Burt’s Buzz - 2013 - 6/10
Documentary about elderly Burt Shavitz, cofounder of Burt’s Bees product line.
Featherweight across the board, simply because this man talks little and while his story is mildly interesting, it is hardly compelling.
Suffice to say, in the 80’s, Maine resident Burt and fellow hippie female friend started selling beeswax candles, lip balm.
His backwoods, bearded image was used as logo and namesake.
Company enjoyed incredible success, Burt was bored, sold out for a trifle.
Don’t know whether to praise filmmakers for trying to make him appear entertaining, or to blame them for displaying this taciturn, slow thinking old man.
Shavitz died in 2015, by the way.