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Release Date:
2 November 2007 (USA)
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On November 2 Hold on to your honey more
Plot:
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. full summary | full synopsis
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 11 nominations
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Decent for the first half, then goes thud
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jerry Seinfeld | ... | Barry B. Benson (voice) |
 | Renée Zellweger | ... | Vanessa Bloome (voice) |
 | Matthew Broderick | ... | Adam Flayman (voice) |
 | Patrick Warburton | ... | Ken (voice) |
 | John Goodman | ... | Layton T. Montgomery (voice) |
 | Chris Rock | ... | Mooseblood (voice) |
 | Kathy Bates | ... | Janet Benson (voice) |
 | Barry Levinson | ... | Martin Benson (voice) |
 | Larry King | ... | Bee Larry King (voice) |
 | Ray Liotta | ... | Ray Liotta (voice) |
 | Sting | ... | Sting (voice) |
 | Oprah Winfrey | ... | Judge Bumbleton (voice) |
 | Larry Miller | ... | Buzzwell (voice) |
 | Megan Mullally | ... | Trudy (voice) |
 | Rip Torn | ... | Lou Lo Duca (voice) |
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Rated PG for mild suggestive humor, and a brief depiction of smoking.
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91 min
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1.78 : 1 more
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Netherlands:AL |
USA:PG |
Singapore:PG |
South Africa:A |
Sweden:Btl |
Australia:G |
Canada:G (all jurisdictions) |
Malaysia:U |
Finland:K-7 |
South Korea:All |
Ireland:G |
Germany:o.Al. |
UK:U (cut) |
Switzerland:0 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:0 (canton of Geneva) |
Argentina:Atp |
Taiwan:GP |
New Zealand:G |
Brazil:Livre |
Philippines:G |
Italy:T |
Portugal:M/6 (Qualidade)
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Two references to The Beatles include the song "Here comes the Sun," and the Flight Controller saying "Coo-Coo-Ca-Choo," as the plane flies and settles in a bee-like fashion.
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Factual errors: Although a large enough swarm of bees could theoretically generate as much lift as a jet liner, the bees would have experienced "vacuum" forces between themselves and the body of the jet at the speeds depicted, rather than generating lift, like two ping-pong balls being drawn together by blowing a stream of air between them.
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Quotes:
Adam Flayman:
[On the bee testing a helmet] What do you think he makes?
Barry B. Benson: Not enough.
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Barry B. Benson: Not enough.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Larry King Live: Jerry Seinfeld" (2007)
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Soundtrack:
Sugar Sugar
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A NOTE REGARDING SPOILERSIs this movie based on a book?
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Bee Movie starts out pretty cute. Lots of cute little bee-related jokes (like the accelerated living caused by their short life span) and a nice looking honey factory. It's got a standard story in which the odd-bee-out searches for meaning in the universe and explores the outside world.
Unfortunately the movie is dumber than your typical cartoon, something that becomes apparent when the protagonist starts conversing with humans. This is silly in itself, but the movie becomes increasingly absurd.
Now, cartoon's are usually absurd, but unfortunately this one fails to work. It's a very stupid story, and the rule is, the stupider the story, the funnier the movie needs to be to justify sitting through that stupidity. But the reverse happens with Bee Movie; the dumber it gets, the less funny it gets.
It feels as though they came up with a poor premise and instead of scrapping it decided they would just struggle along and make the movie anyway.
I enjoyed this movie to just about the halfway point. And then it started really annoying me. After another ten minutes, I couldn't take it anymore and started fast forwarding through looking for something funny. I got the gist of the story, but when I'd look in it was still stupid and still not funny.
If the writers had realized they only had a decent first half and re-envisioned the whole thing, they could have come up with something enjoyable. But that didn't happen.