[Horton]'s jungle neighbors, led by the dosed-minded and domineering Kangaroo, are not charmed by his discovery. "If you can't see it, hear it or feel it, it doesn't exist," Kangaroo states, and acknowledging otherwise will only cause trouble. While dense and colorful, the film takes its look directly from [Seuss]' own distinctive illustrations. The animated jungle scenes are adequate: They look great but aren't anything that will dazzle you with technique or artistic vision. Whoville, on the other hand, seems to have been waiting all these years to be meticulously brought to life by computer animation. The film's illusion of three dimensions adds immeasurably to the sweet oddness of the Whos' off-kilter structures. In the complaint department: If you're going to commit to staying faith...
Needless to say, transforming a picture book into a feature film involves adding a lot of original material, from [Horton]'s friend Morton the Mouse to the Mayor of Whoville's domestic life. Though the comedy is hitor-miss, the film generally stays true to the shape of the story - and its humanist message. One ill-advised change involves Jojo, the "smallest Who" whose timely action saves Whoville. In the book, we don't meet him till the climactic scene, when he's discovered in his room, oblivious to impending doom, and his anonymity underscores the message that anyone can make a difference. In the film, Jojo is the Mayor's teenage son, trying to earn Dad's respect, and his hair clearly marks him as a member of the Emo Tribe. A funny reference, but not one for the ages.
Jim Carrey may be a veteran of Dr. Seuss movies - he starred, under tons of heavy makeup, in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas. But "Dr. Seuss' !" is the shape-shifting actor's first animated movie. And voicing the beloved children's book's gentle elephant was a kind of epiphany for the manically inventive comic.
If you want something fun to do, pack the family in the car and go see "Horton Hears a Who! Unlike the overdone tinsel-town tale "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," which also starred Jim Carrey, or "The Cat and the Hat," which was pretty scary, this film is a shining star.
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" is OK, but certainly nothing to shout about. (You might want to strike the exclamation mark in the title.) As long as it sticks to Seuss - which, given the brevity of the book, amounts to about a third of the 88-minute running time - "Horton" makes for charming, kid-friendly entertainment. Then there's the rest of the movie.
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Here we go -- another beloved childhood classic gets made into a megabudget movie, with all the instantly dated pop culture references and product placements that implies. Still, if I were a kid -- or a harried parent -- I'd be more or less relieved to sit through "Horton Hears a Who!
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