From iwatchstuff, I was reasonably excited about Jerry Seinfeld's computer-animated comeback Bee Movie, but this new movie has really turned me off, raising too many questions about both this movie and the very nature of anthropomorphic animal movies in general.Like A Bug's Life or Antz before it, Bee Movie tells the story of an insect doing typical shit with other insects, making fun of the nature of insects, their social structures, etc. It's all very cute. Where they lose me is the part when Jerry Seinfeld bee talks to a human! Wha?!
Hold the phone there, buddy. I had been assuming for all of these movies that the idea was that these animals are doing these very human things but that man was incapable of seeing or understanding it, either because animals have a strict code of hiding their humanity or that it's just being translated for audiences. If it turns out they can just talk to people whenever they want, are are willing to do so, that's somehow more ridiculous. How am I meant to believe it hasn't happened prior to this movie, in all of history? Am I completely off base here?
I really hope Bee Movie clears this all up in the actual film, because my over-analysis of the trailer has left me baffled. Maybe Stuart Little already covered all of this anyway.
1 comment:
That looks great!
I totally disagree with the stated problem. Don't they cover it by having the human act all shocked and say "how are you talking?"
Besides, the assumption that all talking animal movies take place in the same world is sill-lay. That's like the guy who saw Phantom Menace had battle droids in it and said "what about Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics?"
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