Bee Movie (U)

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Time Out rating:

<strong>Rating: </strong>3/5

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<strong>Rating: </strong>4/5
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Time Out says

Mon Dec 10 2007

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.

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Rated as: 4/5 (46 ratings)
  • Terrible movie is terrible. I expected something grand and creative when I first saw the film in commercials and such thinking it was going to be a good Bee adventure like many of the CGI Films; I was proven wrong. The film lives off it's excessive cliche bee jokes that never seem to end, from starting creative it just went to this whole Human -Bee love, to suing the human race in a long pointless courtroom scene and some-how the moral of the movie is "Do only for the superior, or else it would all go to hell. Don't ever fight the status quo, don't get your rights or the rich and powerful will lose it all and everything will go in chaos." I find that very hard to say as a good ending or even a moral of any sort. The movie didn't even have a moral, just some pointless rant of bees and overdone jokes. It was good on paper, but that was only the first few minutes of it; then later it just seemed like something trying too damn hard to be good it ruins itself, not even good on paper. Family hated the film, my little sister only enjoyed it for it's appearance but then again she doesn't even know how to distinguish between good or bad so it's not even a win for the film creators. P.S they constantly over recycle character models and it is a bad eyesore.

    Raul Mon Nov 21 2011
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • ABSOLUTLY HORRIBLE! my family didnt like it and when i had to watch it in school the other day the instant it came on every hand in the room shot up to go somewhere besides the room!

    dakotttttta f Tue Feb 1 2011
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • fab film n good enjyd it men lol

    manita Sun Apr 18 2010
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • The very thing that energizes this film may be the thing that garners bad reviews: Jerry Seinfeld. This is a lovely film he's made. Unfortunately, his presence attracts former fans who were, perhaps, expecting more of the same. I was (and am) a Seinfeld fan. His rapier wit remains in this movie. It is, however, tuned to younger folks; and so it's not the same. Nonetheless, it's truly enjoyable. I liked it. It's odd to me so many others don't.

    NMexUS Sat Mar 13 2010
    Rated as: 4/5
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  • Watching it at the moment and I gotta saw it's the most retarded thing ever. I suppose it's got the capacity to subdue audiences... but meh

    Thomas Fri Jun 5 2009
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • My two young daughters loved it. Animation was great for my littlen who doesn't usually sit still & the older one thought it was funny & so did I. So all round a great family film. You'll love it!

    Angela Fri May 16 2008
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • i really hate the movie. the movie sucks

    ulf Tue Apr 8 2008
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  • I s2 u *christina steinberg*

    artist Sun Apr 6 2008
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • Boring, did not get the plot. My son liked it, although I assume only the visual part rather than the jokes which were not really funny at all. I guess, one has to like Seinfeld. I don't. One star because I have to.

    Tom Sat Feb 23 2008
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • Did not like this at all. I almost fell asleep during it. My two boys loved it though. Will give two stars cause boys like it.

    Angela Sun Feb 17 2008
    Rated as: 2/5
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