A Bug's Life Movie Plot:
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Much to the surprise of Princess Atta and the rest of the ant colony, Flik made good on his word and returned with other bugs who would help them fight the tyranny of the grasshoppers. The circus troupe and Flik are given the hero's welcome.
However, the circus bugs only then realize why they're there. Unfortunately, Princess Atta almost overhears the conversation between Flik and the troupe as they discuss their mistake and she's suspicious.
In A Bug's Life movie, Princess Atta's suspicions are soon laid to rest when her younger sister, Princess Dot gets into trouble. The circus bugs band together with Flik to rescue Princess Dot from a hungry bird. This part of the movie is really neat to see the little bird from the perspective of an ant. It's a thrilling chase and rescue scene. Maybe these circus bugs CAN help after all!
Knowing he couldn't rely on the circus bugs to come through for the colony, Flik had to come up with a different plan to defeat the grasshoppers. Dot's rescue from the bird gave him an idea for another invention: Why not build a fake bird to swoop down and "attack" the grasshoppers when they return for their food? Flik knows that Hopper is terribly afraid of birds after Hopper was nearly eaten by one in the past.
The ants like Flik's idea and they put off food gathering and set out to create a realistic looking bird that can be steered by some ants from the inside. The ants hoist the fake bird up into a tree hole, poised and ready to "fly" when the time was right.
In the meantime at the grasshoppers' hideout inside an old sombrero somewhere in the desert, Hopper's brother Molt tries to talk Hopper out of going back to Ant Island to get their food. He felt comfortable where he was and didn't think it was worth it to return. Hopper got hopping mad at Molt's suggestion saying that it was thousands of ants against their small group and they had to keep those ants in line or they would run them out of the colony for good. And with that, they begin their flight back in A Bug's Life.
Back at the colony, PT Flea comes by with his caravan and finds his circus troupe. Flik's deception is discovered and Princess Atta, feeling betrayed and following her duty, banishes Flik. With nowhere else to go, Flik joins in with the circus caravan feeling worse than ever. He tried so hard to do the right thing to save the colony and he had the best intentions all along.
After the circus troupe leaves, the grasshoppers arrive in A Bug's Life movie. Hopper is very angry that there is so little food in the offering and he and his gang take over the anthill and demand that all the food on the island be collected.
While this is going on, little Dot overhears a plot to kill the Queen after the food has been collected. She rushes out and catches up to the circus caravan and tells Flik the grasshoppers' plan and talks them into returning to help.
While there is mayhem below, Flik, Dot and the circus bugs get the fake bird to launch and it succeeds in scaring the grasshoppers. The gang is almost ready to abandon the colony when PT flea catches the bird on fire and the grasshoppers discover it's not real. Enraged, Hoppers sets the crazy grasshopper Thumper on Flik, injuring him.
But Flik manages to rally the colony of ants saying, "Ants don't serve grasshoppers! It's you who need us! We're a lot stronger than you say we are...and you know it, don't you?"
Hopper knows this is true in A Bug's Life, and he knows he is defeated when he sees the looks of determination in all the ants' faces. They know they will not stand for this oppression any longer. The ants swarm the grasshoppers, driving them out. It starts to rain, causing panic with the ants as enormous raindrops come down like bombs onto the dry ground.
Hopper grabs Flik to get his revenge on him, but Princess Atta rescues him. With some clever thinking on Flik's part, Hopper is lured near a nest and the bird picks up Hopper and feeds him to her chicks.
At the end of A Bug's Life movie, all the ants begin using Flik's grass seed harvesting invention. Atta becomes the queen and she chooses Flik as her mate. After much celebrating, the circus troupe bids farewell, but not before Heimlich, the enormously fat caterpillar, changes into a butterfly with wings far too small.
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