It is not my ordi­nary prac­tice to com­ment on or review films before I have seen them, but I make excep­tion here to tell every­one who will lis­ten why I will not see ani­mated Jerry Sein­feld vehi­cle Bee Movie. I have not seen it. And I will not. The cause for my refusal is view­able on the “Mem­o­rable Quotes” page for the film at the Inter­net Movie Data­base, which you may view by click­ing here. Here is the offend­ing quote. For con­text, I am aware that “Moose­blood” is an ani­mated anthro­po­mor­phic mos­quito.

Cow: You’re a lawyer too?
Moose­blood: Ma’am, I was already a blood­suck­ing par­a­site. All I needed was a briefcase!

There are prob­a­bly a few lawyer jokes out there that do not degrade lawyers. This is not one of them, and it is suf­fi­ciently odi­ous to keep me from spend­ing money to watch the film, on prin­ci­ple. If Dream­works and Mr Sein­feld want to call lawyers “blood­suck­ing par­a­sites,” that’s their busi­ness. They may say what they like. But I will not sanc­tion such state­ments with money I earn by work­ing in the legal profession.