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Have you seen Bee Movie (2007)?

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Voting ended onJan 22, 2024

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Bee Movie (2007, Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner)

30/07/2025

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6 fan art challenge 6/6 ; Barry B. Benson 🍯 (ig)

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Title: Bee Movie

Rating: PG

Director: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith

Cast: Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Patrick Warburton, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, Barry Levinson, Larry King, Ray Liotta, Sting, Oprah Winfrey, Larry Miller, Megan Mullally, Michael Richards, Mario Joyner, Jim Cummings

Release year: 2007

Genres: comedy, adventure

Blurb: Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned with his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue them.

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Bee Movie (2007)

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Katie Goes To The Movies: Penguins of Madagascar

Title: Penguins of Madagascar

Director: Eric Darnell and Simon J. Smith

Screenwriter: John Aboud (screenplay), Michael Colton (screenplay), Eric Darnell (characters), Tom McGrath (characters), and Brandon Sawyer (screenplay)

Principal Cast (voices): Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights, Conrad Vernon, John Malkovich, and Benedict Cumberbatch

The Madagascar movies are an interesting series to look at. They aren’t the best movies but they are very marketable and have made a lot of money. They have made enough money that we’ve arrived at the point where a franchise can spin off from itself. The Penguins in the movies are often cited as the highlights of the movies, but there are plenty of incidences where a beloved side character gets their own movie and it completely falls apart. Now animated movies are a little different because they don’t have the audience projection that comes with action movies. However, I was still leery of Penguins of Madagascar because it looked like the perfect example of a lazy studio cash-in. I have been surprised by stranger things, though, and have witnessed excellent movies come out of worse circumstances.

Penguins of Madagascar is absolutely the lazy cash-in I thought it was, but it is well made with enough jokes that kids will love it and the adults will get a few laughs in as well.

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Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

The back story of the witty four and their antics since they were young bring them to their current dilemma. An octopus has declared vengeance on all the Penguins and 'The North Wind' organisation wants to help them.

Their happy go lucky, no back up plan approach provides a few laughs, while the tension is built alongside. Not expecting as much humour I was surprised to see the varied twists and turns in a story crafted for the flightless quartet.

Fun, with some Madagascar-ish elements, it's a light watch.

2.5/5