Movie Review
A Bug's Life
by Gary Johnson
Life is no picnic for the ants in A Bug's Life. A marauding colony of grasshoppers periodically descends on the ant colony and demands huge portions of the ant colony's harvest--like gangsters insisting on "protection" money. The grasshoppers are sort of like the greedy bandits in The Magnificent Seven (or Seven Samurai). The colony needs a group of warriors to protect them, and therefore our hero, Flik, an inventive-thinking ant who the colony considers a nuisance, strikes out on his own to find a group of fighters.