An Unlikely But Still Funny Role For Woody Allen

Rating: Null/10 (23 October 2002)

Casting Woody Allen as the leading voice in an animated film about ants may sound unlikely but it works surprisingly well in this 1998 Dreamworks release. Allen provides the voice of Z, an industrious, if sometimes inept worker ant who is willing to do anything to impress the ant colony's princess, Bala, even despite the fact that she is being forced into marrying the colony's tyrannical General Mandible. Some mild profanity and crude humor explains the film's PG rating but if that can be ignored, this ranks as a fine family oriented film. Its release coincided with that of Walt Disney Pictures similar animated release "A Bug's Life" and both films met with mixed results. However, I feel that both films were equally good.