Customer Reviews
It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants IN LINE! - By: S. Jolly, 23 Jan 2004 
A Bug’s Life Soundtrack
The tagline for this 1998 CGI insect flick – Pixar’s equally impressive follow-up to ‘Toy Story’ – is ‘an epic of miniature proportions!’ This is also true of the score; the delightfully strange epic quality of the story (it’s about ANTS, for Pete’s sake!!!) is well reflectedin Newman’s music, which is a quirky blend of cartoonish slapstick dissonance & melodic Western-like gushing, plus a whole lot more in-between the two.
It’s a pacy soundtrack, that tends to flick (or is that ‘Flik’?) between comic & sensitive nuances by the second. If you can keep up, there’s much to enjoy. Music accompanying the sections of narrative relating to the ant colony contains a likeably varied array of thematic material, a major feature of the more general ‘ant’ underscoring being a pentatonic five-note scale, which I hesitate to say, creates key signatures that sound astonishingly ant-like (!), giving the distinct impression of uncomplicated yet somehow dutiful characters. Again to Newman’s credit, the soundtrack always feels like the outdoors. You can almost breathe the lazy spring air wafting through the dandelions of Ant Island as you listen, I kid you not.
Tracks on the CD relating to the main supporting characters of Francis, Slim, Tuck & Roll & the other pitiful clownish failures make for a welcome contrast with their upbeat circus-themed stylistics, while the Kevin Spacey-and-his-jerkish-grasshopper-buddies motif is fun with an appropriate measure of menace. My favourite theme, however, is a pacy & aggressive action melody which occurs three or four timesin the movie (heard firstin the track ‘Red Alert’), which is just fantastic, because it apparently signifies nothing more than instancesin which ‘every character onscreen runs aroundin a panicin all directions!’ Top stuff.
It's a must for all you Disney fans of the hit pixel movie - By: christopher_brannon@hotmail.com, 04 Nov 2001 This is one of the best soundtrack cd's around although disney never created the traditional songs throughout the movie. Its a testament to the lavish score that accompanies the brilliantly animated film. My particular favourites, where the Randy Newamn end title track The time of your life & the opening siganture tune. thers the obviouse annoying short insegnifigant tracks lasting a few minutes that you don't tend to notice but there are some suprises .All that i can say other than that is buy it
