Goddamn it,
I thought I’d gotten away from Kevin Spacey, f*ck this guy! I guess it’s time
for A Bug’s Life! Released in 1998, A Bugs Life is notoriously started a spat
between Disney and Dreamworks, as Disney conveniently stated the release day for
A Bug’s Life on the same day as Dreamworks’ Antz film. The result of this is
for another day, maybe…
But A Bugs
life has a pretty positive reputation, a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an
average 7.9/10 and a respectable 79% audience score with an average 3.3/5. It
made $380m on its $120m budget, which is a big budget considering the first
movie had ¼ of that.
I won’t lie,
I don’t like this film very much, so let’s start with the narrative