A Bug's Life is tedious, predictable, boring, ugly and unfunny.
This movie has a lot of genius to it, and it is also more poignant, and makes people think, even if a little bit.
However, I would like to add a third, brilliant movie into the mix - 'AntZ'.
I think it's 'Ant Z', meaning 'The Ant named Z', but because 'Z' is almost 'S', it works as a plural for 'Ant', so it can also be read as 'Ants'.
I think 'AntZ' flows better, its Rambo parody is top notch, and its atmosphere is intense and exciting. It also has an amazing political poignancy and the references are very well done. It's also one of the first rendered movies that showed what computers can do, and it does the Koyaanisqatsi-like thing of showing us our world from a very different perspective, so when a plastic bag becomes a force field, and a magnifying glass your typical, believable UFO, you can't help rolling over with laughter.
So, 'A Bug's Life' is a miserable mess I'd rather not watch again, Chicken Run is a fema-fascist, nonsensical, but intense experience with a lot of poignancy that may affect people positively and open them to think about what we consider 'normal' in this crazy world, 'AntZ' tops both with its political parodying with Woody Allen's perfect neurosis and also a very signifigant, important message about how governments of the world treat people and label and stigmatise us and if you don't fit the norm, you are seen as weirdo that has to be gotten rid of.
So, neither, I choose 'AntZ'.
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