Jerry Seinfeld’s Sorry for Bee Movie Being So Horny

Though the official line on 2007’s Bee Movie has at all times insisted that there was by no means any sexual power buzzing between its two leads—Vanessa, a human girl voiced by Renée Zellweger, and Barry, an anthropomorphic bee voiced by Jerry Seinfeld—anybody who’s truly seen the Steve Hickner-directed movie is aware of that Vanessa wished the bee, and the sensation was fairly mutual.

While Bee Movie was a comedy geared toward considerably youthful audiences, like many animated options meant for teenagers, it additionally discovered the time to slide in just a few gags whose significance would actually solely be obvious to older viewers—just like the ridiculousness of a grown human making an attempt to indicate off their items for an insect. That form of humor’s fairly widespread within the animation area, and has at all times been removed from distinctive to Bee Movie particularly, however that hasn’t stopped individuals from playfully pretending to be scandalized by Barry and Vanessa’s apparent attraction to at least one one other. During a latest look on The Tonight Show, Seinfeld sat down with Jimmy Fallon to replicate on his legacy, and formally “apologize for what seems to be a certain uncomfortable subtle sexual aspect of The Bee Movie, which really was not intentional.”

Seinfeld defined that whereas Bee Movie was in manufacturing, nothing about its story jumped out at him as being significantly egregious, nevertheless it wasn’t lengthy after the film’s premiere that the truth started to set in.

“After it came out, I realized, ‘This is really not appropriate for children.’ Because the bee seems to have a thing for the girl,” Seinfeld mentioned. “We don’t really want to pursue that as an idea in children’s entertainment.”

Again, whenever you truly sit down to look at or recall Bee Movie, the claims that nobody on the inventive group foresaw audiences deciphering it as a racy spin on My Girl are slightly doubtful. Barry breaking bees’ guidelines about not revealing that they’ll converse to people is one in every of Bee Movie’s central plot factors that kicks in after Vanessa saves him from being squashed by her boyfriend Ken (voiced by Patrick Warburton). The romantic love triangle between between Barry, Vanessa, and Ken takes a again seat to Bee Movie’s story about people’ exploitation of bees, nevertheless it’s current sufficient to go away little query about how Vanessa and Barry really feel about each other.

The two wished to get it on, and whereas the mechanics of that coupling might need been greater than a bit difficult, it’s no extra scandalous than Shrek and Fiona, Howard the Duck and totally different human ladies, or Greg Universe and Rose Quartz. We all know what’s happening in these tales, and it’s completely high quality to have just a little chuckle about them, as a result of we’re all adults right here.

Bee Movie occurs to be streaming on Netflix proper this second.

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