Barry B. Benson (voiced by Jerry Seinfeld), a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa (Renée Zellweger), a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us.A very odd story line I thought, and I'm sure it's one smaller kids will probably not really care about, but the visuals are great for the little ones and for the adult appeal there are a lot of funny one-liners aimed more for the older set. It's never really laugh-out-loud funny I thought but it does have some really humorous moments.
Despite being sort of odd though, the story is really clever and it moves along rather rapidly, with sly one-liners coming fast and furious at times with several play-on-words with "bee" and pop-culture references. Chris Rock steals some scenes as the mesquito Mooseblood and cameos from Ray Liotta to Larry King to Sting (the singer, not the rassler) keep things interesting. Patrick Warburton (David Puddy on Seinfeld), the greatest voice in animation history, has a part as you'd expect. He's been in many of my favorites... Brock Sampson on The Venture Bros., Joe Swanson on Family Guy, Kronk in The Emperor's New Groove and The Wolf in Hoodwinked to name a few.
The animation is top notch as the visuals are just gorgeous, especially some of the goings-on at the hive and when the troops head out to Central Park... just fantastic animation.
Overall... silly, clever and witty... not hysterical but entertaining.
7.5/10
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