The voice of alarm belongs to Who-ville's daffy Mayor (voiced by Steve Carell). Horton (voiced by Jim Carrey) is an elephant who hears a faint cry from a speck of flying dust and discovers that the speck is actually a planet with a city called Who-ville. With 'Horton' as the signpost, it's easy for an adult to locate his or her 'inner child.' The best family-oriented animated movies are almost always the ones that treat the audience as one happy band of enlightened kids. It also, mercifully, doesn't insert product placements, even as satire – another dubious legacy of the later 'Shrek' movies. This is an animated movie that, unlike the recent ' Shrek' series, for example, doesn't try to play up to adults while playing down to children. The CGI visuals not only serve Geisel's story, they also, much more important, capture his imaginative leaps. The good news here is that 'Horton,' directed by Jimmy Haywood and Steve Martino, wonderfully captures the Seuss-ian – or is it Ted Geisel-ian? – world as full-scale animation. Not that I am unfamiliar with the Seuss books – it's just that I read most of them as an adult. My loss.Īs a result, watching the new animated feature 'Dr Seuss' Horton Hears a Who' was like living out a second childhood when I hadn't quite experienced the first. Seuss books even though, by age and temperament, I should have been. SEUSS' HORTON HEARS A WHO! is Seuss as you want to experience his work at the movies - and as it was meant to be seen.For some bizarre reason, I was not brought up on the Dr. Seuss' incredible imagination, through state-of-the-art CG animation. For the first time, a motion picture transports audiences into Dr. Seuss, an American treasure whose books have delighted generations of young people, opens one of his most beloved tales, Horton Hears a Who! Now, over fifty years since Seuss, whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, published this perennial favorite, the makers of ICE AGE and comedy giants Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, bring it to life in a way never before experienced.

With his signature evocative and rhyming text, writer and cartoonist Dr.

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