Here, Bala begins to reciprocate Z's feelings. Z and Bala, after a misdirection and a brief seperation, finally found Insectopia, which consists of a human waste-bin overfilled with decaying food (a treat for insects of all kinds). Cutter, however, slowly begins to have second thoughts about Mandible's plans and agenda and develops sympathy for the worker ants.
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Knowing full well of the plane's existence, Mandible sends his second-in-command, Colonel Cutter, to its location to retrieve the Princess and possibly kill Z. Mandible learns Z is looking for Insectopia after interrogating Weaver. Mandible then promotes the glory of conformity and promises them a better life, which he claims to be the reward of completing a "Mega Tunnel" planned by himself. Seeing an opportunity to gain control, General Mandible begins to publicly portray Z as a war criminal who cares only about himself. As a result, productivity grinds to a halt. Word of the incident quickly spreads through the colony, whereupon Z's act of individually sparks a resolution in the workers and, possibly, a few soldier ants as well. They escape the colony and hide, and Z begins searching for the legendary Insectopia. When Z finds that he has been cornered in a lie, he panics and pretends to take Princess Bala "hostage" in order to trick the queen's guards into letting him leave rather than imprison him. There he meets Princess Bala, who eventually recognizes him as a worker. He was also congratulated personally by the secretly irate General Mandible, and is brought before the Queen. Z returns home and is hailed as a war hero, even though he did not do anything and was traumatized by the fighting. Before he dies, Barbatus tells Z to think for himself rather than follow orders all his life, leaving Z saddened and depressed. Following the battle, all Z can find of Barbatus is his head. At the base of the tree near nightfall, Z realizes he's marching into battle, and all of the soldiers except for Z are killed by the acid-shooting termites. He doesn't realise that the army's leader and Bala's fiance, General Mandible, is secretly sending all the soldiers loyal to the Queen on a suicide battle with the termites, so he can begin to build a colony filled with powerful ants. He marches with the ranks, befriending a staff sergeant named Barbatus in the process. In order to see Bala again, Z exchanges places with Weaver and joins the army. Z meets Princess Bala at a bar where she goes to escape from her suffocating royal life and falls in love with her. His friends include fellow worker ant Azteca and a soldier ant, Weaver. The protagonist is Z-4195, or "Z" for short, a neurotic, pessimistic, and individualistic worker ant living in a wholly totalitarian society who longs for the opportunity to truly express himself. The setting for the story is an ant colony in Central Park in New York City, under the chronological timespan of four days. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and performed modestly at the box office. The film premiered on September 19, 1998, at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States on October 2, 1998.
Which only worsened when Disney refused to avoid competition with DreamWorks' intended animated release The Prince of Egypt. The film was a result of a controversial public feud between DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steve Jobs and John Lasseter of Pixar, concerning the parallel productions of this film and Pixar's A Bug's Life.
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It is the eighth overall movie to be created by DreamWorks. Antz is the first animated film, as well as the first CGI-animated film, by DreamWorks Animation and the second feature-length computer-animated film. Some of the main characters share facial similarities with the actors who voice them. It features the voices of well-known actors such as Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Anne Bancroft, Gene Hackman, Christopher Walken, and Danny Glover as various members of an ant society.
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