What is "antz"

Antz is a 1998 American computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson, written by Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz and Todd Alcott. The film stars Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, and Gene Hackman. Some of the main characters share facial similarities with the actors who voice them. Antz is the first animated film, as well as the first CGI-animated film, by DreamWorks Animation and the second feature-length computer-animated film after Disney/ Pixar's Toy Story.

The film's production resulted in a controversial public feud, between DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Steve Jobs and John Lasseter of Pixar, concerning the parallel productions of this film and Pixar's A Bug's Life. This only worsened when Disney refused to avoid competition with DreamWorks' intended first animated release, The Prince of Egypt. The film premiered on September 19, 1998, at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States on October 2, 1998. It grossed $171.8 million worldwide on a budget of $105 million, and it has a 96% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which wrote that it "should delight both children and adults".

Antz is a video game released in 1999 by Infogrames. It was released on the Game Boy Color and is based on the film of the same name. Lauren Fielder, writing for GameSpot, gave the game a score of 6.9/10 and concluded that "Antz on the GBC is another platform game that will amuse those who find the genre enjoyable in small scale 8-bit."