Rolling Stone
"...ANTZ is refreshingly naughty and nice..." 10/29/1998 p.80Sight and Sound
"...Very special visual effects....The two most impressive achievements of ANTZ are its rendering of character and multiplicity..." 12/01/1998 p.41-2 Entertainment Weekly
"...Grown-up....Subversion slips by swiftly at 24 cels per second..." -- Rating: A- 02/12/1999 pp.84-5 Premiere
"...Dazzling computer animation and inspired casting..." 10/01/1998 p.29 New York Times
"...Its shrewd computer animators have great fun seeing the world from an ant's-eye point of view....Mr. Allen sounds wonderfully invigorated by the chance to play a guy with all those legs..." 10/02/1998 p.E12 Box Office
"...A wonderfully entertaining animated comedy....The actors' voices fit very nicely with the ants they play, and the animation is highly imaginative..." 11/01/1998 p.139 Apollo Leisure Guide 8 of 10
As a technical achievement, Antz fills one with awe. The computer-generated graphics are remarkable; there are several breathtaking scenes, with the most ambitious being the carnival-like ride that Z and Princess Bala (Sharon Stone) take while gummed to a young lad's sneaker. Music is also used repeatedly and cleverly for comic effect ('High Hopes' closes the film). Lastly, the ants themselves are amazing creations, combining accurate physiognomy with detailed characteristics to produce unique, easily identifiable insects.
New York Times 7 of 10
Allen sounds wonderfully invigorated by the chance to play a guy with all those legs -- and all those ant-specific reasons for angst...Antz works best just showing off its prodigious voice talent (Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover, Jennifer Lopez and Christopher Walken are also in the cast) and playing lightheartedly with the curious possibilities of a buggy world. - Janet Maslin
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