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Bee Movie

Year:

2007

Duration:

91 min

Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family

IMDB rate:

6.2

Director:

Steve Hickner

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 13 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2007-11-02

Earnings

Budget: $150,000,000

Opening Weekend: $38,021,044 (USA) (4 November 2007)

Gross: $126,597,121 (USA) (10 February 2008)

Cast

Actor

Character

Renée Zellweger

Bee Movie

Jerry Seinfeld

Barry B. Benson

Matthew Broderick

Adam Flayman

Patrick Warburton

Ken

John Goodman

Layton T. Montgomery

Chris Rock

Mooseblood

Kathy Bates

Janet Benson

Barry Levinson

Martin Benson

Larry King

Bee Larry King

Ray Liotta

Sting

Oprah Winfrey

Judge Bumbleton

Larry Miller

Buzzwell

Megan Mullally

Trudy

Rip Torn

Lou Lo Duca

Michael Richards

Bud Ditchwater

Mario Joyner

Jackson

Jim Cummings

Title Narrator / Graduation Announcer (voice)

Tom Papa

Splitz

Andy Robin

Jock #2 (voice)

David Moses Pimentel

Hector

Chuck Martin

Andy

Conrad Vernon

Freddy

David Herman

Buzz

Carol Leifer

Press Person #1

Jeff Altman

Uncle Carl

Brian Hopkins

Sandy Shrimpkin

Tress MacNeille

Jeanette Chung

Nathan D. Morrissey

Boy Crying

Olivia Mattingly

Little Girl

Simon J. Smith

Truck Driver

Geoff Witcher

Press Person #2

John DiMaggio

Janitor

Barry Marder

Waterbug

Sean Bishop

Ladybug

Robert Jayne

Bee #4 (uncredited)

Carl Kasell

Himself (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

In some areas, release prints were delivered to theaters with fake titles: "Flower" and "Jocks".

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The animators spent thousands of hours observing bees to learn how to animate them and then drastically cartoonified them.

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The first two movie trailers had Jerry Seinfeld trying to make a live action Bee Movie. After watching the disastrous results, Steven Spielberg asks, "Why don't you just make it a cartoon?"

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Goofs

The "laws of aviation" from decades ago explained the flight of large objects such as airplanes and birds but failed when applied to really small objects like bees. Modern laws of aviation do explain the flight of bees.

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Mooseblood demonstrates that he drinks blood, but only female mosquitoes drink blood.

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Numerous inaccuracies regarding the biology of bees and other insects are simply jokes.

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Quotes

Adam Flayman: [On the bee testing a helmet] What do you think he makes?

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Adam Flayman: This is over!

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Barry B. Benson: ...when he finally gets there, he runs up the steps, into the church, the wedding is on and he says "Watermelon? I thought you said Guatamelan, why would I marry a watermelon?" ha ha ha

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Faq

A NOTE REGARDING SPOILERS

The following FAQ entries may contain spoilers. Only the biggest ones (if any) will be covered with spoiler tags. Spoiler tags are used sparingly in order to make the page more readable.

Is this movie based on a book?

No. Bee Movie was based on a script written by Jerry Seinfeld and co-writers Spike Feresten, Barry Marder, and Andy Robin.

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