By some way, the best screen adaptation of a Dr Seuss book is the 1966 TV film of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, animated by the great Chuck Jones (himself the creator of some of the most unforgettable cartoon characters), impeccably and inimitably narrated by Boris Karloff and lasting a beautifully crisp 26 minutes. Most of the other versions of his wonderful verse fables – including the Jim Carrey live-action treatment of The Grinch, the live-action The Cat in the Hat and the animated Horton Hears a Who! – are wildly overlong and sentimentalised.
The same, I'm afraid, is the case with the 3D-cgi The Lorax, in which the fashionably named Ted Wiggins of Thneedville goes in search of a real tree to impress his high school girlfriend. Thneedville is a synthetic community with fake vegetation, run by the corrupt capitalist O'Hare, who grows rich by selling bottled air to the easily swayed inhabitants.
The same, I'm afraid, is the case with the 3D-cgi The Lorax, in which the fashionably named Ted Wiggins of Thneedville goes in search of a real tree to impress his high school girlfriend. Thneedville is a synthetic community with fake vegetation, run by the corrupt capitalist O'Hare, who grows rich by selling bottled air to the easily swayed inhabitants.
- 7/28/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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