![]() What struck me especially was how blatantly unimaginative the jokes are. At this point, it’s more a cultural monument than an actual piece of cinema, celebrated for its baffling badness. Several versions of the film exist online, like one which speeds up every time the word ‘bee’ is spoken (and that’s a lot of times). ![]() “‘There were many versions, probably two and a half years of different ideas and stories until we had one that we felt would work,’ Seinfeld says.” What were those other discarded ideas? I dread to think, when the one they settled on was: human and bee fall in love, and bees sue humans for honey use and appropriation of bee culture (one plot thread involves the singer Sting being sued by bees in a court of law for being called Sting).īee Movie‘s lasting cultural impact has not been based on the film itself, but the memes it has generated. ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if they made a movie about bees and called it Bee Movie?'” Apparently, Spielberg thought that yes, yes it would be funny, and the process began to find a plot that matches that (genius) title. Not once in those many months (although not too many given how poorly produced the animation is in the first place) did someone stop and think, “What am I doing? Somebody has to stop this madness!”Īccording to an Entertainment article published in 2007 before the film’s release, it was conceived based on “an offhand comment made to Steven Spielberg, with whom Seinfeld was having dinner. Bee Movie is, however, an object of fascination, simply because watching it causes you to imagine how it could have possibly been made? Who wrote this? Who financed this? Animated movies take an age to produce. ![]() ![]() The point in the film when this becomes apparent is also the point at which it becomes interesting ― though not because of the film’s actual content, which is banal and boring. When I was reminded of the film’s existence, I realized that I had completely forgotten what is at the “heart” of the story: a romance between a human woman (Renée Zellweger) and a bee. ![]()
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