Bee Movie

Synopsis: Fresh out of pre college, Barry the Bee (Jerry Seinfeld) finds the prospect of working with honey uninspiring. He flies outside the hive for the first time and talks to a human (Renée Zellweger), breaking a cardinal rule of his species. Barry learns that humans have been stealing and eating honey for centuries, and he realizes that his true calling is to obtain justice for his kind by suing humanity for theft.
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
51%
PG
Year:
2007
91 min
$126,597,121
Website
104,523 Views


(Black screen with text; The sound of buzzing bees can be heard)

Narrator:
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.

(Barry is picking out a shirt)

Barry:
Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little.

Janet:
Barry! Breakfast is ready!

Barry:
Coming! Hang on a second.

(Barry uses his antenna like a phone)

Barry:
Hello

(Through phone)

Adam:
Barry?

Barry:
Adam?

Adam:
Can you believe this is happening?

Barry:
I can't. I'll pick you up.

(Barry flies down the stairs)

Martin:
Looking sharp.

Janet:
Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those.

Barry:
Sorry. I'm excited.

Martin:
Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son. A perfect report card, all B's.

Janet:
Very proud.

(Rubs Barry's hair)

Barry:
Ma! I got a thing going here.

Janet:
You got lint on your fuzz.

Barry:
Ow! That's me!

Janet:
Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. Bye!

(Barry flies out the door)

Janet:
Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house!

(Barry drives through the hive,and is waved at by Adam who is reading a newspaper)

Barry:
Hey, Adam.

Adam:
Hey, Barry.

(Adam gets in Barry's car)

Adam:
Is that fuzz gel?

Barry:
A little. Special day, graduation.

Adam:
Never thought I'd make it.

(Barry pulls away from the house and continues driving)

Barry:
Three days grade school, three days high school...

Adam:
Those were awkward.

Barry:
Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive.

Adam:
You did come back different.

(Barry and Adam pass by Artie, who is jogging)

Artie:
Hi, Barry!

Barry:
Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.

Adam:
Hear about Frankie?

Barry:
Yeah.

Adam:
You going to the funeral?

Barry:
No, I'm not going to his funeral. Everybody knows, sting someone, you die. Don't waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead.

Adam:
I guess he could have just gotten out of the way.

(The car does a barrel roll on the loop-shaped bridge and lands on the highway)

Adam:
I love this incorporating an amusement park into our regular day.

Barry:
I guess that's why they say we don't need vacations.

(Barry parallel parks the car and together they fly over the graduating students)

{♬ Playing "Pomp and Circumstance" ♬}

Barry:
Boy, quite a bit of pomp...under the circumstances.

(Barry and Adam sit down and put on their hats)

Barry:
Well, Adam, today we are men.

Adam:
We are!

Barry:
Bee-men.

Adam:
Amen!

Barry and Adam:
Hallelujah!

(Barry and Adam both have a happy spasm)

{♬ "Pomp and Circumstance" Ends ♬}

Announcer:
Students, faculty, distinguished bees, please welcome Dean Buzzwell.

Dean:
Welcome, New Hive Oity graduating class of......9:15. That concludes our ceremonies. And begins your career at Honex Industries!

Adam:
Will we pick our job today?

(Adam and Barry get into a tour bus)

Barry:
I heard it's just orientation.

(Tour buses rise out of the ground and the students are automatically loaded into the buses)

Tour Guide:
Heads up! Here we go.

Announcer:
Keep your hands and antennas inside the tram at all times.

Barry:
Wonder what it'll be like?

Adam:
A little scary.

Tour Guide:
Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco and a part of the Hexagon Group.

Barry:
This is it!

Barry and Adam:
Wow.

Barry:
Wow.

(The bus drives down a road an on either side are the Bee's massive complicated Honey-making machines)

Tour Guide:
We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life to get to the point where you can work for your whole life. Honey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks bring the nectar to the hive. Our top-secret formula is automatically color-corrected, scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured into this soothing sweet syrup with its distinctive golden glow you know as...

Everyone:
Honey!

(The guide has been collecting honey into a bottle and she throws it into the crowd on the bus and it is caught by a girl in the back)

Adam:
That girl was hot.

Barry:
She's my cousin!

Adam:
She is?

Barry:
Yes, we're all cousins.

Adam:
Right. You're right.

Tour Guide:
At Honex, we constantly strive to improve every aspect of bee existence. These bees are stress-testing a new helmet technology.

(The bus passes by a Bee wearing a helmet who is being smashed into the ground with fly-swatters, newspapers and boots. He lifts a thumbs up but you can hear him groan)

Adam:
What do you think he makes?

Barry:
Not enough.

Tour Guide:
Here we have our latest advancement, the Krelman.

(They pass by a turning wheel with Bees standing on pegs, who are each wearing a finger-shaped hat)

Barry:
Wow, What does that do?

Tour Guide:
Catches that little strand of honey that hangs after you pour it. Saves us millions.

Adam:
(Intrigued) Can anyone work on the Krelman?

Tour Guide:
Of course. Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know that every small job, if it's done well, means a lot. But choose carefully because you'll stay in the job you pick for the rest of your life.

(Everyone claps except for Barry)

Barry:
The same job the rest of your life? I didn't know that.

Adam:
What's the difference?

Tour Guide:
You'll be happy to know that bees, as a species, haven't had one day off in 27 million years.

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Jerry Seinfeld

Jerome Allen Seinfeld is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. He is known for playing a semi-fictionalized version of himself in the sitcom Seinfeld, which he created and wrote with Larry David. more…

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Submitted on October 24, 2016

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  • BarryBBenson
    Yummy
    LikeReply10 months ago
  • uhwdoiawhdiahd
    BARRY BEE BENSON
    LikeReply11 months ago
  • aceb.05869
    This was good.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • colek.29221
    Oh my god i just busted all over my table
    LikeReply 11 year ago
  • kyla_w
    Dear person who made this,
    Thank you for making this. Sometimes when im sad i read this, and it makes me feel better. My fav part is "According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible."
    it was rlly good. thx :] 
    LikeReply 21 year ago
  • isabellap.05094
    thx. needed reference for my english essay
    LikeReply 21 year ago
  • elijahp.26098
    this is in a puzzle
    for school
    why
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Micheal_Jackson_HEEHEE
    This has changed my life so much I thank you to whoever made this because of this I got into college escaped my abusive parents and got married thank you so so much my guy HEE HEE
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • heath_l
    reading this is math class rn
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • vincenta.65079
    presented this to my class instead of my history project some how got an A
    LikeReply 21 year ago
  • Clumsy
    My discord friends read this while i was playing MC
    LikeReply 11 year ago
  • elizabethm.58705
    I just sent my entire class this
    LikeReply 12 years ago
  • jessicas.40106
    My best friend told me she hates me so I sent her this
    LikeReply 22 years ago
  • Carl12089341
    MmMmmMMm barry Makes me feel yellow on the inside.
    LikeReply 22 years ago
  • carsonh.82482
    Great movie!!!
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • emmac.04930
    yall are such simps
    LikeReply 12 years ago
  • DilfSeinfeld
    jerry pls notice me
    LikeReply 12 years ago
  • levib.42248
    this is a good movie
    LikeReply 42 years ago
  • racquel_p
    Can I read this and have an open mind of what I would get in school?
    Love the movie by the way
    LikeReply 22 years ago

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