The Ant Bully

It's imaginative and amusing with its engaging characters....Bugs brought to insect animation, the humans are all visually plain and cinematically drab as well....Honey I Shrunk The Kids meets Antz in The Ant Bully, a colourful, family-friendly animated comedy about using our differences for positive ends.....The voice talents of Nicolas Cage and Julia Roberts ensure there is ant-charisma....though the ants themselves are visually the least interesting..... ... Full Review

Instead of the retro stylings of Nickle's original drawings, the film version of "The Ant Bully" settles for a prefab aesthetic of no satiric or straightforward distinction. It lacks a sharp look and satisfyingly fleshed-out story and compensates with one numbing round of insect- or human-based peril after another. ... Full Review

Modest though it is, The Ant Bully has pace and some visual interest, not to mention a superior cast whose voice work lends character to the ants and other bugs, as well as the humans who inhabit little Lucas' world. Review by Andrew L. Urban: The simple pleasures of a bedtime story are filtered through the hands of animators in The Ant Bully, a story with a message about the ugliness of bullying. ... Full Review

And the animation, though better at ants than humans, looks a little basic most of the time. I also really liked the way Davis comes up with an air force to battle the exterminator portrayed perfectly by Paul Giamatti. ... Full Review

Fun film with great animation. Fun film with great animation. Great animation and memorable characters. The main ant characters, are actually rather deep for a film with a young demographic. EI's Eric Lurio also liked this film. ... Full Review

Fortunately for the Ant Bully , its demographic audience isnt going to notice the theme bashing them over the head. The Movie: The Ant Bully follows the story of Lucas Nickle, a nerd who gets beat up by a bully because hes short and, in turn, picks on ants because hes bigger than them. ... Full Review

The most inoffensive but bland animation of the year.....inspired battle against a sadistic exterminator (Paul Giamatti)-as well as a superb perspective shift during a firecracker explosion-by-and-large drowning out the film's topical subtextual concerns..... ... Full Review

A serviceable flick, The Ant Bully offers minor entertainment. Dialogue was natural and distinct, and I heard no problems related to intelligibility or edginess. This was a nicely engaging soundtrack that earned a solid "A-". ... Full Review

Forget the animation, the bulls with udders and the dull leading man - OK, leading cow - and it's almost good enough to make you forget "The Ant Bully. With "Barnyard," another quick-and-dirty "all-star cast" mess churned out by the digital start-ups hired to steal some of Pixar's cash, the year that computer-generated animation "jumps the shark" becomes official. ... Full Review

The film also features some enjoyably witty and surreal moments The Ant Bully is nowhere near as politically sophisticated as, say, Antz , which satirized the strict regimentation of ant society and emphasized the need for both individual freedom and communal responsibility; but the new film's simpler approach is just fine for its younger target audience. ... Full Review