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!
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Movie Review: Bee Movie
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Movie Review: Death Sentence
Of course! We're one big happy fleet! Ah, Kirk, my old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? -- Khan Noonien Singh from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
They were all alive until they met you, Frank. -- Harmonica from Once Upon A Time In The West
The great tragedy of growing up in the 1970s and 1980s is that I did not know what an incredible actor Charles Bronson was when he made Death Wish back in 1974. In the early 1980s, I only knew him from his roles in the Death Wish films and his later films. Not all bad films by the way, not at all; Death Hunt with Lee Marvin is particular favorite of mine. Before Bronson took the role of Paul Kersey in the original Death Wish, he had already starred as one of the most iconic characters in cinema: Harmonica in Once Upon A Time In The West. Digging deep is essential and I dig deeper than I care to admit. Discovering his work in The Great Escape, Master Of The World, The Dirty Dozen, The Valachi Papers, The Magnificent Seven, Villa Rides, and Mr. Majestyk opened my eyes to his previous work. He was more than just a tool for Golan-Globus; he was so much more. Just look at his work in The Indian Runner for further proof. Bronson was always spot on, even in much of his lesser work. Charles Buchinsky was so full of raw emotion, rage, and fury; he never got his due...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
