Review of The Bees

The Bees (1978)
1/10
Buzz Off Already
17 October 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Being a victim of multiple bee stings myself, let me clue you in on the little devils; don't swat them like mosquitoes.

Is this the one where the lady is trapped inside the beetle car and drives around a track and field oval?

I heard that bees only have a lifespan of 10 days.

The movie starts out with a couple of illegals jumping a border and trespassing onto Mr. Miyagi's house, only to be sprayed by either confetti or fake snow.

What looks like that creepy Lifetime actor Eric Roberts is alerted to the bee rustling activity and catches them red-handed being attacked by artificial fireflies.

It really looks like chewed-up polystyrene in the air.

The victim puts on an Oscar-winning performance by dying slowly.

What's-his-name sports Norman Bate's mother's hair?

Or, was that a wig? Either way, he's rocking it like a world star.

An angry mob of rabblerousers causes a stir while being led by a night of the living dead twit, sporting herpes, who parades a corpse around in his cradle. Unlawful working conditions start a riot, resulting in the Lifetime actor, with the 'Psycho' hair,' being hit fair square between the eyes with a chunk of rock, which gives new meaning to "only a stone throw away." Somebody give that woman a major league baseball contract right away. She's deadly accurate.

We leave the Jonestown massacre behind and are introduced to the guy from 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' and he's not entering a dragon in this movie but is head of the UN and wearing an expensive suit. By the end of the movie, though, he goes one-on-one with Bolo Yeung. They throw in another martial arts reference as well, and it's quite cringe-worthy.

We cut to New York, and I swear they're playing trumpet music from 'Ms .45.' The singer from Fleetwood Mac arrives from Jonestown and is accosted by Tom Berenger and Popeye.

They steal her fishing tacklebox, are set upon by imported bees from another movie, cry like little girls, and eventually get mowed down by savage automobiles in an attempt to escape the bug attack. That whole building scene with the lift reminds me of Thana when she blows away the photography guy in the apartment.

While John Saxon reminds me of Sean Connery meets Michael Ironside.

That spooky Carradine fella enters the dragon, and he sports a downward cowlick at first and looks like George McFly's father.

Come to think about it, that Fleetwood Mac chick is dressed like Thana as well. She's even rocking the same beret.

I thought that the Oscar-winning death scene at the start was the bees knees, but check out the performance by the beach babe with the ABBA eyeshadow, who gets bit on the finger and dies hard around the 29-minute mark.

The bees in this movie are deadlier and more potent than an Inland Taipan.

Hang on! We got a new winner on that death award. The beach babe only held the title for 3 minutes. Go to the 32:07 minute mark and watch the clown draped in denim timber over like a redwood for no reason to his grave. Did he die of heat exposure? Sunstroke? I'm actually laughing hard at this scene. I rarely laugh at anything anymore, but I'm rewinding this scene and almost going to award this movie 10/10 for that scene alone. (I changed my rating three times while watching this movie, from a 10/10 to a 5/10 and finally landing on a 1/10.) Why's that dude wearing winter warmers on the beach anyway? Did the total eclipse of the sun force him to fold like a pack of playing cards? He just froze and turned into a stiff corpse before dying.

A plume of poorly designed CGI bees amass over town and just wing it to nowhere with no actual cause, while a possessed little girl, who lives down the lane, communicates with the mother brain that dwells in a cave and sends out angry transmissions to hunt humans.

Two of the edit graphic cuts are the stuff made of family game show entertainment. The lines delivered are basic and written by elementary school children. There's even Road Runner sound effects at times as well.

Hold up! This pervert in the park offering children cash advances in return for favors dies pretty hard as well. What he's doing with that brown paper bag is questionable. (Some people use socks.)

San Diego? I thought we were in New York.

The navy is brought in to combat the marauding insects but is no match for the illegal swarm.

Pasadena? I thought we were in San Diego.

The killer bees want no part in a July 4th street parade and put a stop to everyone's good time, which is a pay-per-view event being broadcast by former weathermen.

The director thought he was filming total chaos at the time in this scene, but it's quite laughable and holds no intensity. 'Jaws' suspense was 10/10. 'The Bees' is 1/10. It's artificial mayhem and anarchy.

Washington DC? I thought we were in Pasadena.

Military bombers are brought in, but I highly doubt their effectiveness. They do some crop dusting, and that is why your grapes taste like firecrackers, namely Lady Fingers.

This infuriates the mother brain, and she explodes and sends her armies out tenfold.

The Carradine fella brings nothing to the movie except attempts at humor, which are painful to watch. The accent he's trying to pull off makes what he's saying inaudible. He only lights up the movie when he's shot at the end.

The acting overall is weak in this by all parties.

Roper and Bolo go at it near the end, and it's farcical with the method used to take down Bolo, as is the escape from the Alcatraz dummy that jumps out of a window to its death in Washington, DC.

Fighter jets are brought in to drop lava scuds, and I kid you not, that was another Looney Tunes cartoon sound effect used while real-life planes crash.

Stock footage of Vietnam.

A-Team music.

Did no one think to just use some bug spray fumigation?

The thrilling conclusion to 'The Bees' is a gathering of UN members sitting around negotiating a bipartisan peace deal through democracy with the bees, as Saxon concedes that they can't be toppled, so if you can't beat them, join them.

Yes, you read right; they learn the bees language and hold peace talks with them to co-exist on their terms.

Movie, be gone already.
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