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Some children may be upset by the notion of Dot being attacked or killed. The bird is relentless as it chases them all and the sense of peril is palpable until they find themselves sheltering in a thorn bush. A bird tries to attack Dot while Flik and his motley band of misfits work together to save her.The scenes are intense and loud and coupled with the evil looking characters and perilous circumstances this is likely to scare or disturb many young children. He stops only when she falls off a cliff. She is running for her life and he is relentlessly pursuing her. In a later scene he is found chasing Dot through fog. His eyes bulge and he looks as if he will devour anyone that gets too close to him. He is kept on a chain for the most part but makes strange, threatening sounds. There are numerous up-close shots where they terrify the ant colony and one in particular looks demented and crazy. Many of the bugs, especially the evil band of grasshoppers, look menacing and scary.

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In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following: Material that may scare or disturb childrenĬhildren under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.

Flik is beaten, kicked, punched and nearly killed by a crazy grasshopper.

Hopper throws random mosquitos into a wall.Some ant children put on a play and draw a picture of a massacre showing bodies chopped in half in a depiction of what the circus bugs will do to the grasshoppers.An insect gets electrocuted and dies after flying into the light.A bug gets burned when a stunt goes wrong.He takes Dot away from her mother and threatens her. An angry Hopper shoves, punches and violently grabs random ants.There is some violence in this movie including: Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world. Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another. Flik’s plans, once again, go awry but the ants soon learn that there is power in numbers and power in unity and that one ant, backed by thousands, can do the impossible. When Flik is banished and the circus crew forced to leave before the grasshoppers return, it is Dot who reminds them all of their capacity for greatness and the crew return to help Flik outsmart the tyrannical insects. When the tiny Princess Dot (voice of Hayden Panetierre) is attacked by a bird, Flik and the reluctant group work together to save her, earning the adulation and applause they have all been craving. Due to misunderstandings, the circus crew arrive in the ant colony under the impression that they will put on a show but soon learn the ants are hoping that they will slaughter the grasshoppers instead.

Flik inadvertently comes across a rag tag crew of circus bugs who are down on their luck and eager to take a job. Flik, feeling terrible for what he has done and hoping to win the admiration of Princess Atta (voice of Julia Louis-Dreyfus), ventures off to Bug city where he is determined to find some ‘warrior’ bugs who will help rid his colony of the grasshoppers forever. When his latest invention accidentally knocks all of the food off their offering stone Hopper (voice of Kevin Spacey), leader of an evil band of grasshoppers, insists that the ants now give them double rations to make up for it even if it means that the ants themselves will starve.

material that may scare or disturb childrenįlik (voice of Dave Foley) is a unique ant who sees the world for all its possibilities, who can’t seem to follow the masses and who is forever searching for more productive ways to do things.

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