It's funny about Antz because it sort of offers you a glimpse of the type of films that DreamWorks may very well had ended up making--very likely in 2d--if the whole CGI comedy/buddy film hadn't come along. Of course, DreamWorks could still have made those types of films, just in CGI--but the need to "keep up with Pixar" was just too strong. (not that all Pixar movies were strictly buddy films but they kind of started with that style/trend.)
There certainly are some basic similarities between the plot devices of ABL and Antz, but not the deeper themes. Plus, as recognizable and distracting as the celebrity voices would sometimes be in future DW films, Antz, like POE, was actually one of the DW movies where the celebrity voices blended perfectly with the characters. I think there's a very big difference between Woody Allen's performance/character in Antz and Jerry Seinfeld's in Bee Movie, which was basically an animated vehicle for Seinfeld. With Antz it was the other way around--Woody served the story, not vice versa.
K: "I know, I know!--And so, they somehow get separated from the colony, and have to help each other get back, and develop new respect for each other along the way...It's a road comedy, isn't it? Very Happy "
Actually, as wonderful and entertaining as ABL was, it was actually much more of a road/buddy comedy than Antz, which had a darker side.
Antz was our first clue--as far back as '98, when Dreamworks was only a year or two old-
Nah, DW was actually four years old by this point.
but what about the Finding Nemo Blu-Ray? and this is actually the first Pixar movie that was released before Cars who"ll be release be released on Blu-Ray.
