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  • 2015
  • G
  • Shout! Factory
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2015
  • G
  • Shout! Factory
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary Maya is a little bee with a big heart. While most bees believe that other insects should be feared, Maya can’t help but make friends with Flip the violin-playing grasshopper, Kurt the dung beetle and even Sting, a young hornet. This group of “fearsome” friends causes some bees to avoid Maya. But when the Queen’s royal jelly is stolen, it...

Directed By: Alexs Stadermann

Written By: Waldemar Bonsels, Fin Edquist, Marcus Sauermann

  • 2015
  • G
  • Shout! Factory
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2015
  • G
  • Shout! Factory
  • 1 h 29 m

Maya the Bee Movie

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
49
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary Maya is a little bee with a big heart. While most bees believe that other insects should be feared, Maya can’t help but make friends with Flip the violin-playing grasshopper, Kurt the dung beetle and even Sting, a young hornet. This group of “fearsome” friends causes some bees to avoid Maya. But when the Queen’s royal jelly is stolen, it...

Directed By: Alexs Stadermann

Written By: Waldemar Bonsels, Fin Edquist, Marcus Sauermann

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
49
14% Positive
1 Review
86% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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14% Positive
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86% Mixed
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70
Apr 30, 2015
Maya the Bee Movie does what it does very well, moving along at a brisk pace and with a strong underlying message for its young audience.
By Sherilyn Connelly FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 30, 2015
The film’s messages about friendship, acceptance and being yourself are clear enough for the young, and grown-ups can read the story as a warning about conformity and about going to war on false pretenses.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW

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18% Positive
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45% Mixed
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36% Negative
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60
Apr 30, 2015
Alexs Stadermann, directing from a script by Marcus Sauermann and Fin Edquist, keeps the story humming along genially, while the voice cast, also including Miriam Margoyles as the kindly Queen and Jacki Weaver as her conniving royal advisor, provides the spirited uplift.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
50
May 1, 2015
All told, in giving parents nothing to object to, director Alexs Stadermann (who got his start making straight-to-video sequels for Disney) has also given them little to get excited about, apart from the idea of sharing Maya with another generation of preschoolers.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 28, 2015
More harmless than entertaining, a limp exercise in cinematic baby-sitting for the six-and-under set.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 20, 2015
The humour lacks the zingy surprise that Pixar or Disney might have brought to it.
By Trevor Johnston FULL REVIEW
40
Apr 30, 2015
Talky, relentlessly affirming and as predictable as a paint-by-number.
By Charles Solomon FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Screen Australia, Buzz Studios, Studio 100 Media, Screen NSW, Flying Bark Productions, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), M.A.R.K.13(TM), Pixomondo Munich
Release Date May 1, 2015
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating G
Genres
Tagline Let the bee adventure begin
Website http://www.diebienemaja-derkinofilm.de/
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Awards

Bavarian Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Asia Pacific Screen Awards
• 1 Nomination
Stockholm Film Festival Junior
• 1 Nomination

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