What was the point of the Bee movie?  Bee Movie(2007)

Published on   November 17，2024   00:52AM  By Alice

Bee Movie is a comedy that will change everything you thought you knew about bees. It is a 2007 Golden Globe-nominated CGI-animated film starring Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick Megan Mullally, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, and Patrick Warburton, Produced by Dream Works Animation, it is directed by Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner, Its title is a play on the term “B movie”. Bee Movie is also the first motion-picture script to be written by Seinfeld, who co-wrote it with Spike Feresten,Barry Marder, and Andy Robin, The cast and crew include some veterans of Seinfeld's long-running NBC sitcom Seinfeld, including writer/producers Feresten and Robin, and actors Michael Richards, Patrick Warburton, and Larry Miller(who plays the title character on the Seinfeld episode The Door man.

Barry B, Benson( voiced by Jerry Seinfeld) is “just an ordinary bee'who recently graduated from college and is about to enter the hive's Honex Industries(a division of Hones Corporation and owned by Hexagor Group)honey-making workforce, Along with his best friend AdamFlayman(voiced by Matthew Broderick), Barry is initially very excited. but his latent, non-conformist attitude emerges upon finding out that his choice of job will never change once picked; this prompts Barry to leave the hive and see the world on a daily run with the macho, elite " PollenJocks", though Adam tries to talk Barry out of it. He thoroughly enjoys his new freedom and is impressed by the process of nectar collection and pollination, but after being stuck to a tennis ball during a game and flying through a panicky family's car, he decides humans are crazy and that he should go home. Unfortunately, it begins to rain and he crash lands on a windowsill; the apartment's occupants have just come home and they close the window before Barry can escape. After freaking out the people inside and nearly being squashed, he is rescued by a female human named Vanessa Bloome ( voiced by Renée Zellweger) and gently put back outside. This unexpected act of kindness intrigues Barry, who goes back in to thank the woman even though doing so would violate Bee Law #1-“Don't talk to humans.” Despite both of their expectations, they develop an instant bond bordering on attraction and start hanging out together frequently. Of course, all of their friends and family are completely upset by this relationship.

While they are going through a grocery store, Barry is shocked to discover that the humans have been stealing and eating the bees'’ honey for centuries, and after venturing to Honey Farms and witnessing the artificial process by which the honey is gathered, he ultimately realizes that his true calling in life is to set the world right by suing the human race for stealing their precious honey, This is later shown on Bee Larry King via Hive at Five, The trial initially goes well, until the main defense lawyer(voiced by John Goodman) goads Adam into stinging him in order to show the less lovable side of bees, but Barry counters by producing the smoke machine used by Honey Farms to drug and subdue their bees.

Barry wins the lawsuit, and all honey in the world is confiscated and returned to the bees; too late, Barry and Vanessa realize that the sudden, massive stockpile of honey has put every bee out of a job, including the vitally important Pollen Jocks. Without bees pollinating the flowers, all plant life begins dying, with the entire food chain close behind. To set things right, he and Vanessa find a way to save all the flowers by going to the Tournament of Roses Parade in California and bringing back with them all the pollen-filled flowers to pollinate the world; Barry and Vanessa fly the flowers as luggage on a flight from Los Angeles International Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport. The flight begins to take a detour that would be fatal to the flowers, and in trying to intervene, Barry accidentally knocks out the terrified pilots; Vanessa joins him and tries unsuccessfully to fly the plane, but in the meantime, millions of bees have rallied together and arrive at the last minute to help them safely land.

Armed with the pollen of the last flowers, Barry and the Pollen Jocks manage to reverse the damage and save the world's flowers, also restarting the bees’beloved honey production, Nothing is mentioned about the fate of the existing honey or companies like Honey Farms. Though humans and bees are seen treating each other visibly better. Barry becomes a member of the Pollen Jocks, helping to pollinate the plants while also running a law firm inside Vanessa's flower shop, switching the name from “Vannesa's Flowers” to “ Vannesa and Barry: Flowers;Honey; Legal Advice”, As the film closes, his office door reads "lnsects at Law”. Mooseblood also works in his office with him, as shown when Barry is interviewing a cow.

In a word, Barry B, Benson (Jerry Seinfeld)is an inquisitive little honeybee who is less than thrilled about taking on the only career path laid before him making honey. And this film has been rated PG for mild suggestive humor and brief depiction of smoking.