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	'Ant Bully' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In "The Ant Bully," Lucas Nickle (voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen) is shrunken down to the size of an ant and is taken into an ant colony, where he learns to become a better human being.
		In "Ant Bully," a lonely little boy named Lucas takes out his frustrations on an ant hill and is magically shrunk down to ant size and taken into their kingdom, where he's taught how to be part of the colony team.
		"Ant Bully" plays cleverly with scale: The ant-sized Lucas sees his family home from a new perspective -- a forest of a lawn, with towering blades of grass, a vast floor with an impassable shag carpet, and a giant telephone that he has to jump on the buttons to use.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06212/709876-120.stm (516 words)

	The Ant Bully
		The ants serve their "local" queen with reverence, but they worship a deity known as the Great Mother or Queen of Queens, the originator of all ants.
		Ants are often heard saying "Mother help us" or "Praise the Mother." On the verge of death, one ant yells, "Tell the queen I loved her." The ants also fear an evil one called "cloud breather" who brings "clouds of death." Lucas recognizes a cave painting of the being as a human exterminator.
		Lucas eventually adopts the ants' spiritual posture, but if Christian parents decide to navigate this subject as a family, it would be wise to turn his foolish acceptance into a teachable moment about how we ought to both respect and reach out to those who believe differently than we doâ”without compromising our own convictions.
	www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0002809.cfm (1603 words)

	The Ant Bully
		One day he floods an ant colony with his watergun, prompting the ants to drop a little magic elixir into his ear and shrink him down to ant size.
		Accuse me of taking this too seriously all you want, but as long as there are kid's movies that refuse to give adequate entertainment to the adults who are forced to sit through them for the sake of their children, there's going to be Johnny Betts standing up and harshly putting them in their place.
		The Ant Bully is just another example in a long line of animated movies that don't know how to appeal to both children and adults.
	www.themoviemark.com /moviereviews/antbully.asp (1064 words)

	The Ant Bully - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution movie review \| AccessAtlanta
		Based on a book by John Nickle that producer Tom Hanks used to read to his son, "The Ant Bully" is the tale of 10-year-old Lucas (voiced by Zach Tyler), a bespectacled pipsqueak with too-busy parents, a "whatever" older sister and a neighborhood bully who constantly torments him.
		She decrees he can't become a human again until he becomes like an ant — that is, he learns the value of teamwork and not always putting himself before everyone else.
		And along with the ants, who include a dunderheaded scout ant (Bruce Campbell) and a tough-minded forager ant (Regina King), there are several other interesting characters, such as a woebegone glowworm and a Clint Eastwood-ish wasp leader.
	www.accessatlanta.com /movies/content/shared/movies/reviews/A/theantbully/ajc.html (632 words)

	The Ant Bully
		Ant Bully, though short and well voiced, is nowhere near as important or influential as it tries to make itself seem and it feels more unnecessary than anything else.
		The Ant Bully is a sore disappointment to anyone hoping for a turnaround to the recent downward quality spiral of animated films.
		The Ant Bully, which was three years in the making, seems fussed over and, occasionally, a little dull.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/ant_bully (1141 words)

	The Ant Bully - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Maybe by pitting ant against ant, it succeeded more in plot and thematic terms than "The Ant Bully," a nicely animated cartoon feature that becomes heavy-handed in its messages about pulling together and finding strength in diversity.
		Ant sorcerer Zoc (Nicolas Cage) uses a potion to shrink Lucas, who then is consigned by Queen (Meryl Streep) to live and labor as an ant.
		The film underscores how hard the ants work and, in its myopic parable, what a thug the exterminator Stan Beals (Paul Giamatti) is. The film chooses not to notice that the ants are red and, more to the point, so close to Lucas' home.
	pittsburghlive.com /x/.../living/movies/reviews/s_463689.html (362 words)

	Ant Bully, The (2006): Reviews
		Wittily manipulating scale to generate the requisite fright factor, the movie is stuffed with visual delights both lyrical (a squadron of ants hang-gliding on flower petals) and visceral (a battalion of bottle-blue wasps on the wing).
		Ant Bully, while not wildly fresh or inventive, is entertaining and energetic.
		The Lucas in "The Ant Bully" wears glasses like Corey Haim did in the 1986 coming-of-age classic, which could've been dismissed as a coincidence without the jelly bean hue of choice line.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/antbully (1317 words)

	Reviews: The Ant Bully - Christianity Today Movies
		The ants who abduct Lucas live in a colony in the front yard of his house, and they are able to shrink him down to their size with a potion prepared by Zoc, a wizard whose voice is provided by Nicolas Cage at his most earnest.
		The Ant Bully is nowhere near as politically sophisticated as, say, Antz, which satirized the strict regimentation of ant society and emphasized the need for both individual freedom and communal responsibility; but the new film's simpler approach is just fine for its younger target audience.
		The ants also have a religion of their own, with an Ant Mother who is called "the Queen of Queens," and a devil figure who seems to be based on human exterminators.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/2006/antbully.html (1502 words)

	IGN: The Ant Bully Review
		Following suit with franchises before it, The Ant Bully has released a multi-platform adventure loosely based on the film, and while it isn't quite up to par with some of the other licensed titles out there, that won't stop younger gamers from picking it up during these long summer months.
		Unfortunately, The Ant Bully most likely didn't have the time or funding to create a game with the depth and polish of a full-fledged adventure game, and the execution suffers because of it.
		The Ant Bully manages to convert the overall feel of the movie quite nicely, though a few basics such as a tutorial are nowhere to be found.
	pc.ign.com /articles/722/722681p1.html (1319 words)

	The Ant Bully (2006)
		New in town, friendless and tormented by a neighborhood bully, young Lucas Nickle has been taking out his frustration on the innocent ant hill in his yard.
		The Ant Bully appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		The natural ant complexion led to a lot of reds and browns, but the many outdoor scenes opened up the palette well.
	dvdmg.com /antbully.shtml (1338 words)

	The Ant Bully (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ant's main enemies are wasps, who swoop down and attack their herd of caterpillars.
		As expected, the ants don't give up easily, and the movie features a pitched battle between the crawling insects and their winged counterparts.
		He persuades the ants to let him return home with the promise of free food, but his attempts to call off the cigar-chomping bug killer are thwarted.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0728antbully0728.html (523 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: The Ant Bully
		Forced into servitude by the colony's queen (Meryl Streep) until he learns to think and act like an ant, Lucas—under the compassionate stewardship of Hova (Julia Roberts)—discovers that both strength and happiness are found in numbers, with his new ant pals preaching a brand of togetherness laced with communist shadings.
		Lucas's initial violence toward the ant hill) and the reliability of religious belief (regarding the ants' origin myths).
		While none of these ideas are particularly well-developed, neither are they intrusive to the point of distraction, The Ant Bully's more family-friendly moralizing and climactic King Kong-inspired battle against a sadistic exterminator (Paul Giamatti)—as well as a superb perspective shift during a firecracker explosion—by-and-large drowning out the film's topical subtextual concerns.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=2382 (311 words)

	The Ant Bully - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ant Bully is a computer-animated film produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone, John A. Davis and Keith Alcorn's DNA Productions and directed by John A. Davis.
		Lucas is then invited to eat with the ants, and he's introduced to "honeydew," which tastes great, but comes from a gross place (it's the feces of caterpillars).
		The ants are furious at first for what Lucas has done, but the boy atones for his mistake by formulating a plan to fight the exterminator.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ant_Bully (2344 words)

	The Ant Bully Movie Review \| Nicholas Cage \| Julia Roberts \| Preview \| Picture \| Warner Bros. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But, when the ants get tired of being stomped, flooded and burned, the ant wizard, Zoc, creates a potion that will shrink Lucas to insect proportions so he can be taught a lesson about these "meaningless" creatures.
		He soon finds himself in front of the great ant council, where the queen ant orders him to become an ant and learn the ways of their colony before they will think of releasing him.
		The Ant Bully is a fun, family flick that's not only full of laughs, but also leaves you with a really great lesson at the end.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p6886.htm (350 words)

	Ant Bully, The Reviews for the GameCube (GameTab)
		Based on Warner Bros. Pictures' digitally animated family adventure The Ant Bully, Midway's action/adventure videogame allows players to experience and explore the marvels of the insect world.
		In an act of justice, the wizard ant Zoc magically shrinks Lucas to the size of an ant.
		The player, as Lucas, will evolve from ant bully to ant hero as he leads the colony in an epic life and death struggle to save the insect world from certain extermination.
	www.gametab.com /gcn/ant.bully.the/5537 (224 words)

	Movie Spoiler for the film - THE ANT BULLY
		Zoc, Hova and all the other ants go into panic mode as their ant hill is flooded and Zoc almost loses his new potion but his little lightening bug sidekick saves it for him.
		While an entourage of ants hauls him away to the ant hill, his eccentric Grandmother who is paranoid and obsessed with Aliens (voiced by Cheri O'Teri, I think) sees him and is the only one who knows what happened to him.
		The ants win, Lucas is hailed as a hero and the Queen ant deems him worthy to be called and ant and through it all Lucas learns that when people stick together, they can take on bigger things...
	www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/antbully.html (1129 words)

	The Ant Bully (2006)
		Boasting the vocal talents of an A-list cast, The Ant Bully is a visually inventive charmer that nimbly juggles slapstick comedy, action sequences, and coming-of-age "life lessons" with a refreshing minimum of sap.
		And while the movie's occasional bits of action and "mild rude humor" (the requisite fart jokes) earn it a PG-rating, The Ant Bully is an eminently more suitable film for children of all ages than the scary, gloom-laden Monster House currently darkening theaters.
		The unlikely title character is 10-year-old misfit Lucas Nickle (Zach Tyler Eisen), a lonely boy taunted and abused by the neighborhood bully, Steve (Myles Jeffrey).
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=142194&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (367 words)

	The Ant Bully for PC Review - PC The Ant Bully Review
		Like many movie tie-ins, the video game rendition of The Ant Bully is a far cry from the feature film that it's based on.
		The movie follows Lucas's story from a social perspective, giving the viewer insight into the ants' hierarchy as he works his way up from slaving in the mines to fighting alongside the soldiers to stop various predators.
		Fighting the same half-dozen insects and repeatedly gathering trivial items is no way to spend five or six hours of your life, especially when you can't even rely on the graphics or cinematic scenes to salvage anything from the experience.
	gamespot.com /pc/action/theantbully/review.html?page=1&...&subj=6154973 (1303 words)

	E3 06: Ant Bully Hands-On - PC News at GameSpot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The plot of the film rotates around a young boy, who is shrunk down to ant size as a penalty after flooding an ant colony with a squirt gun.
		The demo version of the game starts off by having you navigate through four or five ant mission-givers, but the bulk of the missions in the demo are currently grayed out, with only a few on display.
		Unfortunately, the demo is on a timer, so it ended shortly after we scaled the ladder, but we did stumble across some larger, tougher sluglike enemies, as well as a leaf that we could pick up and use to glide with.
	www.gamespot.com /pc/action/theantbully/news.html?sid=6149856 (598 words)

	The Ant Bully (2006) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In turn, Lucas delights in destroying ant hills in his front yard - venting his frustration on the defenseless mounds of dirt and their tiny inhabitants by kicking them, stomping them and squirting them with the garden hose.
		The Head of the Ant Council (voiced by Ricardo Montalban) proclaims Lucas guilty of crimes against the colony.
		Sentenced by the wise Ant Queen (voiced by MERYL STREEP) to live among the ants and learn their ways to earn his freedom, Lucas finds himself in an incredible landscape suddenly teeming with life and peril that he never noticed or even imagined before, and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime.
	countingdown.com /movies/3795208 (405 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'The Ant Bully' feels familiar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He is also the victim of a neighborhood bully, so his malicious behavior toward the ants is also a reaction to his feelings of powerlessness.
		Lucas is found guilty of crimes against the colony and sentenced by the Ant Queen (Streep) to live among the ants and learn their ways.
		Though the story is predictable, the message is benign, and the visuals, particularly in IMAX 3-D, are stylized and surreal.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2006-07-27-ant-bully_x.htm (337 words)

	The Ant Bully \| The A.V. Club
		That's the main problem with The Ant Bully, the new CGI feature from Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius director John A. Davis: The "hero" is an insufferable little twerp.
		He's just sick of being small and bullied, so he turns his frustration on the ants in his yard, stomping them, hosing down their anthill, and even pissing on them.
		The Ant Bully has become a magnet for controversy due to its disturbing interspecies ant-on-boy action.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/50937 (393 words)

	Variety.com - Award Central 2007 - The Ant Bully (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Repeatedly terrorized by an oversized neighborhood bully, pipsqueak Lucas turns his feelings of anger and helplessness on an ant colony dwelling on his parents' front lawn.
		Previously known throughout the colony as the Destroyer, the now-little Lucas is brought before the ant queen (speaking in the regal tones of Meryl Streep), who decrees the boy live among the ants and be schooled in their ways.
		Where "Antz" hinged on its Woody Allen-voiced protagonist's embrace of individualism, "The Ant Bully," with its earnest endorsement of unity, conformity and self-sacrifice for the greater good, at times suggests a communist recruitment video.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117931151?categoryid=31 (798 words)

	SF Station: The Ant Bully
		The ants in the anthill have a nickname for Lucas: the Destroyer (it’s actually “Peanut the Destroyer” after a term of endearment Lucas’ mother calls him).
		Animation wise, the human characters are less than imaginatively designed and executed, but the movie's animators excelled in designing and distinguishing the different ant classes (mostly through coloring and facial markings), the ant colony, the multi-colored wasps, and the surrounding environment.
		Where other children’s films err on the side of didacticism, The Ant Bully thankfully doesn’t, except in the one or two obligatory scenes necessary to underscore the message of friendship and community.
	www.sfstation.com /the-ant-bully-a2078 (503 words)

	‘The Ant Bully’ - Catholic Online
		Mischievous-minded young viewers might think twice after seeing "The Ant Bully" (Warner Bros.), a whimsically entertaining computer-animated fable in the same mold as 1998's competing insect epics, "A Bug's Life" and "Antz," based on the John Nickle children's book.
		The animation is imaginative and vibrant, highlighted by a terrific climax where the ants, astride a fleet of wasps with propjet plane wings, mount an aerial attack on Beals.
		Though "The Ant Bully" is, obviously, kid-friendly, there is a sequence involving a snacking bullfrog that may be upsetting for sensitive tykes.
	www.catholic.org /ae/movies/review.php?id=20692 (945 words)

	Ant Bully for PS2 video game review and cheats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pulled steaming from the confines of some archaic press, Ant Bully is a pressed, pre-formed platformer, exactly the sort of game you’d expect to follow on the heels of an animated kid’s film.
		I originally thought I’d be presented with a traditional free-roaming cutscene driven adventure, but instead Ant Bully relies on a mission tree system.
		Battle all the way to the end and you’ll hopefully be returned to your full human size, to no longer strike fear into the hearts of ants.
	www.gamezilla.com /review.aspx?review=9281 (391 words)

	Review: The Ant Bully - Cinematical
		The biggest pleasure in The Ant Bully is its adherence to a simple, plain-spoken and iron-strong storyline -- something too many kids' film abandon in favor of a dizzying, tiresome frenzy of in-jokes, throw-away gags for adults and clumsily tangled plot lines.
		The Ant Bully is also not shy about depicting nature red in tooth and claw, as Tennyson put it.
		But don't worry that The Ant Bully is a mealy-mouthed parable about it taking a village (or, as one of the resident idiots at Ain't it Cool News suggested, a propaganda piece for the Communist Manifesto, which is, in fact, the dumbest thing I've heard all month, and I live in California).
	www.cinematical.com /2006/07/28/review-the-ant-bully (1368 words)

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