Animated films have come a long way. DreamWorks is doing a fine job in competing with Disney. Antz is not your average kid's movie. Like Finding Nemo there is much there for the adults in the family to have fun with. The art direction is quite different from Disney offering A Bug's Life and the all start cast voicing the film is quite impressive. Overall if you like Pixar & Disney offering you will like Antz (Score: 4.5).
Chicken Run goes for the old classic clay look and the animation is quite good. While the Story is quite good it has it dull moments in which your kid may wander-off or loose interest. However for those who stick with it the movie is quite good and fun to watch (Score 3.5).
Great value pack
Chicken Run was awesome and funny, Antz was garbage
Well, I did like Chicken Run, but I hated Antz.
Chicken Run
Chicken Run was a really funny movie with a lot of laughs that kids young and old will enjoy again and again!
Antz
Antz was flat as pancakes that get run over by a steamroller. Antz wasn't that funny at all. I would rather get A Bug's Life/Finding Nemo pack instead of this pack.
There was such a magic on the screen in 1995 when the people at Pixar came up with the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story. Their second feature film, A Bug's Life, may miss the bull's-eye but Pixar's target is so lofty, it's hard to find the film anything less than irresistible.
Brighter and more colorful than the other animated insect movie of 1998 (Antz), A Bug's Life is the sweetly told story of Flik (voiced by David Foley), an ant searching for better ways to be a bug. His colony unfortunately revolves around feeding and fearing the local grasshoppers (lead by Hopper, voiced with gleeful menace by Kevin Spacey). When Flik accidentally destroys the seasonal food supply for the grasshoppers he decides to look for help ("We need bigger... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dave Foley Director(s): John Lasseter - Andrew Stanton DVD Release Date: Released the 27 May 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Just as A Bug's Life was a computer-animated comedy inspired by Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, the funny and often enthralling Ice Age is a digital re-imagining of the Western Three Godfathers. The heroes of this unofficial remake (set 20,000 years ago, during the titular Paleolithic era) are a taciturn mastodon named Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano), an annoying sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo), and a duplicitous saber-toothed tiger, Diego (Denis Leary). The unlikely team encounters a dying, human mother who relinquishes her chirpy toddler to the care of these critters. Hoping, against all odds, to return the little guy to his migrating tribe, Manfred and his associates need to establish trust among themselves, not an easy thing in a harsh world of... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): John Leguizamo - Denis Leary Director(s): Carlos Saldanha - Chris Wedge DVD Release Date: Released the 26 November 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The folks at Pixar can do no wrong with Monsters, Inc., the studio's fourth feature film, which stretches the computer animation format in terms of both technical complexity and emotional impact. The giant, blue-furred James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (wonderfully voiced by John Goodman) is a scare-monster extraordinaire in the hidden world of Monstropolis, where the scaring of kids is an imperative in order to keep the entire city running. Beyond the competition to be the best at the business, Sullivan and his assistant, the one-eyed Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal), discover what happens when the real world interacts with theirs in the form of a 2-year-old baby girl dubbed "Boo," who accidentally sneaks into the monster world with Sulley one night. Director Pete Doctor and codirectors... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Peter Docter - David Silverman - Lee Unkrich DVD Release Date: Released the 17 September 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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William Steig's delightfully fractured fairy tale is the right stuff for this computer-animated adaptation full of verve and wit. Our title character (voiced by Mike Myers) is an agreeable enough ogre who wants to live his days in peace. When the diminutive Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) evicts local fairy-tale creatures (including the now-famous Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and the Gingerbread Man), they settle in the ogre's swamp and Shrek wants answers from Farquaad. A quest of sorts starts for Shrek and his new pal, a talking donkey (Eddie Murphy), where battles have to be won and a princess (Cameron Diaz) must be rescued from a dragon lair in a thrilling action sequence. The story is stronger than most animated fare, but it's the humor that makes Shrek a winner. The PG rating is... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Eddie Murphy - Mike Myers Director(s): Vicky Jenson DVD Release Date: Released the 02 November 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Based upon T.H. White's beloved novel, this Disney-fied version chronicles the tutoring of the Once and Future King, Arthur, as handled by the magician Merlin. Sword was a portent of things to come, with slapstick upbraiding storytelling, and cultural in-jokes substituting for wonder. But there's much to enjoy here as Merlin shows Newt, the young Arthur, things that will help him become the ruler of the Britons. The transformation sequences, where the boy is turned into a fish, a bird, and a squirrel are vintage Disney. The oft-repeated scene of Merlin battling it out with the mean old Madame Mim still is worth a few chuckles, but it belies the problem with most of the film--the scenes are only there for the chuckles. References by Merlin to television and other items of modern... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Wolfgang Reitherman - Les Perkins DVD Release Date: Released the 20 March 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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