Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (2013)

A stranded young ladybug forms an alliance with a squad of black ants in order to retrieve a rather unusual treasure to the ant hive.

Directors:

Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo

Writers:

Thomas Szabo, Hélène Giraud

4 wins & 3 nominations.

Storyline

In a peaceful little clearing, the remains of a picnic hastily abandoned spark warfare between two tribes of ants. A bold young ladybug finds himself caught in the middle of the battle. He befriends one of the black ants, Mandible, and helps him save the anthill from the assault of the terrible red ant warriors, led by the fearful Butor. A fantastic journey at ground level...

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Plot Keywords:

ant | black ant | ladybug | red ant | picnic | 

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Taglines:

An Epic Adventure At Ground Level.

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Family

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Instagram Official Blog

Country:

France Belgium

Language:

None

Release Date:

29 January 2014 (France)

Also Known As:

Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants

Filming Locations:

France

Box Office

Budget:

$19,700,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Futurikon, Entre Chien et Loup, 2d3D Animations

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Dolby Digital (TRAILER-Spanish dubbing mix)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

An overhead camera angle, when Ladybug is ascending stairs inside Spider's house, is similar to one used in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, when Norman descends stairs, while removing Mother from her bedroom.

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Goofs

When the ladybug and the ant come to the storeroom to take the box of matches, the sliding number puzzle's 11, 12 and 15 numbers' positions look different than the attendant ant came back with the matches.

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Connections

Follows Minuscule (2006)

User Reviews

The adventures of the fellows of the Sugar Cubes.

I am the big fan of the television short-video series 'Minuscule'. I watched all of them like a kid when it was aired in my country on Nickelodeon. Along with me everyone in my family loved it and each of us like different characters. So we all expected this movie from the very beginning when they announced the project. The wait is over, I saw it a couple of days ago and I totally loved it.

It was the best choice of characters for the movie over plenty of tiny creatures are desperate to debut on the silver screen. They chose ants and ladybugs and their adventures filled with lots of humour. This was the story of a young ladybug who got separated from his parents. He meets a pack of black ants who are on a hunt for food, then they team up and help each other to face the challenge that coming in their way to home. Especially red ants who are on the trail to snatch their finds. This running and chasing between two small groups of creature becomes a crucial war between those races.

If you are familiar with this TV series, then you will clearly understand the characters and their behaviour. Not much deviated, they kept as much the original except stretched to 90 minutes runtime. The story was largely inspired from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy. Each section of the story telling reminds different episode of 'The Lord of the Rings'. First, it begins with 'The Fellows of the Sugar Cubes', then 'The Single Tower' and ends with 'The Return of the Queen'. All the way it was so much fun like you had for the TV series.

No need to worry for the first time watcher, especially who are unfamiliar with these little characters. It was more like another version that you had seen in the Hollywood animations 'Antz', 'A Bug Life' 'Bee Movie' et cetera. The best part of all of it was this movie was dialogueless. No speaking, no names and no hard-coded subs. It only features amusing sounds created by the bugs and the wonderful background scores. It's a universal theme and presentation without any language barriers.

A specially made movie for children with fine story. In company of them adults as well can enjoy it equally. One of the best animation movie, in fact the best children's movie of the year. Hope this title continues with many sequels in which each of the installments should brief different bug's or insect's tales. A must show to the kids and must see by the animation movie fans. Have this and have a great time.