Antz

Plot

A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.

About Antz

Antz is a 1998 American animated comedy film directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson and written by Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz with additional sequences directed by Lawrence Guterman. Produced by DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks Animation and Pacific Data Images, it was the first film to be produced by DreamWorks Animation and it stars the voice talents of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover and Gene Hackman. Some of the main characters share face similarities with the voice actors who voice them. The film involves an anxious worker ant, Z (Allen), who falls in love with Princess Bala (Stone). When the arrogant General Mandible (Hackman) attempts to seize control of the ant colony, Z must combine his desire for purpose with his inner strength to save everyone. Development began in 1988 when Walt Disney Feature Animation pitched a film called Army Ants, about a pacifist worker ant teaching lessons of independent thinking to his militaristic colony. Meanwhile, Jeffrey Katzenberg had left the company in a feud with CEO Michael Eisner over the vacant president position after the death of Frank Wells. Katzenberg would later go on to help co-found DreamWorks Animation with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, and the three planned to rival Disney with the company's new animation…

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