Bee Movie
A Sticky Situation
Humans and bee face off over honey in Bee Movie
Mmm. Honey. Sweet, delicious honey. It’s so good on toast, in tea. Have you ever had honey cake? Yum. But do you know where honey comes from?
Bees make honey by collecting nectar from flowers. Nectar is like honey, but more watery. The bees then return to their home, or hive, and drop the nectar off, where other bees fan the nectar with their wings until most of the water evaporates and they’re left with something like the thick, gooey honey we buy in jars.
Of course, the bees aren’t making the honey for us. They’re making it for themselves, to use as a food source. We just, well, take it.
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According to the animated comedy Bee Movie, most bees don’t realize that humans are stealing their honey. That is, until one rather clever and bored bee, Barry B. Benson, escapes the hive to take a trip into the big city of New York.
Once there, he does the unthinkable and strikes up a conversation with a florist named Vanessa. Bees aren’t supposed to talk to humans, you see. Once Vanessa gets over the shock of meeting a talking bee, the two become friends.
That’s how Barry learns that humans have been stealing and eating bees’ honey for generations.
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Furious, Barry decides to sue the human race for theft.
How will this dilemma be resolved? Humans might just have to say goodbye to sweet, sweet honey. Or, perhaps the court system can kind find a solution that will make everyone happy.
Bee Movie opens November 2