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| Bee Movie (Widescreen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Actor: Jerry Seinfeld
Studio: Dreamworks Animated
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (122 reviews)
Sales Rank: 662
Format: Ac-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 90 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: PARD117944D
UPC: 097361179445
EAN: 0097361179445
ASIN: B0011ZNAIC
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: November 2, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Best animated movie May 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the best animated movie I've ever watched. Barry (Jerry Seinfeld) is a newly graduated bee who has to decide what job he wants to work at in the hive. The most adventurous job is a "pollen jock" who actually leaves the hive to get nectar from the flowers outside. When Barry leaves the hive, he has several adventures, discovers humans are eating the honey that bees toil to make, and launches a lawsuit. I loved this movie. It's about teamwork, honesty, the importance of having a purpose in life (some very interesting things happen when the bees stop working), and even more importantly, the importance of bees in the pollination of flowers, fruits, vegetables and trees (even more important in light of the recent colony collapse disorder).
Usually, I find animated movies amusing but irritating in the obnoxious side characters and annoying actions (Madagascar is a good example). Even Shrek gets on my nerves sometimes with the anger-management challenged ogre and super irritating donkey. In contrast, Bee Movie was pure gold. Barry (Jerry Seinfeld) was practical, charming and a great hero. The other characters were great. I found the bee jokes funny and actually pretty inventive. The ending is unrealistic, but hey, this is a cartoon with a talking bee. It's called willful suspension of disbelief. I loved the ending, thought it was great and fantastic. Hey, if a human can save the world, why can't a bee? This is by far the best animated movie I've watched, and I think I've watched all the major animated movies.
 BEE MOVIE I GIVE IT A................B! May 18, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love animated movies and Bee Movie really doesn't disappoint. It's a solid film with a lot of "in" jokes and beautiful animation. The cast is great, the story is solid, the animation is excellent, so why not an A? The film does seem longer than it's 89 minute running lenth considering 9 of those minutes are credits! The animation while "BEE"utiful is really plain by today's standards and the film seems to run out of steam halfway though. It's still well worth seeing and the single disc version has enough extras to keep me happy and it won't "sting" you pocket book like the two disc one.
 Don't waste your time May 11, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I got this for my kids, ages 7,9 and 11. watched it once, haven't touched it since. Was a very boring, disappointment.
MOVIE MAGIC May 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
MY KIDS LOVED THIS MOVIE I LOVE THIS MOVIE WE SAT DOWN AS A FAMILY AND WATCHED IT IT WAS CUTE AND VERY FUNNY SO IF ANYONE HAS KIDS AND WANT TO WATCH A FAMILY MOVIE BUY THIS ONE
 B Movie? More like D minus May 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As much as I love Jerry Seinfeld's jokes, this movie is flat-out disappointing. It's really fun to see a bee talk to humans in "Bee Movie," but something in the interaction goes terribly wrong.
First of all, the movie tries to show a romance between a bee and a woman. It gets even weirder when the woman has a human boyfriend. Okay, maybe it's interesting to have those relations with humans, but it just seems weird to think about those things when the main characters have different physiologies.
Second, near the end of the movie, the touching ending gets way too overblown and unrealistic. Think about it--a humongous batch of flowers to save the world from a lack of food. Bees saving the airplane carrying the batch of flowers. Sorry, the bees carried it to the airport. Somehow they developed superhuman strength. I don't understand how on Earth this is supposed to happen.
Worse still, the film gets ridiculous with the court scene between the bees and the human corporations. I like Seinfeld's jokes, but are humans really going to take bees seriously? They're bees. They can be squashed by humans. In fact, they get sprayed too. And they die in court. Isn't there something completely wrong with this?
This is a confusing movie that is supposed to teach kids about the importance of globalization. Globalization. The sharing of resources among nations. Kids are really not going to understand the message of this movie. "Bee Movie" really could have been like "Ratatouille," which was a story about a rat becoming a star, even though he was a hated pest by humans. Instead, "Bee Movie" falls flat on its face with too many problems. Do kids a favor and show them "Ratatouille" instead.
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