Some kids younger than 8 may be unfazed by all this, but others may quail. It is, however, often quite scary, as when Lucas's garden hose causes a tsunami inside the anthill, or when Lucas and the ants take on the exterminator. The film is terrifically voiced and emotionally resonant.
(Zoc forces the frog to belch up its prey gross but cool.) Lucas eventually uses his above-ground knowledge to help ward off the dreaded exterminator (Paul Giamatti), and he learns to put himself in others' shoes and gains moral courage.īased on the book by John Nickle, "The Ant Bully" owes much to "Horton Hears a Who!" for its message of tolerance and empathy to tiny beings. He helps them fight off a wasp bombing raid and even gets swallowed by a huge frog with a lightning-quick tongue. He starts to see the world from an ant's-eye view.
Hova (Julia Roberts), a nurse ant, takes Lucas under her antennae. The ant queen (Meryl Streep) sentences "Lucas the Destroyer" to stay with them until he understands their ant ways. It reduces Lucas to ant-size, and they transport him to their underground city. One night, a team of ants sneaks into Lucas's room and drops a potion in his ear created by their ant wizard, Zoc (Nicolas Cage). We learn that the ants are smart beings, with a complex, all-for-one society, compared with our what's-in-it-for-me world. Lucas takes out his anger on an anthill in his yard, turning the hose on it. The Ant Bully (PG, 80 minutes) In this clever, sometimes preachy animated fable - likely to please many kids 8 and older with its intense action sequences - a friendless boy named Lucas (voice of Zach Tyler Eisen) suffers bullying at the hands of an obnoxious neighborhood kid who gives him "atomic wedgies" and hits him.
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