Bee Movie - Release 11/02/07 (US), 12/14/07 (UK)

By wendy on Sunday 17 June, 2007

Jerry Seinfeld is the brain behind the new Dreamworks Animations production called Bee Movie. The popular stand-up comedian got the idea on a lazy Sunday afternoon when he heard - you guessed it- a buzzing bee. The next day he had lunch with Steven Spielberg and the deal was made.

Seinfeld himself plays the role of Barry B. Benson: a recently graduated bee who comes to the scary realization that he has to spend his whole life inside the bee hive. The boring prospect of making nothing else but honey scares him and it doesn’t take him long to search his freedom. Once outside a beautiful world awaits him and he has an interesting meeting with a New York City florist called Vanessa. She tells him that humans steal all the honey from the bees for the sole purpose of consumption.  Barry is enraged by this idea and sues the entire human race on charges of theft. But maybe that isn’t such a good idea after all…

You’ll also hear these voices buzzing by: Renée Zellweger, Chris Rock, Matthew Broderick, John Goodman, Oprah Winfrey, Eddie Izzard and Larry King. The movie will be released on November 2nd in the US and December 14th 2007 in the UK. Click ‘read more’ for more trailers.

The trailer with the real animation:

NBC has won the rights for 20 live action shorts of each a minute or two, inspired by Seinfeld’s work on the movie. In a first hilarious short you can see the live ‘test takes’ with Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock in their bug suits on the front window of a car.

The second clip shows Seinfeld hanging on a thread above a flower. The review with Steven Spielberg brings a new light onto the future of the movie.

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