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The second computer animated ant film of the season is said to be head and thorax above its predecessor, Antz . Aimed at a slightly younger audience, the film bristles with buggy life and packs in the "gee-whiz moments" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). The critics' one gripe is that there's almost too much happening at once on-screen: It's "so dense with characters and illustrative detail that it nearly chokes on its own banquet" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Visit the Web site of Pixar, this film's animation studio.)
There were moments of deviation--the bloomer costume, for example, with full trousers showing below short skirts--but they never lasted long.
In the weirdest bit, a novelist recreates the Gospels' most dramatic moments and recounts his own meeting with the son of God: He was suddenly transported to Galilee, where Jesus cured his cancer and forgave his sins.
The exhibition downstairs, which deals with the history of the Carpathian Basin from prehistoric times right up to the Conquest of 896, has some good moments, particularly when covering the Roman period (it’s worthwhile buying a copy of the English/German guide book, which costs only a few forints).
But at crucial moments in these movies the vampire always seems to forget he has these powers and ends up wrestling around on the floor of a dusty convent or abandoned factory with the earth-bound hero.