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Bee Movie

Play trailer 1:43 Poster for Bee Movie PG Released Nov 2, 2007 1h 31m Kids & Family Comedy Adventure Animation Play Trailer Watchlist
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Fresh out of college, Barry the Bee finds the prospect of working with honey uninspiring. He flies outside the hive for the first time and talks to a human, breaking a cardinal rule of his species. Barry learns that humans have been stealing and eating honey for centuries, and he realizes that his true calling is to obtain justice for his kind by suing humanity for theft.
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Bee Movie has humorous moments, but its awkward premise and tame delivery render it mostly forgettable.

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Alonso Duralde MSNBC [T]his comedy provides sporadic chuckles but, you'll pardon the expression, drones on for much of its running time. Rated: 2/5 May 1, 2008 Full Review Amy Nicholson I.E. Weekly What distinguishes this better than half-decent comedy is its detailed insight into the bee brain Rated: B- Feb 3, 2008 Full Review Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald Seinfeld the professional cynic has become Seinfeld the environmental crusader. Who'd have thunk it? Rated: 3/5 Feb 1, 2008 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Seinfeld's brand of observational humor is in full force, only imbued with more imagination and irony when applied to the bee world. Rated: 3/4 May 3, 2024 Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins While the premise is unique, the approach is generic. Rated: 5/10 Nov 24, 2020 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Apparently, when money talks good ideas walk. Rated: 2.0/4.0 Sep 2, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Evan W Overated is an apt term to describe this film. I enjoyed it as a kid, but upon rewatch it's unfunny to the point of frustration. I do not find Seinfeld's performance here entertaining whatsoever, his voice would rest an insomniac. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 07/30/25 Full Review Coral H one thing I really enjoyed is the part where A banana is an elongated, edible fruit—botanically a berry[1]—produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a peel, which may have a variety of colors when ripe. It grows upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) cultivated bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, or hybrids of them. Musa species are native to tropical Indomalaya and Australia; they were probably domesticated in New Guinea. They are grown in 135 countries, primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent to make banana paper and textiles, while some are grown as ornamental plants. The world's largest producers of bananas in 2022 were India and China, which together accounted for approximately 26% of total production. Bananas are eaten raw or cooked in recipes varying from curries to banana chips, fritters, fruit preserves, or simply baked or steamed. Worldwide, there is no sharp distinction between dessert "bananas" and cooking "plantains": this distinction works well enough in the Americas and Europe, but it breaks down in Southeast Asia where many more kinds of bananas are grown and eaten. The term "banana" is applied also to other members of the genus Musa, such as the scarlet banana (Musa coccinea), the pink banana (Musa velutina), and the Fe'i bananas. Members of the genus Ensete, such as the snow banana (Ensete glaucum) and the economically important false banana (Ensete ventricosum) of Africa are sometimes included. Both genera are in the banana family, Musaceae. Banana plantations are subject to damage by parasitic nematodes and insect pests, and to fungal and bacterial diseases, one of the most serious being Panama disease which is caused by a Fusarium fungus. This and black sigatoka threaten the production of Cavendish bananas, the main kind eaten in the Western world, which is a triploid Musa acuminata. Plant breeders are seeking new varieties, but these are difficult to breed given that commercial varieties are seedless. To enable future breeding, banana germplasm is conserved in multiple gene banks around the world. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/27/25 Full Review BlueTop World b Epic movie, ya like jazzzz Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/18/25 Full Review Alexander S Bee Movie has a hive of colourful animation, but the plot is a bit of a buzzkill in that it's not all that appealing for a family film. There's some decent humour, but mostly adults will be the ones buzzing about it. Grading: C Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 07/09/25 Full Review Its abe S OVERHATED! (CLAP CLAP,CLAP CLAP CLAP) OVERHATED! (CLAP CLAP,CLAP CLAP CLAP) Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/18/25 Full Review Simon G One of the funniest most stupid enjoyable films ever Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/01/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Fresh out of college, Barry the Bee finds the prospect of working with honey uninspiring. He flies outside the hive for the first time and talks to a human, breaking a cardinal rule of his species. Barry learns that humans have been stealing and eating honey for centuries, and he realizes that his true calling is to obtain justice for his kind by suing humanity for theft.
Director
Simon J. Smith, Steve Hickner
Producer
Jerry Seinfeld, Christina Steinberg
Screenwriter
Jerry Seinfeld, Spike Feresten, Barry Marder, Andy Robin
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Columbus 81 Productions, DreamWorks SKG, Pacific Data Images (PDI), DreamWorks Animation
Rating
PG (Mild Suggestive Humor)
Genre
Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 2, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$126.6M
Runtime
1h 31m
Sound Mix
Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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