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Bee Movie (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 167
Fresh: 85 | Rotten: 82

Bee Movie has humorous moments, but its awkward premise and tame delivery render it mostly forgettable.

Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 19

Bee Movie has humorous moments, but its awkward premise and tame delivery render it mostly forgettable.

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Movie Info

Barry B. Benson (voice of Jerry Seinfeld) is your average honeybee. Despite having recently received his diploma from bee college and being virtually guaranteed a bright future in honey, Barry feels he has the skills to pursue a number of different career paths and resents the fact that his employment opportunities are strictly limited to producing the sweet nectar. Upon breaking away from the hive and developing a friendship with an insect-loving New York florist (voice of Ren�e Zellweger),

PG, 1 hr. 30 min.

Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy

Directed By: Steve Hickner , Alan Arkin

Written By: Jerry Seinfeld, Spike Feresten, Barry Marder, Andy Robin

In Theaters: Nov 2, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Mar 11, 2008

Box Office:$126.6M

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Jerry Seinfeld
Barry B. Benson
Ren�e Zellweger
Vanessa Bloome
Matthew Broderick
Adam Flayman
Patrick Warburton
Ken
John Goodman
Layton T. Montgomery
Chris Rock
Mooseblood
Kathy Bates
Janet Benson
Barry Levinson
Martin Benson
Larry King
Bee Larry King
Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta
Sting
Sting
Oprah Winfrey
Judge Bumbleton
Larry Miller
Buzzwell
Megan Mullally
Trudy
Rip Torn
Lou Lo Duca
Michael Richards
Bud Ditchwater
Mario Joyner
Jackson
Jim Cummings
Graduation Announcer, T...
Tom Papa
Klauss Vanderhayden, Sp...
Andy Robin
Jock #2
David Pimentel
Hector
Chuck Martin
Andy
Conrad Vernon
Freddy
David Herman
Bob Bumble, Buzz, Pilot
Carol Leifer
Press Person #1
Jeff Altman
Uncle Carl
Brian Hopkins
Sandy Shrimpkin, TSA Ag...
Tress MacNeille
Cow, Jeanette Chung, Mo...
Nathan D. Morrissey
Boy Crying, Timmy
Olivia Mattingly
Little Girl
Simon J. Smith
Chet, Truck Driver
Geoff Witcher
Jack #1, Press Person #...
John DiMaggio
Bailiff, Janitor
Barry Marder
Waterbug
Sean Bishop
Ladybug
William H. Macy
Tim Blake Nelson
Colin Quinn
Ren�e Taylor
Alan Arkin
George Wallace (II)
Robert Duvall
Eddie Izzard

Critic Reviews for Bee Movie

All Critics (168) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (86) | Rotten (86) | DVD (25)

Personally, I think I liked "nothing" better.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: NPR.org

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Bob Mondello

NPR.org

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It's impersonal. It doesn't come from anywhere interesting.

November 17, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Magazine

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David Edelstein

New York Magazine

Top Critic

Rock has but two scenes in the film, but he needs a hundred more. Give the man his own movie, please, if only because it'd bee far better than this one.

November 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Robert Wilonsky

Village Voice

Top Critic

This is a beautifully animated, cleverly executed, warm and funny adventure.

November 6, 2007 Comment (1)

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

The movie's more than cute, funny, and (at 81 minutes) brisk enough to move families in and out of the multiplex in mass quantities, like the social insects we are.

November 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Slate

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Dana Stevens

Slate

Top Critic

Bee Movie is a cute movie. Not that there's anything ... well, you know the rest. But cute is not what adults expect from Jerry Seinfeld, although children will be delighted.

November 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Peter Howell

Toronto Star

Top Critic

Its moral that even the smallest creature can make a world of difference is one to be appreciated. It is a shame, however, that it could not keep up its energetic and fun pace established within its first act.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Matt's Movie Reviews

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Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

The hyperactive comic randomness is deadening

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

A consistently amusing bit of animated whimsy from funnyman Jerry Seinfeld that has the observational comic's fingerprints all over it.

August 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Times-Picayune

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Mike Scott

Times-Picayune

Has there ever been an uglier animated feature? The eerie, fever-dream-like faux three-dimensionality, the cyborg-like humanoids, the septic, etiolated colors.

April 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix

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Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

... may not be "about nothing," but it is not about much more than the puny pun in the title.

July 5, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter

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Steve Biodrowski

ESplatter

A kids movie with a moral, that's rare!...

June 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

...for kids, the movie should work; for adults, I'd say it's pretty iffy. (Blu-ray Edition)

May 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

...tries mightily to be cute and cuddly, and in this regard it succeeds...at least for kids.

May 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Seinfeld's pleasingly idiosyncratic comic voice comes through in the haphazard, slaphappy storyline. [Blu-Ray]

May 26, 2008 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews

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Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews Source: Groucho Reviews

[T]his comedy provides sporadic chuckles but, you'll pardon the expression, drones on for much of its running time.

May 1, 2008 Full Review Source: MSNBC

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Alonso Duralde

MSNBC

Bland, watered-down Seinfeld-ian humor for kids, amusing at best, grating at worst.

April 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies

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Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

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ENOUGH WITH THE METAPHORS AND THE GODAMN PUNS! They made this film so bloody annoying! The animation isn't really anything we've not seen before fro Dreamworks and it's an appauling outing. The main character is just SO IRRITATING and the story is nothing original. It's an instantly forgettable film that is appropriately titled B-MOVIE....

August 16, 2011

Michael Miller

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July 9, 2011

Alexander Diminiano

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