U.S Online News: Check out the folks lining up to buy tickets for the latest animated movie offerings and you’re often hard-pressed to find a child among them.Animated filmmakers aim to please adults as much as children in their projects and nowhere is that more evident than Jerry Seinfeld’s wryly clever Bee Movie, airing tonight at 9 on CTV.
A product of the DreamWorks’ animation team (makers of the Shrek franchise), with script by Seinfeld and his writers, this 2007 film charms on every level. Seinfeld provides the voice for Barry B. Benson, a thoughtful little bee, a recent college grad, who rebels against making honey for the hive’s honey-producing industry. Instead he joins the elite Pollen Jocks who leave the hive each day to pollinate the city’s flowers. After a harrowing experience where his life is saved by a kind, human florist (Renee Zellweger) who becomes his new friend, Barry learns that humans are consuming the bees’ precious honey and decides to sue the human race for theft, a decision that threatens our planet’s ecology. Don’t worry. The rapid-fire one-liners keep the story from becoming preachy.
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