Bee Movie checklist: Lush animation? Check. The return of Jerry Seinfeld? Check. Funny? … Did somebody forget to bring the funny? Whoops.
So if you’re Jerry Seinfeld, you’ve taken a 10-year hiatus from the national spotlight after wrapping up the most successful sitcom in the history of television, and you decide you want to work again, what’s your first instinct? Seinfeld has received offers from everyone in show business in the last few years, but he seemed content to just do his stand up and enjoy life after Seinfeld. That was the case until one fateful evening, when he pitched an idea to Steven Spielberg over dinner for his triumphant return. What was the idea? A movie about bees.