Honey, hive you heard the positive buzz about Jerry Seinfeld’s BEE MOVIE?
It’s all true. And for the record, by BEE MOVIE we’re not referring to the cheap productions that used to accompany the main features. No, this is a film about insects, who are industrious and apparently very funny.
The story centers on Barry B. Benson (Seinfeld), who lives with his cousins in a hive in the Sheep Meadow in New York City’s Central Park. He’s young, impressionable and notices everything. When he attends his school graduation ceremony, for example, he sees the crowd, hears the music and is amazed at the “pomp, under the circumstances.” (I will not be explaining any jokes. If you didn’t get that one, move on. There are plenty more where that came from.)
Normally at this point in Barry’s life he’d have to pick the job he’d work at for the rest of his life. But Barry is curious about the outside world and afraid he’d be bored doing just one thing. So, on a dare, he goes out with the pollen collecting crew and discovers a whole world out there. He meets a Manhattan florist, Vanessa (Renee Zellweger), who saves his life. Her rotten boyfriend Ken (Patrick Warburton) was about to squash him when Vanessa came to the rescue.
Barry then does the unthinkable. He breaks one of beedom’s most stringent rules. He speaks to Vanessa. Many of you may be unaware that bees speak English – quite fluently, as it turns out. That is because most bees – unlike Barry – obey the rules.