The Bee Movie was basically a back to back hour and a half tetralogy. Basically four 22 minute episodes.

It seemed like they had four ideas for a movie about sapient bees and they eventually decided to go with all of them.

The first movie is a bee coping with the lack of freedom and purpose in a society of bees. You know, like pretty much any movie released around that time that centered around colonial insects.

The second movie is a bee who is sexually and romantically attracted to a human woman who saves him. I know this part gets meme-ified to hell and back but it’s not subtle at all, they’re fairly explicit in multiple scenes that not only did she have an emotional affair with a bee, not only does the ex perceive a fucking bee as a sexual rival and almost burns down her house trying to murder him in cold blood, but that very same bee finds her physically attractive and considers her in romantic terms. I’m not kidding it’s not subtext, it’s just text.

The third movie is a bee-themed courtroom drama about a bee who sues the human race for taking their honey. I’d go as far as to call it a parody of courtroom dramas because it made very little logical sense. I shit you not Barry fucking sued the entire human race, that’s what they said, not any one country, Barry sued everyone at once. Even then they held the court case in some random American court not even the Supreme court I don’t think. The jury didn’t even come to a decision, after the climax, the judge just hit her gavel and announced the case closed.

The fourth and final movie is a green Aesop about the balance of nature which is even more fucking bullshit. Bees aren’t the only pollinators, albeeit they’re very important, and unpollinated flowers don’t just wilt and die, they just can’t reproduce. Even more bullshit, humans not making honey wouldn’t do shit to stop bees from pollinating. Honey is taken from bee farms, even the movie knows this, they fucking showed the beekeepers. Bees have natural predators to which also prevents them from reaching whatever post scarcity society the bees in the movie apparently reached.