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After the utter wretchedness of Shrek 3, it was not a given that I'd see Bee Movie.
Still, I'm a diehard Jerry Seinfeld fan. Have been ever since the pilot episode of his old show. I just like his humor.
When work awarded me with two free movie tickets, I had an excuse to see it.
The good:
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 bad:
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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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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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!
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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:
quote: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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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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quote: 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.
Wasn't this pretty close to his character in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
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quote:Originally posted by Elmer's Glue: I liked it. I give it a B. I said I give it a B!
That would have been funny if the entire premise behind calling it, "Bee Movie" wasn't to make a play on that phrase. I'm not even kidding. According to Seinfeld he was eating dinner with Spielberg and jokingly pitched his idea about making a movie deliberately called, "B Movie" about bees. Spielberg made some calls without telling Seinfeld and Dreamworks called him up a few days later and offered to make the movie with him. He warmed to the idea and jumped on board.
This is all according to Seinfeld so take it how you will.
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