Bee Movie

Jerry Seinfeld Director: Stephen Hickner, Simon J. Smith Stephen Hickner, Simon J. Smith,

Overview

Barry B. Benson (voice of Jerry Seinfeld) is your average honeybee. Despite having recently received his diploma from bee college and being virtually guaranteed a bright future in honey, Barry feels he has the skills to pursue a number of different career paths and resents the fact that his employment opportunities are strictly limited to producing the sweet nectar. Upon breaking away from the hive and developing a friendship with an insect-loving New York florist (voice of Renée Zellweger), Barry makes the shocking discovery that human beings eat honey in mass quantities. Having finally found his calling in life, the infuriated Barry decides to sue the human race for stealing all of the honey that his fellow bees work so hard to produce.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/11/2008
UPC:	0097361179445
Original Release:	2007
Rating:	PG
Source:	Dreamworks Animated
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby AC-3 Surround Sound]
Time:	1:30:00

Special Features

"We Got the Bee" music video; Pollination practice video game; The OW! meter; "The Buzz About Bees"; "Inside the Hive: The Cast of Bee Movie"; And a swarm of fun-filled extras!

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jerry Seinfeld	Barry B. Benson
Renée Zellweger	Vanessa Bloome
Matthew Broderick	Adam Flayman
Patrick Warburton	Ken
John Goodman	Layton T. Montgomery
Chris Rock	Mooseblood
Kathy Bates	Janet Benson
Barry Levinson	Martin Benson
Larry King	Bee Larry King
Ray Liotta	Ray Liotta
Sting	Sting
Oprah Winfrey	Judge Bumbleton
Larry Miller	Buzzwell
Megan Mullally	Trudy
Rip Torn	Lou Lo Duca
Michael Richards	Bud Ditchwater
Mario Joyner	Jackson
Jim Cummings	Title Narrator,Graduation Announcer
Tom Papa	Splitz,Klauss Vanderhayden
Andy Robin	Jock #2
David Moses Pimentel	Hector
Chuck Martin	Andy
Conrad Vernon	Freddy
David Herman	Buzz,Bob Bumble,Pilot
Carol Leifer	Press Person #1
Jeff Altman	Uncle Carl
Brian Hopkins	Sandy Shrimpkin,TSA Agent
Tress MacNeille	Jeanette Chung,Mother,Cow
Nathan D. Morrissey	Boy Crying,Timmy
Olivia Mattingly	Little Girl
Simon J. Smith	Truck Driver,Chet
Geoff Witcher	Press Person #2,Jack #1
John DiMaggio	Janitor,Bailiff
Barry Marder	Waterbug
Sean Bishop	Ladybug
Alan Arkin	Voice Only
George Wallace	Voice Only
Renee Taylor	Voice Only
Colin Quinn	Voice Only
Tim Blake Nelson	Voice Only
William H. Macy	Voice Only
Gavin Greenaway	Conductor
Alastair King	Conductor
Rupert Gregson-Williams	Conductor

Technical Credits

Spike Feresten

Barry Marder

Chuck Martin

Tom Papa

Andy Robin

Jerry Seinfeld

Stephen Hickner	Director
Simon J. Smith	Director
Kevin Andrus	Animator
Chris Bancroft	Animator
Anna Behlmer	Sound Mixer
Christopher Lee Capel	Animator
Tony Cosanella	Production Manager
Michelle Cowart	Animator
Steve Cunningham	Animator
Donnachada Daly	Animator
Eric Deuel	Animator
Bill Diaz	Animator
Leslee Feldman	Casting
Spike Feresten	Screenwriter
Will E. Files	Sound/Sound Designer
Nick Fletcher	Editor
Tomoyuki Harashima	Animator
Willy Harber	Animator
Martin P. Hopkins	Animator
Steve Horrocks	Animator
Jim Hull	Animator
Yair Kantor	Animator
Morgan Kelly	Animator
Serguei Kouchnerov	Animator
Christophe Lautrette	Art Director
Deven Riley LeTendre	Production Manager
James Lopez	Animator
Kevin MacLean	Animator
Barry Marder	Screenwriter
Chuck Martin	Screenwriter
Patrick Mate	Animator
Alex McDowell	Production Designer
Sean McLaughlin	Animator
Andy Nelson	Sound Mixer
Tom Papa	Screenwriter
David Pate	Animator
Jane Poole	Costumes/Costume Designer
Jean-Francois Rey	Animator
Andy Robin	Screenwriter
Rupert Gregson-Williams	Score Composer
Benjie Rush	Animator
Jerry Seinfeld	Producer,Screenwriter
Sean Sexton	Animator
Andrea Simonti	Animator
Christina Steinberg	Producer
Mike Stern	Animator
Cameron Stevning	Associate Producer
Mark Swift	Co-producer
William Tessier	Animator
Randy Thom	Sound/Sound Designer
Chris Wahl	Animator
Alexis Wanneroy	Animator
David Weatherly	Animator
Greg Whittaker	Animator
Scott Wright	Animator
Onur Yeldan	Animator

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Bee Movie
1. Chapter 1 [7:17]
2. Chapter 2 [2:21]
3. Chapter 3 [2:33]
4. Chapter 4 [7:39]
5. Chapter 5 [7:31]
6. Chapter 6 [4:12]
7. Chapter 7 [9:57]
8. Chapter 8 [1:40]
9. Chapter 9 [1:43]
10. Chapter 10 [5:49]
11. Chapter 11 [4:35]
12. Chapter 12 [3:55]
13. Chapter 13 [5:33]
14. Chapter 14 [4:13]
15. Chapter 15 [8:42]
16. Chapter 16 [4:34]

Menu

Disc #1 -- Bee Movie
   Play
   Scene Selection
   Special Features
      Tech Of Bee Movie
      Inside The Hive: The Cast Of Bee Movie
      Meet Barry B. Benson
      "We Got The Bee" Music Video
      DreamWorks animation Video Jukebox
         Shrek
         Shrek The Third
         Flushed Away
         Over The Hedge
         Madagascar
         Shark Tale
         Shrek 2
      Previews
         Play All
         Kung Fu Panda
         Madagascar: The Crate Escape
         The Spiderwick Chronicles
         Kung Fu Panda Activision Game Trailer
   Set Up
      audio
         english Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
         english Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
         French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
         Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
      Subtitles
         english
         French
         Spanish
         None
   Dream Works Kids
      The Buzz about Bees
      The Ow! Meter
      That's Un-Bee-Lievable!
      Bee a Bee
      Pollination Practice
      Dvd-Rom

Editorial Reviews

If Jerry Seinfeld's TV show was about nothing, then his movie, Bee Movie, can be accused of just the opposite -- or at the very least, of violently changing course every couple minutes. It's an unqualified delight to be reacquainted with Seinfeld's distinctive voice and all the past laughs it calls to mind, but one wishes it were in the service of something sturdier than Bee Movie. While that title is a clever pun, there's nothing second-rate about this enterprise. Its colorful universe pops at every turn, as the DreamWorks animators conjure an intricate hive world where residents are comically temporary cogs in the larger machine, but don't seem any less cheerful for that fact. Bee Movie also makes some wonderful initial strides outside that world, as Seinfeld's Barry B. Benson accidentally meets a human woman, voiced at perfect pitch by Renée Zellweger. Seinfeld and Zellweger have such great chemistry, his pluck matching her loopiness, that their scenes together simply breeze by, making a bee-human pseudo courtship seem almost plausible. This disbelief becomes harder to suspend when Barry decides to sue the human race for wrongful appropriation of the bees' tirelessly wrought fruit: their precious honey. The courtroom trial and the events that follow provide a further strain on narrative fluidity. Ardent Seinfeld fans may blissfully follow his zigzaggy, convention-damning logic, but others will probably scratch their heads. The comedian deserves credit for thinking bigger than the contained bug worlds of Antz and A Bug's Life, but excess ambition didn't serve him well in the finale of his venerable show, either. (Maybe he should just stay out of courtrooms.) Still, in most respects this is a worthy realization of Seinfeld and friends' own tireless labors, even if its flaws -- like some groan-inducing one-liners -- seep through on a second viewing.

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