The Ant Bully (Full Screen Edition)

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An all-star cast--including such A-list stars as Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, and Meryl Streep--lend their voices to The Ant Bully. Social misfit Lucas gets bullied by the bigger boys in his neighborhood, so he takes out his frustrations on the only things around smaller than him: An ant hill on his front lawn. After being flooded and stepped on, the ants fight back when ant wizard Zoc (Cage, National Treasure) develops a potion that shrinks Lucas down to bug-size. But Zoc's thirst for revenge gets foiled when the beatific ant queen (Streep, The Devil Wears Prada) decrees that Lucas must learn to live like an ant, and Zoc's girlfriend Hova (Roberts, Runaway Bride) takes up the task of teaching the unhappy boy how to value others over himself. The animation of The Ant Bully makes good use of scale as Lucas grapples with the gigantic world around him, but the writing is not so imaginative; the name actors are thrown away on bland characters and lackluster dialogue. The lessons Lucas learns are admirable (and amusingly Communist in flavor), but the way he learns them feels contrived and uncompelling. It's too bad, because there probably won't be many other movies featuring the combined talents of Meryl Streep and Bruce Campbell (Army of Darkness). Also featuring Ricardo Montalban (Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan), Lily Tomlin (Nashville), and Paul Giamatti (Sideways) as a sleazy exterminator. --Bret Fetzer

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From Academy Award nominated filmmaker John A. Davis (Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) and producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (The Polar Express), The Ant Bully tells a witty and heartwarming story about a 10-year-old boy who embarks on a remarkable journey. New in town, friendless and tormented by a neighborhood bully, young Lucas Nickle has been taking out his frustration on the innocent ant hill in his yard. But one day the ants retaliate. Using a magic potion, they shrink Lucas down to ant size and sentence him to live like an ant in their colony. In this strange new world Lucas will learn important lessons about friendship, get a whole new perspective on life and ultimately find the courage to stand up for himself.

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Additional Scenes
Featurette:It Takes a Colony: The Black Beetle explores the giant filmmaking process from a tiny perspective.
Other:7 Hilarious Animated Shorts - More Animated Adventures with the Ants! Hot Enough For You?, World Wild Web, Please Help, Monster Truck, Turn it Down a Notch, Arrival, Pea Brains
Screen Saver:Ant Habitat TV Screensaver
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

Love It.......2007-08-31

MY child has watched this movie over and over... What's not to like about that...

Love the Ant Bully!.......2007-07-31

This movie has a great story behind it with cool graphics. This is definitely a must have to the Disney/Pixar collector. Kids laugh all the way through... There is a bit of crude humor, but nothing over the top. It compares closely to Antz and A Bugs Life.

Ant Bully .......2007-07-09

Purchased this for my neice and nephew. They have every DVD under the sun :) I have not seen it, but they love it....

Well Done.......2007-06-20

This is a very cute movie. There are a few parts that I sort of cringe at while watching with my 3- and 4-year-olds because it shows some behaviors I don't want my young ones to learn. (After all, the movie is rated PG - not G.) But for the most part, the movie is great! The script is original, the acting is fantastic, and the animation is flawless.

Decent animated film, reasonable lesson taught.......2007-06-05

Unlike other animated movies of recent times, this one actually does have a pertinent and clear message delivered, don't bully and respect others. This is a pretty kid friendly film (ages 6-7 and up) that tells the tale of a young boy who is small for his size, and gets picked on by a neighborhood bully. It is affecting his life and making him feel miserable. To relieve his stress, he has been taking it out on an ant colony in his front yard. Well, one night the ant's decide to turn the tables, and he is shrunk by magic to the size of an ant, and has to live with them to earn his way back to full size. There are several funny stops and situations along the way, with only a few crude jokes (more tasteful than many "childrens" films of lately), and minimal scary parts. Worth renting and watching with your kids.

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Love It
Love the Ant Bully!
Ant Bully
Well Done
Decent animated film, reasonable lesson taught

The Ant Bully (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Earl Boen , Scott S. Bullock , Nicolas Cage , Bruce Campbell , and Larry Cedar
Director: John A. Davis
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B000ION23A
Release Date: 2006-11-28

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DVD Features:
Featurette:It Takes a Colony: The Black Beetle explores the giant filmmaking process from a tiny perspective.
Screen Saver:Ant Habitat TV Screensaver

Customer Reviews:

Love It.......2007-08-31

MY child has watched this movie over and over... What's not to like about that...

Love the Ant Bully!.......2007-07-31

Ant Bully .......2007-07-09

Purchased this for my neice and nephew. They have every DVD under the sun :) I have not seen it, but they love it....

Well Done.......2007-06-20

Decent animated film, reasonable lesson taught.......2007-06-05

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The Ant Bully [Blu-ray]
Starring: Earl Boen , Scott S. Bullock , Nicolas Cage , Bruce Campbell , and Larry Cedar
Director: John A. Davis
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B000KF0NI4
Release Date: 2006-11-28

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DVD Features:
Featurette:It Takes a Colony: The Black Beetle explores the giant filmmaking process from a tiny perspective.
Screen Saver:Ant Habitat TV Screensaver

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King of the Ants
Starring: Shuko Akune , Daniel Baldwin , Ron Livingston , Lionel Mark Smith , and Vernon Wells
Director: Stuart Gordon
Manufacturer: First Look Pictures
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Release Date: 2005-08-24

The Ant Bully (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]

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Love It
Love the Ant Bully!
Ant Bully
Well Done
Decent animated film, reasonable lesson taught

The Ant Bully (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]
Starring: Earl Boen , Scott S. Bullock , Nicolas Cage , Bruce Campbell , and Larry Cedar
Director: John A. Davis
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Release Date: 2006-11-28

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DVD Features:
Featurette:It Takes a Colony: The Black Beetle explores the giant filmmaking process from a tiny perspective.
Screen Saver:Ant Habitat TV Screensaver

Customer Reviews:

Love It.......2007-08-31

MY child has watched this movie over and over... What's not to like about that...

Love the Ant Bully!.......2007-07-31

Ant Bully .......2007-07-09

Purchased this for my neice and nephew. They have every DVD under the sun :) I have not seen it, but they love it....

Well Done.......2007-06-20

Decent animated film, reasonable lesson taught.......2007-06-05

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Strange movie
Slipping into Psychosis
The most disturbing scenes I have ever seen!
Fore!
Very good flick

King of the Ants
Starring: Chris McKenna , Kari Wuhrer , George Wendt , Vernon Wells , and Lionel Mark Smith
Director: Stuart Gordon
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ASIN: B0001ZX088
Release Date: 2004-06-29

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Strange movie.......2006-07-05

I liked this film for what it is. I'd watch it again, even. But overall it's a bit too strange what happens here. The story is extremly simple, a bit too simple, and gets a bit too bizarre halfway throught.

The good things about this film were the baddies. I still have no explanation why I liked them this much. Even when they're doing awful things to the hero, I sort of wanted them to be my friends... There's something extremly sympathetic and funny about them, maybe because they're still like kids, fooling around, drinking alcohol and act like grown-up kids, even when they begin bashing the hero's head to amnesie.

I don't know still what to think about this film. usually, baddies of this sort build up barrels of hate in the viewer, so that by the end it is like a therapy to watch them pay the bill. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing that Mister Gordon made us like the hero, even after he's crossed the line of morality, and even like the baddies. They're beyond any morality, both, but very likeable.

SPOILERS AHEAD: The end isn't exactly thrilling, it's actually pretty easy to watch as the baddies don't have a chance and the hero stays hyper cool and distanced to the revenge. There's no fighting, no celebration of violence, he just waits for them to come, hits a hammer into each's belly and lets them enjoy the pain while burning another person. Then he burns the house and the movie is over. I confess: I was waiting for a really disturbingly violent showdown.

About halfway throught the movie, the hero can live in the house of his victim's wife. His death is only a few days in the past and she already lets a complete stranger with an obviously dangerous past live there. Dangerous, because his head is so awfully beaten up after his escape. Talking of which: he gets help from a friend, and regarding the extremly bad state the hero is in, it's just laughable to watch the friend's reaction on a bad joke from the hero, so he throws him out of the car and leaves him on his own, with a head that looks like the one from "THE ELEPHANT MAN".

A cold, violent, illogical movie that plays like a short story. I'd recommend it for a rental.

Slipping into Psychosis.......2006-04-15

ONE HELL OF A MOVIE!!! Not only does it have Mr.Friendly from cheers, but from beginning to end it is nothing short of enthrawling. I cant say that about very many movies either!
Tortured and lessons learned, watching him in that shed made me question if he was creating lucidity in his own nightmare. The speach at the end that briefly describes the title, is nothing short of horrific........as well as his vengeance.
Go see or go buy this movie right now.

The most disturbing scenes I have ever seen!.......2005-08-26

This movie has the sickest scenes I have ever seen in my life. I have watched many disturbing movies, "I Spit on your Grave", "Last House on the Left", "The Night Porter", etc. but those movies pale in comparison to this. The beating scenes are gritty and completey realistic. To be honest I could not watch the whole sequence. It is the torture more than the violence that got to me. The psychological torture of anticipating the beatings through the eyes of the victim (at that moment). The Baldwin brother who was on the TV show Homocide plays a villain
in this movie and is very convincing as a total piece of garbage. The torture is really bad because it does not occur all at once and is spread out over time so the main character and the viewer have time to recover only to go through it again and again and again. Yikes!!!! If ever a movie should be NC-17 this is it. Tons of blood and gore cant compare to realistic torture sequences. This movie's torture scenes make Resevoir Dogs torture scene look like something from an A-Team episode. Be warned!!!

Fore!.......2005-07-11

I came into Stuart Gordon's "King of the Ants" expecting some weird blend of science fiction and horror. Just look at the title. Doesn't that scream sci-fi/horror? Considering Gordon's other features almost always reside deep in the well of blood soaked cinema, one could safely assume this picture would cover familiar ground. Here's a guy who has made films like "Re-Animator," "Castle Freak," a remake of "The Pit and the Pendulum," the H.P. Lovecraft adaptations "Dagon" and "From Beyond," and the Christopher Lambert sci-fi vehicle "Fortress." I think it's safe to assume "King of the Ants" should fall within these parameters, right? Boy, was I wrong! The title "King of the Ants" couldn't be more misleading in describing the themes this movie actually covers. There is no king, as far as I can tell. There are no ants, although they would be quite difficult to see unless they were mutant ants that stood fifty feet tall. Instead, Gordon gives us a film adapted from a book by Charlie Higson, a film that deals with a bad deal gone wrong and the subsequent bloody revenge wreaked upon the principals by an unassuming housepainter who was literally in the wrong place at the wrong time. Well, at least Gordon's penchant for blood soaked cinema remains firm with this project.

Sean Crawley (Chris McKenna) is your average young guy just trying to get by as a housepainter when opportunity comes knocking one day in the form of the portly Duke (George Wendt). The two men strike up a friendly rapport while working on a house, and Duke promptly invites his new friend to meet a most important individual. This person is a powerful construction contractor named Ray Mathews (Daniel Baldwin), a beefy thug with a love of golf and a hatred for a certain accountant down at city hall called Eric Gatley (Ron Livingstone). Mathews offers our boy Sean a specific sum of money if he'll simply follow Gatley around town and report back on his movements. It seems that Ray's involved in several shady schemes, schemes meaning kickbacks on projects, and Eric is nosing around in the hope of saving the city some money by sending Mathews to the slammer. Crawley, always on the lookout for a few extra bucks, sees no harm in tailing a suburbanite. He heads over to Gatley's home to start his mission, and can't help but notice that the accountant has an incredibly gorgeous wife. Sean spends some time doing the job and reports back to Mathews.

Then something ominous happens. Ray and Sean have a heart to heart while Mathews liberally gulps firewater. The contractor seems to indicate that something "bad" should happen to Eric Gatley, and that if something "bad" happens, a big payoff might be in the cards for whoever carries out the dirty deed. At least this is how Crawley interprets the conversation. The next day he follows Gatley home and murders the guy in a particularly brutal, bloody manner. Then he turns up seeking payment from Mathews, but Ray expresses anger at what happened. He claims that the authorities are all over him because they think he had Gatley bumped off. Not only does he refuse to hand over the cash, he tells Crawley to get lost. Sean's not the sort of chap to take no for an answer, and his persistent efforts to get what's owed him results in a kidnapping and a series of extraordinarily brutal tortures inflicted upon him by Mathews, Duke, and a few other stooges. Much to their everlasting detriment, Ray and company fail to kill their former flunky. Sean escapes and, with the help of the most unlikeliest of allies, returns to full health with the goal of seeking revenge on his tormentors. The end.

I left a bunch of particulars out in order not to spoil the film, but "King of the Ants" is really as simple as the above summary. Wronged man seeks revenge. That's it in a nutshell. In the hands of the capable Stuart Gordon, however, the movie manages to entertain thanks to a number of exploitative factors. First is the presence of Kari Wuhrer, the brunette B movie actress who plays Eric Gatley's wife Susan here. Through the most unusual of circumstances, she ends up offering help to her husband's murderer. Her role also requires her to do some acrobatics in her birthday suit that this viewer greatly appreciated. Second, Gordon doesn't shy away from violence. We've got a golf club repeatedly hitting a head, pools of blood, a refrigerator used as a murder weapon, and a gory showdown that results in all sorts of ghastly indecencies. "King of the Ants" contains more than enough bloodshed to satiate the avid gorehound. Third, and finally, Gordon isn't above throwing in a few scenes of weirdness just to keep the audience off balance. Check out that hallucination Crawley experiences during his kidnapping. What the heck was that thing all about? Who knows, but it was entertaining and appropriately kooky.

"King of the Ants" is sort of in a category all by itself. It doesn't really fit into the field of horror, and it's not entirely at home in the standard revenge flick genre, either. If you like horror and you like revenge shoot 'em ups, however, you'll probably enjoy Gordon's movie. I know I did; I would definitely watch this one again. As for the DVD version of the film, extras abound. We get a trailer, a commentary track with Gordon, Wendt, and McKenna, and a lengthy behind the scenes feature containing interviews with many of the principal players. This short documentary is interesting in a number of ways, such as learning that it was George Wendt who played a big role in bringing this movie to fruition. Give "King of the Ants" a go if you get a chance. It's worth watching.

Very good flick.......2005-05-28

I was shocked as I looked at this movie plenty of times and passed it up, until I read an article in Fangoria #244 article on Stuart Gordon, and decied to rent it. I would say the asking price is to high$15 is more reasonable. This movie does not get boring. The action is good, the plot is good, the acting is actually very good. this movie has already been broken down so no need for me to do so. Overall if you are looking for a good movie that will keep you awake and interested check out "King of the Ants", it is a good flick and doubt you will be dissapointed I know I was'nt.

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Strange movie
Slipping into Psychosis
The most disturbing scenes I have ever seen!
Fore!
Very good flick

King of the Ants [Region 2]
Starring: Chris McKenna , Kari Wuhrer , George Wendt , Vernon Wells , and Lionel Mark Smith
Director: Stuart Gordon
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Strange movie.......2006-07-05

Slipping into Psychosis.......2006-04-15

The most disturbing scenes I have ever seen!.......2005-08-26

Fore!.......2005-07-11

Very good flick.......2005-05-28

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Tedd Taskey's performance really made this shine
Two Thumbs Up!
A very worthwhile journey
A Pleasant Surprise
Touchdown Tasky

King of the Ants
Starring: Tiffany Fraser , Tedd Taskey , Patrick St. Esprit , and Teresa Sherrer
Director: Michael Arabian
Manufacturer: Vanguard Cinema
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Release Date: 2004-09-28

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Tedd Taskey's performance really made this shine .......2006-05-14

I don't normally write reviews or pay attention to them on Amazon but... first time for everything. My boyfriend got this on Netflix and at first the thought of another sports movie (I've now seen Rudy and Hoosiers over 20 times) had me heading straight for bed. He talked me into giving it a chance and within five minutes I was in love with the lead, Tedd Taskey. Wow! I don't know who he is or what he's done before but his peformance was so sincere and strong that I was just blown away. And if there are any ladies reading this - look out for the killer bod and face (and the story is actually well written by him as well). My boyfriend picked up on my "sudden interest" in the film and was not happy at all. That's what he gets. Anyway, check it out, it will affect you. jennasil22@yahoo.com

Two Thumbs Up!.......2004-12-04

A great blend of realistic drama and funny moments make this a solid choice for a Saturday night. Most anyone can relate to a young man struggling to find his path, never giving up, and this movie hits on all the emotions along the way. A top-notch debut for Taskey! Bravo!

A very worthwhile journey.......2004-11-23

A good movie experience takes the viewer on a journey. King of Ants fulfilled many of the aspects in the journey the star takes the viewer on. The humor was realistic as well the the more poignant segments, both carried the viewer to new destinations of the heart or enabled one to revisit the drives, desires, challenges and ultimate victories or failures of the past.
Very well done!

A Pleasant Surprise.......2004-11-19

Every athlete should watch this film. It is a cross of Rudy and all the right moves.

The acting is superb and the storyline reminds me of my life growing up as a great athlete then learning when you get to college everybody is as good as you.

Touchdown Tasky.......2004-11-06

Ted Tasky scores big with King of the Ants. The movie is a cross between "All the Right Moves" and "Rudy." King of the Ants is about a star high scool football player who has to adjust to being a third string running back at a big time college football program. The movie is well acted and well observed. I loved it.

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