In fact, I almost feel that I should praise the film instead of condemn its warped surrealism, for is it not the highest goal of surrealism to bend reality to a point where the comfortably familiar has been replaced by the grotesque and the radical?
This is a film where post-modern metahumor and self-reflexivity go 'round the far side of beyond and come back in some twisted and possibly dangerous form. But the cluttered mise en scène of Bee Movie is so frankly psychotic as to banish anything even remotely like charm to a distant, lonely place. Now, children's movies always involve at least a bit of heightened reality, and in another film I can imagine that the notion of a bee suing humanity might strike me as charming.
I'm delighted to say that it gets loopier still, but I should not wish to venture into spoiler territory.
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On the one day that he gets that wish, a series of random events carries him to the kitchen of florist Vanessa Bloome (Renée Zellweger), with whom he falls deeply in love, until the realization that humans eat honey raises his self-righteous radical edge and he organises all the honeybees of the world to sue the human raise for their systematic exploitation and enslavement of beekind. Benson (voiced by Seinfeld) who does not wish to work in an anonymous honey-processing job like all the other bees, but instead to fly with the pollen carriers out in the blue sky. So this film that kicks up my hackles so, what is it? It is the story of a bee named Barry B. Compared to this film, 2007's previous surrealism standard-bearer, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters, is positively sedate. This is, and I say this in all sobriety, the most bat-shit loony film I have seen this year a film whose casual surrealism and indifference to narrative realism threaten to devour the audience. But even so, I don't think that anybody could have predicted just how crazy the final product was going to be, and by "crazy" I mean K R A Z Y. Let us instead take it as an indication that Bee Movie was a rather slapdash and ill-conceived project that was doomed from the start to a fate of incoherence and irrelevance. DreamWorks would like it if we took it as a measure of how much faith the canniest entertainer in Hollywood has in the most successful stand-up comedian in history. There are a lot of lessons to take from that story. He did not thereupon take up producing duties. Now it doesn't take that patented Spielberg Insight behind such epochal works as Memoirs of a Geisha and Taken to see that this was a highly-developed story with nothing but potential, and so the producer cleared a path for the film at the august DreamWorks Animation. There's a by now ubiquitous story about the origins of Bee Movie: Steven Spielberg and Jerry Seinfeld were having lunch one day (well, of course they were!) when Seinfeld mused that it would be amusing to make a cartoon about bees, and title it Bee Movie, because you see it sounds kind of like "B-movie," so it's funny.
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