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Bee Movie

Remember people, this is a Jerry Seinfeld movie which means RANDOM. In a good way though. For those of you that were looking for the Seinfeld style jokes, you will be pleasantly surprised. Those of you looking for something a little different, you got that too. For those of you who know nothing about Jerry Seinfeld and his hit TV show (see "Jerry Seinfeld rips Larry King” post), you are in for an even bigger treat.

Bee Movie takes place in New York City where they introduce a bee, Barry Benson (Jerry Seinfeld), as he is about to graduate bee college in his hive. However, to Barry’s disappointment he finds out that after college he will be working only one job for the rest of his life. Barry instead wants to see the world and leaves the hive where he meets Vanessa Bloome (Renee Zellweger), a local florist. Barry then goes on to discover that the human race has been stealing bee honey all over the world. This aggravates Barry and he decides, with the help of Vanessa and his best friend Adam Flayman (Matthew Broderick), that he wants to sue the human race and reclaim all the honey for the bee population of the world.

This movie is very fast. It is one joke after another. You really have to pay attention from start until finish in order to catch all of the jokes. In the beginning of the film they throw a ton of bee jokes at the audience. I found that Dan and I were almost the only ones in the theater laughing at some of these. They weren’t lame jokes, but like I said they came one after another and didn’t really give you much time to think about the last one. They also assumed that the viewer had a basic knowledge of bees.

I think this movie has something different to offer for anyone who goes to see it. The fast jokes will probably fly right over the heads of the children but they will love the cute bees and the normal PG movie jokes. For the adult viewer who has never seen Seinfeld, it has a few jokes for you that the kids aren’t supposed to understand. Also the constant ripping of well known celebrities, such as Ray Liotta and Sting, will get everyone excited. Lastly, for the Seinfeld lover, Jerry definitely throws in some classic Seinfeld jokes. Barry and Vanessa would be sitting over a cup of coffee and talking about the most random things in a very Seinfeldesque manner. Another funny thing that Jerry Seinfeld did was to make fun of how the insect world acts in real life. Have you ever wondered why bugs are always on your windshields? No, they aren’t dead; they are just hitching a ride on your car to get to their destination. Little jokes like this add to the range of comedy portrayed in this movie.

If you are looking for a movie with a story line, this is not the one to see. Much of this movie is just ridiculous. I guess we could start with the fact that bees are talking, but the film doesn’t even try to make things even semi-realistic. However, if you can just look past the out of this world story and take the movie for what it is (an amazing comedy), then you will end up being satisfied when you leave the theater. One thing that the DreamWorks team did make realistic was the visuals. They worked really hard to portray everything that we have in real life into the bee equivalent. An example of this is Bee-NN, the television channel that held the interview by Bee Larry King with Barry.

All in all, this movie will be a wonderful experience for anyone who decides to go see it, and I DO recommend that you see it. Not only that, but I predict it will do very well when the DVD comes out because after the movie I found myself trying to remember the lines and also trying to remember if there were any jokes that I had missed. I'm sure there were. I also found that I was craving honey afterwards... I wonder why...

My Rating:: (Even though Dan already did this I kind of have to…) “Bee”+