Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us.

DreamWorks Studio returns with its latest animated movie about life in a bee colony. As with earlier DreamWorks productions such as the "Shrek" trilogy and "Finding Nemo", "Bee Movie" contains the necessary elements for box office success - a creative storyline, plenty of humour and excellent CGI.

The time has come for Barry B. Benson (whom Jerry Seinfeld lent his voice to), a newly graduated bee to pick a career in Honex, the beehive corporation with its elaborate and intricate system, in which he will work for the rest of his life. Perplexed upon learning that all bees are to stay in the same job forever, be it a stirrer or a Pollen Jock (a jock-like bee whose duty is to go out and pollinate the flowers while extracting nectar), Barry leaves the hive for the first time on a special trip and gets himself involved in a series of near-death events. At the end of the day, he becomes infatuated with a human florist (voiced by Renee Zellweger) who saved him from being crushed to death.

On a subsequent trip to the outside world, Barry discovers that human beings actually consume honey, the precious resource and result of the entire bee population's hard work, and files the mother of all lawsuits - bees versus humans.

From the start to the end, "Bee Movie" garners laughter almost on a regular basis throughout. Besides the usual visual comedy that appeals mainly to the children in the audience, there was also something for the grown-ups, in the form of comedic dialogue and tongue-in-cheek humour.

This film is very inventive in the way it creates the world of the bees and their way of life, casting a humorous light in explaining insect behaviours. It also parodies the human race on many levels, inciting many laughs in the process.

The working environment in Honex feels a little like Asian mentality. Job hopping is not really encouraged, and just three days after graduation, Barry's parents are concerned that Barry has not started working or even decided on a career choice. Also, the way humans unethically steal the valuable resources from the honey - by creating artificial hives where they exploit bees they kidnapped to work and create honey - mimics the way civilised parts of the world thoughtlessly deplete natural resources for their narcissistic needs.

In featuring the voice of many famous actors and actresses, "Bee Movie" is bound to attract many movie-goers. The interesting cameos add value to the movie, especially with Sting playing himself, sued in the courtroom of Judge Bumbleton (Oprah Winfrey) for using a word associated with insects for his stage name. Ray Liotta also provides the voice for a character as himself, who in the show is a shrewd owner of a massive Honey brand. Chris Rock's voice is used for Mooseblood, a mosquito who later becomes a lawyer. Larry King speaks for the Bee Larry King, also a talk show host but in the bee kingdom.

Rising to expectations of animation, the CGI here is brilliant, with extremely realistic depictions of landscape scenery and facial expressions. Particularly, on Barry's first trip out of the hive, the aerial scenes of the bees flying across the city were breathtaking and impressive.

This is an easily enjoyable and perfect entertainment for the whole family, since it caters across different levels, and you can't go wrong when every one is laughing so hard.

Those who have watched 'The Seinfeld Show' on TV would recognise its familiar gags and style - after all, this movie was the brainchild of Jerry Seinfeld. He came up with the idea and the title - and tossed it to producer Steven Spielberg who took a liking to it. However, "Bee Movie" ends up 'beeing' too much of a Seinfeld Movie - with all his trademark jokes and buzzwords.

Seinfeld plays the lead character, Barry B. Benson, a young bee who has just graduated from hive school and is instantly thrust into a lifetime of labour, making honey or taking care of the hive. Stuck in a conformist and workaholic society, Barry is shocked to learn that he will not get any vacation or free time. To a rebel like Barry, this system sucks. He sneaks into a squad of pollinators, flies out of the hive, wanders through New York's Central Park, and ends up being rescued by a human florist named Vanessa (voice of Renee Zellweger).

Vanessa is startled by Barry's ability to speak English - and the two of them strike up a weird but beautiful friendship. However, their relationship is rendered taboo because, according to apian law, bees are not supposed to communicate with humans. Nevertheless, Barry is in love with the pretty florist and would not be bound by any law of Nature or logic. When Barry accompanies Vanessa to a supermarket and discovers that humans are stealing honey from bees, he decides on a very un-beelike action: he files a lawsuit against humans for theft.

Yes, you can imagine this sort of situation in Seinfeld's stand-up routines, like, "what if the bees sue us for theft of their honey?" but in the outrageous world of family cartoons, this gag is blase. To the kids in the audience, the trial is just 'much abuzz about nothing' and the third act almost goes splat! - like an insect caught on the windscreen of a speeding car.

The first half of the movie is promising, though. With so much more interplay of characters, it is visually exciting and exhilarating. One of the most funny characters here is Mooseblood the mosquito (Chris Rock) but the role turns out to be only a 'cameo' and it is all Seinfeld the comedian in the second half. Inside jokes concerning Sting (the singer who borrows his name from the bees) and Ray Liotta (the actor promoting jars of honey) are not going to get the laugh-out-loud reactions from viewers. Neither are the references to the Jewish gags - as in Barry's mom asking "Is she beeish" (about Barry's 'girlfriend') and getting the comforting reply, "She's not a wasp".

Also the screenwriters make such a big deal that, according to the law of aerodynamics, bees are not supposed to fly - while forgetting that bees have six legs and not four as depicted in the movie.

There are enjoyable moments in "Bee Movie". It is just that the film-makers have squandered its potential for more by concentrating too much of Seinfeld gags.