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qrp911

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If this movie wasn't produced by Tom Hanks it wouldn't have been so good. Comedy and amazing animation. Very good! But parts that bore you with a predeitable ending. Good though.

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Posted may 31, 2007 11:04 pm pt

viveckvivu

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The movie was better than I had expected. I thought it was pretty good. It teaches us a lesson about how to work together as a team and friendship. I liked the story and the main ant I thought who was funny was the ant named Fugax.

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Posted may 18, 2007 6:11 pm pt

Rogue_Beeyatch

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One of the rare non-violent movies for kids this days. It's interesting, and smart.

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Posted mar 16, 2007 5:41 am pt

NoOneIsAlone

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Nothing special if you ask me, I think that this movie was nothing very special and I did not think that it was something like above average or even funny. I found too predictable and very deep into the fantasy level, that even the movie turns out...
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Nothing special if you ask me, I think that this movie was nothing very special and I did not think that it was something like above average or even funny. I found too predictable and very deep into the fantasy level, that even the movie turns out to be nothing very clever. I did not like it very much, as much as I will have like, but it was still enjoyable.

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Posted feb 20, 2007 9:49 am pt

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I watched this movie with the kids I babysit and they absolutely loved it and I can honestly say I enjoyed watching it with them. It was a cute movie and it was also really funny. I think the message behind the storyline was really good for kids...
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I watched this movie with the kids I babysit and they absolutely loved it and I can honestly say I enjoyed watching it with them. It was a cute movie and it was also really funny. I think the message behind the storyline was really good for kids to learn and they presented the movie really well.

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Posted feb 17, 2007 10:10 am pt

minndak10

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This show is so hillarius and it is about friendship!

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Posted jan 26, 2007 12:29 pm pt

• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  Family entertainment at its best.

  by Ruthe Stein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  83
  It may be too intense at times for wee ones, but kids of 5 and up testing the limits of their independence in the big world should relate to Lucas, dig the crazy insect world and embrace the imagination behind the colorful adventure.

  by Sean Axmaker | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  83
  An effortlessly clever animated confection.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  80
  The movie is an epic adventure with a rigorously moral point of view.

  by Stephen Hunter | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  75
  While "Cars" may have the most elaborate CGI effects of the season, and "Monster House?" the most original character (the house), The Ant Bully can lay claim to the most entertaining story and most rewarding ending.

  by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  75
  The movie has a great time playing with ideas of scope and perspective, shifting between microscopic and macroscopic.

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  Based on John Nickle's children's book, this computer-animated comedy starts slowly but builds into a rousing adventure capped with just the right measure of sweetness.

  by Andrea Gronvall | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  70
  Wittily manipulating scale to generate the requisite fright factor, the movie is stuffed with visual delights both lyrical (a squadron of ants hang-gliding on flower petals) and visceral (a battalion of bottle-blue wasps on the wing).

  by Ella Taylor | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  70
  It's a kids' movie for kids, and Davis approaches it as though he and his cast are merely storytellers trying to reach kids rather than show-offs trying to impress their parents.

  by Robert Wilonsky | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  67
  A derivative little tale with enough good intentions to recommend it, but not enough substance to embrace it.

  by Chris Kaltenbach | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  63
  Ant Bully, while not wildly fresh or inventive, is entertaining and energetic.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  63
  Writer/director John A. Davis (Jimmy Neutron) is a wizard at transforming the most mundane setting -- the front yard, for crying out loud -- into another world.

  by Peter Debruge | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  63
  Take "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids," throw some "Antz" on it, and you have The Ant Bully.

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  63
  The screenplay is blessedly free of mediocre songs and light on flashy pop-culture in-jokes.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  58
  In spite of its predictability, it's a nifty story in the abstract, and Davis certainly makes the most of the opportunity to examine the world from an ant's-eye view.

  by Tasha Robinson | Read Full Review »