A Bug's Life corrections

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A Bug's Life (1998) - 15 corrections

Directed by John Lasseter, starring Kevin Spacey

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The caravan (trailer) where the bug flies into the zapper at the "city", looks a lot like the one in Monsters Inc, where Mike and Sully throw Randall into. [Since Monsters Inc. comes AFTER A Bug's Life, this is better in the Monster's Inc. Trivia.]

The first shot of the hat (where the grasshopper lives) you see a big mudpuddle with grasshoppers in it. Later when they leave there is no mudpuddle. [In the first shot we see the puddle with the right hand side of the hat in the background - you can tell this by the lean of the vertical part of the hat - and when they leave we see the left hand side. Thus the hat itself blocks our view of the puddle, which is still there.]

How did Dot know where to find Flik and the circus bugs after they left the island? She didn't know where they were going, and never had set foot off Ant Island before. [We don't know how long Dot was looking, and since she was able to fly, she would be able to canvas the area a lot quicker and easier. We also see that the circus bugs vehicle was extremely slow, so there wasn't a large area for Dot to search.] Corrected by Lummie

The first time we visit the circus, watch the one-spider band. He is only playing one trombone-like instrument, but the music he produces sounds like a brass choir. I didn't know that playing one straw could make that nice of a sound. [Its fairly obvious that it wouldn't produce the same type of sounds but the film takes some artistic license.] Corrected by Lummie

This is actually a mistake for the Pixar short flik Jerri's Game, but as this is included in the A Bug's Life video, this is a good place to list it. Jerri (with glasses) knocks off the box of chess pieces after faking a heart attack, but when the camera pulls back at the end of the flik, you can see there is no chess box on the ground. [The short film is not part of the Bug's Life film and therefore cannot be considered a mistake on their part.] Corrected by Lummie

The harvest machine has no power source. [It didn't need any. Flik designed the system to rotate by moving his legs. As he would move his legs back and forth when using it, it would rotate all the mechanisms (Think of it like a bike. When we pedal, the gears will turn the wheels round).] Corrected by Lummie

A grasshopper would never have been able to lift up a leaf with lots of food on it, as Hopper does. [Hopper does not lift the leaf with food on it by himself. He is helped by the other grasshoppers. They, being grasshoppers, probably ate most of the food anyway before attempting to lift the leaf.]

With the grasshoppers rapidly approaching Ant Island, Flik is seen getting caught on a plant with his seed gathering contraption while trying to get to the antill quickly. He flips over sideways and all the seeds fall out and scatter. A few seconds later, as he runs to the Offering Rock, and the receptacle is once again full seeds. He couldnt have gathered up those stray seeds, taken off the contraption and refilled the holder and reattached the "machine" so quickly. [It's more than a few seconds I think he could have gathered up seeds in the between falling over and seeing run over to the stone.]

At the beginning of the film, when Flik realizes that the empty stalks that his invention throws out is landing on the princess ant, he lifts his acorn mask on top of his head. When the shot changes to him running toward The princess, the mask has disappeared. [You can see Flik throw the mask away before he gets close to the queen.]

None of the ants have six legs. [This is artistic licence rather than a mistake. Other bugs in this film have four legs i.e. P.T. Flea and Francis.]

With all the other bugs and scenery so realistically colored, why are the ants lavender blue? [Because this is artistic licence rather than a mistake.]

When the bird chases the bugs into the rosebush-type plant, it hovers outside, unable to get in. This bird is not a hummingbird, therefore it would be unable to hover. [The bird is an American Goldfinch. It is perfectly capable of the darting manoevres shown in the film, which looks like hovering.]

The ants often wear hats made of flowers. For them to wear these, the flowers would have to be tiny, nearly microscopic. [There are dozens of species of plants with 'tiny, microscopic' flowers. Besides, they could be pollen grains, which come in all sorts of shapes, often looking like 'flowers'.]

This may seem like nitpicking, but the drunk mosquito that Flik approaches which drinks a round of blood is a male, when, in reality, only female mosquitos suck blood. Males actually consume flower nectar, like many other insects. [Really? Just because it looks like a male doesn't mean it's a male. Frances the Ladybug looks like a female, but he's male.]

Near the end of the movie, Hopper gets one of his antennae yanked off by one of the pill bugs. If you look at his head, though, as Flick is yelling for help, you can see both antennae are intact. [Tuck/Roll broke off only a part of the antennae not the whole thing as you can see when they are playing with it, it isn't that long.]