A very entertaining and silly movie that you might miss its message. Admittedly it is outside my usual movie preference of dark, sinister and depressing but one does need to lighten up on occasion.

I did like this movie.
Kind of disappointed, thought it would be funnier.

It was a good effort by Jerry. Took him all the years between the show going off the air in May 1998 to this films release in November 2007 to have a major release of anything.
I am NOT a fan of Re'nee Zellweger's. At least you did not have to see her & that horrible hair cut she has had the past couple of years.

Jerry working again with Patrick Warburton (David Puddy). He has be doing a lot of voice work this decade, notably on "Family Guy".

Matthew Broderick not quite up to the standards of your big animated voice work, the great 1994 "The Lion King". That was a part to be remembered.

Animation is great to look at, colorful.

On the DVD itself. For such a god looking film, what was the deal with the cheap standard plain silver DVD?
And, it is the type of DVD you have to fast forward, FILM MAKERS ARE HOPING YOU WATCH BUT DO WE?) over the previews at the beginning of the DVD before you can get to the menu. I hate DVD's like this, such a pain in the neck. I RARELY watch them unless I am forced to & it does NOT make me go see a iflm or by the DVD of it.

When I bought the movie I wasn't sure if my 13 month old would like it...well he can't take his eyes off! It's a favorite!

As fans of the Seinfeld TV show, we wanted to see Jerry's "Bee Movie". We were pleasantly surprised to see that this animated movie retains that Seinfeld humor, although in a more family-friendy manner. We were laughing out loud throughout, and in particular got a kick out of the Patrick Wharburton-voiced character.

A very good animated film, Bee Movie, brings to the screen the story of a young bee that refuses to accept having to choose a specific job and stick with it for life (which is the `bee way' of doing things). An unexpected arrival, however, will make him discover a world he had no idea existed...
Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, and the rest of the cast have done a good job with their performances, though they are by far not my favorite actors.
One thing was rather curious and that was how a specific small religious/ethnic group was mentioned in the movie for no apparent reason whatsoever except to promote it and possibly get the audience exposed to it and/or used to it... There seems to be quite a trend in the last few years. Hmmm...
Furthermore, enough with the openly and provocative anti-southern bias, as the `baddy' lawyer in a trial taking place in New York (!) is (of course) a southerner...
All right they lost, let's move on please! No need or reason to demonize them in the eyes of the new generations.
In short, it's the same old/usual cliché involving one of Hollywood's favorite villains/scapegoats: Southerners (it must have been really difficult to include Germans, Serbs, or Russians in this one).
Nevertheless, the movie is very well written and very well presented, and it will surely provide for more than just a few laughs.
The setting, the plot, the dialogues, the colors, the humor, and the music are all very good.
In short, Bee Movie is an entertaining movie definitely worth watching. Strongly recommended along with the Shrek and Ice Age movies, Antz, The Ant Bully, Cars, Flushed Away, Hoodwinked, Madagascar, Monsters Inc., Over the Hedge, and Ratatouille.

4-Stars describes the great art and music, it is a treat for the senses. In the down-side, the humanization of the bees did not work well. They are shown in a technological advanced society where they drive cars, as opposed to a simple society like in "Antz". In sum, it is worth seen, even for adults.

Dreamworks seems to be in perpetual competition with Pixar. Year after year they come out with CGI-animated movies dealing with weird and wacky subjects that try to be as innovative as the Pixar movie coming out that year. This one is one of the better ones by Dreamworks. Starring Jerry Seinfeld, it revolves around a bee who decides to sue humanity over our theft of "their" honey. The feel of the movie is bright; bright colors, bright music, cheery dialogue, and of course, bright-colored characters - bees. The setting is NYC with humor straight out of the Seinfeld TV show as befits the main actor. All in all, a good 1.5 hours of comedy appropriate for all ages.

in bluray, with the right calibration for your tv, this movie is going to be VERY colorful. With details that you just did not see from when you watched it on the dvd. Its a must have for any bluray lovers.

sadly the sound quality is nothing to brag about

I can't get enough of these animated movies, and Bee Movie was just another must have to add to the collection.
You either like Jerry Seinfeld or you don't, but if you do, this will be a great film that you shouldn't miss.
It's not for kids really, there's a lot of adult humour which makes it all the more funny and would just go over the kids heads.

The movie looks fantastic in HD also, so just go and buy it if you haven't already seen it.

The first half of this movie is great. It was clever, funny, and original. The second half, while there were shining moments, fell short. Seinfeld was great, and his humor found its way through. Nearly all of the activity inside "the hive" was very entertaining. The problem with these types of movies is that it is becoming so easy to make them quickly. Movies like Toy Story and Monster's Inc. took years to make, which also gave them plenty of time to tweak and change the plot and script to make sure that it was perfect. Now that they take less time, and money, to make you end up with movies like this one (along with Madagascar, over the hedge, etc.) Yes, they are funny. However, in the end they don't quite measure up.

Penguins, Toys, Cars, Monsters and now Bees have their own light using the brilliance of computer animation and when hearing that Seinfeld, THE Jerry Seinfeld was himself writing and voicing one of the characters I was sure this movie would not fail to amuse. I have to admit that watching this film I was very disappointed, and that was simply because a man who can be named by many as being one of the greatest comedians of our time had stooped so low as to use Bee puns in order to get a laugh. During the movie things changed however and when Barry Benson entered into the court case when suing the humans, we are given some genuinely funny gags that can be attributed as funny yet true.

The story revolves around Barry Benson a Bee who's graduated from Bee University and is now forced to make a choice as to which job in the hive to take that he will work for the rest of his life. He isn't happy with that and decides to go out one day with the pollen jocks who are the bees who go out and collect the pollen to help make the honey. While on this trip he's accidentally lost and meets a human who saves his life, he thanks her and they become friends (Although she's freaked out by a talking bee). While out with her one day shopping he discovers the honey shelf and finds out the humans kidnap bee queens and hold captive bees in order for them to make honey in artificial hives. Because of this, Barry decides he must punish the humans and sues them.

Although the comedy does lack, it picks up towards the end and actually becomes quite intelligent. During the court case itself you can't help but notice the racial undertones when talking about bees being taken as slaves in work camps etc. John Goodman plays the stereotypical southern lawyer who is in favour of the bees being taken as slaves in work camps. The movie itself is quite intelligent especially when touching on the subject of lawsuits and the true repercussions a lawsuit can have. It's an enjoyable film but if you're expecting a hysterical Seinfeld classic then you will be sorely disappointed, it's good but be warned.

I rarely, if ever, notice what MPAA Rating a film has received as it is something I have NEVER had to worry about. I used to go to drive-in movies to watch The Exorcist and The Omen when I was but a fragile fawn in the woods collecting twigs. But when I saw that it was rated PG for 'mildly suggestive humor', it caught my attention. I thought: That's something you don't see everyday.

So, maybe it was the scenes where the angle of the viewers perspective was beneath the beautiful young girl's long legs and curvaceous body with that short, short skirt and her huge blinking eyes and wry smile. Maybe it was the many slick references to The Graduate. I was a little too reminded of all the much-more suggestive Japanese Anime that I've ingested in the last decade watching the first fifteen minutes. I guess at some point, the inclusion of "suggestive" material would have to happen to mainstream Western animation, too. We export so much "suggestive" and "explicit" material, it goes without saying that even a Dreamworks movie would someday co-opt a little of that market as well. For that, I guess as a thirty-something -- I'm thankful. I've never seen Renee Zellweger looking so trim and glowing and 'come hither'. Being a married man and having to understand the basic frailties of my wife and the way she looks, I'm sure Renee was probably intensely satisfied with her characters appearance as well. It was a highlight, even if they put most of the suggestive material on the front-end of the movie.

The second half of the movie then turns into a message-driven cautionary tale about Mankind's exploitation of bees, which is probably a long time coming and a good message for kids. I can understand the frustration of one reviewer, seeing that he's a bee farmer and that the film wasn't "correct" in all its descriptions of a real bee's life and the nomenclature of its existence. But the truth is, even if you do get your bread and butter from bee farming, being socially aware of our impact on the world of bees is a good message, no matter how you slice it. And, oh yeah, I think we all know that bees don't speak English (or Spanish), don't sip latte's, wear sweaters or study legal documents and seek to litigate for labor law violations and community infraction.

I laughed out loud and followed this movie in rapt attention from beginning to end as did my wife, who couldn't help saying that "it's so cute" numerous times. I was very impressed with this and will probably watch it again, adding it to the short-list of animated films that I keep out for repeat viewing.

And anybody that can work in an angle to put Sting on the witness stand and give him a lecture about his nom de plume has my vote ... very funny stuff. Gord Lord ... Gordon Sumner!

Bee Movie was actually to my suprise pretty good. it was a silly kids movie that people of all ages will enjoy. we need more movies like this, shrek & Ice age.

Please excuse me while I rant.

I was appalled by the complete lack of even the most elementary facts about the lives of honeybees. However, if you can give insects four legs instead of six, make them speak English, dress them up in sweaters, and make them fall in love with humans, I guess anything goes. *sigh*

First, honeybees have black bodies with yellow stripes, not the other way around. They do not pick a job and stick to it. Rather, as they age, they are genetically programmed to graduate to a vast variety of tasks in succession, spending the last halves of their lives as foragers. Male bees do NOT have stingers and they do ZERO work. In fact, they are barely tolerated by the workers and are kicked out of the colony at the end of the year. The hive, under normal conditions, is over 99% female. There are no hunky male "pollen jocks" sucking up pollen and spraying it everywhere because they somehow know it is good for flowers. In fact, the cartoon doesn't even portray the importance of pollen to the bees themselves. They somehow do it to be altruistic to the humans and flowers.

I am a beekeeper. My main beef is that somewhere around the middle of the cartoon, the whole thing turns Marxist. Beekeepers are portrayed as evil exploiters of the apian working class, gassing them with smoke, laughing diabolically, generally behaving violently, and stealing their honey. Hmph. I love my bees and enjoy caring for them, as does every beekeeper. I treat them gently and they return the favor. In the movie, the bees end up suing the humans, and win, and all the honey is returned to the bees. Double Hmph. The bees get lazy and stop working. Nothing is pollinated, all plants die, and the world is on the verge of total collapse. (They got that part of the communist experiment right, at least.) Imminent doom is near. (Typical environmentalist hyperbole.) The bees realize the consequences of their lawsuit and decide to start pollinating again to save the humans. (Typical happy ending that must be provided in every cartoon.)

OK. It's a cute movie with many witty moments but some parts are just cheesy and painful. I thought the portrayal of the defense lawyer as an out of control religious nut was particularly hilarious. In the end, the honeybees actually go back to work for the humans and both humans and bees have a renewed appreciation for each other, so the message in the end isn't entirely bad. Still, I don't like the idea that kids might leave the movie hating beekeepers and feeling guilty for eating honey "stolen" from the bees. Honeybees, by their nature, will usually produce up from one to four hundred pounds of honey per hive per year in excess of what they need for survival. It is their instinct to do this as long as they have the space and resources. We humans simply discovered how to manage the bees, give them plenty of good habitat, and harvest the excess crop. Good for us. Beekeepers have made plenty of mistakes along the way but that hasn't really included taking too much honey away from bees. I challenge anyone to think of a tree that has a hollow big enough to produce such a vast storage space for honey as the modern Langstroth beehive.

I know, I know... it's only a cartoon, don't make such a big deal out of it. I do feel, though, that other cartoons have been much more true to the actual natural history and general biology of whatever species is being depicted and that this particular cartoon was both grossly scientifically inaccurate and overly political on various levels. In this movie, beekeepers were depicted as diabolically evil. There were also animal rights messages ... "Why is your life of any more value than mine?" is a particular quote by a bee that had me angry. One doesn't encounter that kind of unrealistic conflict between humans and animals in classics like Peter Rabbit. Yucky.

A more accurate (and perhaps more interesting) cartoon would have explored the feminist world of the hive in which a few males enjoy their brief lives as sex workers with the queen, after which their genitals snap off and they die. The 99% female population would then gang up on the rest of the small male minority that never got to mate, wrestling the lazy SOBs out one by one to starve and freeze in the cold so that they could achieve their efficient female, collectivist utopia at last.... Muahahahahaha!

Of course, such a cartoon could not be rated G. :)

I watched the movie in the theater and I like this movie. Then I bought it for DVD, my nephew likes it too. Seems like a silly movie, but it's not. When you watch it, you will see that it is a purpose. The first actor is Jerry Seinfeld, so I still love Seinfeld.

It an great movie to watch as an family if very funny and very good they need make an part 2 to this movie that how good it is

I really enjoyed this movie and so did my grown daughters. It's witty, colorful and fun.

Bee Movie [Blu-ray] I borrowed this movie and I wasn't expecting much because of what I heard about it. I watched it with my 17 year old daughter and we laughed and thought it was very good. The next day I bought it on blu-ray. The picture quality is fantasic the colors pop off the screen and the audio sounds amazing with Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround sound. When the tennis ball hits the ground with Barry the bee on it...it's like your hitting the ground with full force. Some parts of the movie are a little unrealistic but what animated movie isn't. It's definitely worth a look.

This movie will not play on my Pioneer DV-333. I have been in contact with Pioneer who tell me that their engineers are looking into what the problem is, as other owners of Pioneer DVD players have reported the same situation.

It does play on my computer's DVD player.

Which is all that really matters! But there are certainly points in the movie that are enjoyable for adults. Overall though, there are better dreamworks movies and pretty much everything from Pixar.

Bee Movie (Full Screen Edition)Cute, good ecology film for children, not profound for adults.

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It is a cute movie, lots of bright color but it is no Monsters Inc.

This is the best animated movie I've ever watched. Barry (Jerry Seinfeld) is a newly graduated bee who has to decide what job he wants to work at in the hive. The most adventurous job is a "pollen jock" who actually leaves the hive to get nectar from the flowers outside. When Barry leaves the hive, he has several adventures, discovers humans are eating the honey that bees toil to make, and launches a lawsuit. I loved this movie. It's about teamwork, honesty, the importance of having a purpose in life (some very interesting things happen when the bees stop working), and even more importantly, the importance of bees in the pollination of flowers, fruits, vegetables and trees (even more important in light of the recent colony collapse disorder).

Usually, I find animated movies amusing but irritating in the obnoxious side characters and annoying actions (Madagascar is a good example). Even Shrek gets on my nerves sometimes with the anger-management challenged ogre and super irritating donkey. In contrast, Bee Movie was pure gold. Barry (Jerry Seinfeld) was practical, charming and a great hero. The other characters were great. I found the bee jokes funny and actually pretty inventive. The ending is unrealistic, but hey, this is a cartoon with a talking bee. It's called willful suspension of disbelief. I loved the ending, thought it was great and fantastic. Hey, if a human can save the world, why can't a bee? This is by far the best animated movie I've watched, and I think I've watched all the major animated movies.

I love animated movies and Bee Movie really doesn't disappoint. It's a solid film with a lot of "in" jokes and beautiful animation. The cast is great, the story is solid, the animation is excellent, so why not an A? The film does seem longer than it's 89 minute running lenth considering 9 of those minutes are credits! The animation while "BEE"utiful is really plain by today's standards and the film seems to run out of steam halfway though. It's still well worth seeing and the single disc version has enough extras to keep me happy and it won't "sting" you pocket book like the two disc one.

I got this for my kids, ages 7,9 and 11. watched it once, haven't touched it since. Was a very boring, disappointment.

MY KIDS LOVED THIS MOVIE I LOVE THIS MOVIE WE SAT DOWN AS A FAMILY AND WATCHED IT IT WAS CUTE AND VERY FUNNY SO IF ANYONE HAS KIDS AND WANT TO WATCH A FAMILY MOVIE BUY THIS ONE

As much as I love Jerry Seinfeld's jokes, this movie is flat-out disappointing. It's really fun to see a bee talk to humans in "Bee Movie," but something in the interaction goes terribly wrong.

First of all, the movie tries to show a romance between a bee and a woman. It gets even weirder when the woman has a human boyfriend. Okay, maybe it's interesting to have those relations with humans, but it just seems weird to think about those things when the main characters have different physiologies.

Second, near the end of the movie, the touching ending gets way too overblown and unrealistic. Think about it--a humongous batch of flowers to save the world from a lack of food. Bees saving the airplane carrying the batch of flowers. Sorry, the bees carried it to the airport. Somehow they developed superhuman strength. I don't understand how on Earth this is supposed to happen.

Worse still, the film gets ridiculous with the court scene between the bees and the human corporations. I like Seinfeld's jokes, but are humans really going to take bees seriously? They're bees. They can be squashed by humans. In fact, they get sprayed too. And they die in court. Isn't there something completely wrong with this?

This is a confusing movie that is supposed to teach kids about the importance of globalization. Globalization. The sharing of resources among nations. Kids are really not going to understand the message of this movie. "Bee Movie" really could have been like "Ratatouille," which was a story about a rat becoming a star, even though he was a hated pest by humans. Instead, "Bee Movie" falls flat on its face with too many problems. Do kids a favor and show them "Ratatouille" instead.

loved it.

my honey, Norman, and I just watched the delightful Bee Movie, and we loved it. laughed out loud nearly all the way thru it.

maybe it's a "kid's" movie - but, we are an old married retired couple with no kids in the house and we laughed our asses off.

the humor, in part, may go right over the heads of kids. little things like the Larry King part, kids are not going to get it. oh, kids will enjoy this movie, but, we adults need to not pass it up thinking it's "just a kid's movie," as it is great for all ages.

why compare it to Shrek, or Ice Age, or Monster's Inc?? it is nothing like those. it's a great funny nice movie.

stop thinking so hard, you'll hurt yourself and you'll miss the delight in life.

so says gramma Sally.

This movie is all over the place - it's a combination of stuff we've seen before, and stuff that doesn't work. It has weird, kid-inappropriate humor, such as a suicide joke ("Dear Mr. Katzenberg, after watching your movie, my six year old asked what a 'suicide pact' is...") and references to the sinister "white man." Now there's something a six year old can laugh at! It also has major logic errors, for example, how it is clearly set up that Bees can't fly in rain, then in the climax of the movie, bees have to 'save the day' during a massive storm... which conveniently has no rain! But the very strange, even creepy, thing about this movie is the deeper thematic material that appears at least partly intentional - how Seinfeld repeatedly sets up that Bees are Jews (i.e. "I hope she's Bee-ish", "Don't date a WASP" - a pun on White Anglo-Saxon Protestant WASP's) which isn't a problem until he sets out a plot about a court case where Bees are suing for their honey (money?) due to what Barry Benson terms "slave labor." Given that there have been many high profile court cases in the past decade involving reparations for slave labor of Jews during WWII era, it is particularly weird that the clincher piece of evidence in the Bee trial is that Bees are smoked by the hundred with some kind of gas from a machine. There is imagery of Bee hive boxes being like a large work camp and references to beekeepers as being like guards. Yes, this material would go over the heads of most viewers, but it can't be denied that it is there in plain sight nonetheless - right there in the movie as the A-plot - whether Seinfeld or the producers were even aware of it or not. Indeed, when Jerry Seinfeld arrived in Israel to promote this movie in late 2007, he was grilled repeatedly about "holocaust analogies" in "Bee Movie." Remember that as funny as the "Seinfeld" TV show was, it had pretty dark, bleak and cruel characters and plotlines (George plotting to kill his fiance?) and therefore was about deeper things than just friends living in New York like the show "Friends," and, like "Curb Your Enthusiasm," also at times dealt with the fears and darker psychological phobias of being Jewish in a sometimes anti-Jewish world. So maybe Seinfeld doing a movie ostensibly for kids was just a bit of a wrong fit, despite his outwardly amiable persona.

It was nice at the movie theater and nicer at home because we can watch it over and over again

I was disappointed with *Bee Movie*. Sure, it had some funny lines and adult humor, but the story plot was bad. I mean, it's bad enough that you won't catch me watching it again. From the mid-point to the end, it was just dry and I could not wait til the movie was over.

Barry Benson has just graduated from college. However, he's appalled to learn that he only gets one chance to select a career, which he's stuck with until death. Barry wants a chance to fly outside the hive before deciding his professional fate.

The bees have a couple of rules that they must not break. One of them is talking to humans. Barry ends up talking to a human florist, after she saved his life from being swatted from her fiance.

Barry soon learns that humans have been eating and selling their honey, which the bees have worked hard for. Barry, with the florist's help, decides to sue humanity for profiting from "bee-manity"'s labor, which he eventually wins.

However, he soon learns that his victory has a negative global impact. If he doesn't act soon, then life on earth will no longer be the same.

Eh! It's like I said, funny one-liners and that's about all that the movie is good for. The story plot is definitely not a classic. I definitely will not watch it again.

We found this movie to have good, simple messages that teach children how to be more aware of the environment and how there are consequences for actions and that things are connected. We really like how it is put across in a fun way. The only thing we did not appreciate much was the romantic allusions between the bee and the human lady - if it were more of a friendship that was suggested, we wouldn't mind. Does everything have to have romance in it - even children's movies? The ending of the movie was a nice surprize and made up for the minor disappointment of the romance stuff. Overall, a nice movie.

Started out pretty good but then it went on a tangent about bees suing people (and apparently U.S. courts effect THE ENTIRE WORLD) and I just lost interest in it at this point.

My 4 yr. old and I love this movie. It's very entertaining, lots of fun and what I like the most is that it includes a great lesson about nature and how everything works together.