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Reviews Counted:162
Fresh:83
Rotten:79
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Bee Movie has humorous moments, but its awkward premise and tame delivery render it mostly forgettable.
Theatrical Release:14-12-2007
Synopsis: Touted as Jerry Seinfeld's first major project since the 1998 end of his long-running eponymous TV series, 2007's computer-animated BEE MOVIE stars the popular comedian as the voice of Barry B.... [More]
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, John Goodman
Director: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith
Certainly Bee Movie could've been smarter, faster, and far cleverer, and it's disappointing to watch Seinfeld settle for less. For a man who made a mint reveling in comedic risk on a weekly basis, his first movie lacks serious sting.
Begins warily as a mild chucker and then reveals itself to be an increasingly clever and very funny appreciation of a bee's existence.
Instead of gently skewering the conventions of contemporary animation, it simply follows them to a T
Bet you're just itching to see "Bee Movie."This little honey was launched with an ad campaign possibly equal to the cost of launching a space shuttle ... bees have been everywhere.
made for kids with more bee puns than Carrot Top and Kenny Bania could ever imagine
Bee Movie isn't a B movie, it's a Z movie, as in dizmal.
Bee Movie is certainly not low-budget, but it has all the staying power and creative value of a B-movie. The secret life of bees, as told by Seinfeld, is a bore with a capital B.
The most genuinely apian aspect of Bee Movie is that it spends a lot of its running time buzzing happily around, sniffing out fresh jokes wherever they may bloom.
Top CriticBee Movie just lacks spirit and energy. Part of the problem may be that, as far as I'm concerned, any animated movie released this year (and possibly in years to come) suffers in comparison with Brad Bird's Ratatouille.
Jerry Seinfeld returns to the mainstream spotlight with Bee Movie, which proves as awkward and ineffective as George Costanza's attempts to wear a toupee.
Mostly amusing and good-natured, occasionally hysterical, and actually manages to sneak in a subtle lesson about nature.
It's not worth seeing, but if all the hype has you expecting a classic, you should lower your expectations.
Seinfeld's observational humor is relegated to the edges of a lightweight story.
Absurd enough to delight kids, overstuffed with verbal and visual in-jokes for grownups, it's a 90-minute joyride that barely pauses for breath. This is unquestionably the best movie that ever began as a bad pun.
The riskiest move Seinfeld made was to create an unlikable protagonist who is wrong every step of the way, but treat him like a hero.
Never funny, never meaningful, never coherent, never animated.
It's a minor film. It'll be amusing once and then forgotten.
If it's not Toy Story, well, what is? But Bee Movie offers plenty of entertainment for all ages -- though, truth be told, the older the better.
Not a flawless animated adaptation of Seinfeld's sometimes-cynical, always-obsessive takes on the trivial. Even at 91 minutes, it's long, and some of its voices too shrill, but the energetic brio of its social satire stings without turning inappropriate.
Bee Movie is best viewed as an oddball career move rather than as a successful movie.
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