121 - A Bug’s Life

<p>(Original Airdate - October 9th, 2019) </p> <p>A Bug's Life is a 1998 American <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_animation'>computer-animated</a> <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_film'>comedy film</a> produced by <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar_Animation_Studios'>Pixar Animation Studios</a> for <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Pictures'>Walt Disney Pictures</a> as its <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pixar_films'>second feature-length film</a>, following <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story'>Toy Story</a> (1995). Directed by <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lasseter'>John Lasseter</a> and co-directed by <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Stanton'>Andrew Stanton</a> from a screenplay written by Stanton, Donald McEnery and Bob Shaw and a story conceived by Lasseter, Stanton and <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ranft'>Joe Ranft</a>, the film stars the voices of <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Foley'>Dave Foley</a>, <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Spacey'>Kevin Spacey</a> and <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Louis-Dreyfus'>Julia Louis-Dreyfus</a>. In the film, a misfit <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant'>ant</a> named Flik, looks for "tough warriors" to save his ant colony from a <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket'>protection racket</a> run by a gang of <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper'>grasshoppers</a>. Unfortunately, the "warriors" he brings back turn out to be an inept troupe of Circus Bugs. The film's plot was initially inspired by <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop'>Aesop</a>'s fable <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper'>The Ant and the Grasshopper</a>.<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bug%27s_Life#cite_note-:0-3'>[3]</a><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bug%27s_Life#cite_note-4'>[4]</a></p> <p>Production on A Bug's Life began shortly after the release of To