The ant bully
One drop in Lucas’ gigantic human ear and he is instantly shrunken down to ant size and taken deep below the ant hill to stand trial. The magic potion that Wizard Ant Zoc (Nicolas Cage) has long been working on is finally finished. They’re getting mighty tired of having their homes trampled by Lucas The Destroyer. In turn, Lucas delights in destroying ant hills in his yard - venting his frustration on the defenseless mounds of dirt and their tiny inhabitants by kicking them, stomping them and squirting them with the garden hose.īut, unbeknownst to Lucas, there is a whole world alive and busy just underneath his feet, and what he sees as “just a bunch of stupid ants” are actually members of a complex society, with names and relationships, responsibilities and emotions. To make matters worse, Lucas has become the number one target of neighborhood bully Steve, who never misses an opportunity to push him around. Meanwhile, his loving but kinda kooky grandmother Mommo (Lily Tomlin) spends all her time trying to protect the family from those space aliens she’s been reading about in the grocery store magazines. He gets nothing but grief from his teenage sister, Tiffany (Allison Mack), and not a whole lot of attention lately from his parents (Cheri Oteri and Larry Miller), who are busy planning their big anniversary weekend trip to Puerto Vallarta. Recently moved to a new city with his family, he hasn’t made a single friend. Poor 10-year-old Lucas Nickle (Zach Tyler Eisen) can’t get a break.