A Bug's Life (1998)
An epic of miniature proportions.
On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.
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| Type | Movie |
|---|---|
| Released | 25 November 1998 |
| Genre | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family |
| Director | John Lasseter |
| Starring | Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| Runtime | 95 min |
| Rated | G |
| Scores | Rotten Tomatoes 92% · Rotten Tomatoes (average) 7.9/10 · Metacritic 78/100 · TMDB users 7.0/10 |
| Budget | $120 million |
| Box office | $363 million worldwide |
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What kind of watch this is
John Lasseter directed this 95-minute adventure, a film where the stakes are tiny but the ego is massive. Flik, an inventive ant voiced by Dave Foley, recruits a troupe of warrior bugs to save his colony from Hopper, a grasshopper played by Kevin Spacey who treats his own oppression like a personal insult. The movie leans into its miniature perspective, turning a garden into a battlefield and a leaf into a fortress. It is a dry, witty look at how the small can feel the world’s weight most heavily. The tagline calls it an epic of miniature proportions, which is exactly the right size for a story about bugs.
What the critics said
Critics mostly liked what they saw. Rotten Tomatoes lists a 92% Tomatometer score as of March 2026, based on 90 reviews. The site’s consensus calls it a rousing adventure that blends animated thrills with witty dialogue. Metacritic gives it a 78/100 Metascore from 23 critics, a rating that signals generally favorable reviews. Todd McCarthy of Variety noted that the film surpasses Toy Story in scope and complexity of movement. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times asked if it would suffer from coming out soon after Antz, concluding that the rival film might actually help by showing the possibilities in an anthill.
How it did with audiences
The studio spent $120 million to make it. It took in $163 million domestically and $363 million worldwide. That is a solid return, though not the kind that makes accounting departments weep with joy. On TMDB, users rate it 7 out of 10. It opened huge, beating out The Rugrats Movie and Babe: Pig in the City for the top spot.
What came next for the cast
Kevin Spacey arrived with the momentum of Se7en and The Usual Suspects, then landed American Beauty. The timeline is linear; the causality is not. Julia Louis-Dreyfus had already proven her comedic range in Seinfeld, which makes her later turns in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Thunderbolts a steady continuation rather than a career pivot. Dave Foley moved from 3 Men and a Baby to Fargo and Sky High, a trajectory that suggests a shift in genre rather than a jump in status. Hayden Panettiere entered the mix via Ally McBeal, then cycled through Scream entries. These are distinct paths that happened to intersect in one frame.
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Sources
- A Bug's Life on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q216153 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “A Bug's Life” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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