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The other characters are very one dimensional and the mayor would've been a better villain if he had been more sinister. Danny DeVito does good as the Lorax, but the Lorax doesn't get enough screen time, but is slightly annoying as the onceler said it best. The onceler because he goes through development, and knows that what he did was wrong. The characters I like the most is the onceler. The environment is very colorful and looks excellent. The character design has always been a weak point at illumination, but it is decent. So the main story is not well written, but the books plot is. But the good thing is that the plot of the original book with the Lorax and the onceler is pretty good. He gets in trouble by the mayor doing it, but he does it to receive a seed for a truffula tree, for a girl. He visits the onceler not because he was interested in nature. The main plot is pretty weak because it's about a boy who lives in a town with no trees but fake designs that people like called thneedvile. Then they made Horton hears a who animated, which was decent. Suess's wife did not allow any more of them. Now before this film was bad they made 2 awful live-action adaptations, the Grinch, and the Cat in the hat. Reviewed by Filvies144 4 / 10 Better than the cat in the hat, but not great However, the greedy Mayor of Thneed-Ville, Aloysius O'Hare, has made his fortune exploiting the environmental collapse and is determined to stop the boy from undermining his business. Upon hearing of how the hermit gave into his greed for profits and devastated the land over the protests of the Lorax, Ted is inspired to undo the disaster. When he learns of her wish to see a real tree, Ted seeks out the Once-ler, a ruined old businessman outside of town in a stark wasteland.

but one simply can’t overlook the how-it has-to-say factor, specially when animation is the medium.In the walled city of Thneed-Ville, where everything is artificial and even the air is a commodity, a boy named Ted hopes to win the heart of his dream girl, Audrey. We know this one is all about what it has to say. As for the animation, except for The Lorax himself, sadly no one really seems to pop up out of the pages. Now that the trees no longer exist, Thneedville is all about shopping centres, parking slots and hi-tech roads.

Before the trees were cut, Thneedville was full of Brown Bar-ba-loots playing in the shade and the Humming fish humming all over. But then it’s Danny DeVito’s Lorax who comes across as authoritative enough to be guardian of the forest.įinally, what really takes you by surprise (considering the original was written sometime in 1971) is the 'then' and 'now' setting. Ed Helms’ Once-ler is a decent mix of the good-guy-turned-bad-turned-good. Zac Efron's Ted comes across as the peppy happy-go-lucky youth, followed by the girl-next-door Audrey (Taylor Swift). It has its share of funny moments too - rainfall of marshmallows, the dream sequence of Once-ler. The movie has its share of emotional moments - watch the last tree being felled watch the lovely creatures migrating to a land where trees are not felled. All this and more, as the script follows Dr Seuss’ 61-pager pictorial children's book by the same name. But when our tweeny hero catches up with Once-ler, not only is he gifted with the only remaining seed of the Trufulla tree, he (and we) are made aware of what could happen to Nature sans trees. Quite difficult in a land where air is sold in bottles. Ted loves Audrey who for once wants to see a real, breathing, tree. The credit goes to American writer and cartoonist, Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known as Dr Seuss). You don’t even have to be over-12 to get the message the movie quiet strongly sends out - plant trees to save the environment. Movie Review: You don't have to be under-12 to grasp all that fun and laughter in the zaniest town of Thneedville. Even if that means gifting her what is next to impossible in this tailor-made town. Story: Nothing is impossible for 12-year-old Ted when it comes to wooing Audrey, the girl he can't take his eyes off.