Bee Movie (2007)

Directors:

Steve Hickner
Simon J. Smith

Writers:

Jerry Seinfeld (written by) and
Spike Feresten (written by) ...

Release Date:

2 November 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Family

Tagline:

On November 2 Hold on to your honey

Plot:

Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us. |

Plot Keywords:

Friendship | Employer Employee Relationship | Second Chance | Courage | Regret

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 11 nominations

US Showtimes:

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Cast

Jerry Seinfeld	...	Barry B. Benson (voice)
Renée Zellweger	...	Vanessa Bloome (voice)
Matthew Broderick	...	Adam Flayman (voice)
Patrick Warburton	...	Ken (voice)
John Goodman	...	Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
Chris Rock	...	Mooseblood (voice)
Kathy Bates	...	Janet Benson (voice)
Barry Levinson	...	Martin Benson (voice)
Larry King	...	Bee Larry King (voice)
Ray Liotta	...	Ray Liotta (voice)
Sting	...	Sting (voice)
Oprah Winfrey	...	Judge Bumbleton (voice)
Larry Miller	...	Buzzwell (voice)
Megan Mullally	...	Trudy (voice)
Rip Torn	...	Lou Lo Duca (voice)

MPAA:

Rated PG for mild suggestive humor, and a brief depiction of smoking.

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS | SDDS

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | UK:U (cut) | South Korea:All | South Africa:A | Germany:o.Al. | Ireland:G | Philippines:G | New Zealand:G | Switzerland:0 (canton of Vaud) | Australia:G | Switzerland:0 (canton of Geneva) | Taiwan:GP | Malaysia:U | Singapore:PG | Sweden:Btl | Finland:K-7 | Canada:G (all jurisdictions) | Brazil:Livre | USA:PG | Netherlands:AL

Company:

DreamWorks Animation

Trivia:

According to Jerry Seinfeld, while having lunch at Steven Spielberg's house, he first mentioned the idea for the movie as a joke, but Spielberg loved the idea.

Goofs:

Continuity: The windshield-wipers that Barry and the mosquito are riding on, don't move all the way over to the driver's side of the wind-shield. However; the marks made by the wipers do go all the way over to the driver's side of the wind-shield.

Quotes:

Barry B. Benson: How about a suicide pact?
Vanessa: How do we do it?
Barry B. Benson: I'll sting you, you step on me.
Vanessa: That just kills you twice.

Movie Connections:

References Star Wars (1977)

Soundtrack:

Pomp and Circumstance

Once you click into the vibe you can pretty much guess the plot line and punchlines

Clever but not that well done animated film from Jerry Seinfeld.

The premise is that Jerry is a bee who on his first day at work end up being saved by Renee Zellweger. Wanting to be polite he does what a bee should never do, he talks to her to say thank you. They become friends. When he sees jars of honey in the store he sues humankind in order to get it back.

Well animated, this is essentially a 90 minute Seinfeld routine that is all puns on bees. Its amusing, with some hysterical gags, but mostly its all obvious once the story gets going. Its a sketch stretched out almost to the breaking point. I didn't hate it, but after 15 minutes I was ready to get up and move to another theater.(Had I had a TV remote the channel would have changed). What really irked me was the way some of the voice cast was put into the film. The lines of say Ray Liotta seem to have been lifted from other sources and then dropped into the film. Other characters seem to have been recorded alone (which they probably were) and then spliced badly with the other voices so that everyone seems to be speaking all alone. There are odd gaps between lines of dialog as if robots with no sense of how conversations go together put it together.

Its not bad but I paid 11 bucks and spent 90 minutes seeing this? Wait for cable