Word: ant
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Does Varsity Blues have anything that sets it apart from the others like Rudy? Well, there's a beefed-up brunette Dawson sporting a manly "I doant wo-ant yo-r life" Texas drawl. Then, there's the new Adonis-on-the-block, a certain blond, blue-eyed, chiseledjawed Paul Walker, a.k.a. Lance Harbor, the star quarterback of the West Canaan High School Coyotes. Unfortunately, two pretty faces are not enough to save this sinking ship...
MOVIE ANTZ ANIMATORS 35 WEIRDEST CASTING Woody Allen as a worker ant FAST-FOOD TIE-INS None, because the studio rushed the movie out to beat A Bug's Life PROTESTS SPARKED University entomologists fault the depiction of the ant colony and life-style GROWNUPS' BONUS The ants drink from an aphid's anus...
...second" movie is as rich and rewarding as A Bug's Life. Its design work is so stellar--a wide-screen Eden of leaves and labyrinths populated by dozens of ugly, buggy, cuddly cutups--that it makes the DreamWorks film seem, by comparison, like radio. If that movie was Ant-Z, this one is Ant...
...story has the ants in servitude to Hopper (voiced by Kevin Spacey) and his band of gangster grasshoppers, who fly in each year to receive their tribute of vittles. Hopper is a thug among bugs, and no ant dares stand up to him. But one little fellow, Flik (Dave Foley), a misfit with big ideas, decides to venture outside the colony and hire some tough guys to fight the grasshoppers. All right, the new hired guns are actually a troupe of circus performers with prima-donna dispositions and tender carapaces. But what Hopper doesn't know can't hurt...
From the Manhattan skyline to Woody driveling anxiety to his shrink, the first moments of Antz suggest a film destined to become another prototypical Woody Allen movie, until Woody (now an ant named "Z") gets off the psycho-analyst's couch and walks into "The Colony." The makers of Antz seem particularly interested in demonstrating their ability to depict water and human movement, disregarding the fact that the plot must make some rather forced detours in order to accommodate these animated showpieces. Though the character of Allen as well as those of the other actors (voiced by Dan Akroyd, Anne...