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Entry: 'Bee Movie' - the Film - A87878821
Author: SashaQ - happysad - Editor - U9936370

Inspired by <BB<'s Entries I have been watching DreamWorks films. I quite enjoyed this film, so I hope you enjoy this Entry.

I haven't seen this film but it's a good entry.

One factual error:

Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story was voiced by Tim Allen, not Patrick Warburton. Warburton did Buzz's voice in the video production "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins".

There are a couple of sentences that seem rather weak:

Jerry Seinfeld and Matthew Broderick recorded Barry's dialogue with Adam together too.
-- you could say something like "This technique was used for Barry and Adam's dialogue too".

The Graduate, and the relationship between the young Ben Braddock and the older Mrs Robinson, influenced their interaction too.
-- perhaps you could say "Their interaction was also influenced by that of young Ben Braddock and the older Mrs Robinson in The Graduate"

A common writer fault is putting in the word "also" in every sentence. You've got two sentences in succesion with "also" in them:

"The DVD also contains games and pictures that can only be viewed on a computer.

The Bee Movie Game for PlayStation 2 was also released in 2007."

Some punctuation:

Bridget Jones' Diary --> Bridget Jones's Diary
(you may not like this way of punctuating, but that's the title of the film)

Disney's The Lion King -- add a full stop after this

marking this to read later when I'm not nearing the end of my lunchbreak I love Bee Movie so will enjoy this, I'm sure.

Deb

Thanks for the thorough readthrough Gnomon

I completely misread the bit about Buzz Lightyear in Patrick Warburton's bio so I have amended that paragraph

Tweaks made

My favourite part of the film is still Pooh's cameo.

Quick question – how much was spent on marketing? Normally with an animated film like this you're expecting a marketing budget of around $100k-$150k in addition to the budget of $150 to make, with a Box Office of $288 million this would make this film only modestly successful.

My family's favourite Patrick Warburton role has to be that of The Wolf in 'Hoodwinked!'

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Sorry for not seeing this sooner. I blame NaNo/Jo... I want to work the Pooh cameo in and I will see if I can find anything in relation to net profit...

Ah, I see my phrase "a success overall" didn't sound as muted to you as it did to me, so I have tweaked that Bee Movie did DreamWorks' profits good, through DVD sales on top of the box office, so that isn't too bad overall, but they have done better with other films

I've added the Pooh cameo too

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well done

Thank you

well done Sasha

Deb