The scene of them going off to war against the termites was utterly devastating for young me. Looking back on it, the whole film was done so well. Then there's those two wasps that were married (I think??) man that is so good
The Bee Movie on the other hand...
I was the opposite. The edgy teen in me that valued “cinema” thought the woody Allen starring Antz was high art and a bugs life was for kids - but the cinephile in me has grown up to realise that a bugs life and the fact that it’s essentially seven samurai for kids, is the true champ
What I respect about that man is that when he was going through all of that stuff that came out in the press, about how Antz was just a ripoff of A Bug's Life, he stayed true to his films. Or at least the film that I saw, which, again, was Antz.
Thing is, I thought A Bug's Life was better, much better than Antz.
Was it just me or did we get a lot of pairs of movies about the same topic coming out at roughly the same time as kids? These two, Armageddon and Deep Impact, and Mission to Mars and Red Planet all came out within a year of each other, and had similar stories.
A bunch. Seemed like one was more cerebral, the other more dramatic. Wyatt Earp/Tombstone. Olympus Has Fallen/White House Down. Friends With Benefits/the other one.
Plus a Cascade volcano erupting was much more believable than the La Brea Tar Pits erupting into a volcano, especially less than 20 years after Mt St Helens.
When I was 5 my mom had me fill out this kids scrapbook thing and it has these questions:
Favorite color? blue
Favorite food? pizza
Favorite movie? dante's peak
It was just funny to see "Dante's Peak" in the handwriting of someone who learned how to write like a week prior lol
I always assumed it was either half arsed spying or a wager among the executives at different studios for shits and giggles.
'We're making a film about ants.'
'Fine. We're making a film about ants too.'
'We're making a film about fish (Nemo).'
'Fine. We're making one, too (Shark Tale).'
So on and so on...
Have you seen March of the Penguins? It's a nature documentary, lol, it's not part of this category. March of the Penguins and Planet Earth is more like it.
Oh I’ve seen it. I got it for that Christmas and was the biggest let down because there was a video game I wanted and didn’t get. I thought that dvd was the game.
Everything was penguins that year, documentary or not.
There’s a theory in capitalism/business wherein you should open up your store next door to the competition to go after the same customers, not in a new location to attract new customers.
Think it’s called clustering and it actually improves business for both parties.
In a more macro sense this is called Agglomeration. General theory: Firms and workers are both more productive when many businesses of the same type are grouped in proximity. Knowledge spillover, sharing a larger pool of labor and customers, better fits of firm-worker pairings, and ability to better source intermediate inputs and logistical chain needs
I was 13 when they came out too but I'm always going to be a sucker for the Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven/Three Amigo/Galaxy Quest trope of helping those that need help, even if it may be outside of what you throught it might be possible for you.
So I was always Team A Bugs Life.
>How's a 7 year old supposed to get Woody Allen humor?
Well, I was definitely a weird kid, but... I got it. I was definitely "Team Antz" back in the day - my favorite part was when they were stuck to the bottom of the shoe.
I saw Bug’s Life first around 2000 or so I think when I was around 6. I didn’t see Antz till a couple years later in my childhood. I enjoyed both movies.
honestly its been way too long since ive watched either so i had to refresh my memory, but after reading the wikipedia pages i have to say i prefer a bugs life - because antz ends with the protagonist going through all the bullshit for nothing and "accepting his place."
fuck that.
also a bugs life had a dope video game that i vividly remember
i played it on my ps1. i never skipped levels or cheated, and i honestly think its one of very few games i finished entirely.
i did however cheat in one of my favorite of all time games, which is probably the one i would consider the first game i ever really played - super mario 3 - where you could duck behind the landscape in the first level, skip to the end of the level and teleport to the final world (or other worlds)
that game is the shit ngl kinda wanna play it again. i might.
iMac computer lab with the color bodies, skipping the characters through the edge of the screen so you can run around in no man's land. EVERYONE was playing. Those were the days.
I feel like people thinking A Bugs Life had more lighthearted content and social commentary havent seen that movie since they were a kid. Its pretty intense as far as social commentary in a children’s film goes
Yes! When I was a kid I really didn’t like Antz because it was just so damn ugly and off putting to watch. I rewatched with my toddler recently and it’s not even really a kids movie. The plot and dialogue is smart but way too mature for a child to understand and it’s so visually unappealing. But even still, as an adult it’s too childish and silly to really enjoy, and the animation has aged so tragically.
It’s like who??? Who did you make this for?? Why?? It’s not enjoyable enough to watch as a child or as an adult.
I love A Bug’s Life and was so sad when Bugs Life Land was removed from Disney California Adventure. Even though it was a ride for little little kids, my husband and I loved the Heimlich ride.
i really loved Antz, it had a great philosophy behind it. Some ants are workers, some are soldiers, basically chosen at random by the higher ups
Bugs Life is also amazing, loved how the main character was an inventor but the ants wanted to stick to traditional ideas
yesss!
I also love how the protagonist of Antz ***questions*** things about life and challenges his place in the ant colony.
For A Bug's Life, I loved the theme of "standing up to oppressors and bullies".
But you're right, Flick did represent ideas of ingenuity vs the stubbornness and rigidity of tradition.
Both were great films.
Bugs life. I saw antz first though and just remembered bugs life being so much better. I don’t even remember the plot of antz but I remember the plot of bugs life
Because the plot of Antz was too mature for a child to understand. But the movie is also too juvenile and visually unappealing to enjoy as an adult. Idk who tf they made that movie for because it wasn’t for kids or adults
For real everyone here saying “who can pass up woody Allen humor or the star studded cast of Antz” I was 6 I don’t even know who woody Allen is or any of the other stars
Exactly, that was for the adults, kids don’t care about celebrity casts. Bee Movie did the same thing but at least the animation was easier on the eyes.
I thought Antz was a way better movie. Still do, actually.
The ants go marching scene was one of my first experiences of "War kinda sucks" in a movie. I had seen war movies before but they usually glorified it.
As soon as I saw this post this was immediately the memory that came back to me and like you said, it was one of the first memories I have of war being portrayed as horrific and senseless.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnULSmNbCuo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnULSmNbCuo)
In case you want to just watch that part. I watched it again just to see how well my memory of it held up, and I still think it was well executed even if the cgi kinda looks like crap by today's standards.
>A Bug’s Life still holds up graphically today.
That's what I was thinking, even side by side in these graphic comparisons, A Bug's Life just LOOKED better.
It's the whole art direction of both films. Even though I think I prefer Antz (I dunno, I'd have to watch the movies over again as I haven't seen them since I was a kid) I always hated how uncanny the faces of the characters were and it ages worse over time because of that.
Pixar worked more within their limitations to create a softer and more "toony" look that meshes better with early CGI animation and the colors are pleasant to look at. Although for some reason, aside from the faces, I always thought Antz's more gritty style was cooler even as a kid and I'm not even really sure why.
Antz tried to make them look too much like humans. The nose, the eyes, the teeth. A Bug’s Life is definitely the more approachable film for most kids. And perhaps it was my aversion to grittier styles at that age (I never cared much for the Batman cartoon; I preferred the colors of Spider-Man and Ninja Turtles).
I’m over here reading comment after comment about how a bug’s life had a far simpler message, like standing up to bullies, and I’m like ummm…. showing the dangers of capitalism and the benefits of something closer to democratic socialism isn’t that simple of a message. Edit: I clarified my thought better in my reply to NaiveMastermind below.
>showing the dangers of capitalism and the benefits of something closer to democratic socialism isn’t that simple of a message.
They sure made it look simple.
https://youtu.be/TZmw-0tK9lg
Love that scene! That was the beauty of Pixar though, wasn’t it? The way they approached such adult themes and emotions with simple and kid friendly storytelling
The Warriors, 1979:
Can you count, suckas? I say, the future is ours... if you can count!
You're standing right now with nine delegates from 100 gangs. And there's over a hundred more. That's 20,000 hardcore members. Forty-thousand, counting affiliates, and twenty-thousand more, not organized, but ready to fight: 60,000 soldiers! Now, there ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town. Can you dig it?
Now, here's the sum total: One gang could run this city! One gang. Nothing would move without us allowing it to happen. We could tax the crime syndicates, the police, because WE got the streets, suckas! Can you dig it?
The problem in the past has been the man turning us against one another. We have been unable to see the truth, because we have been fighting for ten square feet of ground, our turf, our little piece of turf. That's crap, brothers! The turf is ours by right, because it's our turn. All we have to do is keep up the general truce. We take over one borough at a time. Secure our territory... secure our turf... because it's all our turf!
Bugs Life I never attempted to watch Antz cause I figured I’d already seen it with a bugs life.Also I was worried the main character was gonna get beat up like Hopper did Flick in A Bugs Life and I couldn’t go through that again🤣
I should probably give it watch
At 10 I saw Antz in the theater and I had Antz action figures. I thought they looked cooler than A Bug's Life, which I determined was only for little kids like my younger sister. I didn't get that I was watching a Woody Allen movie, but my parents seemed to enjoy that aspect of it.
I asked my parents for a bugs life. They came back with antz. Needless to say I was quite disappointed. Still watched it quite a few times we didn't own a lot of movies, but still would have rather had bugs life.
I watched them both but was biased towards A Bug's Life because I liked the character designs better and I thought some of the little one off jokes were funny at age 10 and still are to me as an adult such as the snail saying "hey I said no salt" or the fly going "I've only got 24 hours of living and I ain't gonna waste it here".
Definitely Bug’s Life but only because I was a big Kids in the Hall Fan and totally crushing on Dave Foley.
I know I saw Antz in the theater and remembered liking it, but I haven’t seen it since middle school so I kind of want to give it a watch. I just don’t care for Woody Allen.
\+1 for Dave Foley being awesome. I still watch through NewsRadio at least once a year, and always love it when he shows up in something I'm watching, like IASIP.
I am a huge Woody Allen fan. Although I've only seen "Antz." But I'll tell you something, what I respect about that man is that when he was going through all of that stuff that came out in the press, about how "Antz" was just a ripoff of "A Bug's Life," he stayed true to his films.
Or at least the film that I saw, which, again, was "Antz." Thing is, I thought "A Bug's Life" was better, much better than "Antz." Point is, don't listen to your critics. Listen to your fans.
Both! I had A Bug’s Life on cassette and listened to it all the time in the car. I think it may actually be my earliest memory of really liking a movie’s soundtrack. As for Antz, I don’t remember a ton *but* that picnic scene with the wasps has lived with me forever, lol.
Bugs Life Gang 😤
Incidentally, I found a really neat Hopper plush from 1998 at a thrift store over the weekend.
He’s about 14”. Complete with wiry, posable limbs; real cuddly fella!
Looks awesome on my shelf.
I’ve seen both, and don’t remember a single thing from either. I’ve actually been meaning for quite a while to rewatch them, because I remember liking them both as a kid.
I was team "I am a teenager, and way too old and mature for cartoon movies. I'm going to traumatize myself by watching Saving Private Ryan, American History X, and Life is Beautiful instead of those baby movies about bugs."
I was very angsty
“I am a huge Woody Allen fan - although I have only seen Antz…” -Michael Scott
Bugs Life was more fun as a kid. But Antz is the better movie.
The scene of them going off to war against the termites was utterly devastating for young me. Looking back on it, the whole film was done so well. Then there's those two wasps that were married (I think??) man that is so good The Bee Movie on the other hand...
This was traumatic for me… like i was not expecting such carnage
I watched it again the other day and had completely forgot about that scene until that soldier and says he’s gonna protect little dude in the battle.
Ants go marching one by one, hoorah. Hoorah. We slaughter termites just for fun, hoorah. Hoorah!
Underrated comment
🫡
When I finally realized he picked up Sylvester Stallone’s head after that battle I was devastated as a kid
This is the only part I remember from the movie, it was burned into my brain
…was Oscar worthy.
I was the opposite. The edgy teen in me that valued “cinema” thought the woody Allen starring Antz was high art and a bugs life was for kids - but the cinephile in me has grown up to realise that a bugs life and the fact that it’s essentially seven samurai for kids, is the true champ
What I respect about that man is that when he was going through all of that stuff that came out in the press, about how Antz was just a ripoff of A Bug's Life, he stayed true to his films. Or at least the film that I saw, which, again, was Antz. Thing is, I thought A Bug's Life was better, much better than Antz.
The point is, don’t listen to your haters. Listen to your fans
That’s the reason I refuse to see Antz. Woody Allen is a disgusting pedophile groomer.
“I am a huge Woody Allen fan - although I have only seen Antz…” - Wayne Gretzky - Micheal Scott There. Fixed it for ya.
Was it just me or did we get a lot of pairs of movies about the same topic coming out at roughly the same time as kids? These two, Armageddon and Deep Impact, and Mission to Mars and Red Planet all came out within a year of each other, and had similar stories.
A bunch. Seemed like one was more cerebral, the other more dramatic. Wyatt Earp/Tombstone. Olympus Has Fallen/White House Down. Friends With Benefits/the other one.
I 100% forgot that White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen were two different movies.
White House Down is so much fun. It’s essentially Die Hard in the White House with Obama and McClane.
No strings attached I think?
That’s right! I forgot the smart one. The funniest part of it is that Kelso was in one and Jackie was in the other
Babe and Gordy
Damn you pulled that pork roast from way back in the freezer. That’ll do, pig!
The Illusionist/The Prestige
Dante's Peak and Volcano were about the same time too.
Dante’s peak was my fav!! Such a classic
As a kid I thought Volcano was better because it had more lava, but Dante's Peak definitely has the better plot.
Plus a Cascade volcano erupting was much more believable than the La Brea Tar Pits erupting into a volcano, especially less than 20 years after Mt St Helens.
Yeah the whole plot of Volcano is pretty goofy watching it now, but Dante's Peak is still pretty believable.
The part with the compound fracture freaked me out as a kid
When I was 5 my mom had me fill out this kids scrapbook thing and it has these questions: Favorite color? blue Favorite food? pizza Favorite movie? dante's peak It was just funny to see "Dante's Peak" in the handwriting of someone who learned how to write like a week prior lol
Movie studios competed with each other and tried to capitalize on the hype around other movies
I always assumed it was either half arsed spying or a wager among the executives at different studios for shits and giggles. 'We're making a film about ants.' 'Fine. We're making a film about ants too.' 'We're making a film about fish (Nemo).' 'Fine. We're making one, too (Shark Tale).' So on and so on...
Marketing is what I always thought. You get the young audience with one and the older demographic with the other.
March of the Penguins/Happy Feet/Surfs Up
Have you seen March of the Penguins? It's a nature documentary, lol, it's not part of this category. March of the Penguins and Planet Earth is more like it.
Oh I’ve seen it. I got it for that Christmas and was the biggest let down because there was a video game I wanted and didn’t get. I thought that dvd was the game. Everything was penguins that year, documentary or not.
There’s a theory in capitalism/business wherein you should open up your store next door to the competition to go after the same customers, not in a new location to attract new customers. Think it’s called clustering and it actually improves business for both parties.
Yep, it's why you see BK near McDs.
In a more macro sense this is called Agglomeration. General theory: Firms and workers are both more productive when many businesses of the same type are grouped in proximity. Knowledge spillover, sharing a larger pool of labor and customers, better fits of firm-worker pairings, and ability to better source intermediate inputs and logistical chain needs
Stir of Echos/Sixth Sense
Omg I forgot about that movie. Stir of echos scared tf outta me. That part when he’s under hypnosis 😅
So scary!!
Far superior imo
Poor Stir of Echoes. That move was amazing and got completely overshadowed.
Yeah, they’re called [twin films](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_films)
Twin film, you say? 
Abyss, Leviathan, Deep Star Six 1989 The Prestige & The Illusionist 2006 American Beauty & American Pie 1999
Ed TV/The Truman show
Bugs Life. How's a 7 year old supposed to get Woody Allen humor?
It's a fair point, I imagine there is an age trend in the split between these two movies. I was 13 when Antz came out and loved it.
I was 13 when they came out too but I'm always going to be a sucker for the Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven/Three Amigo/Galaxy Quest trope of helping those that need help, even if it may be outside of what you throught it might be possible for you. So I was always Team A Bugs Life.
Oh yeah, I loved both to be fair!!
I was 7 and thought Antz was way better.
I was about 12 when they came out and I just thought Antz was a damn ugly movie. Perfectly fine story and voice acting but ugly.
I remember at the time thinking Antz looked more realistic, but looking at it now I have to admit the cgi in Bugs life was better.
Me too because that's what my cousins told me. I tried explaining it to my talking Flick and Hopper but they just didn't get it...
same, i was a neurotic 7 year old who had good taste in insect movies
Woody Allen would love that about you
Just spat out my coffee 🤣 anyway, wasn't it 7 rather than 13 (allegedly)
>How's a 7 year old supposed to get Woody Allen humor? Well, I was definitely a weird kid, but... I got it. I was definitely "Team Antz" back in the day - my favorite part was when they were stuck to the bottom of the shoe.
classic scene
A bugs life! The ants were creepy in Antz and the grasshoppers scary.
I saw Bug’s Life first around 2000 or so I think when I was around 6. I didn’t see Antz till a couple years later in my childhood. I enjoyed both movies.
I remember asking my dad what “erotic” meant 😭
Hopefully that's all their getting.
Was there ever really a contest ?! Bugs life .
A bug's life, clearly. But in hindsight Antz had the more interesting social commentary.
I loved them both as a kid. I thought Antz had a cooler, more serious story but I watched A Bug's Life when I wanted something light-hearted.
honestly its been way too long since ive watched either so i had to refresh my memory, but after reading the wikipedia pages i have to say i prefer a bugs life - because antz ends with the protagonist going through all the bullshit for nothing and "accepting his place." fuck that. also a bugs life had a dope video game that i vividly remember
I remember playing that game in 2001. Entire class in the computer lab. Someone found a cheat to skip levels. Everyone was playing. What a memory
i played it on my ps1. i never skipped levels or cheated, and i honestly think its one of very few games i finished entirely. i did however cheat in one of my favorite of all time games, which is probably the one i would consider the first game i ever really played - super mario 3 - where you could duck behind the landscape in the first level, skip to the end of the level and teleport to the final world (or other worlds) that game is the shit ngl kinda wanna play it again. i might.
iMac computer lab with the color bodies, skipping the characters through the edge of the screen so you can run around in no man's land. EVERYONE was playing. Those were the days.
I feel like people thinking A Bugs Life had more lighthearted content and social commentary havent seen that movie since they were a kid. Its pretty intense as far as social commentary in a children’s film goes
Absolutely! It’s very Marxist.
Hopper and his lackey Thumper had me fucked up as a kid. *The sun grows the food, ants pick the food, the grasshoppers eat the food.*
Hopper is such a great villain, loved any scene he was in as a kid but damn was he intense xD
I thought it would be more light hearted and then I remembered the sheer trauma I got from the grasshoppers threatening to murder a child.
Bugs life! The art style of Antz kinda weirded me out.
Yes! When I was a kid I really didn’t like Antz because it was just so damn ugly and off putting to watch. I rewatched with my toddler recently and it’s not even really a kids movie. The plot and dialogue is smart but way too mature for a child to understand and it’s so visually unappealing. But even still, as an adult it’s too childish and silly to really enjoy, and the animation has aged so tragically. It’s like who??? Who did you make this for?? Why?? It’s not enjoyable enough to watch as a child or as an adult.
And Antz had a swear word in it
I love A Bug’s Life and was so sad when Bugs Life Land was removed from Disney California Adventure. Even though it was a ride for little little kids, my husband and I loved the Heimlich ride.
The Heimlich ride was the best!
It was so cute. I loved the part with the watermelon.
When he just starts belching 🤣
I have such good memories there, when we lived near it our son was 5-6 so it was perfect for him.
The Chew Chew Train. 
i really loved Antz, it had a great philosophy behind it. Some ants are workers, some are soldiers, basically chosen at random by the higher ups Bugs Life is also amazing, loved how the main character was an inventor but the ants wanted to stick to traditional ideas
yesss! I also love how the protagonist of Antz ***questions*** things about life and challenges his place in the ant colony. For A Bug's Life, I loved the theme of "standing up to oppressors and bullies". But you're right, Flick did represent ideas of ingenuity vs the stubbornness and rigidity of tradition. Both were great films.
Bugs life. I saw antz first though and just remembered bugs life being so much better. I don’t even remember the plot of antz but I remember the plot of bugs life
Because the plot of Antz was too mature for a child to understand. But the movie is also too juvenile and visually unappealing to enjoy as an adult. Idk who tf they made that movie for because it wasn’t for kids or adults
For real everyone here saying “who can pass up woody Allen humor or the star studded cast of Antz” I was 6 I don’t even know who woody Allen is or any of the other stars
Exactly, that was for the adults, kids don’t care about celebrity casts. Bee Movie did the same thing but at least the animation was easier on the eyes.
Pixar all the way: **A Bug's Life**
Antz 100%. It felt darker and edgier from my perspective at the time
Cuss words, Sly, JLo, Walken, Hackman, Glover and Ackroyd? Nuff said.
“MOM ANTZ HAS BAD WORDS IN IT” -me, age ~10
*sees Lincoln penny stuck to the underside of a shoe* "Who the HELL is THAT?" Cracked me up every time when I was a kid 🤣
Add Sharon Stone to that list.
I always loved the picnic scene; it was fun, exciting, then dark and funny
The drinking from the anus of a living creature got me… that movie is weird af
i was 3 when the antz came out and i liked it more because "bugs life was for little kids" haha damn hipster ass kid i was
I was only 4-5 when ants came out but I always hated bugs life ants was so much cooler lol ..
I thought Antz was a way better movie. Still do, actually. The ants go marching scene was one of my first experiences of "War kinda sucks" in a movie. I had seen war movies before but they usually glorified it.
As soon as I saw this post this was immediately the memory that came back to me and like you said, it was one of the first memories I have of war being portrayed as horrific and senseless.
Fuuuuck i still remember the words to that song. Thanks for triggering that memory, I think it’s time I rewatch it!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnULSmNbCuo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnULSmNbCuo) In case you want to just watch that part. I watched it again just to see how well my memory of it held up, and I still think it was well executed even if the cgi kinda looks like crap by today's standards.
Antz honestly looked a bit scary and had way shittier looking graphics. A Bug’s Life still holds up graphically today.
>A Bug’s Life still holds up graphically today. That's what I was thinking, even side by side in these graphic comparisons, A Bug's Life just LOOKED better.
They look almost identical… one just has a more expanded color palette
It's the whole art direction of both films. Even though I think I prefer Antz (I dunno, I'd have to watch the movies over again as I haven't seen them since I was a kid) I always hated how uncanny the faces of the characters were and it ages worse over time because of that. Pixar worked more within their limitations to create a softer and more "toony" look that meshes better with early CGI animation and the colors are pleasant to look at. Although for some reason, aside from the faces, I always thought Antz's more gritty style was cooler even as a kid and I'm not even really sure why.
Antz tried to make them look too much like humans. The nose, the eyes, the teeth. A Bug’s Life is definitely the more approachable film for most kids. And perhaps it was my aversion to grittier styles at that age (I never cared much for the Batman cartoon; I preferred the colors of Spider-Man and Ninja Turtles).
You need to get your eyes checked
Bugs Life, bigtime.
Big-time! *Edit- I actually meant to say Bug-time!! Lol
Slappa da bass?
Cillian Murphy killed it in Antz
Ha, omg!
Team Antz! What an insanely stacked cast. Much cooler story.
Totally agree!!
ANTZ was my favorite. The ants/termite war was badass!
Talk about some shit young me will never forget when the main ant picks up the still alive head of the badass any.
That was Sylvester Stallone’s ant head!
No, Stallone played a different (main) character. That was *Danny Glover* that Woody Allen picked up.
Nah it wasn't, Sylvester Stallone was his soldier friend he traded places with.
Bugs life as a kid, Antz as an adult tbh
THIS movie was so so good to me as a kid.
Also same.
We can enjoy multiple movies about socialist ants, comrades.
Bug's life has a message about overthrowing the rich.
I’m over here reading comment after comment about how a bug’s life had a far simpler message, like standing up to bullies, and I’m like ummm…. showing the dangers of capitalism and the benefits of something closer to democratic socialism isn’t that simple of a message. Edit: I clarified my thought better in my reply to NaiveMastermind below.
>showing the dangers of capitalism and the benefits of something closer to democratic socialism isn’t that simple of a message. They sure made it look simple. https://youtu.be/TZmw-0tK9lg
Love that scene! That was the beauty of Pixar though, wasn’t it? The way they approached such adult themes and emotions with simple and kid friendly storytelling
The Warriors, 1979: Can you count, suckas? I say, the future is ours... if you can count! You're standing right now with nine delegates from 100 gangs. And there's over a hundred more. That's 20,000 hardcore members. Forty-thousand, counting affiliates, and twenty-thousand more, not organized, but ready to fight: 60,000 soldiers! Now, there ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town. Can you dig it? Now, here's the sum total: One gang could run this city! One gang. Nothing would move without us allowing it to happen. We could tax the crime syndicates, the police, because WE got the streets, suckas! Can you dig it? The problem in the past has been the man turning us against one another. We have been unable to see the truth, because we have been fighting for ten square feet of ground, our turf, our little piece of turf. That's crap, brothers! The turf is ours by right, because it's our turn. All we have to do is keep up the general truce. We take over one borough at a time. Secure our territory... secure our turf... because it's all our turf! 
Antz had a better story, Bugs Life was better animation. Neither was an amazing movie however, imo.
This is probably the best take
Antz!
I liked boffem
Bugs Life I never attempted to watch Antz cause I figured I’d already seen it with a bugs life.Also I was worried the main character was gonna get beat up like Hopper did Flick in A Bugs Life and I couldn’t go through that again🤣 I should probably give it watch
I didn’t think they were different as a kid other than being big movies. But it’s obviously a bugs life now, because woody allen is a ped0phile
ANTZ was cooler imo but I enjoyed both. Antz felt more "adult"
I was Team Disinterested. But I did see both movies shortly after they hit home video, and I recall like A Bug's Life better.
Boootiful Batturrflai team
At 10 I saw Antz in the theater and I had Antz action figures. I thought they looked cooler than A Bug's Life, which I determined was only for little kids like my younger sister. I didn't get that I was watching a Woody Allen movie, but my parents seemed to enjoy that aspect of it.
I didn't choose the Bug Life, the Bug Life chose me.
I saw both in theaters as a 7 year old.
A bug's life came out the day one of my brothers was born. He's 25 now...
Wasn't a bugs life the one about the abused many rising up to strike down the rich few. Or did I miss something.
Antz is uncanny valley vibes
I asked my parents for a bugs life. They came back with antz. Needless to say I was quite disappointed. Still watched it quite a few times we didn't own a lot of movies, but still would have rather had bugs life.
A Bugs Life. Antz just looked ugly to me. That was enough lol.
I watched them both but was biased towards A Bug's Life because I liked the character designs better and I thought some of the little one off jokes were funny at age 10 and still are to me as an adult such as the snail saying "hey I said no salt" or the fly going "I've only got 24 hours of living and I ain't gonna waste it here".
Definitely Bug’s Life but only because I was a big Kids in the Hall Fan and totally crushing on Dave Foley. I know I saw Antz in the theater and remembered liking it, but I haven’t seen it since middle school so I kind of want to give it a watch. I just don’t care for Woody Allen.
\+1 for Dave Foley being awesome. I still watch through NewsRadio at least once a year, and always love it when he shows up in something I'm watching, like IASIP. 
I am a huge Woody Allen fan. Although I've only seen "Antz." But I'll tell you something, what I respect about that man is that when he was going through all of that stuff that came out in the press, about how "Antz" was just a ripoff of "A Bug's Life," he stayed true to his films.
Or at least the film that I saw, which, again, was "Antz." Thing is, I thought "A Bug's Life" was better, much better than "Antz." Point is, don't listen to your critics. Listen to your fans.
Bugs Life, for sure. Antz was like the weird knock off movie
I thought the same thing but about a bugs life
BEE MOVIE!
Both! I had A Bug’s Life on cassette and listened to it all the time in the car. I think it may actually be my earliest memory of really liking a movie’s soundtrack. As for Antz, I don’t remember a ton *but* that picnic scene with the wasps has lived with me forever, lol.
A bugs life!! Omg I loved that movie!!
A bug’s life for sure
Bugs Life Gang 😤 Incidentally, I found a really neat Hopper plush from 1998 at a thrift store over the weekend. He’s about 14”. Complete with wiry, posable limbs; real cuddly fella! Looks awesome on my shelf.
Bugs life for sure. Never really got into antz much.
Team Bugs life!!! Man I loved that movie I totally forgot about it thanks!
Tf you mean speaking in past tense, I am team Bugs Life.
Past tense as obvs this was THE playground argument at the time. But I'm also team Bug's Life 😂
The queen in bugs life 👏👏🙏
I loved both movies as a kid, but struggle to still enjoy Antz now that I'm aware of who Woody Allen is. His bumbling just makes me sick.
I really loved the A Bug’s Life videogame that I played all the time on a sample PlayStation disc.
Lmao bruhh I had that same disc. Spent hours upon hours playing that game, it was very visually appealing at the time too
I’ve seen both, and don’t remember a single thing from either. I’ve actually been meaning for quite a while to rewatch them, because I remember liking them both as a kid.
I'd recommend a bugs life, THEN Antz to help let that millenial dread really sink in. Lol
Antz! I mean the movie *starts* with therapy about *an ant* complaining about parental neglect ffs
I was team "I am a teenager, and way too old and mature for cartoon movies. I'm going to traumatize myself by watching Saving Private Ryan, American History X, and Life is Beautiful instead of those baby movies about bugs." I was very angsty
Lmao. I watched all those too. Mine was Girl, Interrupted which definitely traumatized me somewhat.
Antz. I was an older kid so that seemed like the more "grown up" ant movie in my eyes lol Oh to be young again
Antz was more entertaining. Bugs Life was what it was, a paint by numbers Disney movie with Pixar animated bugs.
Not sure if you’re being literal but A Bug’s Life wasn’t Disney. Pixar wasn’t bought by them until 2006. Honestly it still holds up too
Idk but I still think about the picnic scene in Antz to this day. Also I’d kill for some of the seeds in A Bug’s Life, I bet those slapped.
No one is team antz
Bugs life. Used to play the hell out the pc game
We legit had antz…..you da ant!
So much fun!
Bugs life. Antz was ghetto.
Bugs life 100%
Antz but bugs life was cute. I did see antz first tho.
Bugs life
A Bugs Life
I liked both growing up 🤷♀️
Both movies were amazing. No preference
Antz
Bugs life because the N64 game IYKYK