3/4  Loved the Science Jokes
This is a cleverly written animated film about ants and I actually prefer it over “A Bug’s Life.” Even though its main target are kids, it doesn’t leave adult audiences in boredom. It successfully highlights the message regarding acceptanc... (read full)

5/5 Fun and Delightful!
  by Shirley Priscilla Johnson (USA)
When we first sat down to view this movie I wasn't sure about it. How good could a movie be about a kid bullying ants; I was in for a wonderful surprise. We meet Lucas who is picked on by a bully himself and seems to take out his revenge on an ant community..why? Because he is bigger.
When the Wizard of the ant community comes up with a portion to shrink Lucas and it is decided he must learn how to live like an ant the fun begins. Lucas soon learns that working together can help you overcome no matter what size you are. It was just a really fun movie and one that my entire family enjoyed. I highly recommend it.

5/5 The Any Bully - Netflix Version
  by J. Mann (Berkeley, CA)
After puchasing many non-starter movies for my preschooler daughter, I've learned to use my Netflix membership to bounce new movies off her oh-so-fickle taste. "The Ant Bully" popped up in my New Releases category, so it got dropped in my queue without much thought or expectation.

What a complete surprise! The child *adored* this movie, and the writing is witty enough that I can watch it repeatedly. And by repeatedly, I mean over and over and over.... *sigh*

The more I watch, and so far we're up to eight times (ish), the more Bruce Campbell's character steals the movie for me. Knowing the dialogue word-for-word hasn't diminished the humor yet, and I doubt more viewings will either.

I absolutely recommend this movie for children. I didn't hear anything inappropriate from Nicholas Cage's character - he does have a very menacing ant-face once, but for the most part he's just an anxious and neurotic ant. Perfect casting...

Enjoy!

5/5 Entertaining, family-friendly movie
  by z hayes (plano,texas)
My 4.5 year-old preschooler loves "The Ant Bully", and this is one of the few kid movies that I actually enjoy watching with her [we've watched it over 5 times now]. The animation is great, and the story too has a lot to recommend it. The story centers around a young boy, Lucas [Zach Tyler] who is constantly being bullied by an older and bigger neighborhood bully. Lucas in turn vents his anger and frustration on the ant colony in his yard. Typical of animated movies, the ants can 'talk' - there's Zoc [Nicolas Cage] a sort of ant wizard who experiments with a shrinking potion, his girlfriend Hova [Julia Roberts] who believes that "Peanut the Destroyer" aka Lucas is good at heart and that humans and ants can co-exist in peace. Lucas inevitably gets shrunk to ant size [well, a little smaller actually] and is sentenced by the Queen [Meryl Streep] to live and work in the ant colony, learning to 'become' an ant with the hope that Lucas will learn compassion. Over the course of the movie, Lucas learns that ants too have 'feelings' and that his actions of bullying the ants was not justified in any way - in fact, Lucas comes to form a real friendship with the ants.

A story with a positive message and wonderful animation, with lots of humor throughout - perfect for kids and adults alike. Highly recommended as a family movie.

4/5 Ant Bully HD DVD Review
  by Araneta Ocampo (Philippines)
This is a very good movie in high definition. The graphics are very detailed. It's in combo format (HD DVD & DVD Version in one disc). I recommend this for first time HD DVD buyers since you will be able to compare the clarity between standard DVD and HD DVD. You will be amazed on the picture improvement over the standard DVD.

5/5 Great Movie
  by Allan Sormani Sanabri (San Jose, Santa Ana Costa Rica)
Im a big 3d fan and this movie has a lots of details and a magnific animation applied to the characters, totally recommended