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A Bug's Life
Being small and unnoticed is just part of "A Bug's Life," but when Disney and Pixar team up, being a bug means big screen, big stars, big fun and big adventure.
A fabulous cast of voices including such names as Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Phyllis Diller and Denis Leary just add grandeur of this wonderful movie. Along with outstanding 3D computer animation, the movie reaches new heights in the world of animation.
Four years since their last adventure "Toy Story," Pixar and Disney give us a glimpse at how much the technology has grown, and how a whole new generation is growing up to a new world of animation.
In short, the movie tells of a colony of ants oppressed by a band of grasshoppers demanding food every season. One ant however, who is the source of many of the colony's problems comes up with a solution to go in search of bigger bugs to fight off these unwanted pests. In hopes of ridding themselves of this pesky little critter, they send him off to search out help. To their surprise though, he returns with a troop of warrior bugs to defend the colony, bringing hope where once lost. Unfortunately, from a great misunderstanding, a secret arrises that one ant in particular would like very much to keep very much under wraps... they're actually circus bugs.
On DVD, the presentation of Bug's Life is like nothing seen up to this point. As most movies DVDs are mastered from film to digital format, Bug's Life had the advantage of originally being in a digital format being created on computers. With this in mind, the digital format of DVD allowed for the movie to skip the film format, going directly from computer to DVD, the result being a picture perfect quality that is absolutely breathtaking and not to be missed.
Another technical breakthrough for Bug's Life introduced with its transfer to home video that set it apart from other movies was that of reframing. What this entails, is allowing the movie to be reshaped from the original theatrical widescreen format to the shape of your television with no loss of action or characters as is done with most movies. How Pixar accomplished this was by using several processes of adding either to the height of the frame, or by moving characters closer together so than none would be lost when the sides of the frame were cropped.
In all, the collector's edition of Bug's Life comes together with not only a wonderful movie, but a spectacular display of brilliant picture quality and an outstanding assortment of extras that make this a must have DVD for any collection.
The movie disc is single sided - dual layered and contains the original widescreen version of the movie as well as the full frame reframed version. The mastering is outstanding, as are the abundant extras found on the second single sided - single layered extras disc.
(A) Bug's Life: Collector's Edition Disney 1998
Rating:G Running Time:95 min / 170 min
Picture:(side 1 - disc 1 - dual layered) 2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen & Full Frame
(side 1 - disc 2) Full Frame with Widescreen Segments
Sound:disc 1 - 5.1 Dolby Digital, disc 2 - Stereo
Languages:English
Subtitles:English (closed captioned)
Extras:Animated Menus, 2 Trailers, Geri's Game Sort Film, Music Only Audio Track, Sound Effects Only Audio Track, Audio Commentary by Director, Co-Director/Writer & Supervising Editor, 2 Sets of Ending Outtakes, Character Interviews, Look at Reframing Process, Indepth Look at Making-of Film
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