The Beekeeping Community Has Some Issues With Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Bee Movie’
Possibly thanks to the surprise endorsement from Oscar-winning director Quentin Tarantino, Jerry Seinfeld’s creepy CGI children’s movie Bee Movie endures. It’s currently one of the top movies on Netflix, which sure doesn’t say much for the selection over at Netflix.
Bee Movie, of course, tells the story of a worker bee named Barry B. Benson (perhaps named after the sitcom that Seinfeld was fired from in the ‘80s) who forges a sexually-confounding relationship with a human woman, in a storyline so gross that Seinfeld would later feel the need to apologize for it.
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The film ends with Barry taking actor Ray Liotta to court for stealing and selling their honey. If things couldn’t get any weirder, Seinfeld promoted the movie by ziplining around France in a bee costume.
But do you know who isn’t crazy about Bee Movie? People who actually know a thing or two about bees.
Lisa Daffy, who writes a column called “The Accidental Beekeeper” recently documented her experiences watching Bee Movie, and flagged a number of major inaccuracies, even beyond the observation that bees don’t typically hit on human beings.
Daffy noted that her first clue that this movie was more frustrating than entertaining was its basic premise. “Worker bees are not male. They are ALL female,” she pointed out. She also took issue with the fact that Barry was forced to pick a job “for life” when in reality, “worker bees change their jobs every few days, moving up from cleaning crew to forager over their lifespan.”
She went on to explain that, despite the dude-heavy cast, in a honeybee hive of 40,000, there will likely be “just a few hundred drones” and “only during mating season.” Plus, the drone’s one and only job is to “make more honeybees” with a queen bee. So at least Seinfeld got the horniness part right, I guess.
If he is able to successfully mate, the bee’s endophallus “explodes after intercourse” and the “rest of him falls to the ground, done and dusted.” This might explain why Seinfeld’s movie deviated from the science of bees so drastically. After all, no parent wants to take their kid to see a cartoon that ends with Jerry Seinfeld’s bee-dick exploding.
Others have brought up another weird error in Bee Movie: While the male bee has an endophallus, they don’t have stingers, which sure changes the way we view the scene in which Barry uses his “stinger” to duel with a honey factory worker, before shoving what we only now realize is his sex organ in the guy’s face.
Obviously nobody is watching a Jerry Seinfeld cartoon for its scientific accuracy, but who would have guessed that the movie is even creepier than people already thought?
