Movies We Watch

I was raised on the Dr. Suess books and used to love the illustrations.  I appreciate that they kept that feel throughout Whoville, but sort of wish they had skipped their manic quest for realism in the jungle scenes. It is pretty enough, but it just didn’t feel Suess enough for me.

The story is one that almost every child is familiar with and there is nothing I can say about the story. It is appropriate for our time and a great story with wonderful characters. No disservice was done to the story.

So back to the animation style. I understand the reason for using a different style to a point for both worlds, but found the anime’ dream sequence of Horton’s to be way too off the path. It was almost as though it was shoved in there because anime’ is hot. I think it could have been skipped.

Beautiful film, fun voices, great story. Problems, but none that would keep me from recommending it and probably catching it again some day.

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Horton the Elephant struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbors who refuse to believe it exists.