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Load of rubbish!!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Sure, The Bumblebee Flies Away had some interesting thematic elements and a neatly placed twist at the end, the over sentimental feel of the script felt like it dragged on for too long. Elijah Wood seemed out of place in his role, considering he looks as old as some of the younger kids in the movie. Nonetheless, despite the misgivings, I will give this little film a 5/10. It wasn't sappy enough to make me egress my dinner, but not great enough to get over its own sad misgivings.

I read the book for this film awhile ago, and the book was amazing, so when I discovered that it had been made into a film (starring Elijah Wood, one of my favorite actors since I was a little girl seeing him in Huckleberry Finn etc.) I was really excited to see the film, and it took me ages to get a hold of it, because it was more or less impossible to buy in Europe. But now I have finally seen it, and I'm sad to say it was a huge disappointment. It was such a messy film, which didn't seem to have any certain point at all, characters had been radically changed in the film and the storyline had a had a completely different end to it. I think if I hadn't read the book it would have been hard to completely understand the storyline, but I might change that point of view if I hear anyone else's opinion. However, I must say, what did keep the film going when all is said and done, was the amazingly fine acting skills of Elijah Wood and Rachael Leigh Cook. They merely saved the highly insignificant lovestory which had been stuffed into the story, from being a disgrace to the story. So thank god we have great actors like that!

"Weird" is a word that comes, inexplicably (ha!) but irresistably, to mind. The strangest movie ever made is patently "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T", but "Bumblebee" is in the top five, at least. Don't get me wrong, I liked it. I didn't love it, except for about five minutes that I feel now I can't live without, but I liked it. Having been in love with Elijah Wood since I was seven and first saw "North", I was pleased to see him looking so well (ie, minus curly hair, pointed hears, and hairy hobbit feet, though the haircut he sports here makes him look so fey). And all you people saying he's wooden are patently deaf and blind. Elijah Wood can express more emotion with his eyes than the whole of Harrison Ford and Meryl Streep put together (I'd like to see what they look like together, wouldn't you?) and he's got enough everyman in him, despite his peculiar face, to be a great, great actor. it would have helped some of the lines (I wish they would have taken the script to the repair shop) if his voice was sharper and more emphatic, but really it's not his fault, he just happens to have a very soft voice. What I DID get a kick out of, having read the foregoing comments prior to watching the movie, was the much-hyped kiss. Hey, I'd like to kiss Elijah Wood if nobody else will. Granted, he's not got much romantic experience (movie-wise, anyway). I mean, who's he kissed? Leelee Sobieski. Briefly. I haven't seen all his movies, sure, but that's the only kiss I know of in his nice long history. This kiss, though...gosh. After it was over, I could just hear him booming, "YES, I AM NOW A MAN." He went at it with all the urgency of somebody who has no idea what he's doing and figures, if he does it enthusiastically enough, nobody will notice. Apparently nobody did. Incidentally, I wonder how many times he had to kiss Rachael Leigh Cook--- "Action." "Ow! Oh, sorry." "Cut. Action." "Oops." "Cut. Action." "What, I'm supposed to kiss her LIPS?!?" I'm in a cynical frame of mood today, feeling a bit depressed. Also, I'm short, and to kiss Elijah Wood I'd have to stand on a chair. You think I'm kidding. Whoever it was playing Mazzo did a terrific, terrific job. I like that kid. I don't know who he is, but I like him. What's up with Barney calling him "Matzo" all the time, though? The ending was bothersome. I was yelling, 'You're gonna go down the roof in a STRINGBEAN?" I wish Elijah Wood was in more and better movies. I'm addicted to Lord of the Rings- I loved North- The War was great (he won)- and Radio Flyer was sweet and made me cry. Flipper was a contaminating hunk of junk, though. THAT'S why they don't want to let Paul Hogan back into Australia, he keeps embarrassing them. So what I'm saying is--- oh, gosh, I've completely lost whatever it was. My train of thought has derailed. Bzzzz... Prior to THE KISS (ha-ha) Barney told Cassie, "Only you." I couldn't wait for him to get down on his knees and start to sing. there are SO DARN MANY opportunities for a bit of humor in this flimsy script, and they didn't take any of them! I know I'm a cynic, but I hate watching movies that force me to re-write as they go along. But there are good things here. Bad things, too, but good things. And if you concentrate on the good things, it's a moving, unique little film.If you concentrate on the bad things, you end up in a home, drooling creamed spinach. OH MY GOSH! FLIPPER CONTAMINATION!!!!!

Terrible acting, terrible script, wholly unrealistic. The Bumblebee Flies Anyway exemplifies the cliches and sentimentalism that movie studios love to cram down viewers' throats. Elijah Wood is unimaginably bad in the primary role, and the plot points are contrived and sappy. Cook's and Wood's relationship is laughable at best. But the worst element of Bumblebee is the script. This is some of the most mind-numbingly bad dialogue I have ever had the misfortune to hear. Bumblebees actually crawling inside my ears and stinging my eardrums would be preferable to hearing Elijah Wood robotically spit out his pseudo-profound lines. I wish a "Bumblebee Project" would be performed on me, so I could mercifully have no memories of this stinker.