THE BEE MOVIE MOVIE
While those plugged into the conversation could tell you all about Bee Movie memes, you’d be hard-pressed to meet someone on the street who knew about them the way the public was aware of massively popular memes of the day, such as Grumpy Cat. At this point, Bee Movie memes were still a relatively internet-exclusive thing. Starting with the film’s opening line, the internet took to the carcass of Bee Movie like bees on honey, picking apart the pieces and remixing them in strange ways. But in 2011, Tumblr began using Bee Movie as remix material. The movie was destined to remain barely in the cultural memory, gathering dust on closed Blockbuster shelves. Bee Movie is so weird that it forces the memes to get even weirder to stand out. This perhaps explains why the two things go together so well. The film is deeply, deeply weird, but in being so, it manages to capture a sort of dadaist energy that is a crucial part of memes. The two proceed to sue the entire human race. To briefly summarize the plot, Bee Movie is about a bee that gets fed up with capitalism (?) leaves the hive, meets and falls in love with a human woman (?) who leaves her human boyfriend to hook up with the bee in question (?). Bee Movie, for its part, came and went, and was quickly forgotten as the studio moved on and, the following year, released Kung Fu Panda, a far superior film that kick-started the DreamWorks Renaissance. You can’t even defend it as educational, because all the bees have four legs instead of six, and several of the bee characters identify as male, despite the fact that all worker bees are biologically female. The film is undeniably strange, having been marketed as a kids’ movie, like pretty much all animation in the early 2000s, and yet it features a distinctly Seinfeld brand of comedy that seems just a little too grown-up to appeal to children. I hope we will all survive this journey into the deepest, darkest corners of the internet, although I cannot promise we will all emerge unscathed.īee Movie was released in 2007 and was Seinfeld’s first major project after the ending of his eponymous sitcom about nothing.
Those, my friends, are the questions I aim to answer today. But how did we get here? How did this bee-zarre movie with a subpar critical and box office reception become such a tremendous pillar within the internet hive-mind? Jerry Seinfeld’s DreamWorks Animation feature starring himself as the voice of an anatomically incorrect Hymenoptera is an iconic presence in the meme world. There’s no way to talk about movie memes without recognizing Bee Movie. This article is part of Movie Memes Week.įor the best possible experience, copy-paste the text of this article into a text-to-speech, and increase the app speed by five percent every time it says the word “bee.”
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