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Bee Movie (2007)

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• Factual errors: Male bees don't contribute to the honey-making process at all. All such work is done by females. Male bees are drones, and just hang around the hive.
  
  
• Factual errors: A lightning strike to the airplane disables a good number of its systems during the flight to the west coast. Jet airliners, however, are designed to withstand a lightning strike. Planes like this are struck by lightning on a regular basis, and it never does any serious damage to the plane or its systems.
  
  
• Factual errors: The captain on the jet airliner is wearing the insignia of a co-pilot/first officer.
  
  

• Factual errors: Male bees don't have stingers, only females do (it's their reproduction organ as well as a self-defense method).
  
  
• Factual errors: Male mosquitoes do not drink blood, only female mosquitoes do (and only as a protein source for their eggs, not a mean of sustenance for themselves.)
  
  
• Continuity: At one point all the trees and plants have withered because of a lack of pollination. But when all the bees fly out to help guide in the plane, the tree in front of the hive is sporting big green leaves.
  
  
• Continuity: The windshield-wipers that Barry and the mosquito are riding on, don't move all the way over to the driver's side of the wind-shield. However; the marks made by the wipers do go all the way over to the driver's side of the wind-shield.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Ken confronts Barry in the bathroom, he rolls up a magazine. Barry asks what type of magazine it is, and Ken replies, "Italian Vogue". But it clearly says Paris on the front.
  
  
• Factual errors: Although a large enough swarm of bees could theoretically generate as much lift as a jet liner, the bees would have experienced "vacuum" forces between themselves and the body of the jet at the speeds depicted, rather than generating lift, like two ping-pong balls being drawn together by blowing a stream of air between them.
  
  
• Factual errors: The movie depicts bees using pollen from just one kind of flower to pollinate several different plant species. Flowers can only be pollinated with pollen from the same species.
  
  
• Factual errors: Plants don't wither and die if they are not pollinated, they simply don't develop viable seeds. Although bees do contribute significantly to the pollination process, other animals do the same thing, not to mention that a simple gust of wind can cause pollination. Unpollinated plants will simply bloom again at another time, giving another chance for pollination.
  
  

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