A Bug's Life, officially trademarked as a bug's life, is a 1998 computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on November 25, 1998, in Australia on December 26, 1998 and in the United Kingdom on February 5, 1999. A Bug's Life was the second Disney / Pixar feature film. It tells the tale of an oddball individualist ant who hires what he thinks are "warrior bugs" — actually circus performers — to fight off greedy grasshoppers. The film was directed by John Lasseter and is also the last film appearances of Madeline Kahn and Roddy McDowell. The story of A Bug's Life is a parody of Aesop's fable of The Ant and the Grasshopper. It is similar to the comedy Three Amigos, which is about out-of-work actors defending a town while thinking they're merely giving a performance. It also gives an obvious nod to Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as well as its Hollywood remake, The Magnificent Seven), which is about Japanese villagers hiring a group of swordsmen to fight off rampaging bandits. Reviews for A Bug's Life were overwhelmingly positive at the time of the film's release. Every season, a colony of ants are expected