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 According to all known laws of film criticism, there is no way Dreamworks Animation was going to fly in 2007. Shrek the Third suffered from a major executive meddling to get its big green ogre off the franchise while Bee Movie show they didn't know what to do anymore. The Bee Movie, of course, flies anyway; because bonkers movies don't care what critics and audiences think is impossible.
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The Bee Movie is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Directed by Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner, the film stars the voices of Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, John Goodman, Patrick Warburton, and Chris Rock in supporting roles. Despite having a cult following and somewhat positive reviews, the movie is still very flawed.
Plot
Fresh out of college, Barry the Bee finds the prospect of working with honey uninspiring. He flies outside the hive for the first time and talks to a human, breaking a cardinal rule of his species. Barry learns that humans have been stealing and eating honey for centuries, and he realizes that his true calling is to obtain justice for his kind by suing humanity for theft.
Qualities That Hate Jazz
- Although some may argue that the bee-human relationship is not sexual and it is between a talking bee and a human therefore making it consented, it is still extremely weird to have a bee-human relationship in a film.
- Lots of bee puns that will get on your nerves.
- The movie is filled with several questions and plot holes:
- Why would bees have cars? Bees can pretty much fly anywhere considering they have wings.
- Why does Barry not know that you will have the same job your whole life when you're a bee?
- How did Vanessa and Ken get all the way home from their tennis match in two minutes?
- How does Barry know what coffee is but not know what windows are?
- If "not talking to humans" is a major bee law, how does Barry get no repercussions or punishment for breaking it?
- The bees decide to stop making honey because of having way too much. However, they have no reason to stop pollinating.
- Someone claims that the Pasadena parade has the "last flowers in the world", but Barry's lawsuit only affected the USA. Bees in other countries are presumably still pollinating flowers as usual.
- After winning the case, all the honey that the humans had is given back to the bees thanks to Barry. However, there is a big difference between the natural bee-made honey and the human modified honey that's sell in stores since they contain various types of chemicals and saturated fats that only humans are able to make. If Barry took the human-made honey to all of the hives, it's likely that many of them ended up sick.
- The film somewhat feels like a Seinfeld reunion in disguise due to having the same team as the show itself.
- No real direction: At first, it's about Barry not knowing what to do professionally, then it's about him falling in love with Vanessa, then it's about Barry suing the humans for stealing their honey, and so on. There's really no main story, resulting in the film being unfocused.
- Ken looks very uncanny since he looks a lot like Bruce Campbell.
- Ken is also somewhat unlikeable as he attempts to murder Barry.
- Blatant product placement.
- While Barry's anger is understandable, he takes it out a bit too much as he attempts to sue the entire human race.
- Although Jerry Seinfeld's voice acting is good, he sounds way too old to play Barry.
- Even Patrick Warburton's voice performance can get a bit tiresome at times. While he does a good job as always, his constant yelling can get annoying to some viewers.
- Despite the humor being really funny, there are some infamous scenes, such as:
- Layton accusing Barry of being Vanessa's sexual partner, saying "Are you her little...bed bug?"
- Barry stating that every bee is each other's cousin, which is an incest joke.
- Barry imagining Vanessa crashing a plane on accident and exploding.
- Barry suggesting to Vanessa to do a suicide pact.
- A woman being pinned down to a table by a group of armed men.
- "Living out our lives as honey slaves to the white man?!"
- "That's your queen? That's a man in women's clothes! That's a drag queen!"
- It doesn't portray a bee's work in a realistic way. In the film, bees collect nectar by... using a gun that sucks it up with the press of a button.
Qualities That Love Jazz
- Despite its flaws, it's a slight improvement over DreamWorks' blunder Shrek the Third, which lacks any charisma of the first two Shrek films.
- It's nice to see Jerry Seinfeld after he was on Seinfeld.
- As with all of the most DreamWorks movies, Bee Movie has wonderful and realistic, albeit uncanny, animation.
- Barry is a cool and likable protagonist who tries to do good at his job as a pollen jock, and makes an iconic friendship with a human, developing an understandable anger towards humans since they steal their honey. He can even be a role model since he shows that you have to always must stand up for your community.
- The idea of a bee meeting a human he becomes friends with and suing people for stealing their honey is quite an original premise but is executed in a questionable way.
- The soundtrack and voice acting are very good.
- Chris Rock's mosquito character, Mooseblood, is very funny.
- It shows the importance of bees and their pollination, as when the bees successfully sue humans, the trees and flowers become wilted and depressing, which shows that the reason nature is so pretty is because of bees.
- Good message: Being that all life is valuable because we each play a major part in our ecosystem. Everyone has an important role in society. Bees are essential to our survival, and they can do so much more besides winning court cases.
- As mentioned before, the humor is great, which is most likely due to Jerry Seinfeld working on the film, and his contributions are considered one of the best parts of the film.
- There are even some hilarious quotes, such as:
- "Why is yogurt night so difficult?!"
- "I'm hit, oh Lordy I'm hit!"
- "Ya like jazz?"
- "Are there other bugs in your life?!"
- "HOW DO YOU LIKE THE SMELL OF FLAMES?"
- One could even get the ironic enjoyment for how bizarre the movie is.
- There are even some hilarious quotes, such as:
- Interesting cameos from Larry King, Ray Liotta, Oprah Winfrey, and even Sting.
Reception
Bee Movie has received mostly mixed reviews, praising the humor and voice-acting but criticizing its plot. The film has an approval rating of 49% based on 174 reviews on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 6.1/10. Its critical consensus reads, "Bee Movie has humorous moments, but its awkward premise and tame delivery render it mostly forgettable." Metacritic (which uses a weighted average) assigned Bee Movie a score of 54 out of 100 based on 34 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews." Ironic enough, audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale. Despite this, most of Bee Movie's reviews are joke reviews as it gained a cult following.
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