Ant-sized heist movie where the stakes are literally crumbs.
Can an ant salvage his reputation? A rough-voiced sergeAnt orders the ant colony to return with food or don't come back. The tough-sounding fast-talking Ray enlists Lalo, a Mexican immigrAnt, to follow. They raid a picnic for bits of bologna; then Ray tries to lead them back to the hill, where his reputation is none too hot. He gets the pair into danger more than once - all from an ant's eye view. After a deluge, they're back at the hill without any food. Go home defeated? Try again? Maybe Lalo has an idea.
Direction
Siceloff's ant-eye POV is genuinely disorienting and brilliant.
Sound
Crowder's gravel-voiced Ray sounds like a broken air conditioner.
Director
Mary Siceloff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1996 short emerged during California's Proposition 187 era, making Lalo's arc quietly political.
Lombardo Boyar later voiced Spanish Buzz in Toy Story 3—same energy, bigger budget.
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