A Bug's Life [1998]

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Stars: Kevin Spacey, Dave Foley and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

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Every season, a colony of ants are expected to gather food for a protection racket of grasshoppers. One ant, Flik, is a promising inventor who is not appreciated due to his inventions causing trouble. While trying out a mechanical harvester, he accidentally knocks the pile of food into a stream just before the grasshoppers arrive. The grasshopper leader, Hopper, gives the ants the rest of the season to gather more but orders double after Flik stands up to him in defense of the Queen's young daughter. As a result of his mistake, Flik is admonished by the colony's council. When Flik suggests that he try to recruit warrior bugs to fight the grasshoppers Princess Atta allows him to do so, but only as a fool's errand to get rid of him.

Flik reaches the insect city, which is actually garbage under a trailer from a human's point of view. He encounters a troupe of unemployed circus performers and mistakes them for the warriors he needs. At the same time, they believe him to be a talent scout who wants to book their act. (Flik does explain his intentions, but only to the two pill bugs who cannot understand English.) They return to the colony, to Atta's surprise, and are greeted as heroes who can fight the grasshoppers. After a well-meaning presentation by the ant children of the "heroic" events theoretically about to unfold, Flik and the troupe realize their misunderstandings with each other, raising Atta's suspicions. While about to leave the colony, the troupe reconsider when they manage to save Dot from being attacked by a bird.

Flik proposes to build a model bird to scare Hopper away. Whilst working together on the bird, the troupe members bond with the colony. Atta and Flik begin an awkward attraction for each other. At the grasshopper's hideout, a sombrero lying near a puddle, the grasshoppers live in luxury, waited on by mosquitoes. Hopper's brother, Molt, questions why they need to travel to Ant Island in order to collect food, when it is obvious they do not need it. When he suggests this to Hopper, Hopper sarcastically decrees they will stay, but then executes two grasshoppers in a demonstration of why the ants pose a true danger to the grasshoppers. The ants, in fact, immensely outnumber the grasshoppers, and the collection of food is solely to keep them subservient and afraid, to quell any uprising. After Hopper's speech, the grasshoppers begin the journey to Ant Island.

Eventually, the circus master, P. T. Flea, arrives looking for his missing performers and unknowingly exposes them. Angered by Flik's deception, Atta exiles him from the colony, while the other ants rush to collect whatever food they can for Hopper. When the grasshoppers arrive, the ants are unable to meet Hopper's demands, so Hopper and his cronies take over the colony and force them to bring them food. Dot overhears their plans to kill the Queen, catches up with Flik and the troupe, and persuades them to return and put their plan into action.

Flik, with help from Dot and her friends, fly the bird, which frightens the grasshoppers senseless, but P. T. Flea, thinking the bird to have injured one of the troupe members, sets it on fire. Realizing the bird is a fake, Hopper has his assistant Thumper injure Flik. Flik, however, is able to stand up and reveals that the ants are more powerful than they are led to believe, with grasshoppers being the weak, reliant ones. Realizing this, the ant colony and the circus gang swarms against the grasshopper gang and forces the gang, except Hopper, to leave. However, a rainstorm begins, causing panic in which Hopper grabs Flik and flies off. Atta rescues Flik, and they lure Hopper toward the bird's nest. When they reach the bird's nest, Hopper corners Flik, and then is confronted by the bird, whom he at first believes to be another fake, but eventually discovers it to be real. Hopper attempts to run away, but the bird picks him up in her beak, and lowers Hopper into its nest, where he is devoured by the bird's chicks, killing Hopper.

The next spring, the colony has adopted Flik's harvester to speed up grain collection, and Atta becomes the new queen, passing the princess crown to Dot. Atta, Flik, and Dot wave goodbye to the troupe, now joined by Hopper's younger brother Molt (who is now renamed, Tiny), who all stayed over winter as guests.

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