![]() ![]() After she saves him from meeting the business end of a shoe, Barry decides he must thank her even though talking to a human is strictly against bee law (can I just point out that 1. While dodging rain drops, Barry finds shelter in an apartment belonging to Vanessa, a florist. To move on to the actual plot of the film (I’ll do my best not to analyze every single logical misstep in this movie from here on out), Barry manages to survive an unlikely number of obstacles when he is separated from the group. Can I point out that the queen would really be their leader, and I can’t remember anyone mentioning the queen even once?!?!? Does no one else find that bizarre? The pollen jocks are an oddly militaristic group of bees with nectar guns and a cartoon stereotype of a general as their leader. Unable to decide, Barry jumps at the opportunity to go out gathering nectar with the pollen jocks. The longer you look at this image, the more convinced you become their eyes are moving.īecause the survival of the hive seems to be rather terribly planned out, the graduates have just one chance to pick the job they’ll do for the rest of their lives. This really begs the question of why bees even need to attend university and what they’ve even been studying if they have no idea what they’ll do for their short lives (AND other bees later reveal there are certain roles bees are bred to perform)…but, if like me, you think about this one too hard, your brain will implode. Or, rather, a mindless repetitive task he’ll complete every day until he dies. I was ok with the first few, but slight amusement and eyerolls quickly transformed into resentment that made a movie less than 90 minutes long feel endless at times.īarry is a young worker bee who has just graduated from the equivalent of bee university and is now facing the prospect of choosing a career. This should come with a warning label for the number of bee puns that are likely to induce physical pain. ![]() Jerry Seinfeld made a children’s movie with a vaguely environmental message as an excuse to write a lot of cringeworthy bee puns. Wrapping up our first free-for-all of 2018 is a first for our Blog Collab: a dive into the world of animation! Will we immediately regret stepping outside of our usual sharks, demons, and killer mermaid territory? I mean, probably.
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