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| BUG'S LIFE, A (1998) - G
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ReviewScore: 76 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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Although chances are that few parents or children will be asking, "Do we really want to see another movie about bugs?" before deciding on whether to take in the Disney/Pixar A Bug's Life, the issue of two concurrent animated films featuring insects figures in most of the reviews of the new film, which opens in limited release in Los Angeles today (Friday). (It opens wide on Wednesday.) Mike Clark in USA Today concludes, "There's a lot more artistic room for two animated spectacles about ants than there is for multiple movies about volcanoes and asteroids." Clark sidesteps the question of which of the two insect films is better, but pronounces the new one "one of the most inventive movies in years and one of the most sumptuous color fests since Carmen Miranda hung up her bananas." (His is not a review to be contemplated by eight year olds.) Los Angeles Daily News critic Glenn Whipp, however, finds the film "something of a disappointment," noting that following DreamWorks' Antz, "A Bug's Life has a certain been-there, done-that quality to it. That's not to say it isn't a fine movie. It simply fails to live up to some pretty high expectations." But Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan pronounces Bug's the one "to see if you can only manage one. And the wacky sensibility of the Pixar Animation Studio is very much the reason why." |
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