Pre-emptive Critics: Bee Movie
There’s a trailer for “Bee Movie” that features Jerry Seinfeld dangling from a rope wearing a ridiculously huge bee costume, complete with a big bee-head helmet and tiny wings. After faulty machinery sends him crashing into the scenery, he talks it over with Steven Spielberg, and they decide it would just be easier to turn the movie into a cartoon.
I wish they hadn’t.
When I first heard Jerry Seinfeld was going to be playing a bee, I got excited. The giant bee suit was exactly the kind of thing I hoped the movie would have. I also hoped that Jerry-bee’s best friend would be a short, chubby bee who was always unemployed, and his other friends would be a wild-haired bee who was always barging into Jerry-bee’s apartment unannounced and a lady bee who once dated Jerry-bee but now they’re just friends.
Oh, and there’d also be a Soup-Nazi bee (though I might be willing to accept a Pollen-Nazi bee).
But no. Instead, we get another eye-popping, computer-animated, feel-good love fest that will probably teach us a lesson about understanding others and overcoming the odds to achieve our dreams.
Because it squandered a chance to remake of one of the greatest TV shows of all time (in bee costumes!), I pre-emptively hate this movie.
-d.felix@aggiemail.usu.edu