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Took my daughter to see this yesterday. We both enjoyed it quite a bit. Pretty smart, and I'm happy to say doesn't use any Sienfeldisms". Well, maybe a couple quick ones. Ray Liotta steals the movie in my opinion.
The animation is seller, take your motion sickness pills if that sort of thing bothers you.
Sheryl Crow remakes another song for the soundtrack.
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Took my four-year-old nephew to see this. He seemed pretty captured by it the whole time as it wasn't until the very end when he started to get a little restless. I quite enjoyed it, though I think my mileage was significantly increased since I'm a huge fan of Seinfeld's sense of humor and wit and his stamp is obviously all over it since he wrote it himself. The animation was servicable, overall. Obviously it's not Pixar quality, but then, nothing is. And, yeah, the Ray Liotta bit was awesome.
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I enjoyed it more than it deserved, mainly because of Seinfeld's participation. I thought it was too broken up into four or five different narratives, only one or two of which I thought should have been the focus, and it just couldn't get me to invest in it. There was the story about the dull life of bees and Barry wanting to make his own path, his funny but kind of muted and platonic relationship with the human woman, the story of proving he's tough enough to be a pollinator, and courtroom comedy, and then a whole save the world plot. I was pleased with the animation, especially the action scenes, but thought it was too generic overall.
The one big drawback of most of the movie is that Jerry Seinfeld has such great insights about people in general, and when he's playing a bee he should be using that to take advantage of the fact that in animated movies you can say things that you either can't say in real life, or that are funny only when animated characters say them as comments about human life. Yes, Seinfeld does do that, but I thought it was way too restrained. Seinfeld carried it for me regardless, but under a lot of strain.
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A"I have no idea what animation is! I thought those were real bees!"
