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"Bee Movie" is a comedy that will change everything you think you know about bees. Having just graduated from college, a bee by the name of Barry B. Benson (Jerry Seinfeld) finds himself disillusioned with the prospect of having only one career choice—honey. As he ventures outside of the hive for the first time, he breaks one of the cardinal rules of the bee world and talks to a human, a New York City florist named Vanessa (Renee Zellweger). He is shocked to discover that the humans have been stealing and eating the bee’s honey for centuries. He ultimately realizes that his true calling in life is to set the world right by suing the human race. That is until the ensuing chaos upsets the very balance of nature. It is up to Barry to prove that even a little bee can spell big changes in the world.
Product Details:
Actors:
Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Patrick Warburton, John Goodman
Director:
Simon J. Smith
Format:
Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC, Full Screen
Language:
English
Subtitle:
French
Number of Discs:
1
Studio:
Dreamworks Animated
Run Time:
91 minutes
DVD Release Date:
March 11, 2008
Average Customer Rating:
based on 163 reviews
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Good Fun For A Slightly More Mature CrowdSep 08, 2010 The DreamWorks Animation formula, as witnessed in potent franchises like Shrek and Kung-Fu Panda works on the tried and true notion of dazzling children with cute visuals and slapstick action while entertaining the grown-ups with more intelligent humor and pop culture references. Further tilting the scales in favor of the Bee Movie is that talking, personified animals rarely fail in this arena; add comedic legend Jerry Seinfeld to the fold and all signs point to yes!
"Bee Movie," directed by Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner definitely leans to the adult side of the humor formula. Make no mistake, the visuals are bright and crisp, there's no off-color content or situations, but the goofiness interjected in these films to keep the youngsters enthralled has been axed to make way for dryer humor that we older folk will surely enjoy.
In fact considering that Jerry Seinfeld played a big part in this film's development, lends his voice and personality to the lead character, and has seen fit to include many of the costars from his hit television series, the type of humor within could best be compared to the logical/ observational type of comedy to expect here.
The story follows one Barry B Benson (Seinfeld) and his best friend Adam Flayman (Mathew Broderick) graduate elementary, high school and college all within a matter of hours and find themselves on the cusp of adulthood, where, like all bees, it is time to choose which part of the honey-making process they'll be a part of for the rest of their short lives.
Barry, it seems, doesn't jive with the hive way of thinking. And rather than sign up for a singular job to last a lifetime, a trip outside the hive with the pollen jockeys opens Barry's peepers to a much larger world; namely the world of humans. A chance encounter with a bubbly florist named Vanessa (Renée Zellweger), Barry breaks the cardinal bee rule and speaks aloud to her! Yes that's right folks, all bees can openly communicate with us at any time but usually choose not to.
Long story short, Barry accompanies this human woman to the grocery store, discovers humans have stolen honey for bees and are selling it for a profit and decides then and there to put an end to the exploitation of bees by suing the human race.
Traditional? Not exactly... But effective in a comedic sort of ridiculousness. The film succeeds with a nice quick pace and characters that are easy to become concerned about. Some of the lighter moments include cameos from a whole host of performers from Sting and Ray Liotta over to Larry King. Chris Rock dazzles as the mosquito Mooseblood and even stars like Kathy Bates, Oprah Winfrey, and John Goodman manage to elevate what began as a clever little concept.
In all I definitely enjoyed the Bee Movie and suspect I would have even if I wasn't a bit of a Seinfeld aficionado (why he couldn't write in parts for Jason Alexander and Michael Richards is truly beyond me). The visuals do little to elevate the genre but they are clean and crisp in that "DreamWorks" kind of way and though the plot may drudge on a bit too much for the youngsters to endure, the older crowd will definitely not complain should the tikes request this one be put into the DVD player.
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Bee Movie - Two Disc Special EditionJul 27, 2010 I was reluctant to watch Bee Movie when it was released in theaters, but I decided to give it a try. My expectations were low and this movie surpassed them surprisingly. It was very funny, and I came out of the theaters in a really good mood. To be honest, the plot is pretty silly but this movie wasn't supposed to be a masterpiece, and it delivered a lot of laughs for me. I think that's why this movie wasn't a huge success with critics, you need a good story and good jokes to make a great movie, if one of these two elements is missing it makes the movie forgettable. Oh, and all the puns! They were so lame, I can't BEE-lieve Jerry Seinfeld wrote those in...Oops...Even on the DVD case you still can't escape the puns so if you don't enjoy puns BEE-ware of this movie. Gasp!!! I did it again! I'm un-BEE-lievably sorry. AAAHHH!!!
DreamWorks talked about how impressive the 3D is in Bee Movie but I don't understand. It looks like standard 3D. I just don't see the enhanced technology. The humans in this movie look rather stiff, and lifeless besides the very main characters, an example is during a scene with a news report, the reporter's mouth is way out of sync with the vocal dialogue given. But, the bees look good and the honey looks very realistic. I also wasn't impressed with the bee hive, the colors aren't vibrant and it looked a little drab in my opinion. But I did like some of the creative objects in the hive, the bee's antennas are used as phones, the bees drive vehicles, and there is a device that lets you sharpen your stinger (A pencil sharpener) And Barry's closet is filled with the exact same black and yellow shirts. There are so many silly objects like these listed and it's so much fun spotting them.
I especially enjoyed Bee Movie's Cast, Renee Zellweger voices Barry's human friend Vanessa and I though Barry and Vanessa's friendship was entirely believable. And Ken (who's voiced by Patrick Warburton) is hysterical, he just flips out so much in this movie and it really cracks me up. And there are many more celebrities featured in Bee Movie, Chris Rock, (voices a dragonfly) Oprah Winfrey, (voices a judge) Larry King, (voices "Bee" Larry King) Ray Liotta (as himself) and a bunch more. I was also excited that Mathew Broderick voiced a character in Bee Movie, he also was in the Lion King and I love that movie. So what I'm getting at is there's a great cast for Bee Movie.
I enjoyed the movie so much I decided to purchase the two disc special edition but I was disappointed. (I'll discuss the problems later on in my review.) The extras for disc one of Bee Movie were subpar and I was hoping I would see more about the making of the film, but there not bad. I loved the "TV Juniors", you really need to watch these, you don't learn anything about the movie but they will have you cracking up. They run around five minutes and this DVD includes sixteen of them, and they're so silly, one of the TV Juniors features Jerry Seinfeld and the DreamWorks crew as they search for "the elusive animators" and if captured, they're forced to work at DreamWorks. Also included were some deleted scenes and the live-action Bee Movie trailers. There are also two very brief features about Jerry Seinfeld's flight dressed as a bee in Cannes to promote Bee Movie, and a short feature about the cast of Bee Movie. Those were disc ones bonus features and they're fine for a standard DVD, but the bonus features on disc two are awful. All that's included is a music video, and a few children games. This is a two disc special edition! So I was disappointed that I spent more money than on the single disc edition and all I got were a few extra children games.
If you enjoyed Bee Movie you need to own the DVD, but if you want to save money just buy the single disc edition, unless that is you enjoy children games and if that's the case go right ahead.
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Truly one of the most awful movies I have ever seen...Jul 26, 2010 I don't even want to waste my time writing a review of such a ridiculous, inane movie but am doing so to (hopefully) save an hour and a half of someone else's life. I find Seinfeld mildly amusing, but Jerry's voice was actually painful to listen to in this film, and Renee Zellweger's character was nothing more than a squawking schizophrenic mess. The jokes were neither funny nor clever, and aside from the vibrant colors, the movie was exceedingly dull and difficult to watch. My three year old son and I didn't even make it to the halfway point. I'm surprised that this fruitless movie even made it to the theaters...it may have easily been one the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life.
Classic Seinfeld comedy.Jul 02, 2010 Great movie. The adults as well as the kids will love it.
The only problem is that the little kids will think bees are nice and can talk and might run up to them in the yard.
AMERICA'S CRITICMay 15, 2010 ONE OF THE BEST DREAMWORKS MOVIES EVERY I LIKED THIS ONE ALOT!!! ITS VERY FUNNY AND VERY NEAT TO WATCH GO OUT AND RENT THIS ONE FOR THE KIDS!!!
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