Wow! Such a good movie.

Great Film overall

Boring

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It is a very nice movie with a nice idea, watched it couple of times and it never gets boring

This would have been awesome in IMAX 3D. The movie as it stands is okay. The story of a picked on kid who picks on ants and then is shrunk down and forced to live among the ants has some great sequences, but also too many dead spots. Its as if the filmmakers had some good ideas but couldn't tie them together properly or that they simply couldn't sustain the momentum. It reminded me in ways of other better movies- and even Arthur and the Minimoys. Not bad but not worth taking the effort to track down a copy so you can sit down and watch.Wait to catch it in pieces on cable. 5 out of 10

Fun for kids of all ages. Well done with a message. Lucas Nickle(voiced by Zach Tyler Elsen)is a new kid in town in this computer-animated feature. Lucas has trouble making friends and is pretty well the butt of the neighborhood bully's jokes. He's really not having much fun and takes his aggression out on a large colony of ants. He stomps, buries and floods the six-legged critters. Zoc(voiced by Nicolas Cage),the "wizard ant", creates a concoction that shrinks Lucas to the size of...well, an insect. The leader of the Ant Council(voiced by Ricardo Montalban)and the Queen(voiced by Meryl Streep)will sentence Lucas for his crimes by making him live among them to see how difficult it is to be an ant. Put in charge of looking after him is Hova(voiced by Julia Roberts). Lucas finds compassion for the ant kingdom and helps them in a battle against Stan the Extermination Man(voiced by Paul Giamatti). Other voices you may or may not recognize: Bruce Campbell, Lily Tomlin, Larry Miller, Regina King and Cheri Oteri. THE ANT BULLY is produced by Tom Hanks and is written and directed by John A. Davis, who is responsible for the film JIMMY NUETRON.

Lucas is a victim of bullying by the other kids in his neighbourhood; he takes out his frustration on those smaller and weaker than himself—the ants in his garden—by flooding their colony with water.Fed up with Lucas's destructive behaviour, and keen to teach him a lesson or two, ant-wizard Zoc creates a magic potion which shrinks the boy to insect proportions. With the now-tiny lad held prisoner in their nest, the ants set about showing Lucas the error of his ways.Inevitably, Lucas realises that he was wrong to persecute the poor little bugs, makes a few new friends, and eventually risks his life to save the colony from a nasty exterminator who is determined to destroy all insects.Thematically, the Ant Bully ain't exactly the most original of CGI movies: the 'bully' angle has already been tackled by both Antz and Toy Story; the whole 'talking insect' thing has been covered by Antz (again) and A Bug's Life; the 'shrunken-boy-in-the-yard' routine was done (poorly) in Arthur and the Invisibles; and the core message of 'tolerance for all others, despite their differences'—well, that's as old as the (ant)hills!However, none of this matters too much because, with so much beautiful animation, several stunning action sequences (highlights being an air assault by nasty flies, and a brilliant frog attack), hilarious one-liners (yellow rain!!!) and sheer inventiveness crammed into 88 minutes, it's easy to be a little forgiving.Even the fact that writer/director John A. Davis's frequently lazy script pushes the limits of believability purely for narrative convenience doesn't stop The Ant Bully from being constantly engaging and very funny (just try not laughing out loud at the 'insect head' gag).My advice is to try and ignore the weak plot devices: Zoc's inexplicable ability to make magic; the crazy gran with the fan fetish; Lucas's seeming indestructibility and eventual possession of ant powers. Manage to do that, and you should find The Ant Bully a satisfying and entertaining experience.