Rahxephon - The Movie (DVD)

Advantages: Entertaining with positive message
Disadvantages: None

...Why review this DVD it is one of my sons favourites so I know this Film Word for word. Top named actors have been getting involved in animation movies for the last few years and this film is no exception. Voice of Barry - Jerry Seinfeld Voice of Vanessa - Renee Zellweger The plot The film looks at the world through the eyes of a bee, in particular a bee called Barry. Barry lives at home with his parents and has just graduated and has to get a job at the hive workplace Hone. He is mortified to discover that he has to pick one job for life. His best friend Adam also graduated at the same time is quite looking forward to work but Barry has other idea. He happens to have a chat with the pollen jocks that are considered to be the babe magnets of the hive and they give him an opportunity to go out flying with, this is where his... Read review

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Advantages: Great for all the family! Funny, great company!!
Disadvantages: None! :)

...I have always loved Dreamworks films, like Disney Pixar, I find them really funny, especially as they're normally about talking animals who have no idea about real life, much like this film!!! Bee Movie is well about Bees, who knew such a funny film could be made about bees, those honey making black and yellow flies!!!! Barry the Bee (Jerry Seinfield) escapes from his hive, where he gets into a spot of trouble, when a human almost kills him and his wife Vanessa saves him, he gets an unhealthy obsession with speaking to her, but its against Bee law. But when he does pluck up the courage to speak to the human, Vanessa (Renee Zellweger), he discovers he is not only madly in love with her, but also that a travesty is happening...the humans are STEALING their honey!!!! Barry decides he wants to sue the human population for this... Read review

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Advantages: Fun and unique
Disadvantages: A bit clunky and awkward at times

...note: also appears on my film review website, ShaunMunro.co.uk, and Dooyoo! The idea of anthropomorphism is certainly nothing new in animated cinema, but in Bee Movie, written by comedy giant Jerry Seinfeld, one is driven to ask ? is this one step too far? Bee Movie is essentially an allegory of the drudgery of human existence, namely as it pertains to one?s working life. Our protagonist, Barry Benson (Jerry Seinfeld), a bee, has recently graduated and become disenfranchised with the idea of making honey for the rest of his life. Through a series of events, Benson comes to learn that humans eat honey, and as such, endeavours to sue the human race. How such subject matter meanders into a children?s film is a curiosity, and I find myself thinking that adults may better identify with the film?s themes than the ankle-biting target... Read review

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