Word: cgi
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...because even though I'm Jerry Seinfeld, he's Steven Spielberg." When the chat rate slowed down, Seinfeld mentioned an idea - really, just a joke - for an animated film: a movie about bees called Bee Movie. A few months later, Seinfeld was on the DreamWorks campus, being shown how CGI films were made. And here he was, Seinfeld said, "four years later, because of a lull in the conversation...
...plays Barry, a bee who's restless to get out of his home base in New Hive City and see the world. (Like Antz, the first DreamWorks CGI feature, Bee Movie is set in Central Park.) His first outside flight lands him in the home of a friendly florist (voiced by Renée Zellweger) and, in the anything-goes premise, they find they can talk to each other. While Barry's parents fret that she's not right for him ("Is she bee-ish?"), he uncovers a plot to enslave his species and, like a good Jewish bee, acts...
...turns out fake water is really, really hard to perfect. Just ask the thousands of CGI jockeys who have been hunched over their monitors around-the-clock for months on the 2,000-plus effects shots in the next Pirates movie. Oh, and the Sandman's sand fists in Spidey 3? Totally time-consuming...
...four amphibious ninjas with Renaissance-artist names migrated from comic books to the big screen in 1990, they spawned a $6 billion frenzy for such delights as turtle-packaged frozen pizza, turtle shampoo and talking turtle toothbrushes. In the first sequel since 1993, Leonardo and pals have morphed into CGI. The movie's O.K. but probably not worth the hassle of shelling out for action figures afterward...
...Male body worship abounds; the actors, who seem pumped up on Hellenic growth hormones, hardly need shields or swords. Their pecks are their breastplate; their tumorous abs are their body armor. (Thee closing credits list two "personal trainers to Mr. Butler, so I guess the muscles aren't all CGI.) They boast and tease each other about their physiques, which to me sounds like flirting. At times these ancient bodybuilders look like their own statuary, heroic and sometimes headless...