History YMMV / TheAntBully

* DontShootTheMessage: Working together regardless of differences is quite a valid Aesop, but more than a few reviewers pointed out how Lucas was taught to conform to the point of not being an individual. Negative reviews went as far as to call the movie Communist propaganda or a Hezbollah training video. Others have also taken issue at how Lucas is the only character who is fleshed out, informed and goes through a redemption arc about understanding the other, whereas Beals and the bully don't get it and are instead bullied back or crippled for life.

** Lucas' bully Sid is renamed to Steve and his comeuppance of being shrunken by the ants and their shrinking serum was changed to being simply being scared off by Lucas.

** Lucas' bully Sid is renamed to Steve and his corruption of being shrunk small by the ants and their shrinking serum was changed to being scared away by Lucas.

* AdapationDisplacement: Yes, there was a book.

** Beats' KarmicTransformation- which results in him getting [[BodyHorror physically distorted before ending in a short and grotesque appearance]].

** Lucas' bully Sid is renamed to Steve and his corruptions of being shrinked small by the ants and their shrinking serum was changed to being scared away by Lucas.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Music/BellaThorne voiced a young ant in the video game.

* DontShootTheMessage: Working together regardless of differences is quite a valid aesop, but more than a few reviewers pointed out how Lucas was taught to conform to the point of not being an individual. Negative reviews went as far as to call the movie Communist propaganda or a Hezbollah training video. Others have also taken issue at how Lucas is the only character who is flashed out, informed and goes through a redemption arc about understanding the other, whereas Beals and the bully don't get it and are instead bullied back or crippled for life.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: While Beals takes too much joy and pride out of his exterminator job and he tricks Lucas into signing his contract instead of asking his parents, some viewers found his fate of being turned into a deformed freak for the rest of his life a DisproportionateRetribution instead of having a more harmless or humiliating defeat for his smugness. Not helped that he was completely unaware of just how sentient and human ants truly are unlike Lucas.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Even when you feel beaten down and isolated, you're only hurting yourself more by pushing people away in anger and fear, or worse taking out your anger on easy targets. Reaching out for help and learning to empathize with those who are different are signs of strength, not weakness.

* DontShootTheMessage: Working together regardless of differences is quite a valid aesop, but more than a few reviewers pointed out how Lucas was taught to conform to the point of not being an individual. Negative reviews went as far as to call the movie Communist propaganda or a Hezbollah training video.

* HilariousInHindsight: There's a kid wearing a helmet seen in the crowd cheering on the bully who gives Lucas an atomic wedgie. Lucas is voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen, and Helmet Boy is voiced by Jake Goldberg. In other words, it's [[WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans Pablo]] getting bullied by his [[TheOtherDarrin replacement]].

* The mural of the Cloud Breather, which looks utterly demonic in sharp contrast to the angelic mural of the Ant Mother.