Antz (1998)

It's divisive. Only 61% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics rated it higher at 82%, but audiences were less impressed.

A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army. Wikipedia ↗

Antz is a 1998 American animated comedy produced by DreamWorks Animation, the studio's first animated feature. Woody Allen voices Z-4195, a neurotic worker ant in a massive colony who feels insignificant among millions of identical drones. When Z inadvertently becomes a war hero and falls for Princess Bala, voiced by Sharon Stone, he exposes a secret plot by the militaristic General Mandible, voiced by Gene Hackman, to drown the worker ants and create a new colony of soldiers.

Antz was released just weeks before Pixar's similarly premised A Bug's Life, a timing collision that fueled the most discussed rivalry in animation history. The film's humor was distinctly more adult and Woody Allen-esque than typical animated fare, with Allen's trademark neurotic dialogue applied to an ant's existential crisis about conformity and individualism. Antz earned $171 million worldwide on a $42 million budget.