Review - Bee Movie

I don't have much to say about Bee Movie. Unfortunately, I just wasn't impressed. I've seen animated bugs before: Antz, A Bug's Life, etc. And they were all much better done than this. Barry B. Benson isn't a character, he is a mask for Jerry Seinfeld who continues to make the same jokes he did on his show. Only now, they are a decade old.
Firstly, Bee Movie fails because the animation is completely uninventive. In the year of Ratatouille and Surf's Up, Dreamworks really needed to step it up with Bee. With the exception of the inspired twist on the Dreamworks logo, they failed miserably.
The plot starts out with a unique, but serviceable and enjoyable premise. A bee who doesn't want to work for the rest of his life in the hive flies into a womans house, becomes friends with her, discovers that humans eat honey and then sues the human race for exploiting bees. Silly? of course but still enjoyable. However, the film just ends up being one unbelieveable situation after another. I still haven't figured out why they end up trying to fly a plane at the end. Though there are a few laughs, mostly puns on the word/letter bee, the majority of the film's humor falls flat. Without the animation to back it up, this film needed to have an amazing screenplay and it just doesn't.
The final nail in its coffin is Jerry Seinfeld himself whose annoying, wheedling voice makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Not only is his humor flat, his acting unbelievable but he couldn't even manage to do basic research on bees!! The glaring inaccuracies in the film are astounding. I understand that some things have to be foregone when you're making movie about talking bees but still!
Finally, the moral lesson seems to have something to do with the importance of bees in the ecosystem. Nobody cares. Movies like this need a theme, like alienation or overcoming loss-- something kids can relate to. Nobody wants to watch a movie about insect marxism, not even me.