The Ant Bully is a wonderful tale of a young boy, Lucas Nickle, who has a problem being nice to insects. This of course would be an understatement since half of the movie is Lucas splattering the insides of ants all of over the bottom of his shoes.
There is an underlying theme of compassion that hits the audience hard throughout the movie. Who would have thought that one could get inside the mind of an insect? This occurs in the climatic scene when Lucas drowns the majority of the ant colony with his water gun. You will be hard pressed to avoid shedding a few tears.
We gleefully get to watch as Lucas is given a taste of his own medicine so to speak. It really gives one a feeling of satisfaction to watch as Lucas is nearly drained of every DNA cell in the scene where the queen ant spears him with her stinger. Fortunately he survives.
Only when Lucas is worked nearly to death in hard labor to rebuild the colony that he destroyed does one feel sympathy for him. In fact this sympathy can easily turn into rage to the point of imagining blow torching a few ant colonies after the movie.
The CGI graphics at times seem archaic as if microsoft paint was the software of choice, however in totality the realism surpasses only the old Betty Boop cartoons.
Ant Colony will sure to be a fantastic exploration into the psychosis of insects for children of all ages. To hear my young one describe it, "Daddy I need to go to the potty."
There is an underlying theme of compassion that hits the audience hard throughout the movie. Who would have thought that one could get inside the mind of an insect? This occurs in the climatic scene when Lucas drowns the majority of the ant colony with his water gun. You will be hard pressed to avoid shedding a few tears.
We gleefully get to watch as Lucas is given a taste of his own medicine so to speak. It really gives one a feeling of satisfaction to watch as Lucas is nearly drained of every DNA cell in the scene where the queen ant spears him with her stinger. Fortunately he survives.
Only when Lucas is worked nearly to death in hard labor to rebuild the colony that he destroyed does one feel sympathy for him. In fact this sympathy can easily turn into rage to the point of imagining blow torching a few ant colonies after the movie.
The CGI graphics at times seem archaic as if microsoft paint was the software of choice, however in totality the realism surpasses only the old Betty Boop cartoons.
Ant Colony will sure to be a fantastic exploration into the psychosis of insects for children of all ages. To hear my young one describe it, "Daddy I need to go to the potty."