Antz
Speaker English, German
- Z Woody Allen, Wolfgang Draeger
- Weaver Sylvester Stallone, Thomas Dannenberg
- Princess Bala Sharon Stone, Martina Treger
- Queen Anne Bancroft, sinking summer
- General mandible Gene Hackman, Klaus sunshine
- Colonel Cutter Christopher Walken, Lutz Riedel
- Barbatus Danny Glover, Jürgen Kluckert
- Chip Dan Aykroyd, Norbert Gescher
- Muffy Jane Curtin, Evelyn Gressmann
- Azteca Jennifer Lopez, Carol Ewert
Antz - What is crawling there? is a computer-animated cartoon. He was next to Toy Story one of the first films that were produced entirely on the computer. With this film, DreamWorks went into the production of computer-animated films, and made in the wake of cooperating with Disney Pixar company in this field competition.
Action
Z is a little neurotic worker ant who is dissatisfied with their life in an ant colony. One evening he meets Princess Bala know in a bar and falls in love on the spot in it. Therefore, he exchanged with his friend, the soldiers Weaver, the place, the princess their best wishes are with the soldiers on that day on the road. That this path leads straight into battle, Z perceives as a huge misunderstanding, but it is pulled from the other soldiers into battle. It's about a preemptive strike against the termites, which, however, ends in a debacle. Z returns as the sole survivor and received personally by the Queen as a war hero. It turns out that he is just a worker actually and never on the battlefield should have to be. In his last extremity Z grabs the princess hostage and leaves the royal residence along with Bala something unglimpflich through the garbage chute.
Z tries to get to the legendary Insectopia, a place where insects can live happy and free, with him Bala finally connects after a few reservations. At the same time tries General Mandible, a supporter of the totalitarian system to destroy the working populace to start over from scratch with a " purified " on ant colony. Because he needed to the princess, he sends out his aide Colonel Cutter, to search for Z.
Meanwhile reach Z and the Princess an oversized picnic blanket with welded sandwiches and all kinds of eatables. Greedy to Z crashes on the bread, but he bites his only teeth out. Two helpful wasps finally take pity on the two and want to get something to eat, as at the moment a fly swatter on the female wasps reflected. Mr. Wasp is devastated, and Bala has to fear for her life: She's stuck in a chewing gum on the sole of the people and is now flying with the shoe through the air. Only with difficulty can Z with jump up and thus arrives after the chewing gum was sliced off with a coin, in the true Insectopia - an overstuffed trash can.
While it can be fine Bala and Z there, dig the ants in the colony their misfortune contrary: The opening of the "Mega Tunnel " is imminent, but this leads to a lake, and the final breakthrough of the building is flooded and all "lower" ants drowned. Meanwhile Bala is made and returned locate Cutter. Also Z now reaches back to the colony and can rescue the princess, but it's too late to stop mandible Plan: The Breakthrough to the lake has been made. Huge masses of water plunging to the ants, the crowd anxiously on a small survey. But under Zs and Balas guide the ants snap together and build a living tower to the surface. As the mandible is seen that the so-called "weak elements " - and Z in particular - are stronger than he had supposed, and even cutter is against him, he turns to his former officer, but rips it with Z in flooded building and comes to it; Z, however, is rescued by Cutter. Together the ants celebrate the survival of the colony and Zs heroism.
Background
- The original film title Antz is a modification of the English word ants, which means ants.
- In the film are particularly concerned with the individualism and his own person the individual. The ants of the colony live like "real" ants, they do day after day the same thing and not generalize about what they still might otherwise experience. The freedom of action is limited, and as the film progresses these constricting limits are repelled and a kind of liberalism enters the ant colony.
Awards
Reviews
" The computer- animated masterpiece [ ... ] In addition to the technical aspect, but there are the voices that " make Antz " as adult friendly. Hollywood icons like Woody Allen ( Z), Sharon Stone ( Princess Bala ), Sylvester Stallone (Zs buddy Weaver), Gene Hackman ( Mandible ) and Christopher Walken ( Cutter) speak in the original ants - rarely watched every single voice so perfectly physis her character. If Z in the opening sequence lying on the couch of the ant - psychiatrist and laments about his stuttering predicament, we could find ourselves just as well in Woody Allen's " Annie Hall City Euro ". Princess Bala is seductive and lascivious as Sharon Stone, and Weaver as his spokesman Stallone an impressive muscle package with hanging eye. [ ... ] And " Antz " becomes a " joyride " first screen - kindness. "