在这部艾里克漫游虫境记冒险/悬疑片中,本片改编自荷兰作家高弗莱德·波曼(Godfried Bomans)的经典同名小说。 一次偶然的机会，十岁的埃里克被送入到一副画里，并与画中的昆虫们展开了一次奇妙的旅程。返回现实世界后，埃里克变化巨大，他不但成为了同学心目中的小英雄，还让他暗恋的罗莎丽对他刮目相看。 埃里克是个爱幻想的孩子。因为一心暗恋着罗莎丽，他把昆虫课的演讲题材也搞错了。一个偶然的机会让他发现了魔法，并在那夜被送入了昆虫世界。刻骨铭心的冒险之后，埃里克了解到，对于昆虫来说本能比思考更重要，他也收获了珍贵的友谊。最让人欣慰的是，埃里克正确认识了人生，并能勇敢地面对生活里的变故。《昆虫王国历险记》类似于其他著名的儿童剧，如《爱丽丝漫游仙境》和《绿野仙踪》，本片的小主人公也是被送往一片神奇的土地上开始了自己的历险。影片的制作风格则是真人表演与电脑动画结合，营造出如同影片《大魔域》一般的梦幻氛围。
In this movie -after the classical Godfried Bomans novel of the same Dutch title- with musical elements, Erik is a Dutch ten year-old schoolboy who is studying insects at school, and gets shown and explained a bit about them by his kind and knowledgeable nature-loving grandfather, whose country estate is a good place to do so and turns out to have a book on insects, which allows Erik to pass for one night, rather like Alice in Wonderland, as a miniature man among thus giant-looking, talking insects, who discuss their and other species and their lives with him, mainly winged ones, such as bee, fly and wasp.
