![]() None of this is great for building attachment, as neither character is funny enough to make up for their jerkass personalities. She seems nice at first because the film needs her to be a desirable love interest, but after that she takes on the haughty aristocrat trope because otherwise there’d be no real conflict in her relationship with Z. Don’t worry, Princess Bala is also a self-centered jerk who makes the occasional joke. Other than that, he’s a self-centered jerk who makes the occasional joke. You could easily forget that Z was ever supposed to be a rebel if other characters didn’t keep insisting he’s a rebel. He quickly drops wanting to be different in favor of wanting to date Princess Bala based on one meeting in a bar, which is much less sympathetic. ![]() That sounds like a sympathetic conflict if ever there was one, but that aspect of his character is given so little development that we have no idea why he’s unhappy with the current system, especially since no one else is. Z is our protagonist, and his big thing is rebelling against the rigid system of his ant colony. Antz certainly plays like a spoof of A Bug’s Life despite releasing six weeks earlier, right down to the similar plots and jokes that are either more mature or more crass, depending on whether they land or not. We start with a movie that may or may not have been conceived largely as a way to sabotage Pixar’s 1998 release schedule, depending on how you interpret various quotes from the creators. What I’m saying is, this is all the commenters’ fault and I can’t be held responsible for any of it. But then the commenters spoke with one voice and demanded I actually rate Antz, A Bug’s Life, and Ant-Man. I thought it would be an amusing pun to compare ants movies on their ANTS and assumed that would be the end of it. This post began life as an April 1st joke based entirely on the fact that when you abbreviate our four elements that make stories popular – attachment, novelty, tension, and satisfaction – they become ANTS.
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