When the bee Barry B. Benson graduates from college, he finds that will have only one job for his entire life, and absolutely disappointed, he joins the team responsible for bringing the honey and pollination of the flowers to visit the world outside the hive. Once in Manhattan, he is saved by the florist Vanessa and he breaks the bee law to thank Vanessa. The become friends and Barry discovers that humans explore bees to sell the honey they produce. Barry decides to sue the human race, with destructive consequences to nature.

"Bee Movie" has a great animation, but unfortunately is silly with an absurd storyline. I do not understand what the writer might have in his mind with such lack of message; maybe a child could have written a better and more intelligent plot. The lead character in funny but has an annoying voice. I love animations, especially those with good messages. However, is so inaccurate and stupid that even for children I believe this movie does not work well. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Bee Movie – A História de Uma Abelha" ("Bee Movie – The Story of a Bee")

This is far from the worst movie ever(Disaster Movie) or the worst animated animated movie ever(Titanic:The Animated Movie),but despite its neat concept Bee Movie doesn't completely hold together consequently it is one of Dreamworks' weaker movies, Shark Tale being their worst.

Granted, there are things to like. The animation is gorgeous. The character designs are good enough, but the colours and backgrounds are the real revelations, as well as some of the visual gags. The music is a nice touch as well, the orchestral music is bright and breezy and the song in the end scene was lovely. I also loved the concept, and in the first half the film did work really well with it. It was original and well-written up to a certain point. The script in general is sassy and smart with the odd amusing pun, the pace to start with is brisk and the voice acting is solid with Jerry Seinfeld energetic, Renee Zellwegger warm and endearing and an assortment of effective cameos especially Ray Liotta's.

However, the film's problems come in the second half, and the start of those problems are with the courtroom scene which came across as forced and only slightly funny. Storywise, the last half hour feels like a different movie, first it is all warm, smart and infectious then it is close to serious and heavy-handed, and it also seemed as though the writers had run out of ideas. While there are some good jokes, others aren't so funny as it is the sort of humour that goes over the audience's heads, and the pace sags quite badly towards the end.

All in all, it isn't bad but it could have been better with a tighter second half and a more consistent set of ideas. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Barry B. Benson (Jerry Seinfeld) is a bee who just graduated from college. He is dismayed that he has to pick one job for the rest of his life without a day off. Instead of working in the hive, he joins the pollen jockeys who fly outside. Talking to humans is strictly forbidden but that's exactly what Barry does when florist Vanessa Bloome (Renée Zellweger) saves his life. He can't settle on a job for 3 whole days. He is shocked to find that humans are stealing honey from bees. So he decides to sue the human race. Then nature is destroyed in an apocalypse. How fun!

Jerry Seinfeld is being Jerry Seinfeld except he's a bee. Talking to humans diminishes the magic of the bee world. It's not that the bee world is that magical or fascinating. It's bright and yellow. But it's very workaday. The marrying of bee world with references to the real world is cute for a little while but it gets tiresome. Then the whole trial thing gets to be just stupid and not actually funny. It's an OK movie that is essentially a 90 minute take of a Seinfeld standup of what if he's a bee.