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Bookmark this pageBee Movie (2007)
Director: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith
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From Time Out London
It’s something of a coup that Jerry Seinfeld has managed to mangle together 90 minutes worth of semi-decent bee jokes for his feature-writing debut. Alas, it’s probably the only noteworthy aspect in this otherwise waxen slab of digitally animated anthropomorphism which is little more than a series of loosly linked sketches with the odd celebrity cameo (does Sting count?) squeezed into the process for adult viewers. Seinfeld lends his shrill but solipsistic ‘Noo Yoik’ drawl to the voice of Barry B Benson, a sprightly honeybee determined to break free from the punchclock tedium of hive life in order to experience the outside world. In doing so, he makes the shock discovery that humans harvest and consume the honey which so many of his bee brethren have toiled to produce. He decides to file a lawsuit against the entire human race.
Where a film like ‘Ratatouille’ had the good grace to counterbalance some of its more far-fetched plot machinations with a surfeit of wit and wisdom, ‘Bee Movie’ piles up the big asks without once stopping to offer the point to all of this. Passes the time, but undoutedly one for the little ’uns.
Author: David Jenkins
Time Out London Issue 1947: December 12-18 2007
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- mark said...
- Posted on Dec 19 2007 16:07 Brilliant feel good film, Very likeable charicter, great storyline, This one and Ratatooey best feel good films i've seen this year.. Brilliant animation.. loved it..from a 40 year old miserable git
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- EliB said...
- Posted on Dec 15 2007 12:39 Best comedy movie ever
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- ben said...
- Posted on Dec 14 2007 09:03 i think it was brilliant he went very fast the bee
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- william said...
- Posted on Dec 09 2007 13:45 best film out jst now
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- william said...
- Posted on Dec 09 2007 13:44 great film really funny good when they shoot winnie the pooh
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- elisha said...
- Posted on Dec 07 2007 19:20 i think the movie will be great because people love cute littel animal on comideis
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Cast & crew
Director: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith
Producer: Jerry Seinfeld, Christina Steinberg
Genre(s): Children's, Comedy, Fantasy
Rated: U
Duration: 90 mins
UK Release: Dec 14 2007
US Release: Nov 2 2007
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