Unfortunately, in the movie, that applies only to the screenplay. We learn at the outset of the movie that bees theoretically cannot fly. If the bees win their case, Montgomery jokes, he'd have to negotiate with silkworms for the stuff that holds up his britches.Īll of this material, written by Seinfeld and writers associated with his television series, tries hard, but never really takes off. Montgomery ( John Goodman), attorney for the human race, who talks like a cross between Fred Thompson and Foghorn Leghorn. Their instant analysis of the human-bee economic relationship is pure Marxism, if only they knew it.īarry and Adam end up bringing a lawsuit against the human race for its exploitation of all bees everywhere, and this court case (with a judge voiced by Oprah Winfrey) is enlivened by the rotund, syrupy voiced Layton T. He and Adam, his best pal ( Matthew Broderick), even visit a bee farm, which looks like forced labor of the worst sort. What Barry mostly discovers from human society is, gasp!, that humans rob the bees of all their honey and eat it. And humans tend to swat bees (there's a good laugh when Barry explains how a friend was offed by a rolled-up copy of French Vogue). This friendship is against all the rules. Compared to them, a Chihuahua and a Great Dane would have it easy. Then their relationship blossoms into something more, although not very much more, given the physical differences. He sneaks into a formation of ace pollinators, flies out of the hive, has a dizzying flight through Central Park, and ends up (never mind how) making a friend of a human named Vanessa (voice of Renee Zellweger). Benson, and he is voiced by Seinfeld as a rebel who wants to experience the world before settling down to a lifetime job as, for example, a Crud Remover. One bee, however, is not so thrilled with the system. "We certainly hope so!" says the smiling lecturer, to appreciative chuckles all around. "Are you going to work us to death?" a young bee asks during a briefing. You are born, grow a little, attend school for three days, and then go to work for the rest of your life. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.Īpplied with strict rigor, that's how bee society works in Jerry Seinfeld's "Bee Movie" and apparently in real life.
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