2008 Woodie Awards
Bee Movie Gets an A
Brandy Egertson
Issue date: 11/7/07 Section: Life
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This movie really brings to life how interesting or lucrative a bee's life could be. Jerry Seinfeld's character, Barry B Benson, enlightens audiences with an upclose and personal look at the life of Barry Benson, the Bee.
The show produced by Dreamworks is another well drawn animation reminiscent of its Shrek predecessors. The movie begins with a plight that many freshly graduated high schoolers come upon themselves: choosing a career that they will do for the rest of their lives. The free spirited Barry Benson decides that to work himself to death is perhaps not the best decision to make on the day after high school, which is a tradition that bees have kept up for millions of years.
After taking his journey outside of the hive in rebellion to becoming a worker bee, he meets and dotes on the female heroine Vanessa Bloome, a New York City Florist played by Renee Zellweger.
The movie has several twists and underling plots, making it a well flushed out and original story. Benson's best friend, Adam Flayman played, by Matthew Broderick, is a good sidekick but not a big contributor to the humor of the film.
In the course of the movie, most audience members, from parents to very young childern identify with the bee cast. The show incorporates a super modern working of a hive with modern day problems and diseases like HIV or according to Benson "we have "Hivo." But it's a disease. It's a horrible, horrible disease."
Despite some critics being angered by Jerry Seinfeld's new career move into children's animations, it's a sure hit with the movie netting $41.5M it's opening weekend (www.slashfilms.com).
The comedic chemistry between Seinfeld and Zellweger was well done as well as the development of the characters. There were enough adult innuendos to entertain the older adults with the drier humor while still maintaining the PG rating. Overall, it is a great movie, worth the movie ticket price and a must buy for the home.
With the "honey just got funny" tagline, Dreamworks once again did not disappoint.
The show produced by Dreamworks is another well drawn animation reminiscent of its Shrek predecessors. The movie begins with a plight that many freshly graduated high schoolers come upon themselves: choosing a career that they will do for the rest of their lives. The free spirited Barry Benson decides that to work himself to death is perhaps not the best decision to make on the day after high school, which is a tradition that bees have kept up for millions of years.
After taking his journey outside of the hive in rebellion to becoming a worker bee, he meets and dotes on the female heroine Vanessa Bloome, a New York City Florist played by Renee Zellweger.
The movie has several twists and underling plots, making it a well flushed out and original story. Benson's best friend, Adam Flayman played, by Matthew Broderick, is a good sidekick but not a big contributor to the humor of the film.
In the course of the movie, most audience members, from parents to very young childern identify with the bee cast. The show incorporates a super modern working of a hive with modern day problems and diseases like HIV or according to Benson "we have "Hivo." But it's a disease. It's a horrible, horrible disease."
Despite some critics being angered by Jerry Seinfeld's new career move into children's animations, it's a sure hit with the movie netting $41.5M it's opening weekend (www.slashfilms.com).
The comedic chemistry between Seinfeld and Zellweger was well done as well as the development of the characters. There were enough adult innuendos to entertain the older adults with the drier humor while still maintaining the PG rating. Overall, it is a great movie, worth the movie ticket price and a must buy for the home.
With the "honey just got funny" tagline, Dreamworks once again did not disappoint.
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