Line #10 WesternAnimation/PlanBee


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2	[[caption-width-right:182: The Sting is in the Tale]]
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4	''Plan Bee'' is a 2007 animated film created by Creator/SparkPlugEntertainment.
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6	The film centers around a worker-bee named Bing, who, along with the other workers, is being worked to exhaustion by the evil queen Akif and her cruel second-in-command Bellza. Akif has usurped the hive from the previous [[TheGoodQueen Good Queen]] Beatrice, and has an insatiable demand for more honey. Forced to expand the hive and obtain more honey for the greedy queen, Bing and the others, with the help of their friend from another hive, must find a way to liberate the hive from her control and restore the rightful queen to the hive.
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8	As the title would suggest, this film is loosely based on the 2007 Creator/DreamWorksAnimation movie ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie''.
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10	It has a reputation for being one of the worst films ever made, as a ShoddyKnockOffProduct of ''The Bee Movie''.
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12	!!Tropes found in this movie:
13	* AdiposeRex: Queen Akif is noticably fatter than many of the other bees. She's nearly twice the size of Bing. Also qualifies as LargeAndInCharge.
14	* AerithAndBob: Names like Beatrice and Bonnie show up alongside the likes of Akif and Bellza.
15	* AllAnimalsAreDogs: The toad barks like a dog.
16	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In real-life, all worker-bees are female. However, Bing and several other characters are all male.
17	** In the fight scene, the bees sting, and are stung, multiple times. In real life, bees die after stinging.
18	** Most of the bees look more like wasps, with their long abdomen and very skinny waist.
19	** It doesn't take a queen bee to make Royal Jelly; in fact, only workers make it. (It also isn't purple)
20	* BadBoss:
21	** Queen Akif is this to the worker bees. She exploits them in order to expand the hive and obtain more honey, to the point of cancelling sleep privileges.
22	** Bellza is also an awful boss. He orders the bees around, bullies them, and works them to the bone.
23	* BigEater: Bing has always to tell Joey he shouldn't eat so much.
24	* BrattyFoodDemand: Queen Akif insists on being fed royal jelly, leading to Bing meeting Queen Beatrice.
25	* TheCaligula: Queen Akif is a luxurious monarch who orders the worker bees to give her food.
26	* ChekhovsGun: Queen Beatrice mentions to Bing that the royal jelly must be left to stand, as this improves the flavour. This is later used as evidence that [[spoiler: Akif]] tried to poison the elders.
27	* ChekhovsGunman: The toad. Having attacked Pistill, it become his pet [[spoiler: and chases Queen Akif away during the climax]]. By extension also Pistill himself.
28	* CrapsackWorld: The beehive is a corrupt dictatorship ruled by the evil queen Akif. Worker bees are oppressed, and the policies are destroying the flowers.
29	* CrownShapedHead: Queen Beatrice has a little crown-shaped growth on top of her head.
30	* DayOfTheJackboot: Bing and his friends return to their hive to find queen Akif having pulled off a successful coup d'etat and replacing [[TheGoodKing Good Queen]] Beatrice.
31	* DivineRightOfKings: Similar. Queen Akif defends her actions by the justification 'So what? I was born to be queen'.
32	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The bees are ordered to 'drill and drain' ''all'' the nectar from the flowers, regardless of environmental cost of doing so. One character mentions that the flowers will die, leaving no nectar for later. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by one character, who, being notified of 'drill and drain', says that it 'sounds like some nutty technique humans invented. ''Humans''.'
33	* TheDragon: Bellza becomes the Queen's second-in-command.
34	* EverybodyLaughsEnding: [[spoiler: Akif is chased away, and nearly eaten]] by the toad, whom it turns out Pistill has tamed. After he exclaims 'Toads make great pets!', everybody bursts out laughing.
35	* EvilChancellor: Bellza. An unusual example as he doesn't use his position to wield power through the queen; rather, he acts purely as a subservient, albeit a very smug one.
36	* EvilGloating: Queen Akif is ''very'' fond of this.
37	* EvilIsHammy: 'Glistening, PURE gold! I WANT IT ALL! IT'S MINE!'
38	* ExtremeOmnivore: Joey will eat anything, including paper, rubbish, pollen, and the beehive itself.
39	* FatAndSkinny: Joey and Bing.
40	* FreudianExcuse: Queen Akif is allegedly evil because her mother told her she was too nice to be queen.
41	* GaiasLament: Downplayed. By the end of the film, most flowers within range of the beehive are depleted of nectar. The only usable nearby flowers are those in a garbage skip that have been thrown out by a restaurant.
42	* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The Queen runs her workers ragged and treats them like slaves. She also framed her mother, the previous queen, for trying to Akif murder the elders to take the throne.
43	* {{Gonk}}: So many of Spark Plug's characters are, but the best example is the lantern-jawed bee Pistill in ''Plan Bee''.
44	* TheGoodQueen: The old queen Beatrice.
45	* GreenAesop: Do not exploit the nature!
46	* HardWorkMontage: The montage of TheTeam flying around working on the hive, although no actual ''work'' is going on, so it's more like a TravelMontage.
47	* HumiliationConga: Queen Akif is has a vote of no confidence placed by all three jury, is cornered into confessing that she poisoned the elders, her guards abandon her after having been stung ''once'', [[RightfulKingReturns is exiled by the new queen]], and is nearly eaten by the toad
48	* IdleRich: Queen Akif does little but order the bees around while demanding honey and royal jelly.
49	* InsectGenderBender: the film features a male worker bee as its protagonist.
50	* InsectQueen: The Queens both have authority over the hive, social hierarchy exists with a court and advisors, and Akif has a bodyguard.
51	* IShallReturn: The evil queen says this upon being exiled.
52	* KickTheDog: Queen Akif is shown to be evil when she turns a blind eye to Bellza's cheating, and also when she orders them to go without sleep.
53	* LargeHam: The Queen Akif, on several occasions;
54	** 'Glistening, PURE gold! I WANT IT ALL! IT'S MINE!'
55	** 'They said I would never be queen. They said I was too nice!'
56	** 'I shall return to reclaim my throne, and next time, I won't be so nice!'
57	* LuddWasRight: It's the 'time-tested way from the dawn of history' for bees to take only what nectar they need from each flower. Queen Akif's orders to expand the hive and obtain more honey are portrayed as wicked.
58	* ManipulativeBastard: Queen Akif's method of getting onto the throne; she poisoned the elders, and blamed it on Queen Beatrice, allowing her to take power.
59	* MicroMonarchy: As in real life, the beehive is ruled by a queen.
60	* TheMockbuster: As the title would suggest, this film is ''very'' loosely based on the 2007 Creator/DreamWorksAnimation movie ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie''.
61	* OddlySmallOrganization: The beehive consists only of fewer than 20 bees, despite the fact that a real-life hive would consist of several thousand bees.
62	* OnlySaneMan: Bing seems to be the only bee who, at the start, knows how to pollinate flowers. Most of the others either eat them or crash into them, and one tries to pollinate a pretzel.
63	* OverlyLongTongue: The bees' tongues are, as in real life, very long and thick, as demonstrated when they use them to unload their honey into the pot.
64	* PunBasedTitle: Plan ''Bee''.
65	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Bing and his friends: the FatBestFriend Joey, the UglyCute gonk Pistill, the OnlySaneMan Bing, and the hyperactive small bee that follows them around
66	* RealPlaceBackground: The film is set in Washington, DC, and many Washington landmarks are visible, including the White House and Capitol Building.
67	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Plan Bee plays it straight with Queen Beatrice, but averts it with Queen Akif.
68	* RightfulKingReturns: Queen, in this case. Queen Beatrice, after spending much of the film in hiding, returns and is reinstated by the worker bees, telling Queen Akif that her 'reign of terror is over!'. She is crowned at the end of the film.
69	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Averted for the most part. Queen Akif does no physical labour. However, she does command the bees. Queen Beatrice appears to show promise of being a better queen.
70	* SceneryPorn: Various scenes involving the bees flying over Washington landmarks, including the White House and the Capitol Building. The Washington Monument appears in the background of various scenes. The credits are a montage of various landmarks; these include, in order, the Washington Monument, the Equestrian statue of Lieutenant-General George Washington, the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the National Gallery of Art (East Building) (Exterior and Interior), the Capitol Building, Smithsonian Castle, Washington National Cathedral, the Mark di Suveroand Red Sculpture, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Watergate Complex.
71	* SequelHook: The Queen vows that she will return. However, so far no sequel is forthcoming. Maybe wait until [[WesternAnimation/BeeMovie Bee Movie II]] comes out.
72	* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: The film itself.
73	* SleepDeprivation: Once Bellza becomes the Queen's second-in-command, he forces the workers to collect honey 24/7, working them to the point of exhaustion.
74	* StockAnimalName: Zigzagged. Many of the Bees have names starting with B, like Bing, Bonnie, Buffy, Bellza, etc. However, there are exceptions, including Joey and Akif.
75	* StockBeehive: The beehive starts out just looking like a normal fictionalized beehive, sticking out from the bottom and looking like a golden version of a wasp's nest. However, as the bees start to expand the hive, it grows massive and tall, sticking out on both sides of the branch like a tower.
76	* SuddenNameChange: The Bee usually referred to as 'Joey' is introduced as 'Zoey'.
77	* SycophanticServant: Bellza is one to [[BigBad Queen Akif]].
78	* ThisIsADrill: At one point, the bees in ''Plan Bee'' drill into the flowers to collect nectar, complete with the sound of a dentist's drill.
79	* UniversallyBelovedLeader: Everybody likes Queen Beatrice. Except presumably Bellza, who is not shown to have been exiled.
80	* TheUsurper: Queen Akif, during her confession, demonstrates that she usurped the throne from Queen Beatrice.
81	* ValleyGirl: Buffy talks like a valley girl.
82	* VirtuousBees: With the exception of Bellza and the Queen, the bees are all pretty friendly and heroic. In fact, they not only show concern about the flowers they're forced to kill, but they also have an understanding of freedom and democracy, and feel guilty for disrupting a memorial for UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington. ''Thoroughly'' averted with Queen Akif and Bellza.
83	* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: All three jury vote for Queen Akif to be deposed. Furthermore, apart from [[TheDragon Bellza]], almost no one in the hive likes her. They all work because they fear her wrath.
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Context WesternAnimation / PlanBee