGirl: The lowly worker ant pretends to be a soldier to impress a princess.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: General Mandible thinks so.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: General Mandible
* VisualPun: Chip and Muffy, the Yellowjackets, are portrayed like stereotypical upper-class [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASPs.]]
* WarIsHell
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: It very well might be.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Queen sees General Mandible as this for failing to bring back her daughter. Of course, she didn't really like him that much to begin with despite seeing him as a suitable mate for her daughter.
* YoureInsane: Said by Bala to General Mandible after she learned the true purpose of the Mega Tunnel.
-->'''Princess Bala:''' You're crazy!\\
'''General Mandible:''' ''(smiles and replies calmly)'' I believe history will see things differently.
* ZergRush: (Ants really do fight like this, minus the tiny spears obviously.)
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