Critic Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The movie is like a less original "WALL?E," but it's still vibrant and touching.
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75
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Someone in Hollywood ought to speak for the trees, and The Lorax does it with verve and vibrancy.
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75
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
It's been animated by the same company that made "Despicable Me,'' which is to say you don't know whether to watch The Lorax or lick it.
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75
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
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."
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75
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Slant Magazine Nick Schager
The Lorax is a modest gem, failing to significantly enhance its source material's ideas but still delivering a zany, rollicking, multi-character version of Seuss's environmental cautionary tale.
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70
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The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Armed with a splendid voice cast and a gorgeously-rendered 3D-CG landscape, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax entertains while delivering it's pro-environmental, anti-greed message wrapped in a bright package of primary colors that truly pop.
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Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Although the movie's ecological message is dominant, it's not heavy-handed. Rather, the ecological warnings are tossed out with the same joie de vivre the Once-ler displays when tossing marshmallows to the bears.
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60
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New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
While softening Geisel's darker themes, they still meld a valuable message into catchy songs, bright images (nicely done in 3D) and funny characters.
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Time Out New York Joshua Rothkopf
Unfortunately, a new problem rears its head: It seems no young audience member can be trusted to enjoy a thoughtful story without a heroic, borderline-obnoxious surrogate (here, he's voiced by Zac Efron) zooming around on a scooter, bonking villainous heads and saving the day.
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58
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The A.V. Club Tasha Robinson
The handful of songs are catchy, and the whole film feels pleasantly airy. But this is a dark story with a heavy message, and it's been transformed into a harmless, pretty confection. In defanging it for comic effect, the filmmakers have done Seuss as much of a disrespectful disservice as if they'd laid on the fart gags.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli
You know what? The whole thing is harmless.
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40
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
This movie version adds a whole lot of other stuff, most of it not very good and not in keeping with the spirit of the Seuss original.
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Movieline Stephanie Zacharek
The Lorax is so big, flashy and redundant that it courts precisely the kind of blind consumerism it's supposed to be condemning. It doesn't trust kids to sit still and pay attention for even a minute.
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Yikes! Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda direct strictly for short-attention spans on a fruit-loopy palette that made me want to puke. Had Dr. Seuss lived (he died in 1991), I'm confident he would have puked as well.
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