Isnt this story just like 'Seven Samurai'?

Yes.

What's interesting is that Seven Samurai is a straight-forward story where the villagers gather the samurai, they train for a bit, the bandits attack and then the movie ends...over 3 hours later.

A Bug's Life, on the other hand, takes 90-some odd minutes to tell the same story, but with added twists and complications. And it still works. Nothing feels crammed in or added for the sake of adding another twist or complication...which is odd because Seven Samurai never feels too long or one-note.

Both films are excellent.

YES! I have been saying that the moment after I seen this movie! I have a theory that Disney doesn't have an original story idea for any of it's animated features. They are either adaptations of other works, or blatent rip offs like It's A Bugs Life.

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Were'ent the samurai's actually Samurai's though.

What I found weird even kinda annoying is that none of the many supplements included in the collectors edition nor Blu-ray mentions "Seven Samurai" as one of the influences of this film, when it's clear to anyone who have seen both films that A Bug's Life is a CGI adaptation of Kurosawa's classic.

Hey at least John Sturges acknowledged the fact that his film (The Magnificent Seven) was a remake of Kurosawa's masterpiece. Why Pixar doesn't even mention it? I don't get it.

Same happens with 'Quarantine' that is a remake of the spanish movie 'REC', yet on the DVD/BD there is not a single comment about the original spanish film, either in the docus or the audio-commentary. Seems like if they were trying to hide the fact that the original idea wasn't theirs! .

Yea, and Three Amigos, and Galaxy Quest.

Death will come on swift wings...to whomsoever opens this chest!
-Dr. Allen Chamberlain

it's kinda hard not to notice



so many movies, so little time