A colony of ants persuades a motley crew of insects to help fend off a band of marauding grasshoppers in this 1998 animated movie full of adventure, spectacle, light romance, and the kind of suspense that doesn’t require an unpredictable outcome to make your spine tingle. Directed by John Lasseter (Toy Story) and written by Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw, and Toy Story cowriter Andrew Stanton; with a score by Randy Newman and the voices of Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere, Phyllis Diller, Richard Kind, and David Hyde Pierce.