Lorax, The : Movie Review


"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues."

Considering the brevity of the average Dr. Seuss book, it's no surprise that many of his best-known stories have been satisfactorily adapted into half-hour TV specials. Expanding them into feature length movies (whether live-action or animated) requires a lot of stretching and padding. The Lorax, while generally faithful to the content and intent of Dr. Seuss' original work, has required significant embellishment to bring it to the screen. Action scenes have been added to keep the interest of short viewers with shorter attention spans, extraneous subplots have been added to increase the already brief running length, and the ending has changed to offer more optimism. The result is solidly entertaining - not quite as good as Horton Hears a Who or How the Grinch Stole Christmas - but unquestionably better than The Cat in the Hat. I now await Green Eggs and Ham and the Further Adventures of Sam I Am.

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Author : James Berardinelli