I have a dear love for Dr Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who! from my childhood — and from Katherine’s as well. The upcoming movie looks gorgeous, but I fear, in an effort to pad a short kid’s book out to the requisite feature film length, the insertion of endless wisecracks and pop references will cause it to … lose something.
We’ll see.
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Okay, after watching the Trailer, it looks like Seuss’ Widow managed to keep the company and Jim Carry under control after the travisty that was the Grinch that Stole Christmas.
**crosses fingers and toes, just so everyone knows**
It certainly looks better than the Grinch and Cat in the Hat flicks — I think the CG will help there. There’s still an awfully large wisecrack factor.
And, of course, I also dearly love the Chuck Jones rendition.
That said, I felt a little better after watching the *trailer* because the *teaser trailer* I saw was nearly unrecognizable as HHaW.
**cowers**
I had completely blotted the existence of the Cat in the Hat movie out of my mind.
Well, yes, it was a Chuck Jones cartoon, so of course it was good. 🙂
Jim Carey seems to be working his way through the Seuss canon.
Not sure if next up is Thidwick the Thick-Hearted Moose, or Yertle the Turtle.
(Actually, next up would likely be the Horton sequel.)