FREE ESSAY ON A BUG'S LIFE: ENTOMOLOGICAL VIEW

A BUG'S LIFE: ENTOMOLOGICAL VIEW

A Bug's Life: Movie Review
A Bug's Life was a full-length computer animated movie released in 1998 by Pixar. The
film dealt with an inside look at the lives of arthropods, specifically ants. The film
was fictional with the insects each having their own personality along with voices and
human hands. 
The plot of A Bug's Life surrounds its star who is Flik, an inventive ant whose antics
always land him into trouble. Flik manages to foil his colony's harvest by accidentally
knocking it over a cliff. The harvest which was meant for a band of bullish grasshoppers
is now gone and the grasshoppers aren't pleased. Hopper the leader of the grasshopper
gang orders the colony to double its efforts for the next season, which is almost
impossible for them. Flik is sent away to recruit "warrior bugs" to combat the angry
grasshoppers the next season. Unfortunately he finds his "warrior bugs" turn out to be
cowardice circus performers. 
The film has 11 main characters that include Flik, Atta, Queen, Rosie, Gypsy, Francis,
Slim, Heimlich, Dim, and Hopper. Flik, Atta, and Queen are ants. They are represented
almost human-like, having legs and arms as well as feet and hands. However they did have
a pair of antennae. Ants have three pair of legs, one pair of antennae, and don't have
feet or hands. Rosie is a black widow spider who has four pairs of legs and no antennae
which make her anatomically correct. Gypsy is a butterfly who is represented as having
only two pair of legs along with one pair of antennae. Again this insect is not
anatomically correct because she should have three pair of legs. Francis is a male
ladybug who is not anatomically correct. He has two pair of legs but he does have a pair
of antennae. Slim, a walking stick is anatomically correct because he has three pair of
legs along with a pair of antennae. Heimlich is a caterpillar with five pairs of legs and
two antennae. This doesn't make him anatomically correct because he needs at least one
pair per segment of his body. Dim is a dung beetle that is represented with three pair of
legs and rhino horn that makes him anatomically correct. Hopper is a grasshopper that is
anatomically correct having three pairs of legs along with a pair of antennae. 
The movie made the arthropods as human as they could by giving them eyes, hands, and
feet. There were some insects that were anatomically correct but most were represented
with only two pair of legs. Behaviorally the insects acted like humans. The ants were
portrayed correctly in the way that they gathered food and made trails.