Hopper discovers this, and demands twice as much food as compensation. One day, a courageous but clumsy inventor ant named Flik accidentally destroys the food offering with his grain harvester. Every summer, they are forced to give food to a gang of bullying grasshoppers, led by Hopper. It was the first film to be digitally transferred frame-by-frame and released on DVD, and has been released multiple times on home video.Ī colony of ants, led by the elderly Queen and her daughter Princess Atta, lives in the middle of a seasonally dry creekbed on a small hill known as "Ant Island". The film was released worldwide on November 20, 1998, received positive reviews and became a commercial success, having grossed $363 million at the box office. During production, a controversial public feud erupted between Steve Jobs and Lasseter of Pixar and DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg due to the parallel production of his similar film Antz, which was released the same year. Randy Newman composed the music for the film. The ants in the film were redesigned to be more appealing, and Pixar's animation unit employed technical innovations in computer animation. Production on A Bug's Life began shortly after the release of Toy Story in 1995. The film's plot was initially inspired by Aesop's fable The Ant and the Grasshopper. Unfortunately, the "warriors" he brings back turn out to be an inept troupe of Circus Bugs. In the film, a misfit ant named Flik, looks for "tough warriors" to save his ant colony from a protection racket run by a gang of grasshoppers. Directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Andrew Stanton from a screenplay written by Stanton, Donald McEnery and Bob Shaw and a story conceived by Lasseter, Stanton and Joe Ranft, the film stars the voices of Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The decision was ultimately one of the best ones the movie could have made, and any outrage people have expressed has only served to feed into the joke and make it stronger.A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures as its second feature-length film, following Toy Story (1995). However, the entire fact that they’re together is supposed to be a joke on account of it being so random, in addition to having an in-universe justification for it, so the controversy ends up being ridiculous. No one is obligated to like Akiva Schaffer of The Lonely Island's Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangershaving Gadget marry Zipper, since it is a weird direction for the movie to go in, with or without the context of the original cartoon. By a similar token, even if Gadget the character had more chemistry with Chip and Dale in the cartoon, that doesn’t mean that the real-life Gadget would be interested in the real-life Chip or Dale, or vice versa. As previously stated, the Rescue Rangers cartoon in the Disney+ original movie is just a TV show the characters were actors on, so even if Zipper was treated as a sidekick at best in the show, in the movie’s version of reality, he’s just a regular person the movie even emphasizes this by replacing his unintelligible buzzing with a deep, human voice courtesy of Dennis Haysbert. The backlash from the joke also ignores the in-universe context behind it. The idea of Gadget being romantically involved with Zipper is obviously ridiculous, but that’s the reason the movie went with it it flies in the face of anything people would have expected, and that’s why it’s supposed to be funny. Anything the movie did with Gadget’s romantic life would have incited some level of controversy, so the movie seemingly decided to lean into that with the most out-there option available. At the same time, that backlash misses the joke the movie is making. With Gadget being paired up with Zipper, someone who could be considered a pet, and even having dozens of children, it makes sense that Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangerswould face backlash from people who felt this was a weird move. Related: Every Disney & Cartoon Cameo In Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers The decision to have Gadget be married to Zipper, of all people, caught most by surprise - not just because Chip and Dale were the more popular options, but because the cartoon had always portrayed Zipper as something between a sidekick and a pet, so the idea of them becoming a couple came across as somewhat surreal. Gadget is happily married in present day, but it’s not to Chip or Dale, but Zipper, and the two of them even have forty-two kids together. Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers takes place in a world similar to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and reimagines the original cartoon as a TV show the characters were all actors on and, naturally, shows what they all got up to after the show ended.
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