Bee Movie

My mom was here last weekend and she brought me some honey. Yum! I never liked honey before. I had bad memories with it. My mom used to make a honey concoction with some ginger on it and calamansi. The sour taste of that concoction left a lasting impression to me, so I thought, honey  was sour and ill tasting. One time she brought us a bottle of it for the kids as honey is good for coughs. And I had the courage to taste it again and boy, I lurve it! I am a late bloomer, I know.. and since that day, she ever fails to brought me a bottle every time she visit us here, and last weekend was her recent visit. I put a table spoon of honey on my chocolate drink, on my strawberry juice and even on my malungay juice (for breastfeeding).Obviously I put it in everything I can and because of that, why not review a movie about honey? BEE MOVIE!

This movie is about Bee, obviously, but with a few twist on it. For one, they can talk and they can even sue human beings! Barry B. Benson is just an ordinary bee who just graduated from college. Together with his friend, Adam Flaymen, they are about to enter hive’s Honex Industries (a division of Honesco Corporation and owned by Hexagon Group) honey-making workforce. Barry’s attitude made it hard for him to just accept the fact that are bound to work forever in the hive. He break the rule of all bees and went with the polen jocks outside their hive. He committed the most serious offense a bee can do, converse with a human being. He even befriend a human, Vanessa and together they made history, suing human for taking their honey and winning the case. Now that all the honeys are back to their hives it seems that every bee has nothing else to do including the polen jocks. And without anyone doing pollination, the plants withered. Now Barry faces another challenge, that is to bring life back everywhere.

First and foremost, I like this movie because it is in my favorite color, YELLOW. I enjoyed watching the part where Barry choose what clothes to wear.. black, yellow, balk, yellow.. it is so fun! Enough of that. Let’s talk about the story of this movie, being a mother, the movie tells a lot and it gives me an excuse to educate the kids about nature. The kids were curious about it and being a good mommy I had to explain the balance of nature, the importance of cycles and what is pollination.

The comedy stints in the movie made it more interesting for my kids. Some of the slap stick scene were really hilarious. My son ho enjoys this kind of comedy act filled our house with his laughter through out the movie. They specially liked scenes where Barry repeats what he says (like black, yellow scene and can’t fly on rain scene). If there is one scene that I don’t get or that I wish was never included in the movie was the part where they were trying to land the plane. And while doing so, and aiming for the flower, they aimed at a man wearing a flower shirt. That was just lame, specially the man’s reaction.

Overall, this movie is a good way to make you laugh and take your mind off for a while but after the movie you won’t feel great as Barry did but you will surely want to take some honey and know how good it is.