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John Lasseter arrives for his interview in a big red bug with metal eyelashes. "Come see my bug!" he yells, grinning and waving from down the street. Wine connoisseurs in town to tour Sonoma's vineyards turn to stare. Kids point and giggle. The "bug" turns out to be a Volkswagen painted as a lady bug to promote the Oscar-winning director's other "bug"--Pixar's computer-animated film A Bug's Life. Lasseter's tale of greedy grasshoppers and anxious ants broke the Thanksgiving holiday box-office records with $45.7 million in ticket sales and slaughtered its main...
...betting that its heroes Buzz and Woody will endure for generations of kids to come. Says Peter Schneider, president of Walt Disney Feature Animation: "Look at Walt Disney's legacy: he told great stories, with great characters, and he pushed the boundaries of animation. With Toy Story and A Bug's Life, Lasseter has astounded us twice...
...collaborative as animated movies are (some 60 animators worked on A Bug's Life, for instance), Stanton says it is Lasseter's sensibility that pervades both Toy Story and A Bug's Life. "He truly gets it. He has both the kid's perspective and the filmmaker's perspective. The childlike charm and the maturity, that's John." The payoff is that animation, long considered a kiddie medium, is attracting adults. Some 35% of the Bug's Life audience on the Friday after Thanksgiving were teens or adults--without kids...
MOVIE ANTZ ANIMATORS 35 WEIRDEST CASTING Woody Allen as a worker ant FAST-FOOD TIE-INS None, because the studio rushed the movie out to beat A Bug's Life PROTESTS SPARKED University entomologists fault the depiction of the ant colony and life-style GROWNUPS' BONUS The ants drink from an aphid's anus...
...WEIRDEST CASTING] Lisa Loeb as a newborn baby [FAST-FOOD TIE-INS] One free toy with any Burger King Kid's Meal [PROTESTS SPARKED] Grandpa less stereotypically Jewish in movie, after complaints about Rugrats strip [GROWNUPS' BONUS] This unfinished line: "Born under Venus, look for a ..." [MOVIE] A BUG'S LIFE [ANIMATORS] 60 [WEIRDEST CASTING] Phyllis Diller as the Queen [FAST-FOOD TIE-INS] One Bug toy in each McDonald's Happy Meal [PROTESTS SPARKED] Entomologists steamed because the ants have four legs instead of six [GROWNUPS' BONUS] Transgender issues raised when Ladybug is actually...