Bee Movie

Theatrical Release Date: 2007 11 02 (USA)

UPC: 097361179445

Studio: Dreamworks Animated

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Adult Humor, Scary Moments, Smoking]

Summary: 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 Ren?e 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, Rovi

Category: Children's/Family

Awards: Best Animated Feature – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Animated Feature – null Not-So-Obvious Worst Film – Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Best Animated Feature – Producers Guild of America Film Presented – London Film Festival Film Presented – Santa Barbara International Film Festival Best Animated Feature – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: "We Got the Bee" music video
Pollination practice video game
The OW! meter
"The Buzz About Bees"
"Inside the Hive: The Cast of Bee Movie"
And a swarm of fun-filled extras!

Bee Movie

Format: DVD

Release Date: 03/11/2008

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo, DDS2.0 Dolby Digital w/ 4 channels

Runtime: 90 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish,French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Bee Movie
1. Chapter 1 [7:17]
2. Chapter 2 [2:21]
3. Chapter 3 [2:33]
4. Chapter 4 [7:39]
5. Chapter 5 [7:31]
6. Chapter 6 [4:12]
7. Chapter 7 [9:57]
8. Chapter 8 [1:40]
9. Chapter 9 [1:43]
10. Chapter 10 [5:49]
11. Chapter 11 [4:35]
12. Chapter 12 [3:55]
13. Chapter 13 [5:33]
14. Chapter 14 [4:13]
15. Chapter 15 [8:42]
16. Chapter 16 [4:34]

Derek Armstrong

If Jerry Seinfeld's TV show was about nothing, then his movie, Bee Movie, can be accused of just the opposite -- or at the very least, of violently changing course every couple minutes. It's an unqualified delight to be reacquainted with Seinfeld's distinctive voice and all the past laughs it calls to mind, but one wishes it were in the service of something sturdier than Bee Movie. While that title is a clever pun, there's nothing second-rate about this enterprise. Its colorful universe pops at every turn, as the DreamWorks animators conjure an intricate hive world where residents are comically temporary cogs in the larger machine, but don't seem any less cheerful for that fact. Bee Movie also makes some wonderful initial strides outside that world, as Seinfeld's Barry B. Benson accidentally meets a human woman, voiced at perfect pitch by Ren?e Zellweger. Seinfeld and Zellweger have such great chemistry, his pluck matching her loopiness, that their scenes together simply breeze by, making a bee-human pseudo courtship seem almost plausible. This disbelief becomes harder to suspend when Barry decides to sue the human race for wrongful appropriation of the bees' tirelessly wrought fruit: their precious honey. The courtroom trial and the events that follow provide a further strain on narrative fluidity. Ardent Seinfeld fans may blissfully follow his zigzaggy, convention-damning logic, but others will probably scratch their heads. The comedian deserves credit for thinking bigger than the contained bug worlds of Antz and A Bug's Life, but excess ambition didn't serve him well in the finale of his venerable show, either. (Maybe he should just stay out of courtrooms.) Still, in most respects this is a worthy realization of Seinfeld and friends' own tireless labors, even if its flaws -- like some groan-inducing one-liners -- seep through on a second viewing. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Renée Taylor  Actor 
Colin Quinn  Actor 
William H. Macy  Actor 
George Wallace  Actor 
Tim Blake Nelson  Actor 
Alan Arkin  Actor 
Barry Marder  Screenwriter 
Jerry Seinfeld  Producer 
Jerry Seinfeld  Screenwriter 
Stephen Hickner  Director 
Rupert Gregson-Williams  Composer (Music Score) 
Christina Steinberg  Producer 
Tom Papa  Screenwriter 
Simon J. Smith  Director 
Spike Feresten  Screenwriter 
Andy Robin  Screenwriter 
Chuck Martin  Screenwriter 
Jerry Seinfeld  Actor 
Renée Zellweger  Actor 
Matthew Broderick  Actor 
Patrick Warburton  Actor 
John Goodman  Actor 
Chris Rock  Actor 
Kathy Bates  Actor 
Barry Levinson  Actor 
Larry King  Actor 
Ray Liotta  Actor 
Sting  Actor 
Oprah Winfrey  Actor 
Larry Miller  Actor 
Megan Mullally  Actor 
Rip Torn  Actor 
Michael Richards  Actor 
Mario Joyner  Actor 
Jim Cummings  Actor 
Jim Cummings  Actor 
Tom Papa  Actor 
Tom Papa  Actor 
Andy Robin  Actor 
David Pimentel  Actor 
Chuck Martin  Actor 
Conrad Vernon  Actor 
David Herman  Actor 
David Herman  Actor 
David Herman  Actor 
Carol Leifer  Actor 
Jeff Altman  Actor 
Brian Hopkins  Actor 
Brian Hopkins  Actor 
Tress MacNeille  Actor 
Tress MacNeille  Actor 
Tress MacNeille  Actor 
Nathan D. Morrissey  Actor 
Nathan D. Morrissey  Actor 
Olivia Mattingly  Actor 
Simon J. Smith  Actor 
Simon J. Smith  Actor 
Geoff Witcher  Actor 
Geoff Witcher  Actor 
John DiMaggio  Actor 
John DiMaggio  Actor 
Barry Marder  Actor 
Sean Bishop  Actor 

Country: USA