Melissa’s Cozy Teacup

I’ve JUST returned from seeing Bee Movie (there’s 90 minutes of my life and $5.75 I’ll never see again). Starring, Jerry Seinfeld, Rene’e Zellweger and many other talented actors including John Goodman who was type cast yet again as a verbally incontinent, angry, loud, fat man (see Evan Almighty, Brother Where Art Thou). I think John Goodman is a fine and talented actor. I would love to see him play a different character once and a while. I would really love to see him as a love interest in a movie.

Rene’e  Zellweger and Jerry Seinfeld both shined as the voices of a bee, Jerry, and Vanessa Bloom, Rene’e.

I thought Dreamworks did it again. Their animation was superb as usual. The movie was a visual delight. So why did I only grade it a D-?

Right in the middle of the movie, it became preachy and anti-white people which surprised me. If the movie had attacked black people in this same manor, we would already have sound bites from top leaders in the black community crying out about the stereotyping of black people, etc., etc.

I do not like how the movie vilified bee keepers and tried to make it sound like instead of producing, buying and selling honey, people were engaging in human trafficking, or in this case, honey trafficking. It’s HONEY for Pete’s sake.

The bees in nature had a sweet pad/hive, the bees on the farm lived in little bee slums in squalor. Give me a break!

the movie would have been great if it would have just stuck with the theme of the main character wanting to individuate himself from the hive and have choices but no-o-o-o, they had to go and get political, over honey.

If you want to make a movie with a political message, go for it, but don’t make a cartoon that’s supposed to be about bees and turn it into pseudo, wanna-be-intellectual-so-I-can-appear-deep, movie.