BEE MOVIE

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Jerry Seinfeld’s disappointing labor of animated-movie love is more of a lukewarm hand-holding experience than a full embrace.

Co-written by Seinfeld and television writer Spike Feresten, "Bee Movie" lives up to the B-movie end of its pun-inspired title with a dead-end story about college graduate bee Barry (voiced by Seinfeld) who leaves the relative safety of his Central Park hive to explore the world outside.

Barry falls romantically for a local florist (Renee Zellweger) and discovers that human-run corporations are stealing his relatives’ honey.

A tedious legal battle follows with Barry leading a litigious charge against the human race before the story gives way to a nonsensical climax involving a large quantity of stolen flowers.

Not one single sub-plot is allowed to develop in this professionally animated but amateurishly written story.

Rated PG. 90 mins.