The Reel Rejects - BEE MOVIE (2007) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Episode Date: May 13, 2024

MONDAY MEANS IT'S TIME FOR SOME ANIMATION!! Bee Movie Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:  https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects With Jerry Seinfeld's new Pop-Tarts movie, Unfrosted, burning up the Netflix charts, Tara Erickson & John Humphrey reunite to give their First Time Reaction, Commentary, Breakdown, & Full Spoiler Review for the Dreamworks Animated film from the mind of of Jerry Seinfeld + a liiittle encouragement from none other than Steven Spielberg!! Bee Movie features the voices of Renée Zellweger (Chicago, Bridget Jones's Diary, Jerry Maguire), Matthew Broderick (The Producers, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Cable Guy), Patrick Warburton (The Emperor's New Groove, Family Guy), John Goodman (The Big Lebowski, Kong: Skull Island, 10 Cloverfield Lane), Chris Rock (Madagascar, Grown Ups), Kathy Bates (Misery, Titanic), Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Wag the Dog), Megan Mulally (Will & Grace, The Disaster Artist), Rip Torn (Men in Black, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story), and Jim Cummings (Winnie the Pooh, Aladdin, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, literally all of animation across TV and Film) along with appearances from Oprah Winfrey, Larry King, Ray Liotta, Sting, & MORE! Tara & John React to all the Best Scenes & Funniest Moments including the Pollen Power Scene, Anyone For Tennis? Scene, Hitchhiking Honey Bee Scene, Unacceptable Beehavior Scene, Thinking Bee Scene, Bathroom Bee Brawl Scene, A Stinging Testimony Scene, & Beyond! Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Oh, my name is John, and I'm unbelievably excited to be. here. But I'm bum because we're watching the B-movibov B-movib! Stinger. The B-B! That's from another movie, but like, that was

fun. What do you feel? You feel like we're ready? I feel like I'm ready to watch a B-movie. I couldn't be more excited. I'm buzzing. I'm buzzing. Hashtag Buzzing. Let's do it. Let's watch the B-movie. I want to see how many more kinds of honey we can name over the course of this review. But what did you think of this motion picture?

Guys, I actually thought that it was fun. At first I was like, what is going on here between him and Renee Zellweger's character? That threw me off because I was like, please don't, don't, the human and a bee thing threw me off. But I loved Barry and his best friend's relationship, Matthew Broderick, like Jerry and Matthew Broderick. And that, that was a lot of fun. And I mean, the whole movie is like a lesson of like everybody needs a purpose. They need a job to be able to feel good. And then also giving back, like sharing is caring instead of all for nothing.

It's got to be like 50%. Like give the bees some credit. And also the bees are here for a reason not only to help themselves, but also to help us. flowers and make our world beautiful. And I thought it was a nice little metaphor of a movie to show us that, even though it literally showed us that. So really, it wasn't a metaphor. Now, was it Tara?

No. No, it wasn't. Well, yeah, the movie is a metaphor for life. True. True, that's true. Yeah, because. Tell them, Donald. Yeah, because you can't only spend all your life working for the bare minimum.

Yeah. And you do need some kind of purpose. So there's that balance there. of like, you know, again, I was curious that they, this is the problem is now I have questions because I'm like, are the bees working the same amount as they were before? Or are they able to like lay out and tan

and like have a nice life but also work for purpose? Yeah, and then on the human side, like, yeah, don't just like swoop in and, you know, enslave people and take their resources. Right. Let's work something out and coexist. I guess is what this is going for. Yeah, right?

And, yeah, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, it would have been, like, I would have been, I, you know what I really hope is that this has, like, a stinger at the end. A stinger, you see what I did there. That has a stinger at the end that set shows the bees, like, working, but then also, like, it's Saturday. So they get to tan and they, like, rotate so that we realize it made it better for their lives that they're not like working all the time. But then again, I don't know, maybe bees just, they want to pollinate and they want to work all. And they want to work all. this time. I don't know. I'm not a beat y'all. He said that 72 or however many millions year, 27 million your instinct or whatever. Yeah, maybe it's that. Maybe it is just an instinctual thinkual. It's a lot of work though. It is. It is. A lot of work. I like that their credits are like drifting from one side to the other. They did a lot with these end credits that they didn't have to do and I respect that. Yeah. Yeah. They made it fun. This this movie is a meme in culture most certainly I've been aware just of its existence and people finding its existence a meme yeah and yeah like it is an interesting one

because I feel like this is one of those earlier I feel like DreamWorks has come a long way certainly and I'm trying to figure out where this was made in relation to other stuff because this was frequently teetering on I don't know like DreamWorks is one of our most notable digital animation studios. Yeah. Me? What? What?

They can be. Oh. Oh, they did like a Broadway song. There's a whole musical number in here, apparently. Every buzzer must choose to be a T. Oh, because it's Matthew Braderick. He does Broadway. Of course.

You got no occupation. What? Why supports the Seinfelds accredited? What? Hey, listen to me, fella. Ain't you been on that tour? Oh my. Are you guys hearing us?

I'm going to try and cut some of the Zinn. This is going to be an interesting, big review to cut. Think and B. Sidewell, co-wrote the lyrics. Yeah, oh my gosh. Oh, my goodness. Let's just stop for a second. Hold that.

What's he going to say? I'm sorry, everyone. Are they going to pop up? Oh, Barry. Look, I'm not making a major life decision in the middle of a huge musical production. All right, all right. Take 10, everybody. Wrap it up.

Okay, great. Wrapped it up. Rapped it up. Broderick got in there with some broad. Wraudder Way. Yeah. This is one of those where like there were times like the, okay, 2007. That was a while ago.

That's newer, on the newer end. When was Shark Tale? We watched Shark Tale. When was Shark Tale? Yeah. I don't remember. I feel like Shark Tales before this, but I don't know for certain. Yeah.

So there were times where this felt like, this didn't feel like a DreamWorks animation movie to me. Yeah. I feel like DreamWorks often skews toward like, oh, yeah, we're being a little, we're playing a little more toward the PG, toward the parents a little bit. We're doing pop culture stuff. We're including like adult society jokes along with our silly slapstick stuff that kids can enjoy. But this movie felt like it was made by some kind of more obscure animation studio. Yeah. Like at times you would have stuff where like, oh, there's like a neat texture or a cool image.

And then there were other times where I was like, this animation almost looks like very basic and sort of rudimentary. And it is, again, like from a much earlier moment in time. We're watching this in 2024. So like it's been a minute since this came out. But I feel like there are other movies of this time that maybe got a little more TLC or a little more like uniformity in terms of the animation. So I don't know. It was just like kind of fascinating to watch because a lot of the time I was like, this seems like it would be a big budget animated movie. and yet it feels less like a big budget animated movie

and more like a... Again, it was teetering on like straight to video animation versus theatrical animation. And I think that specifically came into play when we saw the tennis ball, which was super textured, very detailed, and then we come out of it. We see the humans, we see the tennis court,

we see the racket and the woman like, you know, hitting it. And that seemed more basic. Yeah. And maybe it's just because we needed to get that close of that, but I understand what you're saying. and I think that's when it actually really came into play when it was very obvious. But I think when you're saying a big budget movie,

I'm like, yeah, they spent it are all the names, the stars, the voices, like holy mother of Tamali, like John Goodman, Matthew Broderick, Jerry Seinfeld, Oprah, Winfrey, Renee Zellweger, like, give me a break. Like, all these people in 2007 were like the height of their existence, right? So I'm like, oh, that. Close to do it then than now. Yeah, oh, for sure.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? Again, and I mean, sure, that's, again, stuff for the, I'm sure parents are the people who get excited. And DreamWork certainly was all about that. Like, we're going to get a star-studded voice cast and stuff. Yeah. And yeah, I guess this was really fun. Like, it was really fun to watch this, you know, either in spite of itself or for moments that actually did get me.

And I'm torn because part of me is like this is, I see exactly how this is a meme. and like the logic and the rules, you know, I'm not going to get too hung up on. But at the same time, I was like, I have many questions throughout this, which makes the movie more fun and entertaining because it's more WTF a lot than you might have expected. And I feel like, you know, we have a lot of animated movies that present like, oh, here's a world of all animals or here's a world of all this or that. And here's how this world like works. and this one I felt like they played it felt like they were playing much more fast and loose with just like how the world operates

and like it's fine it's a fantasy but at the same time it's not like unified enough in its fantasiness to not leave me with a bunch of random questions and also they are constantly giving you the distinct sense that uh and who knows maybe this woman just needs like a real rich

intellectual connection to feel fulfilled and that's it. But I certainly got the sense that this was a romance. Oh my gosh, yes. Especially when they were at the picnic and she's like, you want to come with me? She flips her hair.

She says in a very specific way. It's so like that was... He says lust in no other uncertain terms. Exactly. Like that's what I said is getting a little too luscious for me and I wanted that to end. But then we skip to the court and the guy is like, here's my

bum like three times with his butt just like fooom into the camera and I'm like okay all right yeah that big peach energy on that scene there's some stuff going on in here man this is yeah it's like it's is there there must be an insect based equivalent of of of furries out there right and I feel like this is like low key made for that community of people to where you know instead of like a fox outfit someone be dressing up like a big bee or like a big grasshopper or something or like a mosquito and yeah like it's it's it's it's one of those there's yeah i think animation and cartoons are rich with like oh there's something that's going to fly over the kids heads or there's something that like when you go back as an adult you're like oh wow they put that in there right and this is

full of that shit this has so much of that it did have a lot of like oh oh oh oh okay yeah yeah and It rides so much off of, like, Barry is Jerry. So, like, I mean, kids love Seinfeld. Yeah. Yeah, I guess. Like, it is a fascinating movie in that I'm like, who did, who is this for? Like, I guess it's. Like, what audience is it made for?

Like, it's for kids, I guess. Yeah. But, like, all of the intentionality, I'm like, who are those things for? Yeah. Aside from the basic premise of just like, oh, you know. talking bees and they want their honey back from the rest of the world. Like aside from that, it feels like so much of everything else is like for or through the lens of adults.

Absolutely. And yeah, it's just like it made for a very fascinatingly odd viewing experience. I agree. It's like except for the one lesson that they teach at the very end of like, we need bees to pollinate the earth. That's why we need them. So stop squishing them with your Italian Vogue. other than that the dialogue and the script was very to me I'm like oh they should just push this into like PG-13 land and they could have made it maybe they could have made it funnier or like because then they really could have not I don't want to not go there with the B and Vanessa I'm saying like go there with the jokes go a little bit harder on it right because I get a little bit more real about about society right like like really if we're going to go have

Might as well go full way and just push it to PG-13 because I think this was PG. I would be shocked if this was G. Right? There's no way because of the like, what is it? They mentioned the- See, it's this PG! Yeah, okay. That makes a bit more sense.

But yeah, this is like a harder end of the PG spectrum. Definitely harder. At moments. At moments, which is why I'm like, if you're going to go there because your teeter-tottering on it, like just make a PG-3. and then make, like, harder-hitting jokes happen. And then we can talk about- Sausage Party with Bees.

Yeah. But not as hard-a-rated as that. Right. Not as bad as... Yeah, not as hard-core as that. But you guys get what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, it was fun. It wasn't, like, to me, it was a fun little ride. I was never bored. But I wasn't like, oh my God, this is like the greatest movie and such a blast Rooney. I'm like, oh, it was fun like i had i had a good time and i laughed and i was i was engaged which is important like i wasn't like oh this is a real snooze fest and we we know i don't like snooze fest you guys nobody does nobody likes the snooze fest no and this was this was this was this was a fun one it wasn't

boring it wasn't tedious right i was always having fun yeah often in spite of or or just out of perplexity but sometimes genuine like there are a few jokes in there where I was like I like a good pun I like a good rhyme there's a lot of that yes there's a lot of that in this

you know there's it is a fascinating movie to even attempt to like review in any way shape or form because like again I just cannot tell like to take it seriously at all I think is to go further than I think is expected of you

but to not take it but there's enough time and energy and resources poured into this that you have to take it somewhat seriously and yeah I do agree it lived up to its meme status and I think that's all this movie really has to do and I feel like you know

especially like this wasn't made in the time where memes were currency and where you could shoot to be a meme I guess but this is like kind of the perfect meme movie because it defies so many like I don't know if you're in the business of criticizing it like

I feel like you've lost already. Like, there are plenty of things you can criticize. Yes. But I don't feel like the movie really cares about that stuff. No. I love, I'm sorry. I'm just seeing trivia, y'all. I need you to know that according to Jerry Seinfeld

will having lunch with Steven Spiel at his house, Stephen Spielberg's house. He first mentioned the idea of the movie as a joke. But Spielberg loved the idea. We have Sir Stevie to thank for this. Oh my goodness. I love that. I do too.

That's adorable. That's cute. I do want to watch like as many breakdowns from the people who made this as I can because I really want to know what the intent was, like what they were, what they were thinking about. Because yeah, I don't know. It's just like there's, it's not fully down that rabbit hole of like, oh, you're just getting immersed in the kids world. It's, it's constantly jumping back and forth between being like silly and innocuous and then giving you random little thrown out there. And part of me is like, sure, have a fun freewheeling time writing something like this.

Like, it's B movie, like, you know, the title tells you everything. Yeah. And the fact that it is kind of a B animated movie still works. I agree. So, it's so, yeah, this is critic proof this movie. Yeah, and I agree, I think, and I didn't know this, but the first two movie trailers had Jerry Seinfeld trying to make a live action B movie, y'all. And then after watching disastrous results,

Steven Spielberg was like, why don't you just make it a cartoon? And I'm like, where are those trailers? Where are those trailers of this? But Jerry Seinfeld live with Renee Zellweger. Yeah. Right? I feel like in the...

I didn't know that. I feel like I have a buried memory somewhere deep in my subconscious of Jerry Seinfeld in a B outfit. But... That is amazing. But I... That's where the memes would come. Sure.

Sure. Because I'm like, is he going to live? like one of the fruit of the loom characters just as a bee instead of a fruit. That's kind of what I remember. And now I'm trying to think if that was one of these or if they did some other bit like that. Oh my goodness. Oh my God. I love it.

The November 26th, we're just going to mix the facts in here. Yeah, let's do it. I love them. The music, in 2016, the movie saw a surge in attention to do the rise in popularity of videos on YouTube that consisted of random edits to this movie. and sometimes the trailer. The most popular of these videos is the one where the movie increases in speed every time the word B is set in C.

Like, yeah, the amount, like the amount of memes that had to have come out of this. That's very funny. Oh, man. I love that. I love the, the, yeah, the 29 minute that, you're about to read. I mean, if you want to take it away,

I don't want to deprive you of the B facts. I just love it because it says that, like at 29 minutes, there's a scene where Jerry, Jerry Stainville, he's in the pool, is a takeaway off the graduate in the both scenes because, as we know, what's his nuts is in it? Now I'm like blanking on his name. I was saying it a million times with the graduate. Broderick's not in the graduate?

He's not? It's Dustin Hoffman. He's, Broderick is Ferris Bueller. You guys? Right? Yes. Unless I'm wrong. No, I think you're right.

And I was very convinced Walt saying that sentence. which was very wrong, that I was right. And I was like, oh, it's a broader thing. Okay. It's a cinema thing. That was another thing. I was like, when they were at the thing at the end about like, oh, it's a bunch of people working together and the little jobs.

I was like, is this movie one big metaphor for making movies? Yeah, right? That is true. Movies take just tons of people to make a movie happen, y'all. In a small way. It's wild. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, the parents ask what he wants to do.

and they're unsure of what the future will hold. Both are also having a secret affair. This movie is the graduate. It's the graduate taken right out of that book. Oh, my goodness, gracious. I didn't know Spielberg was so involved. At around 49 minutes, the bear featured in the court scene is Vincent from DreamWorks animations over the heads

from the year before, only being brown instead of black, and also makes an appearance during the news broadcast montage knocking down a B-I. Oh, I like that. That's a little Easter egg. And apparently the B-ish, the use of the term Bish throughout the film is a tongue-in-cheek reference to being Jewish. Oh, that's what it was. Oh, my God. For example, Adam asks Barry if Vanessa is Beish and hopes that she is not a wasp, a reference to white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, i.e. non-Jews, creator and actor, Seinfeld is Jewish and often referenced his heritage on Seinfeld.

There we go. series oh my god there we go oh man the buzz cut everyone's got buzz cut hey yeah hey baby oh and hey the character of martin benson is a reference to an unseen character on signfeld's season three episode 14 the pez dispenser he's led marty benson allegedly died after kramer convinced someone else to pour ice cold gatorade on his head after a baseball game he couldn't fly in the rain i love it wow and uh and they got the Poo and Piglet cameo. I wonder how they did that if they just forked over the cash.

Oh, and the Cinebond. I wonder how much they had to pay Cinebund. But wait, couldn't they have that in there if it's not used as if you have a product placement, as long as the product is being used as is and not in a weird way. You still have to pay for it, but it's like

maybe not as much. Maybe it's, maybe, yeah. I think it might be, I think it, I might be crazy, but I think it might be free as long as the product is there and being used exactly what it's supposed to be used for and not in a weird way. Jerry Seinfeld says he didn't want to make a sequel

because it would take away from the uniqueness of the original, sure. I'm not dying for a sequel, so I'm all right with that. I am. We're on both sides of the fence here. Jerry Seinfeld was inspired to write the script for this after his wife took up the hobby of beekeeping. Oh my gosh.

was taken to the extreme. So he's Ken. Oh my God, he's Ken. He's Ken. I love that. That is one of the greatest facts. Oh, my God. And the Megan Malalley was cast as the queen. Her role was cut. Oh, God. And then they made her the tour guide to get her in there anyway. She is, I love her. Man, there are just so many great facts. I knew it. Oh, my God. Remember what I said Buzz Light Year when the jocks came in?

It says the sound effect using one of the pawn jocks opened his helmet. It's the same one using Buzz Light Year, opens his helmet in Toy Story. And it's its sequence. You guys, I knew it. Dude, you got that good ear for this stuff. I got it. I got that helmet juice in my head, y'all. We could be reading B movie trivia all the day. Yeah, we really could.

I think that's good enough for now. We did a good amount. We did good. I mean, I had fun. I liked it. I'm not dying for a sequel. I would watch the sequel just to be like, what else are we going to say?

How are the bees working now and also getting free time? And how are Barry and Vanessa doing? Like, what are they doing? Are they just, hopefully they're just buddies who own a business together. And we don't see any weird be human juicing

because I'm not interested, but I love that they have love for each other. I love that also. Maybe in 2027 we'll get another. Maybe, man. Or 2037, like a long gestating sequel. It'll be Jerry just goes, yeah, well, I'm on,

I mean, I'm on my way out, might as well. Yes. Yeah, he's going to decide who to sting. Yeah. Yeah. All we need is one more lunch between Jerry and Stephen, and then we'll get that secret we've always been waiting for. Spilberg's a real fan of this.

I also, please, if you can find the trailer, please leave it in the comments. Yeah, the live action, B movie trailer. Find all of them, and please comment with them because I need to see that more than I need to see the sequel. I'm going to fess up to it. I need to see that trailer. That's where I am at. You need that Buntane Simpson energy. I do.

Those are all of my thoughts. Yep, mine too. Right. I'm curious to hear what the people I have to say about this movie. We love you guys. Thank you so much for joining us. Make sure that you share this, like it, comment the crap out of it, especially with the trailer. Tell us how cool we are.

How much you love us? Because we love you too. Yeah. Be nice to bees. Be nice to bees. Just buy honey within reason. Yeah, and think about the manuka. It helps the brain.

It's good for you. And the emotions. And I think that's it. We got love for you. And so we're going to, we'll bobbz out of here now. We love you so much. And we will see you on the next one. Bye.

Bye.