More Bee Movie Images
DreamWorks Animation Movie, Starring Jerry Seinfeld, Opens Nov. 2nd
Check out some new images from DreamWorks Animation's Bee Movie, starring Jerry Seinfeld and Renée Zellweger.
Unlike Paramount, who has been priming the pump with new Beowulf images and trailers every couple of weeks, DreamWorks Animation has been pretty quiet with releasing goodies from their upcoming CGI masterpiece (they hope) Bee Movie, starring the voices of Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Matthew Broderick, John Goodman and Renée Zellweger.
The good folks at IGN scored some images from the flick, which DreamWorks hopes will get former Seinfeld fans and their kids into a tizzy of Bee Movie consumer lust, which will translate into mucho dinero come November, and a possible Bee Movie 2 somewhere down the line.
People who saw the first "real" trailer will recognize at least two images as screen-caps from that spot that first aired back in May. The third is a previously-unseen image that continues from a sequence shown in that trailer.
Wonderful at World Outside the Hive
The first shot is a screen-capture from one of the movie’s action centerpieces, where Barry B. Benson (Seinfeld) gets out into the world and is dodging kites and clouds with his hive-gathering pals. There's no question that it's a good-looking sequence that conveys Benson's wonder at seeing the world outside his hive.
The second image is the original of the bunch. It shows Benson and his mosquito pal Mooseblood (voiced by Chris Rock) getting sprayed by a car’s windshield washer. Unfortunately, anyone who knows anything about windshield washer fluid knows that it contains an enzyme that breaks down insect bodies so the notion of a bee and mosquito surviving a spray of the stuff is more than a little implausible.
But since we’re supposed to believe the notion of a bee being able to talk to humans (or action heroes outrunning multiple fiery explosions), I guess it’s not just a far jump to accept that a bee can survive the equivalent of an acid spray unscathed. Bad Animation Writer! Bad Animation Writer! How dare you talk about reality in our movie fantasies! For shame!
Good Chemistry Between Seinfeld and Zellweger
The final image is where Benson and Zellweger’s florist character are walking down a crowded street, and discussing the difference between Tivo (the television technology) and Hive-o (a very nasty bee disease). Unlike a lot of jokes in Bee Movie, this gag did absolutely nothing for me, but it’s a good look at the chemistry between Seinfeld and Zellweger.
It’s safe to say that this movie looks very good (DreamWorks Animation’s artwork has come a long way from the first Shrek movie) but there are still a few questions about how this flick will fly with a family audience. There’s no question that former Seinfeld fans, who are now having spawnlings, will dig this flick like an old soul record, but will their kids get into it?
We’ll find out when Bee Movie opens on November 2nd.
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Fun Fact: Comedian Maija Di Giorgio alleged that 2002’s Seinfeld’s “documentary” Comedian was a blatant rip-off of her own autobiographical documentary, 2003’s Bitter Jester. She claims Seinfeld pushed his own doc through production after she approached him for an interview for her own project.
