It had been almost a decade since the competing Antz and A Bug's Life were released, and there haven't been many insect based films that have been a hit, especially not computer animated, but then came this one. Basically in a bee hive in Sheep's Meadow, Central Park, New York City, ordinary bee Barry B. Benson (Jerry Seinfeld, also writing and producing) has just graduated with his friend Adam Flayman (Matthew Broderick) from college, and they are ready to enter the honey making industry, Honex. They find out however that whatever job they choose will be the job will be working in for the rest of their lives, and Barry doesn't like the sound of that, so he plans to leave the hive, and he does this by pretending to be part of the pollen collecting team who get to go outside. He enjoys his newfound freedom, but he has to find shade when it starts raining, he rests on the apartment windowsill of female florist human Vanessa Bloome (Renée Zellweger), and he breaks the biggest bee rule of talking to her. They spend a lot of time together, but one day while shopping for groceries Barry spots hundreds of jars on honey, humans have been stealing it for centuries. He spots the Honey Farms company truck, and joins mosquito Mooseblood (Chris Rock) on the windscreen going to the place where humans make the honey, artificially, and he decides that this is a case that needs to be taken to court for a lawsuit. With the help of Vanessa proving that he and all bees can talk, and bee and honey related celebrities Sting and Ray Liotta questioned, they win the case, meaning all honey in the world is confiscated. Defence lawyer Layton T. Montgomery (John Goodman) has a point however when he says that they will disrupt nature's balance as honey has been made for over 27 million years, so all bees are out of a job, and all the flowers needing pollen will die out. In the end, Barry and Vanessa realise the big error made to the world, so honey making by bees is restored, the law is dropped, and they change "Vanessa's Flowers" to "Vanessa and Barry: Flowers; Honey; Legal Advice". Also starring Patrick Warburton as Ken, Megan Mullally as Trudy, Kathy Bates as Janet Benson, Rip Torn as Lou Lo Duca, Rain Man director Barry Levinson as Martin Benson, Larry King as Bee Larry King, Oprah Winfrey as Judge Bumbleton and The Nutty Professor's Larry Miller as Buzzwell. The voice casting is very good, the animation from the same studio as Shrek is of course perfect, the obviously honey and bee jokes are very funny, there just aren't any complaints to be made, a great fun computer animated comedy. It was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Animated Film. Very good!