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Barry B. Benson (voice of Jerry Seinfeld) is your average honeybee. Despite having recently received his diploma from bee college and being virtually guaranteed a bright future in honey, Barry feels he has the skills to pursue a number of different career paths and resents the fact that his employment opportunities are strictly limited to producing the sweet nectar. Upon breaking away from the hive and developing a friendship with an insect-loving New York florist (voice of Renée Zellweger), Barry makes the shocking discovery that human beings eat honey in mass quantities. Having finally found his calling in life, the infuriated Barry decides to sue the human race for stealing all of the honey that his fellow bees work so hard to produce. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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SpoutBlogSpoutBlog 10 Suggestions for One-Word Pix ...
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"Until last year’s brilliantly directed Ratatouille, all of Pixar’s animated features could be summed up with one word (toys, bugs, monsters, fish, superheroes, cars). Then the more complex plot synopsis of “rat functions as a culinary Cyrano in a French restaurant’s kitchen” came along and ruined the studio’s tradition of simplistic scenarios. Fortunately, this year Pixar is back on track with Wall-E, a movie that can be summed up as being about, in a word, robots. But in their pipeline they’ve got a couple sequels (Cars 2, Toy Story 3) and a couple multi-word synopses (2009’s Up and 2011’s The Bear and the Bow are, at the least, each described with two words: old man and fairy tale, respectively. Only 2011’s Newt could have been pitched using a single word: newts. So, while Pixar seems like it currently has enough on their hands, I’d like to suggest a few more single-word pitches for animated films in order to get things back to basics: Birds - They’ve given us a movie featuring ... " [More]
SpoutBlogSpoutBlog 10 Movies That Overcame Bad Buzz
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"Two big movies arrive in theaters this week, The Incredible Hulk and The Happening, and each has had its share of bad buzz. From what I can tell, though, the former is recuperating quite nicely with mostly favorable early reviews. And it’s sure to gross in the hundreds of millions, just like its big brother, Ang Lee’s Hulk, did a few years back. The latter, however, is still struggling through the muck, with writer-director M. Night Shyamalan doing everything he can to assure us that his film is merely a B-movie and shouldn’t be the victim of high expectations. If The Happening bombs, though, 20th Century Fox won’t be able to blame its bad buzz. Especially if The Incredible Hulk comes out a big winner this weekend. When a movie is good, or at least has some goods that audiences actually crave, it can overcome bad buzz. The list of films after the jump is evidence of this, although it’s possible that some of the older titles might have been less successful in the globally conscious ... " [More]
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"Cute and well animated, with a very mediocre story but fortunately also a lot of witty dialogue that will have Seinfeld fans wet themselves. And most importantly : not reliant on the pop-culture referencing humor that made me resent Shark Tale and the Shrek movies. Overall a very enjoyable animated flick. " [More]
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"Liked: Beautiful animation, Seinfeldian humor.Disliked: Dumb plot, increasing demands on the suspension of disbelief as the movie progressed.Verdict: Kids might like Bee Movie a lot, adults can only stay interested if they are partial to Seinfeld (but even that may require an effort). " [More]
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"While Bee Movie had some entertaining and funny moments, it was just too uneven to be really enjoyable. " [More]
The1TheOnlyJPThe1TheOnlyJP The 10 Best Films of 2007
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"Hello, my name is JP Paxton and I love movies. What began in mid 2004 has since became my uncontrollable obsession that can now be considered nothing less than an incurable sickness. Seriously, I probably think of a movie or something movie-related once every ten seconds. Because of this, I am propelled to constantly see, write & talk about movies. Those of you who are my friends or at least know of me already know this. For the ones that don't, now you know. Here it is New Year's Eve which means that yet another year has passed. Of course though that also means I'm here to let you all know what films I consider the best of 2007. This year certainly had its share of disappointments including but not limited to 'Bee Movie', 'Underdog' & 'Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.' I still can't recall what made me even think 'Underdog' might have possibly had a shot at being even half-decent. With the bad though there's ... " [More]
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"This was Jerry Seinfeld's cartoon feature about a little bee and how he discovers himself and where he fits into the hive.First 20 to 30 minutes I was taken with this movie. Very cute, graphics were captivating and story line was good. There were some very good bee references, some very subtle, which were great. The flying scenes were actually very good, especially over the city. Great detail.I don't know why, but about half way through this movie I started getting ancy and ready for it to wrap up. Did not like the human characters husband/boyfriend and the comments he made at the end were really strange.There were some very good scenes... The court ones were great! The airplane flight and the sitting on the top of the building - all good. Decent movie. I know this will sound cheesy, but I give it a B. Ok... Maybe even a C.... Excellent casting, except for the boyfriend character... " [More]
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"Ugh. Can I please state the the obvious thought that pops into my head before I go into a cordial review. I really didn't like this movie, at all. The animation was impressive, but what in the world. The story was so bizarre and made literally no sense and the end felt like some public service announcement and about how important bees are to our ecosystem. Which is fine and everything, but blah. I think it may also have to do with the fact that I've never been a huge fan of Seinfeld. I know everyone loves the show but I've just never found Jerry funny. I don't know, maybe if you like Seinfeld you'll have better luck when you view this movie. I went in honor of my nephew and nieces so I took one for the team. Hopefully you'll enjoy it a little more than I have. " [More]
erico_77375erico_77375 Bee Movie Nearly Put Me To Zzzz
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"I don’t know exactly what to think of Bee Movie, but then again, I don’t think the movie knows either. Written by Jerry Seinfeld, animated by Dreamworks, the movie seems to have serious potential, but only minutes into the film, the flaws become clear.This is the story of Barry B. Benson, who is a bee if you can’t tell by now and is voiced by Mr. Seinfeld. He’s just graduated Bee College and is about to be placed in his permanent job in the hive where he will stay forever. But Barry, like Benjamin Braddock before him, isn’t so sure that plastics…sorry, honey is in his future. But one day he takes up a dare laid down by a “pollen jock” and decides to leave the hive. His little day trip takes a detour when a tennis ball, a rainstorm and a leather boot puts him in the house of a young florist (Rene Zellweger). By the way, bees can really talk, but they don’t around humans. They spark a friendship that sometimes feels eerily like a ... " [More]
slipofthetongueslipofthetongue Bee the Holdout
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"I haven't seen THE BEE MOVIE but I have felt the not so subtle pressure from the media to be excited about it. Where and when did this start? Who at E.T. or The Today Show decided that we should be amped up about this movie and not others? When did it become a foregone conclusion that we will rush to see a movie even before we know if it's any good? Just think about it? Why are you excited (if you are)? How many other great movies have you let slip away because the concepts seemed strange or different? What great movie going experiences have you left on the table because you instead longed for a Bee fix? It begs the question, are you capable of thinking for yourself? Part of this I think is an offshoot of the breezy arrogance that Jerry Seinfeld has always been so good at. I would argue though that what made him so funny in his series was all the little reactions he had to people around him who were far more interesting. He needed the nut jobs around him in order ... " [More]
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