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A Bug’s Life: Collector’s Edition

bugs to fight the grasshoppers. In order to get rid of Flik, the colony sends him out on this suicide mission to find these bugs and bring them back to…

Mr Bug! The original "bug's life" Hoppity to air in the UK

Max and Dave Fleischer’s rarely seen, but fantastically inventive 1941 feature Mr Bug Goes To Town will be screening on UK TV this week, under its 1950s NPA television print…

Peter de Sève: the time of his life designing A Bug’s Life

…His credits include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Prince of Egypt, Mulan, A Bug’s Life, Tarzan, and Ice Age, for which he created all of the characters. In addition…

More X-Men, plus A Bug's Life is back!

…For me, both movies each feature fantastic elements of their own, but I have to say neither holds a candle to Max and Dave Fleischer’s original bugs life, Mr Bug

A Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc Blu-ray in May

…Door Challenge” and BD-Live Features. A Bug’s Life Blu-ray exclusive bonus features will include, “Introduction by John Lasseter”, “A Bug’s Life: The First Draft”, “Story Treatment Intro by John Lasseter”…

Brendan Fraser is Big Bug Man

As was reported yesterday, Marlon Brando’s last theatrical role will be as Mrs. Sour, in the independent CG feature Big Bug Man. Now comes word from Variety that Brendan Fraser…

Big Bug Man gets website

The traditionally animated feature that will mark Marlon Brando’s last film credit, Big Bug Man, seems to be riding the crest of the recent publicity surrounding the late actor by…

Herbie: The Love Bug back on the big screen!

…helmer Angela Robinson has signed to direct the remake of Herbie The Love Bug for the Walt Disney Company and Robert Simonds. With Robinson now on board, the project is…

APRIL FOOLS STORY: New Bug's Life Flick Flicks Flik's Bic

In addition to the recently announced Toy Story 3 project, it has been reported that Disney is also prepping a prequel to computer-animated insect hit A Bug’s Life. The as-yet-unnamed…

A Bug’s Life, Simpsons voice actor Alex Rocco passes away
Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine For You

…or “Love Bug.” On my first attempt I missed, until I realized that the bug moves in the same patter on every turn, making any and all subsequent attempts highly…

Bugs Bunny Superstar

…that Jones brought much to Bugs’ development, which is why, in Jones’ later compilation The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, Bugs runs off a list of his several “fathers”, with Clampett…

Stop-Motion Marvels!

…in this one. Horse Laffs (7:31) is surprisingly a Cinecolor cartoon, combining a horse, more doodlebug-type creatures, and even a slightly racy dancing (bug) girl scene. Crude though the Kinex…

Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942

…animation, and one only has to look at some of the Popeye cartoons and their later feature Mr Bug Goes To Town for some brilliantly realised perspective shots, and The…

Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition

…disc, and more Monsters is no bad thing at all! Case Study: Unfortunately, unlike previous collectors Disney titles, such as the Pixar collaboration A Bug’s Life, Monsters Inc is presented…

Full press release for The Tick Vs. Season Two

…more of The Big Blue Bug Of Justice reach DVD on August 7. Incidentally, the second volume of Darkwing Duck will be coming that same day. Click here for the…

Gulliver’s Travels

…films, and a very important one that proved Disney wasn’t the only major artist on the block. The Fleischers would bounce back again with an even better film, Mr Bug

Up

It is really hard to pick the best Pixar film. Everyone has different crieria. The Toy Stories and A Bug’s Life started it all and were fun and like nothing…

Monsters, Inc.‘s Composer Randy Newman: “I score because I care!”

…it all! He scores because he cares! Animated Views: Monsters, Inc. was your fourth collaboration with Pixar after Toy Story, Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2. How did you find…

LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!

…re-release title, instead of the original Mr. Bug Goes To Town, but regardless it’s a nearly forgotten masterwork. The LaserDisc image looks surprisingly sharp, too. If Mr. Bug Goes To…

More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect

…the bug! We got the bug! Transformers original series DVD set is available to order from Amazon.com! With our thanks to David and Jesse, and to Andrew Kopp and Yefan…

Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies

…transitional phase. In Bugs In Love, probably the first to work out a more complex storyline, two bugs are in love, but their romance is cut short when a crow…

Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1

…after almost ten years and began the practice of creating a new film to be attached to each new feature with A Bug’s Life and Geri’s Game (4:50, 1.66:1, 1997,…

Bee Movie: A Very Jerry 2-Disc Edition

Bug Goes To Town, which I still can’t figure out why someone doesn’t put out a decent, original edition of, even to cash-in on the animated bug craze. Not all…

Celebrate Valentines with Winnie The Pooh – Winner Announced!

…entire family from The New Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh! In Catch The Love Bug Game, flying love bugs are on the loose in the Hundred Acre Wood and it’s…

Tombstone

…The Movie: Like the concurrently released Armageddon, just as rival movies came along depicting do-gooding outlaws (Robin Hood, Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves), computer animated insects (Antz, A Bug’s Life),…

Lion King animator Tony Bancroft takes “warthog”’s share on Pumbaa!

…in common. We’re both overweight and enjoy a good bug every once in a while! RI: What will the 3D technique bring to this new 3D version of The Lion…

Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition

…the experience of drunkenness, but a complete series of hallucinations! Max Fleischer tried a similar approach in Paramount’s animated release Mr Bug Goes To Town, during which the hero Hoppity…

Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection

…1990s than Pixar’s A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2, and Disney also had to contend with DreamWorks, co-founded by Katzenberg after internal politics saw him leave the Mouse House…

Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3

…of Cars. He began his time at Pixar as a freelancer on Toy Story, which led to positions as a production designer on A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2 and…