Article: Despite buzz, 'Bee Movie' is a 'C' movie.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)(Movie review)

Byline: Peter Rainer Film critic of The Christian Science Monitor

Who could have predicted that, a decade after the end of his hit TV series, Jerry Seinfeld would reenter show business as an animated bee? A gnat, maybe, or a louse - but a bee?

"Bee Movie" is best viewed as an oddball career move rather than as a successful movie. Seinfeld not only voices its main character, Barry B. Benson, but also coproduced and co-wrote it for Dreamworks Animation. (The directors were Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner.) Seinfeld has figured out a way to sidle back into the big time without actually having to show his face. But his vocal inflections, his whiny ...

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