This seems to be left out when people are discussing Pixar's best films which is ridiculous. This showcases everything that made them great, while it's not my favorite it's a fantastic film. A mess-up ant is sent on a mission to hire ruthless bugs to defend his colony from grasshoppers and he mistakes a bunch of outcast circus bugs for soldiers.

This is definitely one of the more ambitious Pixar films, it has a big scope with hundreds of moving ants on screen at various times. But the fact that such an early project is so ambitious you can really see the technical setbacks and some of the animation looks bland or clumsy which is very strange for Pixar. Even…

After the critically and commercially successful ‘Toy Story’, also the film that proved high quality animations can be produced through computer imagery and at full film runtime, Pixar produced a second animated feature that not only raised the scope, the scale and storyline of the first but also their stand in the world of animation production. This film was ‘A Bugs Life’ and was released into direct competition with Dreamworks ‘Antz’ - a movie dealing with the same environment. However, through creating a much better result in the finished article, Pixar was able to distance themselves from what would lead to be their ultimate competitors.

Set in the undergrowth, ‘A Bugs Life’ centers on a colony of harvest ants who…

"And that's how my twelfth husband died. So, now I'm a widow. I mean, I've always been a black widow, but now I'm a black widow *widow*."

Look at that quote again. That's an actual attempt at a joke from A Bug's Life. Others include cockroaches dancing to La Cucaracha and a mosquito ordering blood at a bar. I don't like to use the term "hate", but A Bug's Life is one of the most annoying movies I have ever seen, and I hate it.

Flik the ant lives in an ant society with his buddies. But they're oppressed by the evil cockroaches, and have to find a way to stand up to them. That's the entire premise.

Since I…