![]() Shockingly, this tale about beestiality and the fruitlessness of labor in a system of production - one that was, and still is, billed as a movie for children - did not kill it at the box office back in 2007. (3) It didn’t exactly do well … at first. Please enjoy this video of Jerry Seinfeld in a giant bee costume zip-lining through Cannes (yes, that Cannes).īee Suit Seinfeld also starred in this absolutely absurd live-action trailer for the film, and a number of other equally bizarre shorts (one of which is literally called ’ Welcome to Hell’?!). (2) This was Jerry Seinfeld’s first venture after Seinfeld, and thus, he promoted the crap out of it. ![]() (I’m not technically a scientist but this checks out.) So Barry ends up flying a plane (?) full of roses from the Pasadena Tournament of Roses to Central Park in order to pollinate the world, which somehow works and everyone is saved. Somehow, they win, which leads to all of the world’s honey being returned to the bees, which, in turn, causes flowers everywhere to begin to die due to a lack of pollination. She then helps him sue the human race for stealing honey from bees around the world. For reasons that are too complex to get into here (if you haven’t seen the movie, please go watch it now, I urge you), Vanessa ends up leaving her human boyfriend for Barry, who, may I remind you, is a bee. (This is all 100 percent straight from the Bee Movie script you can fact-check me.) Once outside, he meets a human florist named Vanessa and falls for her after she saves him from being squished to death by her boyfriend, Ken - the only reasonable individual in the entire film - who is allergic to bees, and didn’t want to, you know, die. ![]() Benson (Jerry Seinfeld), who - upon realizing that he is doomed to a life of fruitless, unending labor inside a system that devalues the lives of its workers - decides to fly outside the hive in an attempt to experience some sliver of excitement before resigning himself to a life of monotonous work that will surely end in his own demise. The film, described as a “hit comedy” in its original 2008 back-of-the-DVD blurb, stars a bee, Barry B. (1) In 2007, on planet Earth, DreamWorks studios released an animated children’s film titled Bee Movie (tagline: “Born to Bee Wild”). Questions like: Did comedian Jerry Seinfeld - fresh off of a nine-year run of prodigious success in a sophisticated and beloved sitcom - really make an animated children’s movie about a bee falling in love with a human woman (voiced by Renée Zellweger)? Did this movie really somehow become the source of a seemingly endless parade of increasingly abstruse memes on Tumblr and other social-media platforms? Did 15 million people really watch a video titled “The entire bee movie but every time they say bee it gets faster”? Did Vanity Fair actually declare that “ Bee Movie Won 2016”? How the heck did we get here? Has it really been exactly ten years since the release of Bee Movie? At some point, every society must confront the existential questions that undergird its very existence.
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