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Bee Movie (DVD)

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A Bee and A Human???

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4 Jul 11th, 2008 

27 Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful

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Excellent animated world, funny, cute, colourful

Disadvantages:
Slightly odd humour could be a disadvantage to some

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Bee Movie is one of the newest in a string of modern computer animated movies. Born from the comic genius that is Jerry Seinfeld (producer, director, actor) it is unlike the other films in the genre due to the slightly odd sense of humour we've come to expect from him.


The synopsis

Barry Benson is not your average Bee. Unlike his family and friends, he doesn't want to be a anonymous worker stuck in the same mundane job for the rest of his life.

So on the day of his graduation, just as he has to pick the career he will stay in forever, he decides he wants to see the world outside the hive, and asks the Pollen Jockeys (the front line of honey making!) to take him with them on their next trip outside.

They agree, but unfortunately on his debut into the outside world Barry is separated from the Pollen Jockeys and goes on a rollercoaster ride where he ends up in the apartment of kind young florist Vanessa.

When Vanessa's awful boyfriend tries to kill Barry, she stops him and puts Barry outside, saying all life has meaning.

Barry is so touched, when Vanessa's friends have left, he decides to break the most important Bee rule - Never speak to humans. Barry tells Vanessa how grateful he is for her saving his life. Vanessa after being intially stunned makes them a cup of coffee and some cake and they talk for hours.

It seems Barry is falling for Vanessa (a bee and a human - strange, strange, strange!) and when they start spending more time together, he discovers that humans eat honey. Barry knows how hard Bees have to work for the little honey they have, and decides to sue the humans. Will it all work out for the best?


My Verdict

Bee Movie is imaginative, entertaining and at points hilarious. The bee world the animators have created is colourful and creative, and the different bee clothes are cute and amusing.

With the cast including Jerry Seinfeld, Rene Zellwegger, Matthew Broderick, John Goodman, Chris Rock and a host of celebrity cameos you would be right in thinking Bee Movie is a winner. With it's slightly off the wall humour and it's unusual plot line it stands apart from other movies in the genre.

Barry's dilemma is easy to identify with if you've ever been a faceless minion at work as well!

I really enjoyed it the several times I've watched it, and my 10-month old loves it too because it's so colourful - result!

I still can't understand the whole bee being in love with a human thing though.....


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Rated PG

Run Time 90 mins approx

Released in 2007 by Dreamworks Animation

Nominated for a Golden Globe

May appear on other sites 

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Comments about this review »

silverstreak 18.07.2008 19:11

i thought that aspect a bit strange, too, but apart from that I was pleasantly surprised.

MarcoG 16.07.2008 22:10

You know what...I saw some of this on a flight...and it weren't that bad...considering :) x

arnoldhenryrufus 11.07.2008 12:19

We really enjoyed this when we was on holiday watching it - lyn x

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