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Bee movie boyfriend12/18/2023 ![]() ![]() “Pollen” in this universe is essentially magic plant food without it, plants start to wither and die, but, once “fertilized” by the bees, they recover and flourish. Bee Movie’s bees “fertilize” plants too, but in a completely different sense of the word - the sense in which farmers “fertilize” crops by spreading compost or other compounds on them. Every well-educated schoolchild knows that bees fertilize plants - that is, in gathering nectar they spread pollen from plant to plant, facilitating botanical reproduction. In reality, of course, females do all the work, while male bees have no function but to mate with the queen, the only reproducing female in the hive. ![]() In fact, nectar gathering is the work of macho flyboy “pollen jock” bees who are idolized by adoring female groupies and envied by civilian males. Good thing he’s a male, since drones don’t make honey. Benson (Seinfeld) doesn’t want to go into honey work. The plot centers on an apian protagonist who, much like Woody Allen’s ant(i)-hero in DreamWorks’ freshman CGI film Antz, is a nonconformist insect in a hive world of conformity. It’s an urban comedy about the circle of life made by filmmakers a generation too many removed from life on the farm, set in the same gender-confused universe as Barnyard, with its male “cows” with udders. ![]() Written by Jerry Seinfeld, reportedly after a chance joke to Steven Spielberg about “a B-movie with real bees” was taken seriously as a movie pitch, Bee Movie is as pop-culture savvy as it is biologically challenged. ![]()
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