lately i have be watch a lot of tom hank film and old chaplin film and even some of rowan atkinson early bean performance and and it seem that all of them have their own unique charm that permeate throughout their work and something that allow them to identify with audience member of all age and in a way that just make you feel good . a bug life have that same charm and it have a connection with real life that allow u to easily suspend disbelief and accept a lot of talk insect and because even though they talk and they still act just like real bug . it like the team that make the movie find a way to bring u into the mind of a child and allow u to think like them and to imagine bug the way a young mind do . honey and i shrink the kid be one of my favorite film when i be young and and to me and a bug life be like a more realistic version of that movie and if only because the animation be so breathtaking and this style of story tell just open up so many more narrative possibility . i try not to compare it to something like toy story ( which i still maintain be the best computer animate film ever make ) and because the story of a bug life be not quite as good a toy story and but then again and almost nothing be . the important thing be that it be still wonderful fun . the story concern a colony of hard work bug who have an impressively developed society and mostly gear around build a harvest of food and most of which will go to the tyrannical grasshopper and vastly superior in strength and general meanness and and hopefully still leave enough left over for the bug to make it through the winter . we be treat to some visit from the grasshopper and who make it clear that if the bug provide an unsatisfactory quantity of food and the consequence will be dire . and incidentally and the similarity between this cripple level of food extraction be strikingly similar to mao tse tung vicious forcing of food from his own people during the great leap forward the fun and excitement begin when flik and the main character and set off on a quest to find a gang of appropriate warrior bug to come back and help defend the colony against the grasshopper . you see and he spill all of the amass food and place everyone in great danger and so he feel it his responsibility and but he inadvertently end up hire a struggle group of insect circus performer . great for the audience and not so great for the safety of the clan . the movie be release back in the late 90 and when so many film seem to have be come out in two and like armageddon and deep impact and independence day and the arrival and a bug life and antz and etc . comparison between a bug life and antz be inevitable and although it seem clear to me that a bug life be by far the superior film and and not only because it doesn not star woody allen stutter and whine through the lead role . this be great family fun .