Trivia for
A Bug's Life (1998) More at IMDbPro »

• The names on the boxes that make up the City are all the names of the writers' kids. A few examples are: JuJu's Litter, Hannah's Bananas, and PJ Pop.
  
  
• The restaurant at Bug City is a can of "Low Fat Lard".
  
  
• The cookies from the box that that Flea's circus travels in contain 92 grams of protein per serving!
  
  
• Roddy McDowall's final film.
  
  
• DVD version is first ever all-digital video transfer.
  
  
• Atta is a genus of leaf-cutting ants.
  
  
• This was the first computer generated feature film to be presented in a scope ratio of 2.35:1
  
  
• 'Dave Foley', who is Flick, originally tried out for the Slim, played by David Hyde Pierce.
  
  
• The tunnel in a tunnel joke was made in reference to Steve Jobs' (CEO of Pixar and Apple) plan for Apple's "store in a store".
  
  
• For the 1.33:1 video transfer, rather than pan-and-scan the original 2.35:1 theatrical image, Pixar actually re-used the original computer images, re-framed some scenes, and even to the point where they'd place characters to a different spot in the scene to fit into the 1.33:1 frame.
  
  
• The two mosquitoes trapped in the light of the bugzapper ("Frank, don't go towards the light!" "I can't help it - it's so beautiful!") are the voices of the co-directors, John Lasseter and 'Andrew Stanton'.
  
  
• The Pixar short film Geri's Game (1997) was shown before this film in theaters, at least in the United States.
  
  
• The original "teaser" trailer for this film was made up of animation made specially for the trailer and not appearing in the final film. This became a Pixar trademark.
  
  
• The hand gestures made by Hopper were modeled after gestures made by Steve Jobs.
  
  
• Ashley Tisdale tried out for the part of "Dot".
  
  
• WILHELM SCREAM: A worker ant screams the "third scream" when the grasshoppers invade the colony.
  
  
• CASTLE THUNDER: Heard twice in the rain storm.
  
  
• In the home video release there were 5 covers to pick from (Hopper, Flick, Dot, Francis, and Heimlich.)
  
  
• Although this film is loosely based on The Magnificent Seven (1960), which is a remake of the Akira Kurosawa film Shichinin no samurai (1954), no credit is given to Kurosawa for his story.
  
  

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