Antz

Antz is a computer animated movie made by DreamWorks Animation. It stars Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover and Gene Hackman. Some of the main characters share facial similarities with the actors. It is the first movie to be released by DreamWorks Pictures and the third feature-length computer-animated film after Toy Story.

Antz
Logo
Directed by
  • Eric Darnell
  • Tim Johnson
Screenplay by
  • Todd Alcott
  • Chris Weitz
  • Paul Weitz
Produced by
  • Brad Lewis
  • Aron Warner
  • Patty Wooton
Starring
Edited byStan Webb
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byDreamWorks Pictures[1]
Release date
  • November 7, 1997 (1997-11-07) (United States)
Running time
83 minutes[3]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$42–105 million[4][5][6][7]
Box office$171.8 million

Plot

Z the worker ant strives to reconcile his own individuality with the communal work-ethic of the ant colony. He falls in love with Princess Bala, Z strives to make social inroads, and then must save the ant colony from the treacherous scheming of the evil General Mandible that threaten to wipe out the entire worker population.

Voice cast
  • Woody Allen as Z-4195 "Z", an idealistic but anxious worker ant.
  • Sharon Stone as Princess Bala, the Queen Ant's daughter, Mandible's fiancée, and Z's love interest.
  • Gene Hackman as General Mandible, the mean-spirited and arrogant supreme commander of the ant military. He is also the fianće of Princess Bala.
  • Sylvester Stallone as Corporal Weaver, a brave soldier ant and Z's best friend who becomes Azteca's boyfriend.
  • Jennifer Lopez as Azteca, another friend of Z's and a worker ant who becomes Weaver's girlfriend.
  • Christopher Walken as Colonel Cutter, a flying ant that serves as Mandible's patient and empathetic adviser who becomes disillusioned by the general's actions.
  • Danny Glover as Staff Sergeant Barbatus, a soldier ant who befriends Z during the fight against the termites.
  • Anne Bancroft as Queen Ant, Princess Bala's mother and the ruler of the ants.
  • Dan Aykroyd as Chip the Wasp, a wasp whom Z befriends.
  • Grant Shaud as The Foreman, the head of the worker ants.
  • John Mahoney as Grebs, the Drunk Ant Scout who talked about Insectopia.
  • Jane Curtin as Muffin "Muffy" the Wasp, Chip's wife.
  • Paul Mazursky as Z's Psychiatrist

The cast features several actors from movies Allen wrote, starred in and directed, including Stone (Stardust Memories), Stallone (Bananas), Hackman (Another Woman), and Walken (Annie Hall). Aykroyd later co-starred in Allen's The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.

Additional voices

ADR Group
  • Charles Bartlett as Termites
  • Jack Blessing as Soldier Ants
  • Thomas Brunelle as Soldier Ants
  • William Calvert as Soldier Ants
  • Richard Cansino as Worker Ants
  • Kate Carlin as Female Ants
  • June Christopher as Female Ants
  • David Coburn as Worker Ants
  • Jennifer Crystal as Female Ants
  • Alex Daniels as Soldier Ants
  • James Dean as Soldier Ants
  • Peter Doyle as Soldier Ants
  • Murphy Dunne as Soldier Ants
  • Chad Einbinder as Worker Ants
  • Jeff Fischer as Worker Ants
  • Robin Florence as Female Ants
  • Rebecca Forstadt as Female Ants
  • Val Franco as Female Ants
  • Elisa Gabrielli as Female Ants
  • Anneliese Goldman as Female Ants
  • Brian Herskovitz as Soldier Ants
  • Bobby Jacoby as Ladybug Kids
  • Nick Jameson as Worker Ants
  • Laurie Johnson as Female Ants
  • Holly Kane as Female Ants
  • Daamen Kraal as Soldier Ants
  • Marsha Kramer as Female Ants
  • Steve Kramer as Worker Ants
  • Katie Leigh as Female Ants
  • Anne Lockhart as Female Ants
  • Anna Mathias as Female Ants
  • Don Maxwell as Worker Ants
  • David McCharen as Worker Ants, Soldier Ants
  • Christie Mellor as Female Ants
  • Jonathan Nichols as Worker Ants
  • Julie Payne as Female Ants
  • Tony Pope as Soldier Ants
  • Al Rodrigo as Soldier Ants
  • Michelle Ruff as Female Ants, Ladybug Kids
  • Gary Schwartz as Soldier Ants
  • Steve Staley as Soldier Ants
  • Brian Tochi as Termites
  • Arnold Turner as Soldier Ants
  • Ruth Zalduondo as Female Ants

References
  1. "Antz". American Film Institute. Retrieved December 26, 2016.
  2. "Antz". The Numbers. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
  3. "Antz". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved August 23, 2015. Approved Running time 83m 7s
  4. Fabrikant, Geraldine (November 21, 1998). "'Prince of Egypt' Is No King at the Box-Office". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 27, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  5. Natale, Richard (November 21, 1998). "After 'Rush Hour,' Fall's Box-Office Traffic Is Light". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 4, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  6. "Antz (1997) - Box Office Mojo". www.boxofficemojo.com.
  7. August 23, le0pard13; Reply, 2013 at 10:03 am (August 23, 2013). "'Antz' & 'A Bug's Life'".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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