DumbLand (TV Mini Series) Ants (2002) User Reviews

Our Greatest Fears

[Hitchcoc · 6/10 · 27 January 2016]

Another episode where the Neanderthal sees ants crawling across the floor. He takes out some poison but inadvertently sprays the stuff into his own mouth. This leads to hallucinations (maybe) as the ants form a kind of organized review and begin to sing insulting things to him, calling him all kinds of abusive names. Soon the creatures take over the house and he ends up paying a huge price. The finale is almost too much to watch for anyone who has a thing with insects. Once again the stark drawings and minimal scenes work well. This guy is really strange and in the darkest reaches of David Lynch's psyche. Watch this at your own risk.

Beware of Ants

[Michael_Elliott · 2 May 2016]

Dumbland - Ants (2002)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

If you go through David Lynch's filmography you'll notice weird features and weird shorts. This Dumbland series is weird animation as the director takes a large, deformed man and puts him into various situations.

The eighth and final short in Lynch's series has the large man throwing a fit when he notices a bunch of ants in his house. He goes to get some poison to finish them off but soon his plan backfires. This was probably the weakest episode in the series but if you're a fan of the director then you'll still want to check it out and especially for how it ends. Overall it's got the good animation that you'd expect but the bizarre level is quite low and there really wasn't any laughs.