Movie Review: Bee Movie by CD

Title: Bee Movie
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Kathy Bates, Chris Rock, Matthew Broderick
Directed By: Stephen Hickner, Simon J. Smith
Produced By: Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Spielberg, Christina Steinberg
Genre: Comedy and Animation
Release Date: November 2nd, 2007
MPAA Rating: PG for mild suggestive humor.
Distributors: Paramount Pictures

Barry B. Benson is a graduate bee fresh out of college who is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a rare trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans are mass consumers of honey and decides to sue the human race for stealing bees' honey. -Yahoo Movies.

What can be said about a kid's movie filled with talking bees? Well your gonna find out my friends.

My wife and I took our son to see this film for 2 reasons, 1: he really wanted to see it and had been good. 2: My wife loves bees, so much so that she is actually a bee keeper. So this movie was like heaven for them both. I on the other hand had a real difficult time disconnecting from reality enough to enjoy this movie. Certain things just seemed TOO fantastical. Case in point, bees in my opinion shouldn't need to drive cars. Also because of this movie my wife has been over heard plotting on how to borrow 500,000 bees to see if they really can lift,fly and land a jumbo jet.

There isn't too much that makes this film stand out from all the other animated talking animal movies. The animation is average. Which is to say it's not horrible, but its nothing ground breaking. The soundtrack was the normal Disney instrumental fare. The only differences were Sheryl Crow sang a song for the end of the movie and they played Sugar Sugar by The Archies towards the mid point of the film.

One part I did enjoy was right in the beginning, you get a black screen with the fact that bee's shouldn't be able to fly. Their bodies are to fat and their wings are too small, so it is scientifically impossible for them to be able to fly. The reason given as to why they can fly was...”Bee's don't care what humans think is impossible”.

Another humorous element was the mention of “Bee Jesus” which sparked a very spirited bit of commentary on the way home. This movie is rife with the ability to make bad bee puns for weeks. Which as of yet has not stopped in my home.

I have sat and watched the previews again to see why I didn't enjoy this film that much, I think it could just be I wasn't in the right mindset. It has what it needs to make it watchable by the adults, but it isn't on the same level as some of the other kids movie's this past year.

This is definitely a movie I would recommend for your kids, but you might want to wait till it comes to DVD. That way if you don't dig it, you can read a book or something while it is on.

Awaiting the second Buzzing of Bee Jesus

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