Does good necessarily follow good intentions? Barry B. Benson, a bee who's just finished his education and hates the idea of picking a life-long vocation, meets a human, florist Vanessa Bloom, while buzzing about Manhattan. She takes him to a supermarket where Barry discovers shelves and shelves of honey. Realizing it has been taken from bees - who work tirelessly and exhaust themselves for their two cups a year - he follows the delivery truck back to the honey farm, gathers evidence, and files suit against humanity. But what if Barry wins and the honey is returned to the bees, who can then slack off? An ecological cataclysm?

The first two movie trailers had Jerry Seinfeld trying to make a live action Bee Movie. After watching the disastrous results, Steven Spielberg asks, "Why don't you just make it a cartoon?"

Barry B. Benson:
Tivo. You can just freeze live TV? That's insane.


Vanessa:
What, you don't have anything like that?


Barry B. Benson:
We have "Hivo", But it's a disease. It's a horrible, horrible disease.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Perceived errors regarding insect anatomy are part of the movie's internal logic and suspension of disbelief. (See trivia entry.)

Written by Edward Elgar (as Sir Edward Elgar)