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A sequel came out in 2019, titled ''Minuscule 2 : Les Mandibules du Bout du Monde'' (localized in English as ''Minuscule: Mandibles From from Far Away'').
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* SpidersAreScary: SubvertedTrope -- the spider's a cute, [[MadScientist curious]] and [[FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider helpful soul]]. Although he does live in a Scooby Doo house.
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* SpidersAreScary: SubvertedTrope -- the spider's a cute, [[MadScientist curious]] and [[FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider helpful soul]]. Although he does live in a Scooby Doo ''Scooby-Doo'' house.
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* StrongAnts: They have no trouble carring an entire (tin) box of sugar, about the size of a lunchbox.
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* StrongAnts: They have no trouble carring carrying an entire (tin) box of sugar, about the size of a lunchbox.
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* ClassicalMusic: The spider is a fan - he listens on an [=IPod=] and insists on having appropriately dramatic music during the storm.
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* ClassicalMusic: The spider is a fan - -- he listens on an [=IPod=] and insists on having appropriately dramatic music during the storm.
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* DeadlyGas: The carribean catterpillars release a cloud of it when crushed or when they want to - it gives humans a horrible green rash. European ladybugs can release it, too, when scared.
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* DeadlyGas: The carribean catterpillars Caribbean caterpillars release a cloud of it when crushed or when they want to - -- it gives humans a horrible green rash. European ladybugs can release it, too, when scared.
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* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Once again, sugar cubes for the ants. Their attempt of stealing some from a shop in the beginning is how the young ladybug ends up in a box, shipped to Guadelupe. And some red ants end up in Beijing the same way.
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* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Once again, sugar cubes for the ants. Their attempt of stealing some from a shop in the beginning is how the young ladybug ends up in a box, shipped to Guadelupe.Guadeloupe. And some red ants end up in Beijing the same way.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Between the young ladybug and one of the native Carribean ladybugs (which are black with red spots, just so we know they're foreign).
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* InterspeciesRomance: Between the young ladybug and one of the native Carribean Caribbean ladybugs (which are black with red spots, just so we know they're foreign).
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* SlayingMantis: They almost act like Film/JurassicPark raptors. With HypnoticEyes.
* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The spider and the ant use a toy ship with [[AllBalloonsHaveHelium balloons]] to fly over the Atlantic, or at least they intend to. [[spoiler: It works brilliantly for a BigDamnHeroes GunshipRescue moment.]]
* SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying: The caribbean ladybugs eat coconuts. Probably for RuleOfFunny reasons. Also, insects flying around amid european winter is not very probable.
* SpidersAreScary: Apart from our old friendly spider, there's the [[CuteIsEvil terrifyingly adorable]] caribbean one - fluffy, big-eyed and freakin' huge compared to the ladybugs.
* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The spider and the ant use a toy ship with [[AllBalloonsHaveHelium balloons]] to fly over the Atlantic, or at least they intend to. [[spoiler: It works brilliantly for a BigDamnHeroes GunshipRescue moment.]]
* SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying: The caribbean ladybugs eat coconuts. Probably for RuleOfFunny reasons. Also, insects flying around amid european winter is not very probable.
* SpidersAreScary: Apart from our old friendly spider, there's the [[CuteIsEvil terrifyingly adorable]] caribbean one - fluffy, big-eyed and freakin' huge compared to the ladybugs.
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* SlayingMantis: They almost act like Film/JurassicPark ''Film/JurassicPark'' raptors. With HypnoticEyes.
* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The spider and the ant use a toy ship with [[AllBalloonsHaveHelium balloons]] to fly over the Atlantic, or at least they intend to.[[spoiler: It [[spoiler:It works brilliantly for a BigDamnHeroes GunshipRescue moment.]]
* SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying: Thecaribbean Caribbean ladybugs eat coconuts. Probably for RuleOfFunny reasons. Also, insects flying around amid european European winter is not very probable.
* SpidersAreScary: Apart from our old friendly spider, there's the [[CuteIsEvil terrifyingly adorable]]caribbean Caribbean one - -- fluffy, big-eyed and freakin' huge compared to the ladybugs.
* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The spider and the ant use a toy ship with [[AllBalloonsHaveHelium balloons]] to fly over the Atlantic, or at least they intend to.
* SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying: The
* SpidersAreScary: Apart from our old friendly spider, there's the [[CuteIsEvil terrifyingly adorable]]
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* StrongAnts: Not just ants - one ladybug lifts an apple, and a group easily carries coconuts around.
* SurveillanceStationSlacker: The security guard in the french grocery shop watches tv, feet on desk, and steals marshmellows.
* SurveillanceStationSlacker: The security guard in the french grocery shop watches tv, feet on desk, and steals marshmellows.
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* StrongAnts: Not just ants - -- one ladybug lifts an apple, and a group easily carries coconuts around.
* SurveillanceStationSlacker: The security guard in thefrench French grocery shop watches tv, TV, feet on desk, and steals marshmellows.marshmallows.
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* VacationEpisode: The film's action takes place in the Caribbean, set in Guadeloupe, complete with rasta caterpillars. Yup.
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* VacationEpisode: The film's action takes place in the Caribbean, set in Guadelupe, complete with rasta caterpillars. Yup.
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* AmicableAnts: Zigzagged. The black ants are the first ones to treat the ladybug with kindness after he gets lost from his family. On the other turn, the red ants are bad guys who want to kill them to get the sugar.
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* AmicableAnts: Zigzagged. The black ants are the first ones to treat the ladybug with kindness after he she gets lost from his her family. On the other turn, the red ants are bad guys who want to kill them to get the sugar.
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* TheDogBitesBack: The ladybug gets revenge on the flies that caused him to lose his family and his wing by taunting them to follow him to the road and be hit by the same yellow car that scared him and the black ants during the trip to the colony.
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* TheDogBitesBack: The ladybug gets revenge on the flies that caused him her to lose his her family and his her wing by taunting them to follow him her to the road and be hit by the same yellow car that scared him her and the black ants during the trip to the colony.
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* GrayRainOfDepression: It rains heavily as the young ladybug finds himself all alone, without a wing and scared of everything around him.
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* LuredIntoATrap: The small fly that laughed at the ladybug when he was learning to fly taunts him again later. The ladybug, not knowing better, follows him angrily to a tree stump... to be surrounded by the fly's brother, who are for times bigger than him. Judging by the fact that the flies were bullying a female ladybug later, they enjoy harassing other insects... or just ladybugs.
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* LuredIntoATrap: The small fly that laughed at the ladybug when he she was learning to fly taunts him her again later. The ladybug, not knowing better, follows him angrily to a tree stump... to be surrounded by the fly's brother, who are for times bigger than him. her. Judging by the fact that the flies were bullying a female male ladybug later, they enjoy harassing other insects... or just ladybugs.
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* RescueRomance: The ladybug falls for a female ladybug (and she for him) he saved from the same flies that pursued him in the beginning of the film.
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* RescueRomance: The ladybug falls for a female male ladybug (and he for her) she for him) he saved from the same flies that pursued him her in the beginning of the film.
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* AmicableAnts: Zigzagged. The black ants are the first ones to treat the ladybug with kindness after he gets lost from his family. On the other turn, the red ants are bad guys who want to kill them to get the sugar.
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* GrayRainOfDepression: It rains heavily as the young ladybug finds himself all alone, without a wing and scared of everything around him.
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* AnnoyingLaugh: The small fly that taunts the ladybug has that.
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* TheDogBitesBack: The ladybug gets revenge on the flies that caused him to lose his family and his wing by taunting them to follow him to the road and be hit by the same yellow car that scared him and the black ants during the trip to the colony.
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* LuredIntoATrap: The small fly that laughed at the ladybug when he was learning to fly taunts him again later. The ladybug, not knowing better, follows him angrily to a tree stump... to be surrounded by the fly's brother, who are for times bigger than him. Judging by the fact that the flies were bullying a female ladybug later, they enjoy harassing other insects... or just ladybugs.
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* RescueRomance: The ladybug falls for a female ladybug (and she for him) he saved from the same flies that pursued him in the beginning of the film.
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* AntAssault: The red ants are the main antagonists of the movie, organizing TheSiege on the black ant colony to steal their sugar cubes.
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* InsectQueen: Black ants have a motherly queen surrounded by green... critters (aphids?). The red queen has GodSaveUsFromTheQueen vibes around her.
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* InsectQueen: Black ants have a motherly queen surrounded by green... green… critters (aphids?). The red queen has GodSaveUsFromTheQueen vibes around her.
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* SpidersAreScary: SubvertedTrope -- the spider's a cute, [[MadScientist curious]] and helpful soul. Although he does live in a Scooby Doo house.
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* SpidersAreScary: SubvertedTrope -- the spider's a cute, [[MadScientist curious]] and [[FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider helpful soul.soul]]. Although he does live in a Scooby Doo house.
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The theatrical budget allows the live-action/computer-animation world to become an utterly gorgeous movie, the lack of no spoken dialogue continuing and making the film an example of a modern SilentFilm.
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* {{Dedication}}: To Jean Giraux a.k.a. Creator/{{Moebius}}.
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* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The spider and the ant use a toy ship with [[AllBalloonsHaveHelium baloons]] to fly over the Atlantic, or at least they intend to. [[spoiler: It works brilliantly for a BigDamnHeroes GunshipRescue moment.]]
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* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The spider and the ant use a toy ship with [[AllBalloonsHaveHelium baloons]] balloons]] to fly over the Atlantic, or at least they intend to. [[spoiler: It works brilliantly for a BigDamnHeroes GunshipRescue moment.]]
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* BoringReturnJourney: No storms, no sharks, over in seconds, really.
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* PapaWolf: The dad ladybug will outsmart flies and cross the atlantic to help his kid out of trouble.
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* PapaWolf: The dad ladybug will outsmart flies and cross the atlantic Atlantic to help his kid out of trouble.
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* Telepathy: How the [[EthnicMagician elder caterpillar]] gets the [[ExpositionBeam summary of plot]] so far from the dad ladybug.
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* Telepathy: {{Telepathy}}: How the [[EthnicMagician elder caterpillar]] gets the [[ExpositionBeam summary of plot]] so far from the dad ladybug.
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* SpidersAreScary: SubvertedTrope -- the spider's a cute, [[MadScientist curious]] and helpful soul.
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* ChekhovsGun:
** The spider uses his [=IPod=] and some loud hiphop to annoy the shark into stomach ache and letting them out.
** The DeadlyGas capability of caterpillars is instrumental in driving humans away.
* ClassicalMusic: The spider is a fan - he listens on an [=IPod=] and insists on having appropriately dramatic music during the storm.
* CreepyCockroach: Subverted, the cockroach is nothing but friendly and helps the dad ladybug navigate the airport.
* DeadlyGas: The carribean catterpillars release a cloud of it when crushed or when they want to - it gives humans a horrible green rash. European ladybugs can release it, too, when scared.
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: The black ants around the world use it to communicate between continents by signalling with their antennae.
** The spider uses his [=IPod=] and some loud hiphop to annoy the shark into stomach ache and letting them out.
** The DeadlyGas capability of caterpillars is instrumental in driving humans away.
* ClassicalMusic: The spider is a fan - he listens on an [=IPod=] and insists on having appropriately dramatic music during the storm.
* CreepyCockroach: Subverted, the cockroach is nothing but friendly and helps the dad ladybug navigate the airport.
* DeadlyGas: The carribean catterpillars release a cloud of it when crushed or when they want to - it gives humans a horrible green rash. European ladybugs can release it, too, when scared.
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: The black ants around the world use it to communicate between continents by signalling with their antennae.
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* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Once again, sugar cubes for the ants. Their attempt of stealing some from a shop in the beginning is how the young ladybug ends up in a box, shipped to Guadelupe. And some red ants end up in Beijing the same way.
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* PapaWolf: The dad ladybug will outsmart flies and cross the atlantic to help his kid out of trouble.
* SlayingMantis: They almost act like Film/JurassicPark raptors. With HypnoticEyes.
* SlayingMantis: They almost act like Film/JurassicPark raptors. With HypnoticEyes.
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* SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying: The caribbean ladybugs eat coconuts. Probably for RuleOfFunny reasons. Also, insects flying around amid european winter is not very probable.
* SpidersAreScary: Apart from our old friendly spider, there's the [[CuteIsEvil terrifyingly adorable]] caribbean one - fluffy, big-eyed and freakin' huge compared to the ladybugs.
* TheStinger: The red ants end up in Beijing.
* StrongAnts: Not just ants - one ladybug lifts an apple, and a group easily carries coconuts around.
* SurveillanceStationSlacker: The security guard in the french grocery shop watches tv, feet on desk, and steals marshmellows.
* TheSwarm: Of menacing red ants.
* Telepathy: How the [[EthnicMagician elder caterpillar]] gets the [[ExpositionBeam summary of plot]] so far from the dad ladybug.
* TravelMontage: From France to the Caribbean, with DreadlockRasta driver to pick the box up and [[RegionalRiff reggae]] to drive it home. The spider and the ant follow the same route, until they get SwallowedWhole by a shark. Who swims in loops.
* ThreateningShark: Swallows the ship after it falls in the water.
* SpidersAreScary: Apart from our old friendly spider, there's the [[CuteIsEvil terrifyingly adorable]] caribbean one - fluffy, big-eyed and freakin' huge compared to the ladybugs.
* TheStinger: The red ants end up in Beijing.
* StrongAnts: Not just ants - one ladybug lifts an apple, and a group easily carries coconuts around.
* SurveillanceStationSlacker: The security guard in the french grocery shop watches tv, feet on desk, and steals marshmellows.
* TheSwarm: Of menacing red ants.
* Telepathy: How the [[EthnicMagician elder caterpillar]] gets the [[ExpositionBeam summary of plot]] so far from the dad ladybug.
* TravelMontage: From France to the Caribbean, with DreadlockRasta driver to pick the box up and [[RegionalRiff reggae]] to drive it home. The spider and the ant follow the same route, until they get SwallowedWhole by a shark. Who swims in loops.
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* AFriendInNeed: The spider and the ant cross the Atlantic to help the ladybugs.
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* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: The young ladybud decides to stay on the island with his beloved.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: Between the young ladybug and one of the Carribean ladybugs.
* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The spider and the ant use a toy ship with baloons to fly over the Atlantic, or at least they intend to. [[spoiler: It works brilliantly for a BigDamnHeroes moment.]]
* WackySoundEffects: Though not necessarily wacky, the mantis's actions are given mechanical sounds, evoking the feeling of a fierce, dangerous robot hunter.
* VacationEpisode: The film's action takes place in the Caribbean
* InterspeciesRomance: Between the young ladybug and one of the Carribean ladybugs.
* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The spider and the ant use a toy ship with baloons to fly over the Atlantic, or at least they intend to. [[spoiler: It works brilliantly for a BigDamnHeroes moment.]]
* WackySoundEffects: Though not necessarily wacky, the mantis's actions are given mechanical sounds, evoking the feeling of a fierce, dangerous robot hunter.
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* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: The young ladybud ladybug decides to stay on the island with his beloved.]]
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* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The spider and the ant use a toy ship withbaloons [[AllBalloonsHaveHelium baloons]] to fly over the Atlantic, or at least they intend to. [[spoiler: It works brilliantly for a BigDamnHeroes GunshipRescue moment.]]
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* HumansAreBastards: Human construction activity becomes a significant danger to the insect characters this time around.
* HumanMail: This is how the main ladybug character ends up in Central America in the first place.
* WackySoundEffects: Though not necessarily wacky, the mantis's actions are given mechanical sounds, evoking the feeling of a fierce, dangerous robot hunter.
* VacationEpisode: The film's action takes place in the Caribbean
!!''Minuscule: Mandibles From Far Away'' provides examples of:
* HumansAreBastards: Human construction activity becomes a significant danger to the insect characters this time around.
* HumanMail: This is how the main ladybug character ends up in Central America in the first place.
* WackySoundEffects: Though not necessarily wacky, the mantis's actions are given mechanical sounds, evoking the feeling of a fierce, dangerous robot hunter.
* VacationEpisode: The film's action takes place in the Caribbean
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''Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants'' (or, in the original French, ''Minuscule - La vallée des fourmis perdues'') is the BigDamnMovie treatment for the ''WesternAnimation/{{Minuscule}}'' television series.
It tells the epic story of a small, lonely ladybug separated from her family by accident not long after hatching, trying to find her way in the harsh, scary world... Except the world is rather nice and [[SceneryPorn pretty as anything]]. And full of interesting stuff humans left ([[HumansAreCthulhu we are the good sort of]] NeglectfulPrecursors, apparently). Like toys. Or sugar... Finding herself befriending a group of cute black ants who have procured a box of sugar on the site of an interrupted picnic, she ends up on an oddyssey of adventure on the way back to the anthill, including an encounter with their regular foes, the red ants. And the red ants ''really'' want this sugar for themselves. Cue a dramatic AntWar.
The theatrical budget allows the live-action/computer-animation world to become an utterly gorgeous movie, the lack of no spoken dialogue continuing and making the film an example of a modern SilentFilm.
A sequel came out in 2019, ''Minuscule 2 : Les Mandibules du Bout du Monde'' (literal translation: ''Minuscule 2: Mandibles of the Edge of the World'').
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!!''Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants'' provides examples of:
* AntWar: TheSiege, to be exact, with both sides using human "weapons" like [[DeadlyGas bug spray]] and [[WeaponOfMassDestruction fireworks]]. And slingshots.
* BadassAdorable: The ladybug shall stop at nothing to help her ant friends.
* CarnivoreConfusion: Most ladybugs in RealLife feed mostly on aphids. They sometimes eat berries, but definitely [[SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying not by sucking them out]].
* ChekhovsGun: The matches.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Nice black ants (also notably cuter, with larger, rounder eyes) versus bad red ants.
* TheDeterminator: the red ants' squadron leader.
* FliesEqualsEvil: A [[EvilIsPetty petty, bullying sort of it]].
* TheFourLoves: Seems the main motivation for the [[IJustWantToHaveFriends friendly]] ladybug.
* GoodAnimalsEvilAnimals: Most are nice, but beware the red ants.
* HauntedHouse: The spider's doll house really comes up like one, at first.
* InsectQueen: Black ants have a motherly queen surrounded by green... critters (aphids?). The red queen has GodSaveUsFromTheQueen vibes around her.
* MacGuffin: Box of sugar cubes, apparently [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin irresistible to ants]].
* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: Cartoon mixed with [[SceneryPorn live movie]], but even the human couple in the opening scene communicates purely in gesture. The insects [[SpeakingSimlish buzz]].
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* TheMovie: The series is done in the same [[MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon no dialogue]], animation blended with live material, SceneryPorn way.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The cutest insects ever!
* RunningTheBlockade: The blockade is insurmountable to ants, but ladybugs can fly, luckily.
* SlidingScaleOfAnimalCommunication: All the insects communicate in buzzing, understandable to them, but not to us.
* SpidersAreScary: SubvertedTrope -- the spider's a cute, [[MadScientist curious]] and helpful soul.
* StockAnimalDiet: Ants raid the sugar, but the ladybird [[SubvertedTrope seems to prefer berries]].
* StrongAnts: They have no trouble carring an entire (tin) box of sugar, about the size of a lunchbox.
* WarForFunAndProfit: The red ants really want this sugar. Apart from being generally not-nice.
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''Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants'' (or, in the original French, ''Minuscule - La vallée des fourmis perdues'') is the BigDamnMovie treatment for the ''WesternAnimation/{{Minuscule}}'' television series.
It tells the epic story of a small, lonely ladybug separated from her family by accident not long after hatching, trying to find her way in the harsh, scary world... Except the world is rather nice and [[SceneryPorn pretty as anything]]. And full of interesting stuff humans left ([[HumansAreCthulhu we are the good sort of]] NeglectfulPrecursors, apparently). Like toys. Or sugar... Finding herself befriending a group of cute black ants who have procured a box of sugar on the site of an interrupted picnic, she ends up on an oddyssey of adventure on the way back to the anthill, including an encounter with their regular foes, the red ants. And the red ants ''really'' want this sugar for themselves. Cue a dramatic AntWar.
The theatrical budget allows the live-action/computer-animation world to become an utterly gorgeous movie, the lack of no spoken dialogue continuing and making the film an example of a modern SilentFilm.
A sequel came out in 2019, ''Minuscule 2 : Les Mandibules du Bout du Monde'' (literal translation: ''Minuscule 2: Mandibles of the Edge of the World'').
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!!''Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants'' provides examples of:
* AntWar: TheSiege, to be exact, with both sides using human "weapons" like [[DeadlyGas bug spray]] and [[WeaponOfMassDestruction fireworks]]. And slingshots.
* BadassAdorable: The ladybug shall stop at nothing to help her ant friends.
* CarnivoreConfusion: Most ladybugs in RealLife feed mostly on aphids. They sometimes eat berries, but definitely [[SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying not by sucking them out]].
* ChekhovsGun: The matches.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Nice black ants (also notably cuter, with larger, rounder eyes) versus bad red ants.
* TheDeterminator: the red ants' squadron leader.
* FliesEqualsEvil: A [[EvilIsPetty petty, bullying sort of it]].
* TheFourLoves: Seems the main motivation for the [[IJustWantToHaveFriends friendly]] ladybug.
* GoodAnimalsEvilAnimals: Most are nice, but beware the red ants.
* HauntedHouse: The spider's doll house really comes up like one, at first.
* InsectQueen: Black ants have a motherly queen surrounded by green... critters (aphids?). The red queen has GodSaveUsFromTheQueen vibes around her.
* MacGuffin: Box of sugar cubes, apparently [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin irresistible to ants]].
* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: Cartoon mixed with [[SceneryPorn live movie]], but even the human couple in the opening scene communicates purely in gesture. The insects [[SpeakingSimlish buzz]].
%%* MouseWorld
* TheMovie: The series is done in the same [[MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon no dialogue]], animation blended with live material, SceneryPorn way.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The cutest insects ever!
* RunningTheBlockade: The blockade is insurmountable to ants, but ladybugs can fly, luckily.
* SlidingScaleOfAnimalCommunication: All the insects communicate in buzzing, understandable to them, but not to us.
* SpidersAreScary: SubvertedTrope -- the spider's a cute, [[MadScientist curious]] and helpful soul.
* StockAnimalDiet: Ants raid the sugar, but the ladybird [[SubvertedTrope seems to prefer berries]].
* StrongAnts: They have no trouble carring an entire (tin) box of sugar, about the size of a lunchbox.
* WarForFunAndProfit: The red ants really want this sugar. Apart from being generally not-nice.
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