Movie Review: Bee Movie

Bee Movie
Directed by Steve Hickner and Simon J. Smith
Starring (voices) Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Oprah Winfrey
Rated PG

Let this be a lesson to all you ants! Ideas are very dangerous things! You are mindless, soil-shoving losers, put on this Earth to serve us! - Hopper, A Bug’s Life

The Skinny:

Bees are busy, Barry gets bored. Bees make honey, Barry wants more.

The Review:

According to an interview I read with Jerry Seinfeld, Bee Movie started out as a pretty funny premise. Seinfeld told host Steven Spielberg that he might want to make something that would be a Hollywood “B movie” about bees and call it Bee Movie. I think the possibilities to that idea would have been all but endless. Sadly, the only thing that remains from that original conversation is the title.

Coming from Jerry Seinfeld and some of the many other minds that brought us Seinfeld, this should have been a scathing commentary comparing the social structure of the bee colony to that of today’s society. Or bee’s effective use of teamwork and communication would have been the perfect setting for a satire about corporate America. What do we get instead? Ambition blinded by the half-assed notion to be as clever and well animated as a Pixar movie. For the record, it is neither...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!