"Bee Movie"

Jerry Seinfeld arrives at the premiere of "Bee Movie" Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007, right. He does the voice of a bee named Barry B. Benson, left. He also wrote the script with three of the writers for "Seinfeld" the TV series.

Chris Rock, Seinfeld, and Renee Zellweger, all of whom voice characters in the movie, arrive at the premiere.

Zellweger plays a florist in New York City named Vanessa who is startled to find a bee talking to her.

There was some blogger buzz about her outfit and hairdo at the premiere, but surely Zellweger would tell them to buzz off. "I don't understand our insatiable appetite for negativity in the press and I'm really glad not to have entered into this business really young," she was quoted as saying at the premiere.

Matthew Broderick also attended the New York "Black and Yellow" premiere of "Bee Movie," which was held at the AMC Lincoln Square 13 in New York. He too voices a character in the animated film.

Broderick plays Barry B. Benson's best friend, Adam Flayman, left.

The movie had two directors, Steve Hickner, far left, and Simon J. Smith, to the right of him, and they joined the cast at the premiere.

Jeffrey Katzenberg attended the premiere as well. The studio he heads, DreamWorks Animation SKG, produced "Bee Movie." Katzenberg, who has been responsible for reviving the genre of animated features (at Disney, he produced such hits as "The Lion King"; at "Dreamworks" he has overseen "Shrek") has pursued Seinfeld to get him to do voices for his animated films.

Seinfeld reportedly came up with the idea for "Bee Movie" years ago, but just had the title; he liked the pun.

Rather than sitting at home on the Upper West Side, with his wife and three children, spending his millions, Seinfeld decided to spend four years making his Bee movie -- writing it, producing it, voice a character and even, last May, performing a weird stunt in a bee costume at the Cannes Film Festival to promote it.

The puns do not end with the title. B.B. Benson wants more out of life than a job at Honex in New Hive City, making honey. So...

...he leaves New Hive City, and flies to New York City. He loves Central Park.

He also ventures into the world of human beings...

This does not always work out so well. He doesn't like Vanessa's tennis partner Ken (voiced by Patrick Warburton). He is also shocked to learn that human beings are stealing the bees' honey!

He takes to the airwaves to protest.

This shocks his family and friends -- his friend voiced by Matthew Broderick, his parents voiced by Barry Levinson and Kathy Bates, and his Uncle Carl, voiced by John Altman. These are not B-movie actors, but they are now "Bee Movie" actors.

Some who attended the premiere were not in the cast, large as it is. Here James Gandolfini enters with son Michael Gandolfini and Lora Somoza.

Tina Fey, creator and star of "30 Rock," was there with her daughter Alice.

But Jerry Seinfeld made sure to make his wife Jessica pose with a person in a bee costume. Clearly, these days, he is bee-occupied.