A Bug's Life (1998) poster
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A Bug's Life

AdventureAnimationComedyFamily

Directed by John Lasseter

On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper. From TMDB

166 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 2, 2026 · How this works

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A Bug's Life is a 1998 adventure animation comedy film, directed by John Lasseter, starring Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

  • 159 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
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  • iDuckFilms @iduckfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2026

    That one indie animation team calling Hazbin Hotel, Digital Circus, and Gameoverse childish reminds me of this trailer from the 90s for a movie called Blue Planet calling Toy Story and A Bug's Life childish. Blue Planet never ended up getting fully made, BTW.

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  • erika @yeeeerika.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2025

    the movie A Bug's Life (1998) radicalized me

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  • Hard Drive @hard-drive.netBluesky · Oct 31, 2023

    Eeek! A Bug's Life. What a Wretched Film (Guest Review by Blathers)

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  • Shann_nnanigans @shannnnanigans.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2025

    Can you feel that? It's called unity and its a beautiful thing. There are many of us and few of them. Remember the movie "A Bug's Life"

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  • Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2026

    January 1st 1999, A Bug's Life debuted on the N64 in PAL territories! In the training level, Roddy McDowall reprised his Bug's Life movie role to do the voice acting for Mr. Soil, which was some of his last work before succumbing to lung cancer in 1998.

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  • Andrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2025

    I will continue to repeat that A Bug's Life is a great movie. ...Now would be a great time to actually watch it. OR send a copy to your representative.

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  • Tred @tredlocity.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 25, 2025

    Podcast where I review films based on how integral the sex scenes are to the plot. Weapons: 0/10 (you can cut the sex scene and the movie still works) Oldboy: 10/10 (sex scene is important for the ending to work) A Bug's Life: 0/10 (no sex scene)

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  • Raine @raineofauroria.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2026

    I fucking hate that this trailer made fun of A Bug's Life as if it was just some cutesy movie about talking bugs. As if A Bug's Life didn't also have some heavy political shit. And the fact that this same villain was defeated being eaten alive by birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLbW...

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  • Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2026

    I find myself staying surprisingly mad that Pixar made a movie caller Hoppers that has nothing to do with A Bug's Life

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  • pyre @[email protected]Lemmy · Jan 10, 2026

    Just watched A Bug's Life with my kid... This scene is always relevant.. Scene from A Bug's Life, showing Hopper's speech to the grasshoppers warning them to not underestimate the potential of the ants

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  • manuallybreathing @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 11, 2026

    >"A Bug's Land" (stylized "a bug's land") was an area of Disney California Adventure themed after Pixar's 1998 film A Bug's Life. The land consisted of Flik's Fun Fair, which opened on October 7, 2002, and was set in a representation of the film's fictional universe with four rides targeted towards young children; Flik's Flyers, Francis' Ladybug Boogie, Tuck and Roll's Drive 'Em Buggies, and Heimlich's Chew Chew Train. The area also included a water play area targeted towards young children. An…

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  • Consumer Time Capsule @consumertc.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2025

    During the A BUG'S LIFE movie promotion, McDonald's served Chicken McNuggets with APPLE-CINNAMON DIPPING SAUCE. Totally unique and a nice throwback to their original Holiday sauce offerings. (1998)

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  • Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 8, 2023

    Nestle Bug Ball (1998-1998): To promote the Pixar film, "A Bug's Life," Nestle released this treat, a hollow chocolate ball filled with Sweetarts shaped like the film's bug characters.

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  • CatieBell💙 @kitkatcatiebell.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2025

    Remember the movie A Bug's Life? Remember the point was that when a large group of "ants" stand together against the much smaller group of "grasshoppers", the united group comes out on top? America is starting to get it! Way to go "NO KINGS!" Protestors!! That's what we have to keep on doing!!!

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  • Karl (Karlamon) 🇳🇿 @karlamon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2026

    A Bug's Life is Andrew Stanton's movie. Toy Story 2 is Lee Unkrich and Ash Brannon's movie. Cars is the late Joe Ranft's movie. While we shouldn't ignore John Lasseter's contributions at Pixar, he's not the visionary we should be commending.

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  • Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2026

    Rebel Moon tries to do Seven Samurai but doesn't understand it as well as A Bug's Life, a movie for 6-year-olds

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  • Consumer Time Capsule @consumertc.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2024

    During the A BUG'S LIFE movie promotion, McDonald's served Chicken McNuggets with APPLE-CINNAMON DIPPING SAUCE. Totally unique and a nice throwback to their original Holiday sauce offerings. (1998)

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  • SJWJamesBond @mvbrat10.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2026

    Like a lot of 90s kids, I first saw a movie with Hayden Panettiere when she voiced Dot in A Bug's Life. I didn't think for a moment she'd grow into a popular actress like starring in Heroes. It's really said she passed away so young. :(

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  • Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    Cars is a fascinating thing because it falls apart faster than any other Pixar movie as soon as you start to think about it. A Bug's Life is mostly consistent, and Toy Story is roughly coherent but super dark, but every question about Cars just raises further questions.

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  • Raye the Smol @rachael-the-hobbit.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    It's A Bug's Life. Antz was the Dreamworks film from around the same time

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  • Dial Liz-Z for Zombie (Lizzy Rose Oliver - Voice Actress) @lizzyrosevo.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2025

    Apparently my school wasn't too keen on the idea that I gave my class the option of watching KPop Demon Hunters for movie day because some parents might be upset that I showed a movie with the word "Demon" in the title. Another class was able to watch A Bug's Life with no issue. I...what...?

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  • Crimson-Rose-Field ❌️👑😏🐸 💙👨‍🍳😼🍺 @crimson-rose-field.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 29, 2025

    "A Bug's Life" is an overall good movie.

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  • Spooky Scary Stella Tons 🐻💀 @stellaedgecomb.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2026

    1. aside from that one scene this movie is ASS 2. her name is Ginormica and I hate it 3. spends most of the movie being followed around by an even bigger kaiju 4. the worst comedy hero ensemble since A Bug's Life

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  • Steve @estabon-vadesi.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2025

    If ya don't understand how much we out number all facets of these ghouls (ice, PD, Fascists, KKK, Nazis, ALL of them) sit down and watch "A Bug's Life" w/ the kid(s) or alone (it's a great movie). You'll get it.

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  • Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2026

    Dreamworks should have made a movie called Carz, and it's their edgier version of Pixar's Cars. Like Antz and A Bug's Life

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  • Siskel and Ebert Bot @siskel-ebert-bot.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2026

    A Bug's Life (1998) Director: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton Watch Review wp / wd

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  • Antimoon 🏳️‍⚧️θΔ @please.letmelickyourpa.wsBluesky · Sep 15, 2025

    The "I picked up those insect movies the kids wanted to see from blockbuster" trilogy Bee Movie A Bug's Life Human Centipede

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  • ♡ Scary Kate. 🇵🇸 @katespeace.northsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2025

    "You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up! Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one..." -Hopper, from the 1998 Pixar film A Bug's Life. I think this is really relevant peeps, idk!!

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  • Turquoisephoenix @turquoisephoenix.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2026

    EXTREMELY HOT TADC TAKE Caine would like A Bug's Life more than Bee Movie.

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  • Jim Lynn @jimlynn.ukBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    I can't wait for the new movie of Kafka's Metamorphosis starring the cast of A Bug's Life.

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  • supergreatfriend @supergreatfriend.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2025

    Streaming in an hour, trying out Disney/Pixar's A Bug's Life, The Official Game of the Movie for some reason, and then starting the second run of Mizzurna Falls! www.twitch.tv/supergreatfr...

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  • CoveredGeekly @coveredgeekly.comBluesky · Nov 25, 2024

    #Pixar released A Bug's Life 26 years ago today 🐜 Like if you watched this movie growing up 🤗

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  • Parker @jeffparker.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2024

    To use a less apocalyptic movie, go full A BUG'S LIFE on them

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  • wudz @wudz.meBluesky · Jun 2, 2026

    Ah yeah, A Bug's Life, my favorite toy story movie

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  • Joe @joegran.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2024

    The first half of the Mario movie is about him meeting the bugs from A Bug's Life

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  • Dot @dotmaetrix.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    Help help the Cheeto Man is coming to stop me from... *checks notes* posting tweets I stole about the political subtext in the Pixar movie A Bug's Life

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  • David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2026

    Happy 63rd Birthday to Dave Foley @davesfoley.bsky.social, iconic Canadian actor, comedian, producer, director, and writer, famous for co-founding THE KIDS IN THE HALL group, the Emmy-nominated TV series, and the film spin-off BRAIN CANDY, as well as NEWSRADIO, A BUG'S LIFE, and so much more.

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  • Sugiebabi @olivia10.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 22, 2024

    Do you remember the movie, A Bug's Life? Your picture reminds me of that movie, except your picture is prettier!

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  • Louise @bombaycrone.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2025

    I loved this movie; A Bug's Life was a strong message.

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  • chiliedogg @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 19, 2025

    Seven Samurai was made by Kurosawa, which became "The Magnificent Seven" and "A Bug's Life". He also made "Yoimbo" and is sequel "Sanjuro", which became "A Fist Full of Dollars" and "For a Few Dollars More". And he made "The Hidden Fortress", which inspired "Star Wars." Dude was influential.

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  • Turquoisephoenix @turquoisephoenix.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2026

    Yes, Bee Movie has bees in it. But A Bug's Life has a scene where a ringmaster uses a match and a giant can of lighter fluid to set a giant mechanical bird on fire.

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  • John-Charles Holmes @sonic9jct.jctholmes.comBluesky · Sep 15, 2026

    I recently saw A Bug's Life on 35MM and it was neat seeing how that movie looked with texture and scale. It's neat being able to have the digital-to-digital transfers (preferably on physical disc, quality/HDR is funky on D+ in my experience) at home but it's such a different experience

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  • Stefan Ellison @mrcoat.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    Looking at Pixar's second feature film "A Bug's Life" and how it cleverly uses the Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven story template for its tale of ants vs grasshoppers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyYR...

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 11, 2026

    *Antz* was the "copycat" movie that was rushed out to beat *A Bug's Life* into the theaters. Back when animation studios even bothered with that shit.

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  • Horror Hoagie @purifierunit37.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2025

    A Bug's Life has aged like very fine wine as the decades has gone by hasn't it, wonder why Disney doesn't promote it as much? This movie rocks

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  • May Day 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🇦🇺🐢🛹 @pmvenny.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2025

    A Bug's Life Antz A Bee Movie

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  • Flare Spark @therealsparky.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    DreamWorks' first animated film Antz was an adventure of an ant named Z (Woody Allen) an outcast ant who runs with a princess ant (Sharon Stone) outside the colony. Also it competed against Disney and PIXAR's A Bug's Life which came out about a month or so later. Decent first film of a new studio.

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  • Bandita (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶) .ᐟ.ᐟ @gelvrso.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    What is the film that came out before you were born that you've watched the most times? It was definitely A Bug's Life, released the year before I was born and I watched it so many times as a baby on VHS.

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  • gray @[email protected]Lemmy · Dec 16, 2025

    I think "A Bug's Life" made me communist without realizing it at the time. I watched it over and over obsessively.

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  • Sierk @sierkulator.monsterBluesky · Dec 3, 2025

    Insert a movie into another movie: "Monty Python's a Bug's Life of Brian"

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  • Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2025

    🕷️35MM Film Frames from A BUG'S LIFE🕷️ Pixar's epic of miniature proportions plays this Saturday & Sunday at 11:30am! Part of the Animation Adventures series. Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

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  • VeGOREpunk AuHORROR @vegapunk-aurora.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2025

    I just don't understand why Pixar would make a film called Hoppers and not make it a prequel to their hit 1998 classic A Bug's Life starring the absolutely iconic villain originally portrayed by Kevin Spa- ohhhhhhh....

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  • Posmnaut @posmnaut.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2025

    If there's one film I'd love to see disney make a photo-realistic remake of, it's a Bug's Life people's reactions would be funny af

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  • FinchBeak @finchbeak.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 18, 2025

    A Bug's Life is the best Pixar movie. I SAID WHAT I SAID.

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  • Chombi @itschombi.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2025

    A Bug's Life is such a good movie. Fellow ants rise up 🐜

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  • Kiva the Vampire King🦇🧙‍♀️🎃💀 @amphibiansentai.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2025

    Now watching A Bug's Life after Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Freeform. My favorite part of the movie.😅😅

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  • Displaced Archon @displacedarchon.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2026

    FUCK I FORGOT SHE WAS PRINCESS DOT A Bug's Life is one of my eternal favorite movies, I legit have every line of that movie MEMORIZED.

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  • Mutual I'm Sure @mutualimsure.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2026

    There are two movie plots and one of them is Seven Samurai 😃 Anyway today's first movie is A Bug's Life (1998) 🍿

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  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @[email protected]Lemmy · May 20, 2026

    They built an area in the Animal Kingdom part of Disney World that is more or less just a bit of fake jungle and rocks that looked like it could be on the planet the movie takes place on. Like the A Bug's Life section that they had years ago. I don't even know if it had a ride. The park itself (Disney Animal Kingdom) is just basically a zoo. And not even a good one.

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  • "There is no censorship in America" @angivalk.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2024

    It's a quote said by Hopper from "A Bug's Life", a Disney/Pixar film.

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Dave Foley
Flik (voice)
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Kevin Spacey
Hopper (voice)
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Atta (voice)
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Hayden Panettiere
Dot (voice)
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Phyllis Diller
Queen (voice)
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Richard Kind
Molt (voice)
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David Hyde Pierce
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