Bee Movie

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Bee Movie

PG

2007

1h 31m

Kids & Family

Comedy

Adventure

Animation

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Fresh out of college, Barry the Bee finds the prospect of working with honey uninspiring. He flies outside the hive for the first time and talks to a human, breaking a cardinal rule of his species. Barry learns that humans have been stealing and eating honey for centuries, and he realizes that his true calling is to obtain justice for his kind by suing humanity for theft.

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Critics Consensus

Bee Movie has humorous moments, but its awkward premise and tame delivery render it mostly forgettable.

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Alonso Duralde

MSNBC

May 1, 2008

2/5

[T]his comedy provides sporadic chuckles but, you'll pardon the expression, drones on for much of its running time.

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Amy Nicholson

I.E. Weekly

Feb 3, 2008

B-

What distinguishes this better than half-decent comedy is its detailed insight into the bee brain

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Paul Byrnes

Sydney Morning Herald

Feb 1, 2008

3/5

Seinfeld the professional cynic has become Seinfeld the environmental crusader. Who'd have thunk it?

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

May 3, 2024

3/4

Seinfeld's brand of observational humor is in full force, only imbued with more imagination and irony when applied to the bee world.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Nov 24, 2020

5/10

While the premise is unique, the approach is generic.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sep 2, 2020

2.0/4.0

Apparently, when money talks good ideas walk.

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Ricardo B

@RT92748997 1 day ago

This movie is receiving a lot of hate, but this movie isn't for adults. It's a movie for kids and my kids absolutely love it! I encourage everyone to watch it with their kids.

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Ander D

@Theporg101 3 days ago

the bee looks like something that just came out of a meat grinder then routinely got brutally backshotted by Freddy Fazbear until he got a 67 haircut for a quarter then started singing rin tin tin

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Vincent R

@vincentr Oct 11, 2026

Only gets a high rating because of the lawyer... Oh boy he was right about everything

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molly H

@mollyh67 Oct 8, 2026

The Bee Movie changed my life. I love this movie with my whole heart, and have since the first time I watched it. I personally believe that it has PEAK humor and every single joke lands. It's a must watch.

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William L

@supperlapeace67 Sep 29, 2026

I believe these ratings are being unfair, as this is one of the best movies in every aspect of being a movie. This movie is goated and peak. Lowkirkenuinely this movie is one of the best sigma creations, and addresses why bees are so important and why they are better than wasps in every aspect, and wasps are ugly while bees are amazing and does everything. This is a goated peak aura filled creation of goatedness and auraness and sigma creations of auraing and why humanity would collapse if bees stopped pollinating, but we should be nicer to the bees as we know that the bees hold up society and don't make the bee hives mad or else they will attack you and you will have to execute the bees but the bees were going to help society but now they're too mad bro, the bees are valuable bro and that one guy who attacked the bees lwk had the right idea since talking bees are not natural, but it is a life lesson if you are allergic to bees and your wife falls in love with one leave her bro or else

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Gustavojr C

@RT30876198 Sep 29, 2026

The Bee Movie makes me laugh, it’s so funny and also weird but in a funny way. When Barry’s day dreams about Vanessa at the park having a picnic together, the part where Vanessa gets on a plane and then crashes and explodes cracks me up so much, I just can’t laughing about it. 😂

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Simon J. Smith

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Steve Hickner

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Jerry Seinfeld

Barry B. Benson

Renée Zellweger

Vanessa

Matthew Broderick

Adam Flayman

John Goodman

Layton T. Montgomery

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Synopsis

Fresh out of college, Barry the Bee finds the prospect of working with honey uninspiring. He flies outside the hive for the first time and talks to a human, breaking a cardinal rule of his species. Barry learns that humans have been stealing and eating honey for centuries, and he realizes that his true calling is to obtain justice for his kind by suing humanity for theft.

Director: Simon J. Smith, Steve Hickner
Producer: Jerry Seinfeld, Christina Steinberg
Screenwriter: Spike Feresten, Barry Marder, Andy Robin
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Columbus 81 Productions, DreamWorks SKG, Pacific Data Images (PDI), DreamWorks Animation
Rating: PG (Mild Suggestive Humor)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 2, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $126.6M
Runtime: 1h 31m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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