Horton Hears a Who!

[Dontebell]

Teaser Trailer to Dr. Seuss Horton Hears a Who!

http://video.aol.com/video/kol-horton-hears-a-who-trailer-no-1-hd/1947816

[Raph's Girl]

Och! Ya just beat me to posting this! :lol: But I had a Horton thread already around here... ah well.

This movie looks good...totally hilarious! :lol:

[Drtooth]

I will say it doesn't look terrible, but since the Dr. Seuss films haven't worked out, I'm looking at this with suspicion.

[DrSpengler]

Dr. Who stories don't work without rhyme. I just couldn't enjoy the Grinch or the Cat in the Hat because they lacked the limmerick. If it doesn't rhyme it just isn't Dr. Seuss.

[Drtooth]

Funny you should say that. back when Dr. Seuss did a comic strip (I forget the name) he never used rhymes. in fact, only did the books he wrote had rhymes.

Personally, I think when you do these as movies, the subcontext of the books gets blurred. If they did Butter Battle Book, I bet they would remove all the refferences to the 1980's Nuke arms race.

[Hannah]

I will hate anyone who enjoys this. Hate you. Hurt you. Kill you.

[DrSpengler]

Funny you should say that. back when Dr. Seuss did a comic strip (I forget the name) he never used rhymes. in fact, only did the books he wrote had rhymes.

Personally, I think when you do these as movies, the subcontext of the books gets blurred. If they did Butter Battle Book, I bet they would remove all the refferences to the 1980's Nuke arms race.

Well, I know not all his work rhymed, but his best stuff did. Like how his best Private Snafu shorts were the ones written in rhyme.


In regards to Horton, I don't think Jim Carrey is the best choice for the title character. I'm used to the version seen in the animated adaptations of Horton Hears a Who and the Looney Tunes adaptation of Horton Hatches the Egg. That Horton was always kind of dopey sluggish but good-natured. This Horton looks like just another generic hyper active Carrey character.

Still, I'm interested in how this movie's gonna handle the Wikersham Brothers, the trio of evil monkeys that try to steal Horton's flower and destroy all of Whoville.

[Masked Ninja]

I think the visuals are beautiful (pwns the live-action Seuss movies already as far as the "look" is concerned), but the tone and dialogue will probably kill it (if Jim Carrey doesn't do that on his own). And I'm wondering how they're going to stretch that little book into a feature-length movie without losing the point (like Drtooth said), making it overdramatic to try and sustain the little plot for so long, or simply make it feel "like butter scraped over too much bread."