Antz
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Antz |
| Original title | Antz |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Eric Darnell , Tim Johnson |
| script |
Todd Alcott , Chris Weitz , Paul Weitz |
| production |
Brad Lewis , Aron Warner , Patty Wooton |
| music |
John Powell , Harry Gregson-Williams |
| cut | Stan Webb |
Antz is a computer animated cartoon . Along with Toy Story, it was one of the first films to be produced entirely on the computer. With this film, Dreamworks entered the production of computer-animated films and subsequently made competition with the Pixar company, which was cooperating with Disney .
action
Z is a little neurotic worker ant who is dissatisfied with her life in the ant colony . One evening he meets Princess Bala in a bar and falls in love with her on the spot. So he swaps places with his friend, the soldier Weaver, because the princess gives the soldiers her best wishes on that day. Z feels that this path leads straight into battle as an enormous misunderstanding, but the other soldiers drag him into battle. It is a preemptive strike against the termites , but it ends in a debacle. Z returns as the only survivor and is personally received by the queen as a war hero. It turns out that he is actually just a worker and should never have been on the battlefield. In his last distress, Z grabs the princess as a hostage and leaves the royal residence with Bala somewhat ungrudgingly through the garbage chute.
Z tries to get to the legendary Insektopia , a place where insects can live happily and freely, with Bala finally joining him after some reservations. At the same time, General Mandibel , a supporter of the totalitarian system, tries to destroy the working mob in order to start over with a completely "cleansed" ant colony. Since he needs the princess to do this, he sends his adjutant Colonel Cutter to look for Z.
Meanwhile, Z and the princess reach an oversized picnic blanket with shrink-wrapped sandwiches and all kinds of food. Z greedily pounces on the loaves of bread, but he only grits his teeth. Two helpful wasps finally feel sorry for them and want to get something to eat, when a fly swatter hits the female wasp. Mr. Wasp is devastated, and Bala too has to fear for her life: She has stuck to the soles of a person's feet in chewing gum and is now flying through the air with her shoe. Z can only jump up with difficulty and, after the chewing gum has been planed off with a coin, ends up in the real insectopia - an overfilled garbage can.
While Bala and Z are having a good time there, the ants in the colony are digging towards their misfortune: The opening of the "mega-tunnel" is imminent, but this leads to a lake, and when the final breakthrough the building should be flooded and all "lower" ones Ants are drowned. In the meantime, Cutter locates Bala and brings him back. Z now also gets back to the colony and can free the princess, but it is too late to stop Mandibel's plan: the breakthrough to the lake has taken place. Huge masses of water rush towards the ants, who are anxiously huddled on a small rise. But under Zs and Bala's guidance, the ants pull themselves together and build a living tower to the surface of the earth. When Mandibel sees that the so-called "weak elements" - and Z in particular - are stronger than he had expected, and even Cutter stands against him, he rushes at his former officer, but pulls Z into the flooded building and perish in the process; Z, however, is saved by Cutter. Together, the ants celebrate colony survival and Z's heroism.
background
- The original film title Antz is a modification of the English word ants , which means ants .
- In the film it is especially around the individualism and their own person of the individual . The ants in the colony live like "real" ants, they do the same thing day in and day out and don't care what else they might experience. Freedom of action is restricted, and as the film progresses these restrictive borders are thrown off and a kind of liberalism enters the ant colony.
synchronization
Interopa Film GmbH in Berlin did the dubbing . Lutz Riedel directed the dialogue and also wrote the dialogue book .
| role | Original speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Z | Woody Allen | Wolfgang Draeger |
| Weaver | Sylvester Stallone | Thomas Danneberg |
| Princess Bala | Sharon Stone | Martina Treger |
| queen | Anne Bancroft | Inken summer |
| General Mandibel | Gene Hackman | Klaus Sunshine |
| Colonel cutter | Christopher Walken | Lutz Riedel |
| Barbatus | Danny Glover | Jürgen Kluckert |
| chip | Dan Aykroyd | Norbert Gescher |
| Muffy | Jane Curtin | Evelyn Gressmann |
| Azteca | Jennifer Lopez | Carola Ewert |
Awards
- 1999 - ASCAP Film and Television Music Award
- 1999 - BMI Film Music Award
- 1999 - Golden Reel Award from Motion Picture Sound Editors
Reviews
“The computer-animated masterpiece is the first of two competing animated films from the insect microcosm - ' The great crawling ', the competitive 'Antz' product from Disney starts in February 1999. […] Besides the technical aspect, however, there are the voices that make 'Antz' so adult-friendly. Originally, Hollywood icons like Woody Allen (Z), Sharon Stone (Princess Bala), Sylvester Stallone (Z's buddy Weaver), Gene Hackman (Mandible) and Christopher Walken (Cutter) speak the ants - rarely did every single voice go so perfectly Physique of your film character. If Z is lying on the ant psychiatrist's couch in the opening sequence, stuttering about his predicament, we might as well be in Woody Allen's 'urban neurotics'. Princess Bala is seductive and lascivious like Sharon Stone, and Weaver, like his spokesman Stallone, is an imposing set of muscles with drooping eyes. A contrast to the idiosyncratic comedy of the ants adventure is initially the - in keeping with the underground darkness of the colony - quite claustrophobic atmosphere. But at the latest when Bala and Z are thrown to the surface of the earth and start their involuntary odyssey, the story and look of the film switch on Gear up, and 'Antz' becomes a 'joyride' of the first screen quality. "
“A neurotic ant picks up. Animated film adventure by the 'Shrek' makers. The characters are based on stars like Sly Stallone or Woody Allen. [...] Intelligent fun is more for adults. The images of the corpse-strewn battlefield could disturb the youngest. - »Ant utopia with wit and soul« "
“Amusing adventure cartoon that was completely animated on the computer. It makes use of film historical masterpieces and shines especially in the original version with many allusions and a large cast of stars. His trick technology charm, however, remains rather external. "
Web links
- Antz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Antz atrotten tomatoes(English)
- Antz in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Big sharks - small fish. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
- ^ Antz - film review at cinema.de , last accessed August 1, 2014
- ^ Antz - film review on the Internet presence of TV Spielfilm , accessed on August 1, 2014.
- ↑ Antz. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 7, 2015 .