the Ant Bully

Our families rating 4.5/5

The next movie I downloaded from myvideolib.com was the Ant Bully

Again, I purchased the $4.99 DVD version which came as 2 700+mb avi files.
These avi files are 720x392 DivX v5 1670 kbps 23.976fps and the quality is excellent.
Since these are too large for a CD I am not sure I understand why the movie is split.

With Oscar-nominated director and creator of the famed Jimmy Neutron John A. Davis and producer Tom Hanks the Ant Bully is off to a good start. This fun family movie even offers soft moral lessons such as the Golden Rule, how to look at the world through another's viewpoint, and the value of friendship and teamwork.

Off to a quick start the movie doesn't provide much time on 10 year old Lucas' background. It would be nice to have a little more character development to empathize with his situation and set up the relationship with the ants. Still we get the idea: Lucas is picked on by a neighborhood bully and takes his frustrations out on a colony of ants.

Unfortunately for Lucas, this colony has a wizard Zoc played by Nicholas Cage that has been working on a potion to save the colony. When Zoc completes the potion the ants take it to "the destroyer" Lucas and shrink him down to size to deal with him.

As fate would have it this transformation occurs just as Lucas' parents go out of town and he is in the care of his older sister who has better things to do than look after her brother and his grandmother who is preoccupied with concerns about alien abduction and is unable to convince anyone that aliens have taken Lucas.

While Nicolas Cage's voice at times seems over done and out of place over all the voice acting is very good with a cast including Zachary Tyler, Julia Roberts,
Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Lily Tomlin and Ricardo Montalban.