Overall rating from 1 to 100: 68
O Masterpiece (100)
O Excellent (75-99)
X Rental (60-74)
O OK (50-59)
O Mediocrity (30-49)
O Avoid (1-29)
Mini Review by Jason Pyles / November 10, 2007
As strange as this seems, “Bee Movie” is actually scarier than “An Inconvenient Truth” (2006). Relax. Its frightfulness will buzz right over the kids' heads.
While Al Gore's documentary warns about global warming, “Bee Movie” has a plot that plays out some of the ramifications of "Colony Collapse Disorder," the name given to the alarming phenomenon where honey bees are inexplicably dying.
”Bee Movie” is spectacularly colorful; and when the bees soar through the air, the sweeping cinematography makes us feel like we're along for the ride.
But Jerry Seinfeld's "acting" is still deplorable, making performances in the “Star Wars” series look like a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
And despite several laugh-out-loud one-liners and an excellent homage to “The Graduate” (1967), the disappointing “Bee Movie” seems like the writers' strike began 20 minutes into the film: A courtroom drama within a cartoon is always an ominous sign.
Directed by Steve Hickner and Simon J. Smith
Jerry Seinfeld / Renee Zellweger / John Goodman
90 min. Animation / Family
MPPA: PG (for mild suggestive humor and a brief depiction of smoking)
Copyright 2007. 209
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