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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It's on the easygoing level of Surf's Up, and a full tick up from, say, Over the Hedge or The Ant Bully. But given the Seinfeld pedigree it's something of a disappointment. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Bee Movie doesn't touch the bar raised so high by Pixar, but it creates a little buzz of its own. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The whole thing's pretty cute and breezy. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Bee Movie isn't a B movie, it's a Z movie, as in dizmal. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Does Bee survive the hype? Not quite, but it is semi-charming and reasonably clever in that facile Dreamworks Animation kind of way. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: If it's not Toy Story, well, what is? But Bee Movie offers plenty of entertainment for all ages -- though, truth be told, the older the better. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The vibe is loose-limbed and fluky, and the gags have an extra snap that's recognizably Seinfeldian. If I believed in a sitcom afterlife, I'd swear the whole thing was cooked up by Kramer and George's dad. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Nothing about the movie resonates emotionally. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Is it as bold as it might be? Does it blaze with invention? Is it the best babbling-bee urban biopic, bar none? Just about. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Bee Movie is best viewed as an oddball career move rather than as a successful movie. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The film is nutty, ecological, antically funny, and moving, all at the same time. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It leaves no unpleasant aftertaste. If you take impressionable kids, you should be prepared to explain two things: No, bees and humans do not normally live happily ever after; and yes, bees sometimes just sting you for the hell of it. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Another ground-breaking show about nothing -- a hornet's nest of hype for a fat hive of nothing. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: The film's charm, quickness and design carry the day. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: What distinguishes this better than half-decent comedy is its detailed insight into the bee brain Read more
David Botti, Newsweek: What I like about Bee Movie is its comfy, off-the-cuff charm: unlike a lot of animated family entertainment, it's not all Thwack Smash Kaboom. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: It's impersonal. It doesn't come from anywhere interesting. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The movie has some pretty pictures and a few good jokes, but not nearly enough. And the story suffers from sitcom attention-deficit disorder, veering off in a new direction every half-hour or so. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Watching this pun-filled cartoon is like falling into a tray of children's watercolors -- the warm end, where oranges and yellows and ambers wave. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: After Shrek the Third's flatulence jokes, the return of that Seinfeldian wit brings animation up a level. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: It is mercifully less than 90 minutes long, but make that an hour and a half of witty, captivating enchantment. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: An often-inspired smart comedy for kids, and a vintage Seinfeld laugh for adults. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: It has enough buzzing wit and eye-popping animation to win over the kids -- and probably more than a few parents, too. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: On the whole, this is another disappointing animated effort and it resides considerably lower on the totem pole than this year's current non-live action champion, Ratatouille. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: All of this material, written by Seinfeld and writers associated with his television series, tries hard, but never really takes off. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Bee Movie just lacks spirit and energy. Part of the problem may be that, as far as I'm concerned, any animated movie released this year (and possibly in years to come) suffers in comparison with Brad Bird's Ratatouille. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Bee Movie has a few charming moments and a scene or two with legitimate hilarity, but mostly it's just mediocre. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: The movie's more than cute, funny, and (at 81 minutes) brisk enough to move families in and out of the multiplex in mass quantities, like the social insects we are. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Absurd enough to delight kids, overstuffed with verbal and visual in-jokes for grownups, it's a 90-minute joyride that barely pauses for breath. This is unquestionably the best movie that ever began as a bad pun. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Harmless fun for the whole family. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Bee Movie is a cute movie. Not that there's anything ... well, you know the rest. But cute is not what adults expect from Jerry Seinfeld, although children will be delighted. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: You might have been able to get away with stuff like this in the pre-Pixar age. Not anymore. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Bee Movie is certainly not low-budget, but it has all the staying power and creative value of a B-movie. The secret life of bees, as told by Seinfeld, is a bore with a capital B. Read more
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: Rock has but two scenes in the film, but he needs a hundred more. Give the man his own movie, please, if only because it'd bee far better than this one. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Bee Movie feels phoned in on every level. Read more