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The People VS Barry Benson
Jerry Seinfeld wants to make the knees of your bees week with chuckles.
 Title: Bee Movie
Release Date: November 02, 2007
Studio: Dreamworks Animation
Rating: PG
Feature Running Time: 90 minutes
Director(s):
Steve Hickner
Simon J. Smith
Writer(s):
Jerry Seinfeld
Spike Feresten
Barry Marder
Andy Robin
Cast:
Jerry Seinfeld Seinfeld, The Thing About My Folks, Pros & Cons, One Night Stand
Rene Zellweger Bridget Jones's Diary, Jerry Maguire, The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Matthew Broderick The Producers, Inspector Gadget, Godzilla, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Biloxi Blues
Patrick Warburton The Tick, Family Guy, The Venture Bros. Men in Black II, Seinfeld
John Goodman Speed Racer, Evan Almighty, Death Sentence, Monsters, Inc, Futurama, Roseanne
Chris Rock Everybody Hates Chris, Everybody Hates Chris", CB4, New Jack City
Kathy Bates Fred Claus, About Schmidt, The Waterboy, Misery, Dolores Claiborne
Barry Levinson Quiz Show, History of the World: Part I, High Anxiety, Jimmy Hollywood
Rip Torn Men in Black, RoboCop 3, Defending Your Life, The Man Who Fell to Earth
Michael Richards Seinfeld, TMZ, Trial and Error, Problem Child, UHF, Transylvania 6-5000
Tress MacNeille Teen Titans, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Batman Beyond: The Movie
John Di Maggio Futurama: Bender's Big Score!, Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, TMNT, Underdog, Ben 10
Synopsis: (From IMDB) 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.
Review: What is it about insects that interest animators so much? In particular CGI animators. Antz, A Bug's Life, Ant Bully, etc, etc. you'd think bugs would be a been there done that category. At least if they are going to keep this going give the cockroaches a little screen time and see if you can make those little creepy little things lovable.
Bee Movie is out of the hive and hitting theaters this weekend, and many of us parents will have to pack the younglings in for a trip to the movie house. With any family film there is a serious chance of annoyance since the movie isn't aimed at you, and chances are they might try to pop in a handful of pop culture jokes to help you along which can be even doubly annoying if they suck.
When I head into any family flick I do my best to keep in mind that this isn't meant for me to enjoy enough to put it on a top ten list (though it has happened) so it helps to bring along the little padawan Film Geek to get an extra point of view on things.
Bee Movie is much like an actual Bee, in which despite the fact that nobody can explain "how" they fly they just do. Not saying the movie flies, it just floats when it really should be sinking. The story has some funny little nods to The Graduate and from there the story takes off into a new direction where Bees are looking for reparations for years of slavery in forced bee hive honey camps. Its pretty awkward storytelling that just tends to let go of some obvious human nature as it plods along.
Despite its lopsided nature the movie has its moments to enjoy, and isn't torturous with its hipper than thou pop culture references (Yeah I'm looking at you Shrek The Third). Try to imagine an episode of Seinfeld where Jerry is turned into a Bee and you've pretty much got the feel of this flick.
Overall: I guess the bottom line is that the padawan Film Geek enjoyed this flick so odds are your younglings will too, and there's enough fun in it for Mom and/or Dad too.
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