Zoc is unsure as to how anything gets accomplished in Lucas' world, but then sympathizes with him when they both admit that they both used to act without thinking. Zoc explains that ants work for the benefit of the colony, whilst Lucas states that most humans work for personal gain. Afterwards, they discuss their differences. Zoc witnesses the event and realizes what he done and how much Hova cares about Lucas, so he frees him to make up for his selfishness. Once she finds him, he is swallowed by a frog. He helps them for getting the food and angrily lashed him out for been selfish and jealous of him, and goes out to look for Lucas included Kreela and Fugax leaving Zoc alone in the cave. Hearing what happened, Hova gets angry with Zoc scolding him for banishing Lucas from the ant colony and even that he did not put them in danger. When Zoc finds out that Lucas put Hova in possible danger, he accuses him of further treachery, and tells him that he refuses to give him the antidote, causing him to run away in fright. Tiffany then enters the kitchen, and attacks Lucas and company where it flees. Lucas, Hova, Fugax, and Kreela return to his house, where Lucas tries to cancel Beals' contract, but accidentally calls a pizzeria instead. Lucas is shown a painting that depicts the Great Ant Mother and the exterminator, and is told that the Great Ant Mother will return and shower the ants with honeydew, while the Cloud-Breather will spell destruction for all of them. This earns him the admiration of all the ants except Zoc. Lucas finds a firecracker discarded by Steve and uses it to scare the wasps away. The ants are later attacked by tarantula hawks. Hova volunteers to train Lucas alongside her friends Kreela and Fugax, much to Zoc's mortification, and they both learn about the differences between ants and humans. Zoc insists that he should be studied then eaten, but he is overruled by the Queen, who sentences him to hard labor. Later that night, Zoc and a small troop of ants pour the potion into his ear Lucas wakes up and discovers that he is shrunk, and naked and is carried to the anthill for the court. The local exterminator, Stan Beals, convinces Lucas to sign a contract to kill the vermin. The leaders of the colony decide to use a potion Zoc has recently created to shrink Lucas down to ant size. Hova tries to communicate to him, but she is almost crushed before being saved by Zoc. He drops his gun on the grass, and kicks the anthill with one of his sneakers, sending the colony flying into the grass. His girlfriend Hova, a nurse ant who is fascinated by humans, attempts to communicate with Lucas. One ant, Zoc, an eccentric sorcerer, tries to fight back. Neglected by his family and tormented by a local bully named Steve and his friends, Lucas takes out his frustration on an anthill and attacks it with a squirt gun, terrifying the colony. Lonely 10-year-old Lucas Nickle is left with his older sister, Tiffany, and his grandmother, when his parents go to Puerto Vallarta. The movie was also a box-office disappointment, grossing $55.2 million against its $50 million budget. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise aimed at the vocal performances, animation, and humor, but criticism for its dialogue and script, its lack of faithfulness to the source material and the execution of its premise. It was also the last film role by Ricardo Montalbán, before his death on January 14, 2009. Shortly before its release, most of the DNA employees were laid off and the studio was closed (as the result of their second and final film to be made after Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius). After being shrunk by Zoc, Lucas Nickle must join forces with his new friends to defeat Stan Beals, an exterminator who threatens their colony. He attacks the nearby ant colony out of frustration, but Zoc, a wizard ant, creates a potion to shrink Lucas. Set in suburban Las Vegas, The Ant Bully follows Lucas Nickle, a 10-year-old destructive boy who is neglected by his family and bullied by Steve and his friends. Starring the voices of Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Regina King, Bruce Campbell and Lily Tomlin, it was produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone, Davis and Keith Alcorn's DNA Productions, and Legendary Pictures in their first animated film, and distributed by Warner Bros. Davis and based on the 1999 children's book of the same name by John Nickle. The Ant Bully is a 2006 American computer-animated fantasy adventure comedy film written and directed by John A.
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