A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life is a charming, fable-like computer-animated film about the well-meaning and innovative ant Flik, who inadvertently causes much fear and hardship before he makes it all good again.

Flik and the other hard-working ants in the anthill are oppressed by some nasty grasshoppers who return every autumn to help themselves to the ants' laboriously gathered winter stores. When Flik one day bungles things so badly that the grasshoppers do not get their share, he is sent away from the anthill. He comes home again, however, with some (so he thinks) very dangerous insects, who he reckons can put the grasshoppers in their place when they make their terrifying return later in the season to demand even more.

Flik's new friends are far from the Seven Samurai, however, but are actually circus performers, who turn a little pale when they find out what is going on. But can they not still stand up to the grasshoppers' tyranny?

Compared with "Antz", it is clear that A Bug's Life is aimed first and foremost at children, for it is sweet, funny and harmless, whereas the humour in "Antz" is directed more at adults.