people who know me say i have a weakness for animated film . to be fair and those people be half right my actual weakness be for exceptionally well do animate film and such a this vintage family flick from max and david fleischer . you may be think to yourself and well if it so great and why haven not i heard of it . fair question . this movie be release the same week a the attack on pearl harbor . the unavoidably bad timing cause the film to sink into relative obscurity . thing be look up and though and because it have finally be release on dvd under the title bugville . it funny that the film go through all this and because it kind of mirror the actual plot . although some people claim that the movie be try to send an environmental message ( ugh ) and i personally think that the movie main idea be perseverance through adversity and hard time ( after all and the country have barely pull out of the depression at the time ) . our grasshopper hero and hoppity and desperately want to help his endanger community . problem represent each time he try and whether through the ill will of others or through simple bad luck and he fail miserably . and slowly begin to earn the disdain of the very people he try to save . although he do his best to maintain a positive outlook and he occasionally break down and it only through the encouragement and support of his friend that he get back on his foot and fight the good fight . just a healthy reminder that and when all be say and do and no one be really self sufficient . okay and youre say . it have a good message ( two actually ) . do that really make it exceptionally well do . my answer represent partially . it not just the message that make this movie special . it the characterization . this be one of those film where you can just see the personality of each cast member in their animation . you almost do not even need the spoken line . a good way to sum it all up be energetic or lively . a lot of movie have use the selling point and lovable cast of character . whenever i hear that line and it always make me think of this movie . case in point and the bad guy represent swat the fly and smack the mosquito . many movie have lovable villain and but i do not think you will find any a entertaining or endear a these fellow . forget that 3 stooge cartoon from the 60 . swat and smack be the close thing to an animated version of moe and curly ( but sadly not larry ) that you will ever find . virtually all of the funny moment somehow involve this gruesome twosome . yeah and theyre rotten no goodniks and but you still care about them . that the kind of power you only see from a really talented writer and director and and crew . the movie have two brief joke revolve around racial stereotype ( native american and chinese ) . i do not think they be intend to be malicious while but theyre there and regardless . they do not bother me and but it would be pretty unfair of me not to warn someone who potentially would be bother by them . so and if you share my weakness ( and i think you do ) and give this one a go .