Why You Should Watch Pixar’s “A Bug’s Life”
I have decided that I would watch some classic animation movies after I switched from Netflix to Disney+.
Pixar’s 1998 movie, “A Bug’s Life” was on my ‘watch later’ list for a decade or so. I am glad that I finally watched this masterpiece.
It is a great adventure movie with universal messages on teamwork, bullying, hope, and creativity.
Flik is a misfit — an inventive ant who frequently messes up things. He loses the food that was spared for grasshopper bullies, who then threaten the colony to double the amount of their food or face the consequences. The colony is tired of Flik’s mishaps and they send him away. The goal is to recruit tough warrior insects to defend the colony.
Flik finds and recruits a group of circus insects in the bug city. These insects include a male ladybug, a walking stick, a caterpillar, a praying mantis, a black widow spider, a gypsy moth, a rhinoceros beetle, and twin pillbug brothers.
These misfit insects think that they are cast for performance, and realize that they are…
