Bee Movie
2007  PG  ANIMATED  1h 31min
CAST— Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Patrick Warburton, John Goodman, Chris
Rock, Kathy Bates, Barry Levinson, Ray Liotta, Sting, Oprah Winfrey, Larry Miller, Megan Mullally, Rip
Torn, Michael Richards
MUSIC— Rupert Gregson-Williams  DIRECTORS— Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith

     To bee or not to bee… That’s right, this film is abuzz with the afore mentioned honeys. Jerry Seinfeld voices Barry B. Benson, an ambitious young honeybee, who is soon to join the workforce. But he’s shocked to discover that once you find your forte that’s where you stay until death. That route’s not for Barry. He wants adventure and excitement, which he finds outside the hive on the bustling streets of NYC. There he begins a forbidden friendship with a human woman who teaches him all about our ways… including the shocking discovery that humans have been stealing honey right from under bees’ noses. So begins a moral and legal battle with humankind over honey rights. Really. The film has a tenuous start but really finds its groove with its absurdist view of the legal system. Funny, sweet (but never cloying), just dripping with humor for young and old alike. Bee there or bee square.
OUR RATING— ***