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The Movie is a dystopian future of the Bee Movie

This film occurs 20 Minutes into the Future (only a few years by human standards); the bee economy has collapsed as a result of lack of human demand for honey, and Honex Industries was nationalised by the government under Queen Beatrice after it filed for bankruptcy. This led to most of the bees leaving, and the hive's industrial and residential areas collapsed after becoming disused. After Queen Akif took over, she demanded that the remaining bees work harder to match honey output to pre-nationalisation levels, leading to the events depicted in the film.

• Alternatively, Bee Movie is a Cyberpunk future of Plan Bee in which the MegaCorp Honex Industries controls most of the wealth and employs most of the population, while exerting considerable power over the government. It's certainly more futuristic than Plan Bee, with its high-tech screens, Ascetic Aesthetic spaces and electronics.
  • This may be complicated by the fact that the film is obviously set in Washington, DC. The Bee Movie is set in New York.

Bing is trying to set up a puppet government through Queen Beatrice

Bing is a Manipulative Bastard/ChessMaster who convinced the some of other bees to follow him. Having no friends on account of being a Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits, they easily accept. He then uses them to mount a revolution and set up the new queen, who, being old, seems to be kind but easily led. He then plans to rule through her, whether to expand the hive like Queen Akif or for better reasons. The reason he couldn't have led the bees himself is because Bing is male.

• Alternatively, Bonnie is the manipulative bastard. She convinced Bing to rebel for the sake of his civil rights, after all.
  • Why would she? She's female and therefore a legitimate queen.

The film is an allegory of the American Revolution.

Queen Beatrice, with her anger and gluttony, represents the mad King George III. Bellza represents the British parliament, who are acting on the King's authority (who may or may not approve) to tax the colonies excessively to fund their own motives (the Napoleonic Wars) — without giving them their own voice (representation). Bing, Bonnie, and the worker bees represent the American colonialists who are being oppressed. Beatrice represents George Washington.

• The film is so unsubtle about this that it's practically canon.
• Alternatively, it represents an Alternate History of the American Revolution in which George Washington chose to be king. If, according to this theory, Beatrice represents George Washington, then considering she is queen, this sort of fits. This is alluded to by Pistill (who for some reason is knowledgeable about American history), who says that 'he could have been king, but he chose democracy'. Considering that King George I of the United States of America is the page illustration for Alternate History, this isn't so strange after all.
  • It could be an allegory for the OTL revolution, made to fit with bees' biological necessity for a queen.
• So what do the flowers represent?

The film is an allegory for Communism.

Worker bees represent workers (obviously). Bonnie represents Karl Marx; originating from another hive (which represents Prussia) and spreading her ideas about liberty with the workers. Queen Beatrice takes an immediate dislike to her as a result. Beatrice represents Vladimir Lenin, having been exiled by the government, but also represents the tsar; as the original monarch returning to the hive, she represents how heirarchy and non-communist influences creep into communist society, and the fusion of Lenin and the Tsar drives the point home. Just as, right from the start of the restoration, she is queen, so the seeds of corruption are sown from the start in any attempt to set up a communist society. In the end, all the bees celebrate because they are allowed to sleep, representing the end of oppression of workers. This is gussied in American Revolution symbolism to make it more palatable to American audiences. Whether this is a pro-communist or anti-communist work depends on your interpretation.

The characters represent the seven deadly sins.

In this order:

• The annoying, pink female bee represents pride. She refuses to enter the garbage skip or get herself dirty, and obviously views herself as a cut above the other bees.
• Queen Akif represents greed. She insists on having more honey (glistening, PURE GOLD! I WANT IT ALL! IT'S MINE!).
• Bing represents wrath. He gets quite angry or moody more often than anybody else.
• Bellza represents envy. He is jealous of Bing's team's effort in harvesting honey, and aspires to greatness, which he intends to realise by sucking up to the queen.
• Bellza also represents lust, in a perverted way. He sucks up to Akif, a strong woman figure (albeit evil), in a * very strange way, and constantly fishes for her attention. Spends a lot of time with her.
• Joey represents gluttony, with his/her ravenous appetite.
• The small bee with the green thorax hair and red eyes represents sloth. He's always complaining about working, and more than anybody else about how tired he is.
  • Alternatively, could represent the cardinal virtues. Beatrice represents humility (what with being Modest Royalty and all that), Bing represents patience (he is very patient with Joey's eating habits), Joey represents kindness, they all represent diligence (being Virtuous Bees), Bonnie represents charity, and Pistill represents chastity.