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Cast: Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Mathew Broderick, Patrick Warburton, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, Barry Levinson, Larry King, Ray Liotta, Sting, Oprah Winfrey, Larry Miller
Screenplay: Jerry Seinfeld, Spike Feresten, Barry Marder, Andy Robin
90 minutes / Color
One thing I really don’t get with animated movies is the fact that they always use big name stars in the lead (or even small) roles. I find it funny because there are so many more talented voice actors out there that could do a better job. Not that I’m saying I didn’t enjoy “Bee Movie”. I found it really fun and funny and even cute. It’s a great effort that surpasses the ranks of the overrated “Simpson’s Movie” this year.
In an active hive in Central Park, there live many Bees working for their company Honex, to not only provide their whole hive with honey but also feed and keep them running for the next year. When Barry B. Benson (Jerry Seinfeld), a curious bee, leaves the hive to explore the outside world before working for Honex forever, he meets Vanessa Bloome (Renee Zewllweger), a kind and beautiful florist. There’s only one problem…she’s human!
After hanging around with Vanessa for a while, Barry discovers one of the most shocking things in his life: humans are stealing honey and forcing bee’s to work for no charge! This angers Barry and starts legal action against every human in the Honey Industry.
As he fights for the Bee’s legal rights with his friends Adam (Mathew Broderick) and Vanessa, though times rise but they still manage to win and the honey industry is completely terminated. All the bees are free and every single drop of honey is returned back to them. Barry grows rich and lazy…
One day, when Barry goes to visit Vanessa. It seems like she is leaving forever. Vanessa explains that the park is completely dead because since the bee’s were free and they have all their honey to last them for a lifetime, their old habits of flying around and dropping pollen has lead to New York’s dead plants and will lead to the death of their animal life too.
Barry feels completely guilty for all of this, flies to California with Vanessa, steals a flower parade show float and all the Bee’s pollinate the city to the tune of “Here Comes the Sun”. At the end, Barry and Vanessa re-open her flower store and also open a Law Firm for animals in need.
That’s basically it. Well even though it sounds really corny, “Bee Movie” turned out to “bee” really cute indeed. It was fully of stupid jokes (that kids probably don’t understand) and it made me laugh throughout the film!
The voice talents were mediocre. Like I said, I don’t really “feel” that whole fact of using big name stars in the head. They just did an okay job. Seinfeld was great but Broderick and Zellweger was off.
What saved the movie for me is the humorous screenplay. It was funny, charming and surprisingly smart. It angers me that the really annoying flick “Surf’s Up” got an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature and not this. This certainly deserves a place over that overrated piece of mush.
“Bee Movie” was so full of a new type of energy and zest in an animated film and filled with jokes that go beyond regular kiddie stuff. It blew away my low expectations and I wasn’t even watching the movie with an open mind. I’m not sure if I’m just retarded and really low for these jokes, but watching this movie literally made me laugh out loud.
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