That ant is a hero. His only thought was protecting the kids. He went in there knowing that he didn’t stand a chance alone with no regard for his own life. This is a very powerful scene.
Anty was the greatest ant that ever lived, he got them closer to their home, closer to their dog, he was the hero of this film, he stood up for his friends and he saved their lives, the horrible scorpion did nothing worth mentioning but Anty gave everything he had for his new found friends, what a brave special creature that cared, I recently revisited this classic film and Anty really moved me to tears, sad to see him go but proud and thankful for what he did for them, its a beautiful thing ❤
I'm 40 years old...first saw this movie when I was 8, and still love it. And of course still get choked up when I see this. Anty won us over with his friendliness and kind heart and he may be fictional...but what is not fictional is his embodiment of the loyalty of millions of animals and our pets everywhere who would do the same for us in a heartbeat, without hesitation, if they had to. We don't deserve animals. RIP "Anty".
I wouldn't pay him any mind. Some people have a mindset that we have to act based on our age or what they would expect to see. Personality and age are two different human traits, they should never be treated the same thing.
I don't care what people say, this makes me cry every time! Seeing a faithful pet die does that to me - and this movie made me hate scorpions even more!
I couldn’t agree more, AlectheBEenthusiast2005. I can’t imagine how I would’ve felt if I had an ant🐜for a pet and it sacrificed its own life just to save me. Damn that scorpion🦂monster!
@@ElliottFeiertag As you can see, I am AlectheBEenthusiast2005. I got a new phone because my old one stopped working. But I hope that scorpion died from the injuries inflicted on it.
@Travis Wolken I agree, it was very sad how Anty died and the only two reasons he died was because he was just a baby ant and he was fighting the scorpion alone where if there was an army of ants, that scorpion would have died. I also love how Anty put his antenna on Ron's back like he was saying "Good Luck on the rest of your journey, I hope you get home soon" since I'm sure Anty knew they were trying to get home and he was helping them.
@@Travisvader22 I agree, it was very sad especially since a lot of people have said that Anty died as a hero. However, if Anty never died from the scorpion, I wonder if he would have died in the lawnmower scene especially since the four kids were running away fast and I'm sure Anty wouldn't of been able to keep up with them but soon got sucked into the lawnmower himself. Or if Anty never died at all, I wonder if he would sooner or later have gone back to his home because it was Quark the dog who got the kids out of the backyard and inside the house especially when Anty helped give them a lift more than halfway across the backyard, they were telling him he can go home but he refused either because he was missing them or felt he should stay with them for protection where it's also unknown if he would have climbed onto Quark's fur just to be with the kids.
I reckon if there was a happier ending for Anty, it would have ended with the ants from his colony arriving in time to attack the scorpion preventing it from killing Anty, and have it retreat due to injuries and being outnumbered, and Anty’s family were reunited, and then Anty and the kids part ways. But I guess the movie does a good job with the sad ending, because it shows us how we can lose the ones that mean a lot to us, also that nature can be brutal.
@@tomcameron1770 That would have been great except Anty seemed like he was the only one who was feeling close to the kids but, his colony doesn't know the kids where I would assume his colony would tell him in their ant language to run away and not fight. But yes, maybe in Anty's ant language he could tell his colony that he's helping kids return home and saving them from danger where the colony helps and kills the scorpion and then the kids decide not to sleep in the lego at night (they could be scared if another insect could capture them since they ran away from a butterfly and Nick got captured by a honeybee) and continue their journey home while riding Anty especially if they never slept at night, they probably would have made it back to the house before the sun came up where Anty and his colony climb up the back door stairs and under the back door and the kids get Quark's attention who bark at Wayne and Diane showing that the kids are standing in front of him and Wayne then returns the kids to normal size. Perhaps if they continued the journey back to the house instead of sleeping, they would have not had to run into the danger of the lawnmower but, I do wonder if Anty and his colony never died if they would have died in the lawnmower and if the scorpion was still in the backyard, I wonder if it died in the lawnmower.
@@greywillowgaming2366 to be fair what would you do in the scenario of a humongous scorpion that could kill you with one swipe? I doubt you’d not hesitate for a bot, besides they had to grab that stuff to throw it at them!
This was pretty heavy stuff for a kid's film. Anty died a horrible death. But he was a hero who sacrificed his life for friends he barely knew. Brave little ant
Never noticed it when I was young, but watching it back now, I've just noticed that when the kids began fighting the scorpion back, it was a stick thrown by Ron that fatally wounded the scorpion... Sadly it was too late for Anty, but - fittingly, after Anty saved Ron's life - Ron avenged Anty's death
The stop motion effects are still amazing and worthy of being in any Ray Harryhausen movie. Still gets me every time. I remember that scorpion terrifying me as a kid.
@@edithboozy1000 Take a picture, move the model slightly, take another picture, etc. Put them all together to make a moving image. Fell out of popularity with the rise of CG, and is now used as its own style, as opposed to a standard visual effect. Check out stuff like Kubo And The Two Strings, Fantastic Mr Fox, Coraline, etc. for more modern examples (tho Mr Fox is using an older style cause it's trying to recreate a certain time period)
This scene traumatized me when I was a kid. I was 13 at the time. I'm 42 now. I found the DVD at a dollar tree one day last year and I still didn't buy it because of this scene 😭😭😭😭
Dude I'm so glad it's not just me. I think I was like 8 when I saw this.(36 now) I tried watching it a few years back and damn if I didn't cry AGAIN..fuck this scene..I haven't watched it since and if I ever do again, I know where the fast forward button is 😅
Makes you wonder if Anty was exiled from his colony so he saw the children as his new one. This makes it sadder but content knowing he died saving them
And the fact that he was a little sexist shown when he was teasing Amy for her gender in the group soon he does show a human side when he helped save her from dying after she almost drowned
They had different plans for Antie that didn’t involve killing it. After doing scenes with Antie, production got very annoyed with its wonky mechanics in certain scenes that it tired them out and that’s where they decided to kill him off.
@@BardTheDragonProductions A novelization is a book specifically made to cash in on the movie. Not all the time, but sometimes, they often use pieces of the unused script. In this case, the Ant survives rather than getting killed by the scorpion.
I feel bad for Antie, he was only a baby, which makes it even more heartbreaking, he had so much in his life and it was taken away from him. He sacrificed himself to save his friends, the Thompsons and the Szalinskis.
@GiovanyulaniPlays That's right. From 2:10-2:11, Anty was probably thinking "oh no, my friends are in danger, I have to go save them." Then when he died and put his antenna on Ron, he was probably thinking and saying to Ron, "it was nice meeting you all, and Good Luck on the rest of your journey, I hope you make it home soon."
@@ghostface831 Yes, the scorpion was probably thinking something like that to Ron. (The confusing thing is how and why a scorpion was in their backyard where I can only guess that someone had a scorpion for a pet and it either escaped or the person let it go and it was making it's way back through the backyard going back to Texas where scorpions live and ended up seeing the kids and after it ran away, it must have continued it's journey to get back to Texas).
There were 2 other ideas for the scorpion outcome. 1. At first they had thought of having Anty come after the scorpion, bite it and fling far away to show Anty's strength. Also that Anty would come back to the house with them. Wayne would make the kids and Anty huge and Wayne would show a giant Anty to the scientists at the lab as proof that his machine works which would stun them. But that idea seemed too ridiculous and out there. 2. The next idea they had was that when Anty came to their rescue, he was supposed to bring his whole family with him. All the ants would attack the scorpion together. (Ants are powerful when there's many of them). They would all climb on the scorpion, bite it and rip it apart. The ants were then supposed to leave carrying the pieces of the scorpion away in their jaws. Anty was supposed to look back and to bid farewell to the kids for good and then leave with the others. The kids would happily wave goodbye. But that idea was also rejected because they felt it would be a little too gross and unsettling for younger viewers. Plus, it would've been too expensive to make.
Seeing the scorpion in pieces is more scaring than watching a helpless Anty be mercilessly executed while writhing in pain after trying to save our protagonists? Mmk
At one point it shows Anty succumbing to the venom. The very next shot Ron, whom Anty saved, delivers an offensive blow to the scorpion. It screams in agony as a result. In a way, Ron kind of avenged his savior. Powerful scene in one of my favorite films ever.
@@SUMITYADAV-ez7tb It's called "Honey I Shrunk the Kids". It's a while since I saw it, but I remember it well. Most of the film is more comedy/family entertainment. It's pretty light-hearted really, but with a few scares along the way. This scene stands out like a sore thumb.
You have to admit, the fight between the scorpion and the ant is really well-animated. They did a good job at making these proportionately large insects scary.The stop-motion animation is Ray Harryhausen-level in my opinion.
This movie can never be remade; it is too memorable and timeless. Even old films attempted such mass production for not only effects, but props and sets; they made it look realistic. Nowadays its all highly-glossed, rubbery CGI; it makes me feel like I am watching a video game.
I remember seeing this in the theater as a ten year-old child, and I was crying my eyes out when the ant died. One of the saddest movie deaths ever seen, since he was just a baby who fought to protect his friends. My only comfort came later in that the original screenplay had the ant survive and live for Wayne to enlarge him as proof that his machine worked, and became part of the family. If only that's how it could've been in the film, too...
What a lot of people don’t comment on is just how realistic they made the scorpion. Makes it even scarier, really. Plus, don’t forget who was part of the direction staff: Brian Yuzna. Yeah. The same guy who brought us the delightfully 🤬ED up Society just a few years earlier.
Anty sacrificed his life to save those kids. That is the most scariest scene in this whole movie. My mom could never watch this scene because she hates scorpions. With great victory, comes great sacrifice. I never heard of an ant that would be so brave to face a scorpion and save his friends, even though he lost his own life.
I also liked how Anty put his antenna around Ron right before he died. When Ron touched him, it’s like he was saying thank you. I hope that scorpion died, too.
I bet you twenty bucks Nick found the Scorpion and give it to Russ and he's crushed it and said "that's for Auntie you shitt" then Nick says "you could have used that as fishing bait"
a big red/orange scorpion like that’s closest irl equivalent in america would be the bark scorpion 🦂.... not something a kid should be handling on their own. they are very poisonous ☠️
Antie probably didn't call for a group of soldier ants from his colony and it was probably way too far for him to do it anyway so he just attacked the scorpion by himself to save them *(technically a she but you get the idea)*
@@bluesky_cupy5158 i was always thinking maybe Antie was scared that if she calls for help the other Ants of her colony would attack the kids too cause probably the ants would see the kids also as "danger"
Ants don't have some kind of hive mind or anything, they just instinctively do their own individual thing. There can be millions or billions of ants in a colony and every day thousands of them would die or get lost so nobody would ever go looking for a single missing ant. When they die they release a pheromone which can alert nearby ants that there is danger but it has limited range and isn't always reliably directional.
First time I saw this, I noticed that after the Ant got the Scorpion's attention off the kids, he kinda growled as it were, like, "Okay, you wanna fight, come on and let's do this." That said I was also irritated at the kids for not jumping in to help until it was too late.
Two things. 1. The ant dying sad as it was didn't get to me. What got to me, what really scared me and made me sad were the terrified screams it made before the Scorpion stung Antie. Whoever was in charge of sound, as inaccurate as the sounds are, did a damn good job making me feel bad that an Ant was going to die. 2. This whole scene, is one of the moments that remind any adult rewatching this, that the person who wrote the script for this was the same guy that Directed Re-Animator. He made shit scary even beyond Disney standards.
@@thiagolarronda8858 Wait a couple more years. If you think this is scary, this is how far one can go with a kid's movie in the 80s. How far one can go with a PG rating before it could be PG-13 or R. The guys that wrote the script to this, were the creators of a very popular dark comedy horror series called Re-Animator. I won't give out too many details, both because that may traumatize you further and I don't want to spoil anything, but it's about a man who discovers a way to bring dead people back to life, however the means make them incredibly violent. He's basically what would happen if Wayne Szalinski went mad and had no lovable traits whatsoever. No family to support, no dog to love. Just him and his experiments and whoever he can get on his side with them.
Sad as Anty's death was, when the kids hit back at the scorpion, I like the fact that it was the stick thrown by Ron that fatally wounded the scorpion... Anty saved his life, but fittingly Ron avenged Anty's death
This part always made me really upset that Anty had died. He was a true hero for saving them from the Scorpion. Those sounds that Anty made from being attacked by the Scorpion always made me tear up.😢
Yeah why did they just help Anty before the stupid scorpion grabbed Anty with his claw?! Because if they did Anty would survive and the scorpion would die!
@nickzilla20 I wondered that too since scorpions are usually found in Texas in deserts where I can only guess someone took a trip to Texas capturing that scorpion as a pet and brought it home with them to California (where this movie takes place) and that scorpion escaped or the person let it go and it was making it's way back to Texas cutting through the backyard and ended up seeing the kids and after it walked away, it continued on it's journey to Texas leaving the backyard.
Having not grown up anywhere near a desert or jungle, this was my introduction to scorpions and I've been fascinated with them ever since. I never realized this particular sucker had such a fat tail.
@@thejay3804 That's what I was thinking! Roaches, more ants, a grasshopper. I'm fascinated by this whole movie. Being shrunk and seeing bugs and the world at that size really REALLY intrigues me.
After the kids drive the scorpion off and find Anty it's like he's lifting his head looking at all of the kids to see if they're all ok. The death of Artax didn't even affect me this much.
Me to. At first he growls at the scorpion thinking he's going to be ok but once he's picked up he's like screaming and crying for help. I hate this movie.
I remember this movie aired on Cartoon Network back in 2007 or 8 when I was little and the scorpion attacking the ant and the ant dying scarred me and got stuck in my head for a bit that I think I refused to watch the rest of the movie when it went to commercial. Still haven't finished it to this day.
I haven't seen this in over 30 years, and this scene hits much harder now than it did when I first saw this when I was 3. Hearing Antie screaming before being stung is almost hard to listen to. He's practically screaming for his life.
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RIP Anty, the bravest ant that ever was.
The Bravest ant he says.
I know I wish we could have made some Happy Feet slippers of him and the Scorpion
Too😥😥😥
I think I cried over this part of the movie T_T
I hope that God his colony found at scorpion it butchered it
I solute him
People cried over Tony Strak’s death
Real men cried over anty death
Strak? Did you mean Stark?
Tony Stank
I cried over Ned Stark 's Death
Robb Stark also 🥲
❤
TONY STORK 💀
That ant is a hero. His only thought was protecting the kids. He went in there knowing that he didn’t stand a chance alone with no regard for his own life. This is a very powerful scene.
He still tried to get back up and fight for them after he was stung. That fucking ant. I swear. I cry every time.
I always used to give ants oatmeal cookies because of this
This shit still gets me every time. Im a grown ass man now and I can't hold back the tears
Same here 😂
Anty was the greatest ant that ever lived, he got them closer to their home, closer to their dog, he was the hero of this film, he stood up for his friends and he saved their lives, the horrible scorpion did nothing worth mentioning but Anty gave everything he had for his new found friends, what a brave special creature that cared, I recently revisited this classic film and Anty really moved me to tears, sad to see him go but proud and thankful for what he did for them, its a beautiful thing ❤
Can you pls tell me the movie name
@@huzaifaahmed5442Honey I shrunk the kids
I'm 40 years old...first saw this movie when I was 8, and still love it. And of course still get choked up when I see this. Anty won us over with his friendliness and kind heart and he may be fictional...but what is not fictional is his embodiment of the loyalty of millions of animals and our pets everywhere who would do the same for us in a heartbeat, without hesitation, if they had to. We don't deserve animals. RIP "Anty".
40 years old? You sure don’t act like it!
@@borderland7504 explain what you mean by that? I'm not following.
I wouldn't pay him any mind. Some people have a mindset that we have to act based on our age or what they would expect to see. Personality and age are two different human traits, they should never be treated the same thing.
Movie name plz
Frank Walker. 😮.
I don't care what people say, this makes me cry every time! Seeing a faithful pet die does that to me - and this movie made me hate scorpions even more!
I agree. It's as sad as Sam's death in I Am Legend.
Same
Why hate scorpions at all
Scorpions are nasty!
Same 😭😭😭
Anyone who doesn’t cry when they watch this is crazy
First time I ever cried watching a movie
Im watching this movie and im crying
R.I.P ant
I couldn’t agree more, AlectheBEenthusiast2005. I can’t imagine how I would’ve felt if I had an ant🐜for a pet and it sacrificed its own life just to save me. Damn that scorpion🦂monster!
@@ElliottFeiertag As you can see, I am AlectheBEenthusiast2005. I got a new phone because my old one stopped working. But I hope that scorpion died from the injuries inflicted on it.
Oh, sorry, Alec Sicurella. My mistake. And, yes, I hope that nasty scorpion suffers some heavy duty pain after killing poor little Anty🐜!
Poor anty R.I.P. he died protecting the kids what a hero.
@Travis Wolken I agree, it was very sad how Anty died and the only two reasons he died was because he was just a baby ant and he was fighting the scorpion alone where if there was an army of ants, that scorpion would have died. I also love how Anty put his antenna on Ron's back like he was saying "Good Luck on the rest of your journey, I hope you get home soon" since I'm sure Anty knew they were trying to get home and he was helping them.
@@afriendofbean it still makes me cry so hard
@@Travisvader22 I agree, it was very sad especially since a lot of people have said that Anty died as a hero. However, if Anty never died from the scorpion, I wonder if he would have died in the lawnmower scene especially since the four kids were running away fast and I'm sure Anty wouldn't of been able to keep up with them but soon got sucked into the lawnmower himself. Or if Anty never died at all, I wonder if he would sooner or later have gone back to his home because it was Quark the dog who got the kids out of the backyard and inside the house especially when Anty helped give them a lift more than halfway across the backyard, they were telling him he can go home but he refused either because he was missing them or felt he should stay with them for protection where it's also unknown if he would have climbed onto Quark's fur just to be with the kids.
I reckon if there was a happier ending for Anty, it would have ended with the ants from his colony arriving in time to attack the scorpion preventing it from killing Anty, and have it retreat due to injuries and being outnumbered, and Anty’s family were reunited, and then Anty and the kids part ways. But I guess the movie does a good job with the sad ending, because it shows us how we can lose the ones that mean a lot to us, also that nature can be brutal.
@@tomcameron1770 That would have been great except Anty seemed like he was the only one who was feeling close to the kids but, his colony doesn't know the kids where I would assume his colony would tell him in their ant language to run away and not fight. But yes, maybe in Anty's ant language he could tell his colony that he's helping kids return home and saving them from danger where the colony helps and kills the scorpion and then the kids decide not to sleep in the lego at night (they could be scared if another insect could capture them since they ran away from a butterfly and Nick got captured by a honeybee) and continue their journey home while riding Anty especially if they never slept at night, they probably would have made it back to the house before the sun came up where Anty and his colony climb up the back door stairs and under the back door and the kids get Quark's attention who bark at Wayne and Diane showing that the kids are standing in front of him and Wayne then returns the kids to normal size. Perhaps if they continued the journey back to the house instead of sleeping, they would have not had to run into the danger of the lawnmower but, I do wonder if Anty and his colony never died if they would have died in the lawnmower and if the scorpion was still in the backyard, I wonder if it died in the lawnmower.
"We gotta help him..." Literally waits till the scorpion almost tears him apart then helps
Literally... As soon as the scorpion grabbed him she said "now"
Right?! They literally waited til the scorpion grabbed and stung him THEN attacked the scorpion.
Lot of good that did.
@@greywillowgaming2366 to be fair what would you do in the scenario of a humongous scorpion that could kill you with one swipe? I doubt you’d not hesitate for a bot, besides they had to grab that stuff to throw it at them!
This was pretty heavy stuff for a kid's film. Anty died a horrible death. But he was a hero who sacrificed his life for friends he barely knew. Brave little ant
he was still in 1 piece so not that horrible, in reality ants would have eaten the micro kids in the first chance they had lol
Never noticed it when I was young, but watching it back now, I've just noticed that when the kids began fighting the scorpion back, it was a stick thrown by Ron that fatally wounded the scorpion... Sadly it was too late for Anty, but - fittingly, after Anty saved Ron's life - Ron avenged Anty's death
Died from a deadly poison sting
The stop motion effects are still amazing and worthy of being in any Ray Harryhausen movie. Still gets me every time. I remember that scorpion terrifying me as a kid.
What is stop motion?
@@edithboozy1000 Take a picture, move the model slightly, take another picture, etc. Put them all together to make a moving image. Fell out of popularity with the rise of CG, and is now used as its own style, as opposed to a standard visual effect.
Check out stuff like Kubo And The Two Strings, Fantastic Mr Fox, Coraline, etc. for more modern examples (tho Mr Fox is using an older style cause it's trying to recreate a certain time period)
@@Eidlones ty
This scene traumatized me when I was a kid. I was 13 at the time. I'm 42 now. I found the DVD at a dollar tree one day last year and I still didn't buy it because of this scene 😭😭😭😭
Movieman909 go get it
I got you, bro. I'm 35. Same.
Dude I'm so glad it's not just me. I think I was like 8 when I saw this.(36 now) I tried watching it a few years back and damn if I didn't cry AGAIN..fuck this scene..I haven't watched it since and if I ever do again, I know where the fast forward button is 😅
Whole generation of millenial's therapy bills started directly from this movie
Same, I saw this in theaters as a kid, and I just re watched this scene for the first time in 20 years, and it still hits so hard. F this movie.
For real that saddest shit ever; I welled up a little just now; poor little guy
Makes you wonder if Anty was exiled from his colony so he saw the children as his new one.
This makes it sadder but content knowing he died saving them
Jesus 😢
I like Ronald’s development in the movie, he really learns how to concern for others, including an ant. In fact, he is not bad in his deep down.
Yeah, I specifically love when he was the first to try and save Nick from the Lawn mower.
redeyedbandit1251 at first they didn’t like each other but they learn to work together if they want to get back to normal
Yami Givo I like them try to learn work together.
And the fact that he was a little sexist shown when he was teasing Amy for her gender in the group soon he does show a human side when he helped save her from dying after she almost drowned
Very true, but I hate how none of the other kids even give a shit about the ant.
I still can’t believe the movie directors killed off the best character in the whole movie
If it makes you feel better, Antie survives in the Novelization.
They had different plans for Antie that didn’t involve killing it. After doing scenes with Antie, production got very annoyed with its wonky mechanics in certain scenes that it tired them out and that’s where they decided to kill him off.
@@Shanethefilmmaker What’s that
@@BardTheDragonProductions A novelization is a book specifically made to cash in on the movie. Not all the time, but sometimes, they often use pieces of the unused script. In this case, the Ant survives rather than getting killed by the scorpion.
@@Shanethefilmmaker I wish that happened
I literally never killed an ant ever again because of this scene. 😭
Emily I love ants
they’re my favorite animals
AlectheBEenthusiast2005 insect 🐜
@@XG-OFFICIAL-59 he means he hasn't killed them "purposely" dude.
@@TheDarkarrow7 insect animal blah blah blah as you can see I am also Alec the be enthusiast 2005
I feel bad for Antie, he was only a baby, which makes it even more heartbreaking, he had so much in his life and it was taken away from him. He sacrificed himself to save his friends, the Thompsons and the Szalinskis.
@GiovanyulaniPlays That's right. From 2:10-2:11, Anty was probably thinking "oh no, my friends are in danger, I have to go save them." Then when he died and put his antenna on Ron, he was probably thinking and saying to Ron, "it was nice meeting you all, and Good Luck on the rest of your journey, I hope you make it home soon."
@@afriendofbean ron: RUSS HELP!!
amy: help him!
Ron: RUSS!!!
scorpion: c'mon kid get outta there!!
Russ: stay here!
Anty: i'm coming for you!
@@ghostface831 Yes, the scorpion was probably thinking something like that to Ron. (The confusing thing is how and why a scorpion was in their backyard where I can only guess that someone had a scorpion for a pet and it either escaped or the person let it go and it was making it's way back through the backyard going back to Texas where scorpions live and ended up seeing the kids and after it ran away, it must have continued it's journey to get back to Texas).
@@afriendofbeanIt was originally supposed to be a giant cockroach.
@@thejay3804 I didn't know that. At least a giant cockroach was used for "Honey We Shrunk Ourselves."
Yeah, now I remember my lifelong hatred of scorpions started with this scene. RIP Anty. *cries*
I love it how Anty was probably thinking from 2:10-2:11 something like "oh no, my friends are in danger I have to go help them."
I always cried watching this scene as a kid. I thought the ant was so cute! 😭
Same. He was my favorite character! I cried the rest of the movie and my mom tried to call me down but it was no use
That's because they are cute!
This made me cry and still does.
There were 2 other ideas for the scorpion outcome.
1. At first they had thought of having Anty come after the scorpion, bite it and fling far away to show Anty's strength. Also that Anty would come back to the house with them. Wayne would make the kids and Anty huge and Wayne would show a giant Anty to the scientists at the lab as proof that his machine works which would stun them. But that idea seemed too ridiculous and out there.
2. The next idea they had was that when Anty came to their rescue, he was supposed to bring his whole family with him. All the ants would attack the scorpion together. (Ants are powerful when there's many of them). They would all climb on the scorpion, bite it and rip it apart. The ants were then supposed to leave carrying the pieces of the scorpion away in their jaws. Anty was supposed to look back and to bid farewell to the kids for good and then leave with the others. The kids would happily wave goodbye. But that idea was also rejected because they felt it would be a little too gross and unsettling for younger viewers. Plus, it would've been too expensive to make.
I would’ve liked the first idea with the Ant flinging the scorpion far away a lot more than this
My idea was for the kids to tip the lego over and crush the scorpion.
No amount of money is too much to save the ant😢
@@iantaggart3064 Very smart idea, but the scorpion is bigger than the lego brick
Seeing the scorpion in pieces is more scaring than watching a helpless Anty be mercilessly executed while writhing in pain after trying to save our protagonists? Mmk
At one point it shows Anty succumbing to the venom. The very next shot Ron, whom Anty saved, delivers an offensive blow to the scorpion. It screams in agony as a result. In a way, Ron kind of avenged his savior. Powerful scene in one of my favorite films ever.
Such a great scene! Very powerful and sad. This is the scene I've always remembered the most from the film.
What is the name of this movie..
@@SUMITYADAV-ez7tb It's called "Honey I Shrunk the Kids". It's a while since I saw it, but I remember it well. Most of the film is more comedy/family entertainment. It's pretty light-hearted really, but with a few scares along the way. This scene stands out like a sore thumb.
@@EarlOfMaladyCrescent thanku so much..
I asked you the name of the film.
I cried so hard at this movie my mom tried to calm me down
The kids then grew up and stomped on every scorpion they found, in memory of Anty
You have to admit, the fight between the scorpion and the ant is really well-animated. They did a good job at making these proportionately large insects scary.The stop-motion animation is Ray Harryhausen-level in my opinion.
This movie can never be remade; it is too memorable and timeless. Even old films attempted such mass production for not only effects, but props and sets; they made it look realistic. Nowadays its all highly-glossed, rubbery CGI; it makes me feel like I am watching a video game.
Movie name please
The stop motion in this is really top tier.
Ray Harryhausen?
@@jonathanmendoza2319 Harry Walton
I remember seeing this in the theater as a ten year-old child, and I was crying my eyes out when the ant died. One of the saddest movie deaths ever seen, since he was just a baby who fought to protect his friends. My only comfort came later in that the original screenplay had the ant survive and live for Wayne to enlarge him as proof that his machine worked, and became part of the family. If only that's how it could've been in the film, too...
If it was a baby he would’ve been a larva. these people do not know what baby ants are
I remember being absolutely horrified and heartbroken at this scene as a kid. My god.
This broke my heart when I was little, I cried for like 2 hours
Anty died a hero and he didn’t die alone his friends were there for him at the end touching.😢😢😢
damn 20 some years later and it still breaks my heart
What a lot of people don’t comment on is just how realistic they made the scorpion. Makes it even scarier, really.
Plus, don’t forget who was part of the direction staff: Brian Yuzna. Yeah. The same guy who brought us the delightfully 🤬ED up Society just a few years earlier.
I still remember watching this scene as a kid, my grandpa was like watch he’s gonna save the kids! RIP the bravest ant ever
Anty sacrificed his life to save those kids. That is the most scariest scene in this whole movie. My mom could never watch this scene because she hates scorpions. With great victory, comes great sacrifice. I never heard of an ant that would be so brave to face a scorpion and save his friends, even though he lost his own life.
I cut the tails off scorpions and then feed them to my crayfish lol
I also liked how Anty put his antenna around Ron right before he died. When Ron touched him, it’s like he was saying thank you. I hope that scorpion died, too.
@@vroomvroom6066that's a little messed up ngl, although I like both of those animals atleast feed the whole scorpion to the crayfish
I bet you twenty bucks Nick found the Scorpion and give it to Russ and he's crushed it and said "that's for Auntie you shitt" then Nick says "you could have used that as fishing bait"
a big red/orange scorpion like that’s closest irl equivalent in america would be the bark scorpion 🦂.... not something a kid should be handling on their own. they are very poisonous ☠️
@@mkv2718 that’s right. The smaller the scorpion, the less poisonous.
A better death woulda been dropping the scorpion into a fire ant mound.... poetic justice/execution if ya ask me RIP Antie 🐜 😇👼
Biggest hero in all movies RIP Anty, you’ve earned it
The Scorpion 🦂 Scared me so much as a kid that I was afraid to watch the movie again until now.
Movie name please
@@rockyabhi6391 Honey I Shrunk The Kids
If Scott Lang were here in this scene he would've summoned an army of ants to kill that ugly ass thing, and save anty .
It’s spelled Antie
Why would he, he can control scorpions as he can other arthropods.
IF I WAS SCOTT LANG I WOUD SEND AN ARMY OF ANTS TO GET THE SCORPION FAR FAR AWAY AND NOT TO KILL IT SCORPIONS ARE THE BEST AND THEY ARE NOT UGLY!
Wait a f**king second! Wouldn't some ants be looking for the other ant and going "our comrade is in danger!!!! Kill him!!!"?
What’s a comrade?
Fluffy Panda thanks
Antie probably didn't call for a group of soldier ants from his colony and it was probably way too far for him to do it anyway so he just attacked the scorpion by himself to save them *(technically a she but you get the idea)*
@@bluesky_cupy5158
i was always thinking maybe Antie was scared that if she calls for help the other Ants of her colony would attack the kids too cause probably the ants would see the kids also as "danger"
Ants don't have some kind of hive mind or anything, they just instinctively do their own individual thing. There can be millions or billions of ants in a colony and every day thousands of them would die or get lost so nobody would ever go looking for a single missing ant.
When they die they release a pheromone which can alert nearby ants that there is danger but it has limited range and isn't always reliably directional.
Dude I've literally never killed another ant since I saw this and I've learnt that their actually pretty important in the environment RIP anty 😪
Dude this fucked me up when I was a kid lol. Never thought I could care for an ant so much
I miss being a kid watching this with my family, love American shows from the 80s 90s, from India
l was 9 years old when l first saw this movie and after seeing this scene l for a long time was afraid to go in my backyard.
Oof I feel you I was easily scared as a kid myself
I was nine as well and I cried my eyes out when the ant died
Movie name
Only the yellow ones are deafly like emperor scorpions are that bad
HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS
I remember when i was a little girl and my older brother ranted the VHS. I cried so much when the scorpion killed anty 😣😢😭
First time I saw this, I noticed that after the Ant got the Scorpion's attention off the kids, he kinda growled as it were, like, "Okay, you wanna fight, come on and let's do this."
That said I was also irritated at the kids for not jumping in to help until it was too late.
Two things. 1. The ant dying sad as it was didn't get to me. What got to me, what really scared me and made me sad were the terrified screams it made before the Scorpion stung Antie. Whoever was in charge of sound, as inaccurate as the sounds are, did a damn good job making me feel bad that an Ant was going to die. 2. This whole scene, is one of the moments that remind any adult rewatching this, that the person who wrote the script for this was the same guy that Directed Re-Animator. He made shit scary even beyond Disney standards.
Exactly, his cries of suffering I saw when I was 4 years old, today I am 13, I am still traumatized by his screams: ,,,,,,,, v
@@thiagolarronda8858 Wait a couple more years. If you think this is scary, this is how far one can go with a kid's movie in the 80s. How far one can go with a PG rating before it could be PG-13 or R. The guys that wrote the script to this, were the creators of a very popular dark comedy horror series called Re-Animator. I won't give out too many details, both because that may traumatize you further and I don't want to spoil anything, but it's about a man who discovers a way to bring dead people back to life, however the means make them incredibly violent. He's basically what would happen if Wayne Szalinski went mad and had no lovable traits whatsoever. No family to support, no dog to love. Just him and his experiments and whoever he can get on his side with them.
Hey let me ease it for you. The ant sounds are actually realistic. Look it up.
How did they create ant sounds ?
The movie could make me cry.... meant a lot to me as a child. The characters and how they all got cool with each other, the perfect background music 👌
I was born in 1987, shortly before this movie came out. This scene scared me to death as a kid.
Born in 87 too, and I thought that scorpion was a monster lol.
Still crying for for this brave and faithful Anty. 😢❤️❤️❤️
i saw the movie yesterday again, i never realized it was stop motion. has to be th ebest stop motion i have ever seen.
Ironically, I got an ant killing ad before this
I'm a 30 year old man and this gets to me still! Anty fought hard to the death
Lol is it funny the scorpion kind of reminds me of a giant lobster 😂
Lobsters and scorpions are related in terms of zoology.
In the other hand, it is scary I hate scorpions and spiders
Its REALY diffrent
@@hactonlucasberlon2281 only spiders scorpions best
I live in the country and I've NEVER seen a scorpion in my yard.....where were THEY living at? Lol
Sad as Anty's death was, when the kids hit back at the scorpion, I like the fact that it was the stick thrown by Ron that fatally wounded the scorpion... Anty saved his life, but fittingly Ron avenged Anty's death
This part always made me really upset that Anty had died. He was a true hero for saving them from the Scorpion. Those sounds that Anty made from being attacked by the Scorpion always made me tear up.😢
I find myself getting pissed at those kids for not helping Anty earlier. As a kid I used to squash bugs until I saw this.
Right 💯
Ant sacrificed his life to save the children
“Let’s wait until that bastard scorpion’s got poor brave Antie in his grasp before actually doing something to help”…
Yeah why did they just help Anty before the stupid scorpion grabbed Anty with his claw?! Because if they did Anty would survive and the scorpion would die!
Why was there a scorpion in there back yard in the first place?
The movie takes place in central California which is a desert where things like scorpions in your backyard aren’t uncommon
@Drew Biggah, because that was one of the smaller scorpions of its species.
Probably someone’s pet that escaped
@nickzilla20 I wondered that too since scorpions are usually found in Texas in deserts where I can only guess someone took a trip to Texas capturing that scorpion as a pet and brought it home with them to California (where this movie takes place) and that scorpion escaped or the person let it go and it was making it's way back to Texas cutting through the backyard and ended up seeing the kids and after it walked away, it continued on it's journey to Texas leaving the backyard.
That’s what I was questioning my dad when we just watched it today
I know its just an ant, but it saved them all! Such a sacrifice! R.I.P. Anty. 🐜💐
Anty you were the best, we miss you. ❤80s kids.
Anty, small in size but huge in spirit :)
Having not grown up anywhere near a desert or jungle, this was my introduction to scorpions and I've been fascinated with them ever since. I never realized this particular sucker had such a fat tail.
First movie I cried at, I was only 8 when it came out in the cinema. I cried all the way home when dad drove us home from switch island. R.i.p anty 🙏
"It's enough to make a grown man cry"
*get back in there, tear.*
You go right ahead, tear
3:51 "that's for Anty you bastard!" Good throw Ron
Serves the Motherfucker right
I cannot actually believe im 33 years old re watching this scene for the first time since i last saw it as a 6 year old kid and it still makes me 😢
1:40 I love how the boys say "goodnight, Amy" together
2:50 Ok anyone else think that growl is adorable?
even as an adult this scene is brutal to watch
Ahhh…Anty’s screams get me every time, goddamn…Screw you, Scorpion…😣
Same I hate that damn stupid scorpion!
Apparently in one of the novelizations, Antie defeats the scorpion.
This has made me cry multiple times
Poor ant, he was only a baby. 😭
Actually no anty was fully grown
@@alexlegoboy3513 no he's a baby the movie states that
@@AlfieTrevor4444 Baby ants are larvae. The kids just don't know anything about ants.
This is the moment I realize that this is why I'm terrified of scorpions.
r.i.p cute ant
How ever could they get through the rest of the night?
That scorpion is still out there... PRETTY ANGRY... and still huge compared to them
I hope the lawnmower sliced it up
The scorpion was probably scared off
I was thinking the same thing.
Surprised they didn’t run into any roaches 🪳
@@thejay3804 That's what I was thinking! Roaches, more ants, a grasshopper. I'm fascinated by this whole movie. Being shrunk and seeing bugs and the world at that size really REALLY intrigues me.
After the kids drive the scorpion off and find Anty it's like he's lifting his head looking at all of the kids to see if they're all ok. The death of Artax didn't even affect me this much.
Damn, back when stop motion was commonly used in the 80s before computer animation was used in the mid 90s!😲
Them! made us fear giant ants. Honey I Shrunk The Kids made us love them.
I knew poor Anty was doomed the moment he was stung by that scorpion. I remember I was so scared and sad during this scene.
That scorpion was pretty friggin cool!
As sad as this is, that stop motion on the scorpion was insanely good!
2:39 - 2:44 Anty: "Hey, pick on someone your own size!"
Scorpion: "Liiiiiike you?"
I’m a 42 year old man crying about an animatronic ant. 😥
This scorpion 🦂 scene, and the bees 🐝 scene freaked the hell out of me when I was a kid.
30 years later and I still get sad about Anty.
I started crying when I heard anty become scared and it was so sad
Me to. At first he growls at the scorpion thinking he's going to be ok but once he's picked up he's like screaming and crying for help.
I hate this movie.
I remember this movie aired on Cartoon Network back in 2007 or 8 when I was little and the scorpion attacking the ant and the ant dying scarred me and got stuck in my head for a bit that I think I refused to watch the rest of the movie when it went to commercial. Still haven't finished it to this day.
This shit was way too real for a kid movie
I haven't seen this in over 30 years, and this scene hits much harder now than it did when I first saw this when I was 3.
Hearing Antie screaming before being stung is almost hard to listen to. He's practically screaming for his life.
stop motion aged pretty well
saddest scene from my childhood 😢.. that an Buz trying to fly in toy story 1 but falling with style lmaooo