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Bee Movie

DEAD STINGER

Despite all the, um, buzz, Jerry Seinfeld's animated flick is long on wordplay and short on wit.

Was there ever a better time to make an animated kids' movie about bees? True, they're not very cute, and they sting. But all of a sudden, humanity is realizing it needs the humble honeybee. News of diseases that wipe out bee colonies by the thousands has surprised us out of our relative indifference to the little buggers, and some people are painting apocalyptic scenarios in which bee extinction means the end of our food supply. Plus, if you want to get metaphorical, consider that bees are the ultimate sweatshop workers, deprived of the lucre we reap from their labor. ...

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