A Bug's Life (1998)

Most people think so. 80% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 85%.

On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper. Wikipedia ↗

A Bug's Life is a 1998 American animated comedy produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by John Lasseter. The film follows Flik, an inventive but accident-prone ant voiced by Dave Foley, whose colony is oppressed by a gang of grasshoppers led by the fearsome Hopper, voiced by Kevin Spacey. When Flik accidentally destroys the food offering that buys the colony's seasonal protection from the grasshoppers, he sets out to find warrior bugs to defend the colony and recruits what he believes is a band of tough mercenaries — who are actually a troupe of circus performers recently fired from P.T.

Flea's circus. A Bug's Life was Pixar's second feature and the first to face direct competition — DreamWorks released the similarly themed ant film Antz just weeks earlier in what was widely reported as a personal rivalry between Jeffrey Katzenberg and Disney. The film's miniature perspective, presenting the world from an insect's viewpoint where raindrops are missiles and a bird is a terrifying predator, was realized with stunning visual detail.

Kevin Spacey's Hopper was one of Pixar's most effective villains, his casual cruelty and intelligence making him genuinely menacing. A Bug's Life earned $363 million worldwide.