2007 · family · animation · adventure
Bee Movie
Directed by Simon J. Smith1h 31m2007
Barry B. Benson, a recent college graduate who wants more out of his life than making honey, decides to sue the human race after learning about the exploitation of bees at the hands of mankind. What will happen next?
Our read: Bee Movie (2007) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive family · animation · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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How Bee Movie feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want absurdist Seinfeld bee comedy that's earnest beneath the meme reputation.”
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