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A manic, joke-dense animated comedy with a genuinely bizarre premise and a lot of meme fuel, but also a thin story and uneven pacing. It’s more interesting as a cultural artifact and a stream of punchlines than as a fully satisfying family film.
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Sun · 1h 31m
Director: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick
Barry B. Benson, a recent college graduate who wants more out of his life than making honey, decides to sue the human race after learning about the exploitation of bees at the hands of mankind. What will happen next?
Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith
Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick
A manic, joke-dense animated comedy with a genuinely bizarre premise and a lot of meme fuel, but also a thin story and uneven pacing. It’s more interesting as a cultural artifact and a stream of punchlines than as a fully satisfying family film.
Bee Movie is less a conventional family adventure than a fever dream of corporate-era studio comedy. It takes a premise that should be silly for five minutes and stretches it into a full legal satire, romance, and workplace absurdity, with the kind of deadpan delivery that makes the strangest lines land harder than they should.
What keeps it alive is its commitment to the bit. The movie is packed with odd visual choices, weirdly specific jokes, and a relentless willingness to escalate from cute anthropomorphic setup into full-blown nonsense. That makes it feel less polished than Pixar or DreamWorks at their peak, but also more singular than many cleaner, safer animated films.
As a story, it’s uneven and often feels like it’s improvising its way forward. But as a pop-culture object, it’s durable: part kids’ movie, part satire, part accidental cult classic. If you’re in the mood for something that is genuinely strange rather than merely family-friendly, it has a lot of charm in its chaos.
Mike (5★) · 10822 likes
Do 👏 not 👏 call 👏 your 👏 significant 👏 other 👏 honey 👏 unless 👏 you 👏 are 👏 a 👏 bee 👏 you 👏 are 👏 appropriating 👏 bee 👏 culture, 👏 this 👏 cannot 👏 bee 👏 accepted 👏
James (Schaffrillas) (3.5★) · 8650 likes
A shitpost disguised as a film
aliyah · 7037 likes
my top ten favourite moments ranked by how often i think about them on a daily basis: 10. when vanessa asks her boyfriend why a bee’s life has less value than his9. ‘are you her little......... bed bug?’8. the suicide pact wherein barry dies twice and the fact that such a scene was allowed to be included in a children’s film7. barry knocking himself out giving vanessa a high five6. ‘living out our lives as honey… more
sophie (5★) · 4720 likes
all the male bees have buzz cuts and all the female bees have beehives
sree (0.5★) · 3414 likes
beestiality
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anthropomorphic animals, workplace satire, environmental exploitation, identity and purpose, absurdist comedy, consumer culture, legal comedy, romance
animated comedy, family film, absurdist, satire, 2000s animation, legal farce, anthropomorphic, offbeat humor, cult favorite, corporate-era