Antz

Director: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson

1998 / 83min / DCP

An ant colony underneath Central Park is the setting of the debut film from DreamWorks Animation, which features none other than Woody Allen anchoring a stellar line-up of voice acting talent. Z (Allen), an anxiety-plagued individualist worker ant whose off the clock hours are taken up with psychoanalysis and pining after out-of-his-league Princess Bala (Sharon Stone), has to rise to the role of unlikely hero in foiling the destructive scheming of army ant officer General Mandible (Gene Hackman) and seeking out the fabled paradise of “Insectopia.” “Sharp and funny—not a children’s movie but one of those hybrids that works on different levels for different ages.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times