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Movie Review: Bee Movie

Film Review By Michael Phillips, Tribune Movie Critic Like a lot of people, Jerry Seinfeld has acknowledged "Rocky and His Friends" and "The Bullwinkle Show" as key early comic influences, as well as proof that you can target animation for kids as well as adults if you keep the jokes coming fast enough. The kids get the moose/squirrel friendship; the adults get the references to "Crime and Punishment." Or they don't. But they can appreciate that something funny's going on when Boris Badenov mutters "Raskolnikov!" when bested by moose and squirrel. "Bee Movie," a moderately entertaining feature, operates on the same split impulses to engage young and older alike. Kids theoretically will go for the flying sequences, in which honeybee Barry B. Benson (voice by co-writer and producer Seinfeld) joins a squadron of "pollen jocks" in flight over Central Park and, later, on his own, in some pretty hairy midtown traffic. Adults, theoretically, will enjoy an extended riff on the notion of actor Ray Liotta (voiced by Liotta) lending his name to a line of honey, and then fuming on the witness stand when Barry decides to sue the human race for stealing the bees' honey. "Bee Movie" is pretty ... read more Official Web Site: http://www.beemovie.com/ Back to main movie page Showing Today at: Click here for other showings