The thing I remember most about the Bee Movie trailers and ads is that it was mostly about Jerry Seinfeld. The Wikipedia plot summary seems to indicate his character is the main one, with a female supporting character.
I don't agree with your assignment of lead/not lead, but it's a tremendously subjective area in interpreting movies and film criticism (and TV), in general. I think there's room to read the characters in either way, or perhaps even in a third way. But I don't think there's an absolute, single way of viewing any of the movies and characters we've discussed because of how different experiences color how we respond to and weigh the importance of them.
A big chunk of my visual problem with the Dreamworks computer animation is that it still retains a lot of the plastic-y, hard looking surfaces that were an early hallmark of computer animation. Pixar has managed to achieve a striking, soft translucency to its animations that is visually much more pleasing to my eye. Also, Pixar's textures and fabric/hair/fur movements are really impressive (There are some extras on, I believe, both Monsters, Inc. and The Incredibles discussing the technical challenges involved in making Sully's fur and Violet's hair move in a naturalistic manner. I, um, tend to geek out on those kinds of things.)
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I don't agree with your assignment of lead/not lead, but it's a tremendously subjective area in interpreting movies and film criticism (and TV), in general. I think there's room to read the characters in either way, or perhaps even in a third way. But I don't think there's an absolute, single way of viewing any of the movies and characters we've discussed because of how different experiences color how we respond to and weigh the importance of them.
A big chunk of my visual problem with the Dreamworks computer animation is that it still retains a lot of the plastic-y, hard looking surfaces that were an early hallmark of computer animation. Pixar has managed to achieve a striking, soft translucency to its animations that is visually much more pleasing to my eye. Also, Pixar's textures and fabric/hair/fur movements are really impressive (There are some extras on, I believe, both Monsters, Inc. and The Incredibles discussing the technical challenges involved in making Sully's fur and Violet's hair move in a naturalistic manner. I, um, tend to geek out on those kinds of things.)