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After a nine year hiatus, comedy maestro Jerry Seinfeld (SEINFELD) returns to our screens with the sweet-natured comedy BEE MOVIE. In it, he voices Barry B. Benson, a young bee who refuses to accept his fate as just another faceless worker in a colony of millions. Despite being warned never to venture outside the hive, his curiosity gets the better of him and he goes off in search of adventure. What he finds, however, is nothing short of scandalous: human beings stealing honey for their own consumption! Outraged by this seeming injustice, he convinces a kindly florist (Renee Zellweger, BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY) to help him file a lawsuit against the entire human race for 'honey laundering' offences.Product Identifiers
EAN5051189135231
eBay Product ID (ePID)60083577
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Film/TV TitleBee Movie
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DirectorSimon Smith, Steve Hickner
FormatDVD
Release Year2008
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesFeaturettes - Inside The Hive: The Cast of Bee Movie/Tech of Bee Movie/Meet Barry B. Benson\'We Got The Bee' music video \DreamWorks Animation Jukebox\Featurettes - Inside The Hive: The Cast of Bee Movie/Tech of Bee Movie/Meet Barry B. Benson\'We Got The Bee' music video \DreamWorks Animation Jukebox, Widescreen
GenreGeneral, Animation, Comedy
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CertificateU
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ReviewsNew York Times - The most genuinely apian aspect of Bee Movie is that it spends a lot of its running time buzzing happily around, sniffing out fresh jokes wherever they may bloom, Empire - There are child-friendly puns, but it's also crammed with Seinfeld's trademark observational humour, Sight And Sound - At its heart is a sweet moral message about everyone pulling together, about doing even the smallest job to the best of your ability, Entertainment Weekly - BEE MOVIE is agreeably skewed fun... The images have a spangly clarity--they make New York look new again
Additional InformationAfter a nine year hiatus, comedy maestro Jerry Seinfeld (SEINFELD) returns to our screens with the sweet-natured comedy BEE MOVIE. In it, he voices Barry B. Benson, a young bee who refuses to accept his fate as just another faceless worker in a colony of millions. Despite being warned never to venture outside the hive, his curiosity gets the better of him and he goes off in search of adventure. What he finds, however, is nothing short of scandalous: human beings stealing honey for their own consumption! Outraged by this seeming injustice, he convinces a kindly florist (Renee Zellweger, BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY) to help him file a lawsuit against the entire human race for 'honey laundering' offences. <BR>Helmed by directors Steve Hickner (THE PRINCE OF EGYPT) and Simon J. Smith (a member of the SHREK creative team), BEE MOVIE lightens Seinfeld's notoriously stinging humour for a family audience, while staying true to its inherent New York-bred quirkiness. This leaves room for the film to feature impressive (if anatomically incorrect) bug-oriented CGI animation and a solid supporting cast that includes Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, John Goodman, Chris Rock, and Ray Liotta (who plays a honey-peddling animated version of himself). Although it inhabits some of the same insect-populated territory as A BUG's LIFE and ANTZ, BEE MOVIE also nods to THE GRADUATE (admittedly a Seinfeld favourite) in its restless protagonist, resulting in a playful and thoroughly entertaining film that even manages to work an environmental message into its colourful palette.
Movie/TV TitleBee Movie
VoiceRenee Zellweger, Barry Levinson, Rip Torn, Jerry Seinfeld, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King, Matthew Broderick, Colin Quinn, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Kathy Bates, Chris Rock
Consumer AdviceContains very mild language and innuendo