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Article: 'Bee Movie' earns a grade of B.(Life-Screens)(Movie review)

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November 2, 2007
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Byline: AMY BIANCOLLI - Houston Chronicle

Barry B. Benson is one busy bee. This blue-eyed bounder, bedecked in basketball shoes and a black- and banana-striped sweater, believes his brethren have been beaten into submission by the barbaric business practices of human beings.

Honey is their birthright, Barry says. It belongs to the bees who brew it, not the bosses busy branding beautiful pale-brown ambrosia for the benefit of bipeds and their beeswax lip balms. (Blast Burt, anyway.) In a bid for change, Barry brings a lawsuit against those bonehead business people, but will he beat them?

In the brand-new, mostly bodacious "Bee Movie," Barry ...

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