It must have seemed like a good idea at the time to hire Danny DeVito as the Lorax. Some of the voices are good, some okay and others not too terrific. Seuss books are slight, lesson-laden and compact “The Lorax” is just such a story with a very contemporary theme – Take care of the environment or there won’t be one left. For some reason the director Chris Renaud and writers Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio took a kitchen sink approach wandering off point so often that the message is diluted. And there lies the rub for this animation-loving adult.
It’s not that the music isn’t good, it is or that the choreography and dancing by the animated characters isn’t fun and well executed, it is it’s just that it’s incongruous and inorganic to the overall story.
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But in order to do that, he must find the Once-ler because, as his beloved grandmother points out, only the Once-ler knows the answers to what went wrong and how to fix it.Ĭreated by the team responsible for “Despicable Me,” “The Lorax” is a quasi musical, with “High School Musical”-style songs and choreography bursting into big production numbers at unlikely and incoherent moments. Ted has vowed to bring back a real Truffula tree in order to win the fair Audrey’s heart. Ted, our 12 year old hero, in love with Audrey, the girl of his dreams, has a mission – an important mission that clashes with the goals of O’Hare.
Thneedville, named after the Once-ler’s invention, is now a totally plastic town dominated by the villainous O’Hare who made his fortune selling bottled air when pollution took over the town. But soon, Once-ler’s greed overcomes him and deforestation devastates the area leaving him cursed by the Lorax who, with the other creatures, disappears. For a while, the Lorax and the Once-ler live in happy harmony with the trees and creatures that populate the area. Wasting one of nature’s finest treasures brings out the wrath of the Lorax, a creature put on earth to protect its resources. Once upon a time, the Once-ler, a nice ambitious young man with an idea made his first foray into the Truffula forest to harvest the wonderfully soft fur atop the Truffula trees. And the animation is absolutely eye-popping with super bright neon colors. Seuss explores questions of the environment in glorious 3D-rendered animation patterned after the drawings of the master himself. “The Lorax,” a beloved children’s book by Dr. Seuss, features DANNY DEVITO as the gruff but lovable Lorax. Seuss' The Lorax", a 3D-CG adventure from the creators of "Despicable Me" and the imagination of Dr. And, if every ticket purchased pains those pod people trying to pass for humans, eventually driving them back to their home planet, consider that a bonus."Dr. The 3-D option is a fine enhancement, making a number of scenes more exciting than 2-D. Danny DeVito, Zac Efron and the blissfully ubiquitous Betty White head the voice cast. More importantly (and rationally), the film offers fun for all ages with delightful visuals, a perky pace, a few first-rate musical numbers and several well-crafted characters. Dobbs, or the pod overlord who apparently evicted him from his own flesh, blaming that one on President Bush. As to the politicizing polemics, Wall-E presented an even gloomier future with otiose blobs of humanity floating in space above the garbage-strewn Earth they had to abandon. But what's new, or even controversial, about that? For decades, the entire lumber industry has understood the need for planned re-foresting to assure the future availability of raw materials, and its own survival. Greed and short-sighted thinking led to lurking disaster. The premise is a dystopic reality beneath the idyllic surface of a town that's 100% artificial, after all the trees were chopped up to make a certain product. Seuss wrote the story in 1971, when President Obama was 10 and, given how long it takes to draw and voice such productions, most, if not all the work was done long before the Occupy Movement began. He claims it's part of an Obama/Occupy conspiracy to brainwash kids with pro-environment/anti-business messages. The demented alien pod person who took over Lou Dobbs' body has railed against this charming animated feature, based on a beloved children's' book.
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