A  Bug's Life, officially trademarked as a bug's life, is a 1998 American  CGI film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney  Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on November  25, 1998. A Bug's Life was the second Disney·Pixar feature film and the  third American computer-animated film after Toy Story and Antz. It tells  the tale of an oddball individualist inventor ant who hires what he  thinks are "warrior bugs" — actually circus performers — to fight off a  huge swarm of grasshoppers who have made the ant colony their servants.  The film was directed by John Lasseter and is also the last film  appearances of Madeline Kahn and Roddy McDowall.
The  story of A Bug's Life is a parody of Aesop's fable of The Ant and the  Grasshopper. It is similar to the comedy Three Amigos, which is about  out-of-work actors defending a town while thinking they're merely giving  a performance. It also gives a nod to Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai  (as well as its Hollywood remake, The Magnificent Seven), which is about  Japanese villagers hiring a group of swordsmen to fight off rampaging  bandits. It is also dedicated to the late Toshiro Mifune.

 
