This digitally animated feature is not a great movie, but it is colorful, imaginative and solid entertainment. In many respects, it's more educational and more exciting than it is laugh-out-loud funny.
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11/01/07
Bee Movie (2007)
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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
Reviews for Bee Movie
Does Bee survive the hype? Not quite, but it is semi-charming and reasonably clever in that facile Dreamworks Animation kind of way.
11/01/07
Seinfeld comedy is cute fun for the whole family.
11/01/07
Bee Movie isn't the second coming of Seinfeld, but there's just enough of his singular personality to engage fans and enough buzzy action to delight the holiday kid audience.
11/01/07
Pleasant but entirely forgettable.
11/01/07
Bee Movie feels phoned in on every level.
11/01/07
At its relaxed best, when it's about, well, nothing, the slyly comic Bee Movie is truly beguiling.
11/01/07
It's on the easygoing level of Surf's Up, and a full tick up from, say, Over the Hedge or The Ant Bully. But given the Seinfeld pedigree it's something of a disappointment.
11/01/07
An often-inspired smart comedy for kids, and a vintage Seinfeld laugh for adults.
11/01/07
It's one of the better animated movies of the year--admittedly, rising to the top of a shallow pool.
11/01/07
Isn't quite as funny as The Swarm...neither frisky nor imaginative enough to merit even its short ninety-minute running time.
11/01/07
The mock outrage and dry sarcasm of Seinfeld's comic persona defines the movie's hero, a worker bee with a high-pitched, often cracking whine.
11/01/07
You might have been able to get away with stuff like this in the pre-Pixar age. Not anymore.
11/01/07
Yet another animated flick with a starry cast in which a creature that ordinarily would seem pesky is rendered as not just harmless but even lovable and idiosyncratically human. Enough already.
10/31/07
Infectiously amusing? More often than not.
10/31/07
After Shrek the Third's flatulence jokes, the return of that Seinfeldian wit brings animation up a level.
10/31/07
On the whole, this is another disappointing animated effort and it resides considerably lower on the totem pole than this year's current non-live action champion, Ratatouille.
10/31/07
The film is nutty, ecological, antically funny, and moving, all at the same time.
10/31/07
It is mercifully less than 90 minutes long, but make that an hour and a half of witty, captivating enchantment.
10/31/07
Seinfeld has completely dumbed-down his normal clever wit in order to appeal to younger kids; they're probably the only ones who might enjoy this.
10/31/07
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