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Review
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Special effects (computer animation) dominate ANTZ but the
story and characters are fresher than average, and Allen
and Stallone are used well in this entertaining feature.
Allen plays a whiney, self-obsessed worker ant named Z
(Z-4195) who resents his lot in life and sets off a sequence
of events that eventually frustrates the evil plans of
General Mandible (Hackman). Allen is matched up with
Sharon Stone as Princess Bala, who ends up wandering
outside the nest with Allen until Colonel Cutter re-abducts
her. Dan Akroyd and Jane Curtin play Chip and Muffy, and
Anne Bancroft is wonderful as the domineering but rational
queen. More adult than traditional Disney fare (Antz was
produced by Dreamworks SKG), and less predictable, though
that's a relative turn. Put it this way: doesn't insult
your intelligence the way Anastasia did.
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