The first of three Hollywood bug flicks this year, this delightful film comes like a gust of fresh air in a packed local. Features stellar voices and cutting edge computer animation. The plot is strangely reminiscent of Woody Allen's 1971 film Banannas where his nebbish character leads a revolution in South America. Here the master of satire voices a timid ant, Zee, in search of individuality in a subterranean ant colony bang in the middle of New York's Central Park.

He falls in love with the colony's ant princess Bala (voiced by Sharon Stone) before setting out with her for ant paradise, Antopia.

Sylvester Stallone, then a struggling actor played a Manhattan mugger in Banannas, is here reunited with Allen voicing a Soldier Ant. Gene Hackman voices the Patton-like villain General Mandible, plotting the destruction of the colony.

With all the action-emotion-special FX ingredients of a live action film, this toon is definitely a must-see.

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PAULIE

Lassie with wings. Another heartwarming film from Spielberg's Dreamworks, Paulie features a talking parrot with a thick Brooklyn accent (voiced by Jay Mohr) in search of his owner, a cherubic little girl whose stutter he helped overcome. Along the way he encounters a kindly widow (Gena Rowlands), a thief (Jay Mohr again) and a Mexican immigrant (Cheech Marin). He is finally caged in an animal research facility headed by slimy scientist Bruce Davison. Here, kindly Russian immigrant and janitor Tony Shalhoub frees the bird and takes it on its quest for its owner. But in one glaring error, director John Roberts never explains how the parrot with its salubrious small town upbringing picked up its thick Brooklyn accent.

Highly recommended if you're sick of guns and violence.Regal

OUT OF SIGHT

This one's about a strange love affair between a Deputy Federal Marshal Jennifer Lopez and down and out bank robber George Clooney. Lopez is abducted by Clooney and his cohort VingRhames when she attempts to foil his jailbreak. Locked in the boot of a moving car, the duo begin their strange on-off relationship with Lopez having to choose between bedding Clooney or drawing a bead on him.

This interesting crime caper is streaked with black humour and some hilarious one-liners. Director Steven Sonderbergh intersperses the fairly engrossing narrative with flashbacks. Current Batman Clooney of the enormous jawline fame is passable as are the rest of the cast. Michael Keaton (the ex-Batman) and Samuel L Jackson pop in for cameos. Watch it if you liked Pulp Fiction.

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DANCE WITH ME

This movie could be Flashdance, Dirty Dancing or one of those countless dance theme pictures, but with a Latino beat. Chayanne, the Puerto Rican star with the lyrical legs, plays a young Cuban who sets out to Houston to meet his long-separated father Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson, a burned out dancer now runs a small time dance studio and Chayanne turns up as a perfect stranger towork here. Vanessa Williams is a faded dance star in the same studio making a grab for the World Open Dance Competition in Las Vegas. After the usual rounds of tears and fears, the duo team up for the big night. No prizes for guessing who the winning couple are. Strictly for dance freaks.

Sterling, Chandan (Juhu)