Antz 1998

Critics score:
96 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Antz takes a huge step forward for computer animation! Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Antz works best just showing off its prodigious voice talent and playing lightheartedly with the curious possibilities of a buggy world. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Antz is brief enough, clocking in at 83 minutes, but its story is too predictable to make an impact even in such a short space. Read more

Paul Tatara, CNN.com: Allen provides plenty of comic relief, and the computer-generated animation is pretty impressive. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Antz is about the relief felt by star actors freed from the constraints of their physical selves and the egos that go with them. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: It's a perfect picnic, without the pesky human interference. Read more

David Denby, New York Magazine/Vulture: A kids' movie that will leave grown-ups quoting the best lines to one another. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Visually, it's more impressive than Disney's Toy Story. On a script level, it was developed as much with a mature audience in mind as with the usual pre-pubescent crowd. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It enters into a microscopic world and makes it into a world so vast and threatening that comparisons with Star Wars are not unjustified! Read more

Janelle Brown, Salon.com: The kids will like it. You'll laugh. Read more

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: The filmmakers seem to have deliberately snubbed the traditional audience for animated features. Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Kids may be puzzled by rebellious worker ants chanting Marxist slogans, but their parental guides may welcome the relief from the prevailing blandness of family films. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Visually striking and dynamically shot, this has strong characters and no shortage of incident. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: A dazzling delight! Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: A film of small, transient pleasures, diminished slightly by the clunkiness with which it wields it pat, Disney-esque self-determination moral. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: That's Ant-ertainment! Read more