Bee Movie
Bee Movie is a 2007 CGI-animated film starring Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, and Patrick Warburton. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures, it is directed by Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner. Its title is a play on the term "B movie".
Lines
[edit]Narrator
[edit]- [first lines] According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that 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 B. Benson
[edit]- [first actual line spoken in-universe] black, Yellow, black, Yellow, ooh, black and yellow, yeah, let’s shake it up a little!
- [About Ray Liotta] This isn’t a goodfella! This is a BAD fella!
- [brainstorming pickup lines for Vanessa Bloome] Ya like jazz?
Dialogue
[edit]- Barry: 3 days of grade school, 3 days of high school...
- Adam: Those were so awkward.
- Barry: 3 days of college... I'm glad I took that one day off in the middle and just hiked around the hive.
- Adam: You did come back different.
- Buzzwell: Welcome, New Hive City graduating class of [beat, changes time] 9:15! And that concludes our graduation ceremonies...
- Barry: Yay!
- Buzzwell: ...and begins your career at Honex Industries!
- Adam: Hey, did you hear about Frankie?
- Barry: Yeah.
- Adam: You going to his funeral?
- Barry: No, I'm not going to his funeral. Everybody knows you sting someone, you die. You don't waste it on a squirrel. He was such a hothead.
- Adam: Yeah, I guess he could've just gotten out of the way.
- Martin: Our son, the stirrer.
- Janet: [extremely happy] You're gonna be a stirrer?
- Barry: Nobody's listening to me!
- Martin: Wait'll you see the sticks I have for you.
- Barry: I can say anything I want right now. I'm gonna get an ant tattoo!
- Janet: [ignores Barry] Let's open up some fresh honey and celebrate!
- Barry: Maybe I'll pierce my thorax. Shave my antennae. Shack it up with a grasshopper. Get a gold tooth, and start calling everybody "dawg"!
- Martin: We're still here, Barry.
- Janet: I told you not to yell at him. He doesn't have responsibility when you yell at him.
- Martin: Then why are you yelling at me?
- Janet: Because you don't listen!
- Martin: Argh, I'm not listening to this.
- Vanessa: My only interest is flowers.
- Barry: Our new queen was just elected with that same campaign slogan.
- Vanessa: Listen, you'd better go because we're really busy working.
- Ken: But it's our yogurt night!
- Vanessa: Oh, bye-bye. [ushers Ken out of the shop]
- Ken: [furiously] WHY IS YOGURT NIGHT SO DIFFICULT?!!
- Barry: So, Mr. Klaus Van Der Haden of Honey Farms. Pretty big company you have there.
- Klaus: I suppose so.
- Barry: And I see you also own Honeyburton and Honron!
- Klaus: Yes, they provide beekeepers for our farms.
- Barry: "Beekeeper." I find that a very disturbing term, I have to say. I don't imagine you employ any bee-free-ers, do you?
- Klaus: [quietly] Uh, no.
- Barry: I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you.
- Klaus: [clearly] No.
- Barry: No. Because you don't free bees. You keep bees. And not only that, [Vanessa places a bear-shaped honey jar on the counter] it seems you thought a bear would be an appropriate image for a jar of honey.
- Klaus: W-w-well, they're very lovable creatures. Uh, Yogi Bear, Fozzie Bear, oh, Build-A-Bear.
- Barry: Yeah, you mean like this? [the doors open as Vincent from Over the Hedge is on a rampage as an animal control specialist keeps him restrained] Bears kill bees! How'd you like his big, hairy head crashing through your living room?! Bitin' into you couch! Spittin' out your throw pillows! Rawr, rawr! [to the specialist] Okay, that's enough. Take him away. [Vincent calms down as he is taken away]
- [Barry has Sting called to the stand]
- Barry: So, Mr. Sting, thank you for being here. Your name intrigues me, I have to say. Where have I heard it before?
- Sting: I was with a band called The Police.
- Barry: But you've never been a police officer of any kind, have you?
- Sting: Uh, no, I haven't.
- Barry: No, you haven't. And so here we have another of bee culture being casually stolen by a human for nothing more than a prance-about stage name.
- Sting: Oh, please.
- Barry: Have you ever been stung, Mr. Sting? Because, I'm feeling a little stung, Sting. Or should I say... [flips a few pages on his notebook] Mr. Gordon M. Sumner!
- [Sting facepalms; the jury gasps]
- Montgomery: Not his real name?! You idiots!
- [Barry has Ray Liotta called to the stand]
- Barry: Mr. Liotta, first may I offer my belated congratulations on your Emmy win for your guest spot on ER in 2005.
- Ray Liotta: Thank you, thank you! [laughs]
- Barry: I also see from your resume that you're devilishly handsome but with a churning inner turmoil that's always ready to blow.
- Ray Liotta: I enjoy what I do! Is that a crime?!
- Barry: Not yet, it isn't. But is this what's come to for you, Mr. Liotta? Exploiting tiny, helpless bees so you don't have to rehearse your part and read your line, sir?
- Ray Liotta: [angrily] Watch it, Benson! I could blow right now!
- Barry: This isn't a Goodfella! This is a bad fella!
- Ray Liotta: [furiously tries to squash Barry with his Emmy] WHY DOESN'T SOMEBODY JUST STEP ON THIS LITTLE CREEP AND WE CAN ALL GO HOME?!? YOU'RE ALL THINKING IT!!!
- Vanessa: Oh, you poor thing. You two have been at this for hours!
- Barry: [sarcastically] Yes, and Adam here has a been a huge help. [Adam asleep in an empty Cinnabon box]
- Mr. Montgomery: Mr. Benson Bee, I'm going to ask what I think the entire court here would like to know... what exactly is your relationship to that woman? [Vanessa gasps]
- Barry: We're friends.
- Mr. Montgomery: Good friends?
- Barry: Yes.
- Mr. Montgomery: How good?
- Barry: Now, hang on--
- Mr. Montgomery: Do you live together?
- Barry: Wait, that's not--
- Mr. Montgomery: Are you her little... bedbug?
- Mr. Montgomery: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my grandmother was a simple woman. Born on a farm, she believed it was man's divine right to benefit from the county of nature God put before us. If we were to live the topsy-turvy world Mr. Benson imagines, just think of what if would mean? Maybe I would have to negotiate with the silkworm for the elastic in my britches! Talking bee! How do we know this isn't some sort of holographic motion-picture-capture hollywood wizardry? They could be using laser beams! Robotics! Ventriloquism! Cloning! For all we know he could be on steroids!
- Barry: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, there's no trickery here. I'm just an ordinary bee. And as a bee, honey's pretty important to me. It's important to all bees. We invented it, we make it, and we protect it with our lives. Unfortunately, there are some people in this room who think they can take whatever they want from us, 'cause we're the little guys! And what I'm hoping is that after this is all over, you'll see how by taking our honey, you're not only taking away everything we have, but everything we are!
- Vanessa: It's very hard to concentrate with that panicky tone in your voice!
- Barry: It's not a tone. I'm panicking!
- Barry: So what do you say, are we gonna be bees or just Museum of Natural History keychains?
- Bees: We're bees!
- Random bee: Keychain!
- Barry: Then everyone follow me... except Keychain!
- Pollen Jock: Hold on Barry, you earned this. [places a pollen jock jacket on Barry and the 3 pollen jocks cheer while Vanessa gives him a thumbs up]
- Barry: I'm a pollen jock, and its a perfect fit. All I gotta do are the sleeves! [the pollen jocks toss Barry a nectar pack]
- Adam: Nice.
- Janet: [proudly] That's our Barry! [Martin nods proudly in agreement]
- Barry: How about a suicide pact?
- Vanessa: How would we do it?
- Barry: I'll sting you, you step on me.
- Vanessa: That just kills you twice.
- [Barry is interviewing a giraffe]
- Giraffe: Action figures, dolls, video games! It's all me! And they put my picture on every toy store! Everybody knows my kind are plant eaters, but I'd rather live on ants!
- Barry: I have no idea.
- Giraffe: You're not another lawyer too, are you?
- Mooseblood: Sir, I was already a bloodsucking parasite. [shows the giraffe his briefcase] All I needed was a briefcase.
- Ken: OHHH!!! THAT BEE IS LIVING MY LIFE!
- Andy: Let it go, Kenny. Let it all go.
- Ken: WHEN WILL THIS NIGHTMARE END?!
Cast
[edit]Voice Cast
[edit]- Jerry Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson
- Renée Zellweger as Vanessa Bloome
- Matthew Broderick as Adam Flayman
- John Goodman as Layton T. Montgomery
- Patrick Warburton as Ken
- Chris Rock as Mooseblood the Mosquito
- Kathy Bates as Janet B. Benson
- Barry Levinson as Martin B. Benson
- Megan Mullally as Trudy
- R. Lee Ermey as Pollen Jock Soldiers
- Rip Torn as Lou Lo Duca and the Pollen Jocks General
- Oprah Winfrey as Judge Bumbleton
- Michael Richards as Bud Ditchwater
- Larry King as Bee Larry King
- Larry Miller as Dean Buzzwell
- Jim Cummings as Title Narrator and Graduation Announcer
- Brian Hopkins as Sandy Shrimpkin and TSA Agent
- John DiMaggio as Bailiff Kennh
- Tress MacNeille as Jeanette Chung and Mother the Cow
- Wayne Knight as The Giraffe
- Simon J. Smith as Truck Driver and Chet
- Dominic W. Apple as Wendy
- Gabriel García as Elsa
- Nathan D. Morrissey as Boy Crying and Timmy
- Olivia Mattingly as Little Girl
- Simon J. Smith as Truck Driver and Chet
- Geoff Witcher as Press Person #2 and Jock #1
- John DiMaggio as Bailiff and Janitor
- Barry Marder as Waterbug
- Sean Bishop as Ladybug
Additional Voices
[edit]- Wayne Knight as Giraffe R. Apple (deleted scene)
- Robert Jayne as Bee (uncredited)
- Carl Kasell as Himself (uncredited)
- Frank Welker as Vincent the Bear
- David Cowgill as Pollen Jocks
- Eddie Frierson as Male Bee #1
- Reese Witherspoon as Rose Parade Princess
Teaser Trailer
[edit]- [Shows DreamWorks logo]
- [there's a work in progress animation test for one of the first scenes in the movie. Unlike the final movie where Adam and Barry were driving, they are instead walking across the street]
- Adam: Too bad about Frankie, huh? You going to his funeral?
- Barry: No, I'm not going to his funeral. Everybody knows you sting someone, you die. You don't waste it on a squirrel. He was such a hothead.
- Jerry Seinfeld: Hi, I'm Jerry Seinfeld, and I'm making a movie about bees. In my movie, bees talk, they drive cars, they watch television. [voice-over] And they work very very hard making lots and lots of honey.
- [Another test animation is presented]
- Barry: [while flying] Hey, I see a giant patch of flowers! Jackpot!
- Seinfeld: [voice-over] But our story really takes off when Barry does the one thing a bee is never ever supposed to do. Talk to humans.
- Barry: Hi. [Vanessa gasps in shock and drops her dishes] I'm sorry.
- Vanessa: [spooked] You're talking.
- Barry: Yes, I know.
- Vanessa: You're a bee!
- Seinfeld: [voice-over] Anyway, there's lots of other funny bees and funny humans in the story, and we all have a great time. [on-screen] This is a world I can't wait to tell you about. [Puts on bee antennas]
- Announcer: Bee Movie. Coming November 2007.
- Barry: November? [walks left across the movie title] I have to wait 'til November 2007?
- Announcer: Yes, you do.
- Barry: Oh, that is brutal! [leaves the shot going left]
- [Thud!]
- [A white title card slides down from the ceiling with yellow subtitles reading "In Theaters November 2007"]
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