You can choose what part of the screen to look at. When this is done on an IMAX screen (usually 60 feet high and 90 feet wide), the picture exceeds your field of vision. Modern 3-D projects the entire picture out into the audience. Įarly 3-D, which I’ve raved about probably too often, was mostly a matter of things being thrown, or spat, at the audience. The combination of modern 3-D and IMAX puts you inside the film, for the first time, and The Ant Bully has the smarts to make that work. What counts with The Ant Bully is the 3-D IMAX combination. Monster House, another 3-D cartoon, was a lot of fun and really a better film than The Ant Bully. What counts with The Ant Bully is not the story so much as the delivery. The “message,” straight out of the Iliad, is simple: be a team player and people will like you! That, and a whole shitload of poop jokes, is just about it. There are no “over the kids’ heads” jokes, no hip, wise-cracking Robin Williams character, damn little character development, and damn little moralizing. The Ant Bully is pitched younger than just about any cartoon I’ve seen. I have seen the future, and it works, pretty well.
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