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References to use

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Barker, Martin; Austin, Thomas (2000). "'An Ant With Ideas...'". From Antz To Titanic: Reinventing Film Analysis. Pluto Press. pp. 72–86. ISBN 0745315844.

DVD Release

Is there a DVD release of Antz in the works? -User:Angie Y.

Anthem and Antz

I had an English teacher who used the movie Antz in conjunction with the story anthem, mostly with the parallels of a society that focuses on the society at the expense of the individual, the practice of people being pre-selected for their careers, forbidden love, and main characters who question society. Has anyone else heard of this?
Compgeek86 16:31, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have... I've read both books and it resembles Anthem FAR more closely than Brave New World. The plot structure follows Anthem also exactly, though the implied epilogue of Anthem is the climax of Antz. There are additional parallels, but the themes far match Anthem more closely as well. 24.8.44.219 (talk) 22:48, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Plot summary

At over 1300 words, the plot summary had been tagged as overlong. I've replaced it with a briefer version from an older revision of the article [1]. --Tony Sidaway 10:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Antz-poster.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:48, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

antz ending credits

directed by ERIC DARNELL TIM JOHNSON produced by BRAD LEWIS ARON WARNER PATTY WOOTON executive producers PENNEY FINKELMAN COX SANDRA RABINS CARI ROSENDAHL screenplay by TODD ALCOTT CHRIS WEITZ & PAUL WEITZ music by |- | WON || Best Computer Animation Film of 1998 || Gene Hackman accepted it |- |}

These weren't Annie Award categories [2]. It may be the case that they were real awards from some other organization ("2-Star Comedy" sounds a bit facetious), but I cannot find evidence of this. BuilderQ (talk) 16:13, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removed category philosophical film

I removed this films status as a philosophical film due to lack of evidence of such. --Deleet (talk) 22:05, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This change can be reverted. Evidence here. A LIST OF PHILOSOPHICAL FILMS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deleet (talk • contribs) 22:41, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A section for themes?

So on most pages that have one, the "Themes" section is one of my favorite sections to read. Personally, I love Antz for its witty and insightful political and social commentary. What does everyone think about adding such a section? Captain Stack (talk) 02:32, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A "Themes" section is a good idea! Have you done research for a film's themes before? One possible reference is listed above. I did some additional research and found the following references too: 1, 2, and 3. Here is another; Google Scholar Search indicates that Antz is one of the four animated films studied. Let me know if you need some tips on how to find these references to cite for the Wikipedia article! Erik (talk | contribs) 13:45, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Antz/A bug's life dispute

There is a massive amount about this fairly notable dispute on the page A Bug's Life, but nothing here at all. I can understand that there is no point duplicating the material, but surely a section on this page, even if it only contains a link, is necesary. It seems to be taking sides, almost, saying on one page "Pixar got shafted" and then totally ignoring the issue here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.30.133.31 (talk) 00:22, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Worker ants are females

Wouldn't it be more proper to use 'she' when talking about Z? --79.8.190.228 (talk) 13:31, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Ants were portrayed in that film as being genderless, some taking on more masculine forms and some taking more feminine forms. --Termitesoldier9 (talk) 22:55, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Termite battle

I'm confused about the termite thing. So did the termite army, like, really, turn against the ant colony or did Mandible just make that up to get rid of all those poor soldiers? -- 71.184.94.189 (talk) 17:21, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Producers

The article says "Antz is a 1998 American computer animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation" yet the infobox lists Pacific Data Images as the production company. Which one is the production company or is it both? In the meantime I will add DreamWorks Animation to the infobox. Feel free to revert (or tell me to do it) if I am wrong. Infor4fun (talk) 09:14, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Production

Dreamworks didn't buy Pacific Data Images till 2000. When this was in production, the two companies were only partners.174.21.56.40 (talk) 04:57, 22 July 2016 (UTC)Evan Kalani Opedal[reply]

American Film Institute recognition

The reference of the infomation about AFI's 10 Top 10 nomination is not valid yet. Please, allow me to change it to this link: ^[1]. Dr.saze (talk) 06:25, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "AFI's Top 10 Animation Nominees". Retrieved 2016-08-12.

Plot Summary 2016

I might need help of trimming the plot to between 400 - 700 words per WP:FILMPLOT if anyone's around. TPercival (talk) 17:32, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done. It's around 680 words now, which is within the guideline's range. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 20:56, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion about having this article protected again

This article has been vandalized by some anonymous users. I am having second thoughts of requesting this article to be protected. Who thinks that the article should be protected or not? Feel free to reply back if you agree or disagree. TPercival (talk) 11:49, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"Second feature-length computer-animated film after Disney/Pixar's Toy Story"

Are you sure? Wasn't that Cassiopeia? That was released a few months after Toy Story, and two years before Antz Dpm12 (talk) 10:04, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sarah Jessica Parker

In this interview here, Sarah Jessica Parker talks about how she was fired from the movie, and replaced with Sharon Stone. Aoba47 (talk) 02:19, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I want to add a section in “Release” for Marketing

The first thing in the section will be:

Playmates Toys released a line of action figures to coincide with the film’s release, consisting of Z, Princess Bala, Weaver, General Mandible, and Colonel Cutter. 166.181.83.246 (talk) 13:18, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Condense this article?

There are a lot of instances where whole sentences and paragraphs, including quotes from film executives have been copied and pasted in multiple sections of this article complete with annotation numbers. All of these instances do not add anything of substance to this article. It's just repeating stuff over and over again under different subsection titles. I suggest someone well versed in how a Wikipedia article should read, go through this whole article and clean up the repeated information. RyanConnell5150 (talk) 01:30, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "AFI's Top 10 Animation Nominees". Retrieved 2016-08-12.

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