The Ant Bully

2006
U
1h 28m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

43K

YOUR RATING

Nicolas Cage, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Nathalie Baye, Ricardo Montalban, John Debney, Regina King, Nicole Sullivan, Lily Tomlin, Keith Alcorn, S. Scott Bullock, Bruce Campbell, Larry Cedar, John A. Davis, Mark DeCarlo, Sean Donnellan, Pat Fraley, Nika Futterman, Paul Giamatti, Gary Goetzman, Richard Green, Paul Greenberg, Myles Jeffrey, Bob Joles, David Kaye, Tom Kenny, Alexandra Lamy, Allison Mack, Tress MacNeille, Austin Majors, Larry Miller, Candi Milo, Ken Mitchroney, Leon Morenzie, Cheri Oteri, Rob Paulsen, Jon Price, Clive Robertson, Neil Ross, Paul Rugg, Bruno Salomone, Susan Silo, Fred Tatasciore, Zach Tyler Eisen, Vernee Watson, Frank Welker, Wally Wingert, Jonathan David Cook, Denzel Whitaker, Lori Tritel, Bryan Fabian, Colin Ford, Barry E. Jackson, Max Burkholder, Shane Baumel, Zack Shada, Michaela Jill Murphy, Jordan Orr, Benjamin Bryan, Jake T. Austin, Jaishon Fisher, Florence Foresti, Don Frye, Alfred Jackson, Creagen Dow, John Nickle, Sam Green, Sarah Mensinga, Casey Masamitsu, Tyler James Williams, Scott Holst, Aaron Michael Drozin, Nissa Alcorn, Jared Goldsmith, Jake Goldberg, and Kendall Ryan Sanders in The Ant Bully (2006)

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After Lucas Nickle floods an ant colony with his water gun, he's magically shrunken down to insect size and sentenced to hard labor in the ruins.After Lucas Nickle floods an ant colony with his water gun, he's magically shrunken down to insect size and sentenced to hard labor in the ruins.After Lucas Nickle floods an ant colony with his water gun, he's magically shrunken down to insect size and sentenced to hard labor in the ruins.

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

43K

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations total

Zoc
(voice)

Julia Roberts

Hova
(voice)

Meryl Streep

Queen
(voice)

Zach Tyler Eisen

Lucas Nickle
(voice)

Regina King

Kreela
(voice)

Bruce Campbell

Fugax
(voice)

Lily Tomlin

Mommo
(voice)

Cheri Oteri

Doreen Nickle
(voice)

Larry Miller

Fred Nickle
(voice)

Allison Mack

Tiffany Nickle
(voice)

Ricardo Montalban

Head of Council
(voice)

Creagen Dow

Mullet Boy
(voice)

Myles Jeffrey

Steve
(voice)

Jake T. Austin

Nicky
(voice)

Rob Paulsen

Beetle
(voice)

S. Scott Bullock

Glow Worm
(voice)
…

Mark DeCarlo

Fly
(voice)

Director
- John A. Davis
Writers
- John A. Davis
- John Nickle
All cast & crew
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Trivia
Final theatrical movie of Ricardo Montalban (Head of Council).

Goofs
A glow worm was inside the frog with the beetle and the fly. A glow worm is not like a worm; but rather a species of a beetle.

Quotes
Hova: Cross my heart, I will not eat you.
Lucas Nickle: Cross your heart, not your butt!

Crazy credits
The ending credit is in "Chamber of the Ages" style (seen in the movie).

Connections
Featured in The Ant Bully: It Takes a Colony (2006)

Soundtracks
The Ants Go Marching
Performed by The Ant Buddies
Traditional Arranged by Ralph Sall
Produced by Ralph Sall

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Featured review

6/10

Whelming

"Ant Bully" was an OK movie about a boy named Lucas (vocied by Zach Tyler Eisen) who was shrunk to ant size. He was shrunken by a wizard ant named Zoc (Nicolas Cage) as a punishment for Lucas harming the ant colony. The Queen (Meryl Streep) then instructed her colony to train Lucas to become an ant like themselves which was a better solution than eating him.

This movie simply whelmed me (to use a term I heard from a YouTube comedy skit.) I wasn't overwhelmed, nor was I underwhelmed. The animation quality was fair-to-middling as was the plot. "Avatar" would go on to have a similar theme (converting a person into one of them) and I didn't like that movie at all. "Ant Bully" has similar components as other more successful movies, but the different elements didn't come together in that harmonious way that gives you a spectacular movie.