![]() ![]() (Both actors provide their own voices, which rates them as good sports indeed, considering the comic skewering both endure. We won't reveal the outcome of the case or what follows, but among the highlights of the trial are the testimony by actor Ray Liotta, who in the film's conceit, has lent his name to a line of honey, and Sting - who has the audacity, in Barry's opinion, to name himself for the bee's trademark accoutrement. Montgomery (John Goodman in a delicious, lip-smacking turn). ![]() With Vanessa's support, he brings the case to court, where he fights the honey industry's corrupt Southern lawyer, Layton T. "When I get through with them, every time they say 'Honey, I'm home,' they'll have to pay us a royalty," he vows. Astonished at first that a bee can talk (in the movie's universe, all bees can speak but protocol forbids them to speak with humans), she becomes pals with him.Īccompanying her to the supermarket one day, he is amazed to see the jars of honey, and gets it into his head that humans are exploiting all the work done by his hard-working bee brethren. Rescued by Ken's florist would-be girlfriend Vanessa (Renee Zellweger), Barry returns to thank her for the good deed. From this point on, the film - a bit slow to get started - hits its stride.Ī whirlwind aerial tour of Manhattan leads to him nearly being pummeled by a tennis ball and later by its macho, tennis-playing owner, Ken (Patrick Warburton). When the so-called Pollen Jocks, the macho bees who do the lion's share of pollinating, see him and his pal Adam (Matthew Broderick) sweet-talking a couple of female bees and challenge the diminutive Barry to join them on their next expedition outside the hive, he accepts with alacrity. To the consternation of his dutiful worker-bee parents, Janet (Kathy Bates) and Martin (Barry Levinson), he declares he wants more out of life. hive, a prospect he finds understandably stultifying. As lighthearted humor with playful animation, and a great ending song, the film is a success.The film, the brainchild of Jerry Seinfeld, is a generally delightful animated feature concerning a scrappy bee, Barry (voice of Seinfeld), who, after graduation, learns he will spend his entire life as a worker bee in the same dull job in the Honex Corp. If you are expecting an incredible story or thrilling action or amazing animated beauty, then you might be disappointed. If you recognize that that is what the filmmakers are going for, then you will enjoy it. Don't go to this for a serious story! It is light humor, and at that game a great success. So perhaps slightly different expectations will serve you well with this movie. There are a lot of these jokes and they are quite funny! Does anything feel better than laughing? (OK, well very few things.) The story is mainly there as a vehicle for the jokes. It is unusual among animated movies in that its focus is jokes, kind of like a stand-up act. And I kind of enjoyed the story, it was a little odd and funny. The characters were cute and the story didn't get in the way of the humor. That the last act had fewer jokes was a minor misstep. ![]() It is hard for me to find much fault when I am laughing that much. It's goal is to make you laugh, and little beyond that. ![]()
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