![]() Z finds himself hurled into battle against the vastly superior termites, in a microscopic version of the beach massacre in DreamWorks' previous release, " Saving Private Ryan." Surviving, he returns to the colony and is the seed for a virus of individualism. Z meets a warrior ant (Stallone) and arranges to switch jobs, just so he can impress Bala. But Z breaks loose, and Bala, intoxicated with the sudden freedom of movement, regrets her engagement to Mandible. All the other ants "dance" with a rigid precision that looks, well, insect-like. Meanwhile, in a bar, Z meets the beautiful Princess Bala (Sharon Stone). They even invent false reports of an approaching termite invasion, and convince the queen ( Anne Bancroft) that they must strike first. Cutter (Walken), want to divert all resources to war. This is no time for individualism, The colony is engaged in an emergency project to dig a giant tunnel (in ant-scale, it looks as daunting as the Chunnel). "I'm supposed to do everything for the colony?" he asks on a psychiatrist's couch. Then the little ant named Z (voice by Allen) develops that attribute that an ant colony has no room for, a mind of his own. As it begins, every ant in the colony goes dutifully about its age-old assignment, never thinking to question why some are workers, some are warriors, and only one can be the queen. The story mixes adventure with political parable. The movie is entirely computer-generated, incorporating a clever software program that makes the mouths of the insects look a little, but not too much, like morphs of the actors who voice their dialogue: Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Lopez, Gene Hackman, Christopher Walken and others. The Extra-Terrestrial" seems to have inspired the look of the hero's eyes and a crucial scene where a kiss brings him back to life. The movie is the first animated feature from the DreamWorks Studio, and benefits from the input of studio partners Jeffrey Katzenberg, who earlier oversaw the renaissance in Disney animation, and Steven Spielberg, whose " E.T. ![]()
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