"Bee Movie," the latest animated feature from DreamWorks Animation, is about as funny as its title. B-movie, get it? It's a rather weak pun, more so considering there already was an ironically titled "B-Movie" made in 2004.
A few bottles of good zinfandel must have already been polished off when comedian Jerry Seinfeld dropped the "Bee Movie" joke over dinner with Steven Spielberg, because it was thought so hilarious that Spielberg green-lighted an entire film based on this throwaway gag. Ah, to be a multizillionaire and have your minions indulge your every whim!
Soon, Seinfeld and a team of writers were churning out a script, and directors Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner ("Shrek 4-D," "Prince of Egypt") were assembling a team of digital artists vast enough to make the credits roll longer than "Anna Karenina."