A Bug’s Life (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)

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Journey inside the world of bugs in this Epic of miniature proportions. Crawling with imaginative characters, hilarious laughs and colorful animation, Walt Disney Pictures’ Presentation of A Pixar Animation Studios Film, A BUG’S LIFE, will “delight everyone — young, old or six-legged.” (People Magazine). In this 2-disc set you’ll step behind the scenes for a look at the innovation and teamwork that resulted in this ingenious film. Loaded with bonus features — including animation not seen in theaters, abandoned sequences and multiple surprises — A BUG’S LIFE COLLECTOR’S EDITION offers something for everyone from families to film lovers!|The film is based loosely on the Aesop’s fable, “The Ants And The Grasshopper.”|One of the challenges for the animators was giving the bugs human emotions. As one put it, “How do you make an insect with no eyebrows look surprised?”

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Codirector Andrew Stanton warmly calls this collector’s edition of A Bug’s Life the “Super Genius” edition (referring to another animated delight, Wile E. Coyote). That’s a better title, since this double DVD set is never as stuffy and ho-hum as many collector’s editions. On the second disc, which is jam-packed with details on how the movie was made, there isn’t a single boring snippet. There must be a creed at Pixar Animation Studios dictating everything must be fun. When Stanton, director John Lasseter, or any technician comes onscreen, there are jokes, camera muggings, and controlled insanity. But there’s a method to their madness. For example, the storyboarding process–sketching out the entire picture before cameras roll–isn’t just explained; it’s storyboarded itself. Another highlight is an early presentation of the film’s subject matter that takes on the flavor of a poorly dubbed Japanese film of the ’60s. There’s also a wonderful process using the DVD format’s rarely used angle feature that allows the viewer to go between pencil sketches, color drawings, and the finished project to see how the art progresses to the screen. The film, presented here in both widescreen and recomposed full-frame (the latter also explained on the disc), is the first DVD created by a digital source for the purest presentation possible. Whatever the presentation, this “Super Genius” edition certainly gives one pause to consider what super geniuses the folks at Pixar truly are. –Doug Thomas