Akeelah and the Bee

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Akeelah and the Bee

Posted: 4/13/06 at 9:29pm

So I was at Starbucks today, and they had some major promotions going on for this movie, and at the bar where I picked up my green tea latee, I noticed you got a spelling bee word on your drink sleve and you could pull another word off a notepad. After doing some reasearch, I found out that this is a movie about a Spelling Bee compeditor. I watched the trailer on imdb (link Below) and I noticed some sirious resemblences to a little show on Brodway....C-O-I-N-C-I-D-E-N-C-E?


Trailer

Updated On: 4/13/06 at 09:29 PM

#2

re: Akeelah and the Bee

Posted: 4/13/06 at 9:31pm

I work at the movies and I've seen this trailer a million times. It actually looks decent. The young girl, Keke Palmer, seems like another Dakota Fanning to me. Very young, but she knows what she's doing.

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#3

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Posted: 4/13/06 at 9:32pm

It actually looks like it could be a good movie. I'd go see it.

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#4

re: Akeelah and the Bee

Posted: 4/13/06 at 9:35pm

I'm not saying that it won't be a good movie, I'm just seeing some resemblances between the broadway show and this film, for example to the kid with his hand in his pocket asking for water...

#5

re: Akeelah and the Bee

Posted: 4/13/06 at 11:16pm

Haha, last Sunday I went to Starbucks right after seeing Spelling Bee in SF. There was this sign on a chair the said "Reserved for local spelling bee champion". It was really funny.

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#6

re: Akeelah and the Bee

Posted: 4/24/06 at 12:30am

Can't wait to see this in theaters on Friday.

Added bonus: Deborah Cox's song "Defintion of Love" (written specifically for the film) is featured in the closing credits.

#7

re: Akeelah and the Bee

Posted: 4/24/06 at 12:39am

too bad Bee Season (i think richard gere was in it) did so porrly last fall, the book was great. this just seems like a more up beat version of that. which focuses more on the turmoil these kids go through.

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#8

re: Akeelah and the Bee

Posted: 4/24/06 at 12:45am

Watched an interesting segment on 60 Minutes tonight about Starbucks. Apparently, Akeelah and the Bee is the first Starbucks produced movie. First coffee, then CDs, and now movies. I tell ya... they're taking over!

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Updated On: 4/24/06 at 12:45 AM

#9

re: Akeelah and the Bee

Posted: 4/24/06 at 12:52am

well to be fair Spelling Bee is a bit of a rip-off of the movie Spellbound, more than anything. Man I love that movie.

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#10

re: Akeelah and the Bee

Posted: 4/24/06 at 12:56am

and next you'll be telling us Wicked is a rip-off of someone else's idea too!

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#11

re: Akeelah and the Bee

Posted: 4/24/06 at 12:02pm

I've seen Bee Season in the bookstore, but I've never picked it up. I'm picky.. I don't like buying books with anything promoting the movie on the cover (and Bee Season is all about the movie.)

#12

re: Akeelah and the Bee

Posted: 4/24/06 at 11:11pm

Bee Season was a book WAY BEFORE it was a movie, I guess they redid the cover because i'e had mine for a couple years and the movie is only a couple months old.

look for it in a used book store!

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#13

re: Akeelah and the Bee

Posted: 5/1/06 at 3:06pm

I saw "Akeelah and the Bee" this past weekend and really enjoyed it. Granted, it was rather manipulative, but I was willing to buy in for such a good cause. The child actors who played Akeelah and Javier were incredibly appealing, and Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett were also very good. A lot of the spelling bee scenes looked like they were straight out of "Spellbound," and since that was a documentary, I think that fact is a compliment to "Akeelah and the Bee," which consisted of actors playing roles.

#14

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 6:50pm

I took my mom for Mother's Day, and she really liked it.

I thought it was sweet, utter fiction, but enjoyable nonetheless.

The kids were great in their parts, especially the two main kids.

#15

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 6:53pm

Spellbound was an excellent movie.

Spelling Bee was a play before it was a musical, and therefore not ripped off of the movie. (Due to timing, etc..)

I think Spelling Bee's just happened to become popular again, and "SPELLING BEE" the musical, just happened to coincide.

I meant to see Bee Season, I enjoyed the book.

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#16

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 9:32pm

I saw it today with my family... it was cute. Very good casting. I loved Javier. lol. too adorable.

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#17

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 9:54pm

Spell Bound was an awesome movie, so funny.

The Akeelah and the Bee trailer made me cry for some reason, I don't even know why. But I was in Starbucks the other day and they have cards with words and definitions on them and my friends and I were playing with those for a while. But yeah, Akeelah is definitely something I'd like to see.