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Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

Agreeably skewed fun.

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Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

At its relaxed best, when it's about, well, nothing, the slyly comic Bee Movie is truly beguiling.

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75
Boston Globe | Ty Burr

The movie's not even close to Pixar standards - the animation is slapdash and the story construction's a mess - but the vibe is loose-limbed and fluky, and the gags have an extra snap that's recognizably Seinfeldian.

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75
The New York Times | A.O. Scott

The real fun is the insect shtick.

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70
The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan Rabin

It's good to have Seinfeld back, even in this watered-down form.

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67
ReelViews | James Berardinelli

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."

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63
Slate | Dana Stevens

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.

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60
Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

There's no real jeopardy. The stakes are low. It's a bee movie about nothing.

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50
San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

Has a few charming moments and a scene or two with legitimate hilarity, but mostly it's just mediocre.

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50
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

All of this material, written by Seinfeld and writers associated with his television series, tries hard, but never really takes off.

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50
Variety | Todd McCarthy

Amiable but no more, Bee Movie puts a hiveful of potent talent at the service of a zig-zigging, back-of-an-envelope story that's short on surprise and originality.

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50
The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

Unfortunately, bees just aren't that funny...Nor is the odd story Seinfeld and his collaborators dreamed up very inspired.

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50
Washington Post | Desson Thomson

The more the movie progresses, the more you realize how much Seinfeld's voice sounds like a droning bee -- the kind you want to swat away.

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40
USA Today | Claudia Puig

It's so unfunny it almost stings.

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38
Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

Bee Movie isn't a B movie, it's a Z movie, as in dizmal.

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