The Cincinnati Enquirer Antz is crawling you ll excuse the pun with classic movie comedy. Misfit rankles at social rules. Downtown boy nabs uptown girl. Geeky coward survives hair-raising dangers.
Little guy brings down big guys.
It should, since it all dates back at least as far as Charlie Chaplin. Computer animation techniques seem to reach new levels of fabulousness by the week, and Antz makes the most of the latest whiz-bang inventions for turning bits and bytes into moving pictures. The story takes full advantage of its leading voice, Woody Allen, who speaks for Z, the worker ant who really hates heavy lifting, in lines laced with Mr. Allen s signature neuroses. Z lives through the battle which looks for all the world like a scene from Starship Troopers and eventually takes Bala for a journey through the scary, exciting world outside the colony. In the end, they return to save queen and colony and live happily ever after, as all good comic heroes must.