Each summer, a gang of greedy grasshoppers - led by the menacing and manipulative Hopper - descends upon the colony to demand a hefty portion of the ants` hard-earned harvest and generally makes life miserable for this peaceful community
Our hero Flik, an original thinker out of step with the rest of the more traditionally minded colony, takes it upon himself to get outside help and mistakenly enlists an unemployed troop of bug performers from a second-rate flea circus to join the fight against the grasshoppers
When Flik`s plan starts to unravel, the action and comedy turn fast and furious as he attempts to save the colony and his reputation