• If you like Seinfeld's humor, you'll enjoy a lot of the gags.
• The design work for the Factory/Theme Park/Wonder City inside the hive is actually pretty cool. Beautiful animation during these sections of the film.
• John Goodman's performance as the ultimate sleazy lawyer with a Southern twang. After all his perfomances in animation as a big lug with a heart of gold, it's nice to hear him stretch his talents.

• The story is bizarre. Even for a cartoon, this story will drive viewers trying to make some sort of sense out of the plot...well...buggy.
• Interspecies bee-human romance is touched upon. Delicately and not-so-delicately. It lead to a very weird dream sequence and some real eyebrow-raising lines.
• There's already been a zillion CGI talking insect flicks...this one really doesn't have anything the others didn't.

Not a bad film. Far more clever and nice to look at than I was expecting. But I get the feeling Ratatouille will have nothing to worry about come Oscar time.
 

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Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
 
I think I will take the kids to see it. Dreamworks always puts in questionable material and I like to preview the movies before I let the kids watch them. That's why I like Pixar more.
 

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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
 
Hmmm. According to Ron Rosenbaum, I'm innately evil and stupid for liking Jerry Seinfeld, and Bee Movie is in fact the ultimate tool to crush non-conformity.

Wow. I'm an insidious, mindless cog for the forces of blandess!

[ November 05, 2007, 10:25 AM: Message edited by: Puffy Treat ]
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
Puffy is referring to this article which complains about Seinfeld's 'blandness'.

Anyway, he compares Seinfeld with this other far less successful, far more obscene comic Shapiro using the mirrored characters in A Tale of Two Cities Charles Darnay and Sidney Carton in what is a wonderfully fundamentally flawed argument.

Also, such nuggets as this:

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Instead I invite you to stare at a drawing of Jerry's bee "Barry B. Benson," and tell me that you don't eventually see Satan.

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O.o
 

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Posted by Swampjedi (Member # 7374) on :
 
Someone today at work described the movie in the following way (paraphrase):

"Bee Movie really shows what Seinfeld thinks of himself - when he stops working, the whole world shuts down."
 

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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
 
And we all end up paying the terrible price.
 

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Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
 

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John Goodman's performance as the ultimate sleazy lawyer with a Southern twang. After all his perfomances in animation as a big lug with a heart of gold, it's nice to hear him stretch his talents.

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Wasn't this pretty close to his character in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
 

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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
 
"O Brother, Where Art Tho" was animated? BEST MO-CAP EVER!
 

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Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
 
Ha! I missed the "in animation" part.
 

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Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
 

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Originally posted by Puffy Treat:
Wow. I'm an insidious, mindless cog for the forces of blandess!

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Yes, but we already knew this because you hate fun movies. Why ya gotta hate fun, Mr. Treat? What did fun ever do to you?



--Enigmatic
 

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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
 
Fun KILLED MY DOG, thankyewverymuch.
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
Did you sue?
 

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Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :
 
I liked it.
I give it a B.
I said I give it a B!

 

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Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 

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Originally posted by Elmer's Glue:
I liked it.
I give it a B.
I said I give it a B!

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