Article: FILM REVIEW: Don't believe the 'Bee Movie' buzz

Jake Hamilton
University Wire
11-06-2007
(The Daily Cougar) (U-WIRE) HOUSTON -- A lot of people are missing one of the biggest jokes in Jerry Seinfeld's new animated feature, Bee Movie - its title.

The B-Movie that the title references using a play on words is a second-tier movie, usually produced in the 1950s, that was the bottom half of a double feature. It was a cheaper, less publicized and often simply worse movie than the standard Hollywood films of the time.

The joke is that Jerry Seinfeld obviously sees his movie as much more than a B-Movie - the movie's publicity is quite literally inescapable and cost a whopping $150 million. Seinfeld believes that by referring to his movie as a ...

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