The Lorax: Please don't botch it up, please don't botch it up . . .

From Wikipedia:

Vaguely ominous.

More ominous.

From Collider:

Oh dearie me . . .

I actually enjoyed Horton Hears A Who.

I'm looking forward to this.

I too enjoyed Horton. And even if it's got Taylor Swift, it's also got Zac Efron (come on, he's not THAT bad,) Danny De Vito and Betty White. What I'm most concerned about is that I've heard it's going to greatly expand on the environmental aspect - and before you say anything, yes, I know the story of the Lorax. But it's a very moving story that expresses its environmental message in a non-shove-down-your-throat way, and I'd hate to see it dumbed down to "An Inconvenient Truth: The All-CGI Cartoon."

Swift will play Audrey the dream girl of the main character, Ted (voiced by Zac Efron).

I think that's about another movie.

^ It's not. As a reference to Ted Geisel, Ted is now the name of the boy (unnamed in the original story.) His attempts to win Audrey's heart lead him on a search for the Lorax.

I couldn't make this up if I tried.

edited 2nd Sep '11 4:47:48 PM by feotakahari

I don't remember this from the book. :/

Whatever, this is only their interpretation of the story. I can only hope they do a good job with it.

edited 2nd Sep '11 5:12:00 PM by annebeeche

Wait didn't this already come out around Christmas 2009?

Ducks shoes.

Oh God. Oh God. Oh God oh God oh God...

I didn't like The Lorax, thought it was one of his weaker books, but in any case I don't think the world can take another bad Seuss adaptation. We already have shitloads of them.

EDIT: Going by their casting choices, it appears that this'll be a musical. Could they possibly have a song capable of redeeming this garbage?

EDIT 2: Wait a minute. I had considered myself a Theodore Geisel fan. I knew that Audrey Geisel was his second wife, and I knew his first wife committed suicide by overdose. But what I didn't know was this: "On October 23, 1967, suffering from a long struggle with illnesses including cancer, as well as emotional pain over her husband's affair with Audrey Stone Dimond, Geisel's wife, Helen Palmer Geisel, committed suicide." -Wikipedia

What a dick!

edited 2nd Sep '11 9:40:56 PM by PDown

Will someone please think of his [Seuss's] wife!?!?

edited 2nd Sep '11 11:25:04 PM by rimpala

...........

NO

That is all.

Are we not up to our collective assholes in shitty Dr Seuss film adaptations?!

I sadly await the inevitable remake of "Oh, The Places You'll Go," starring Justin Beiber as the kid.

According to Wikipedia, there's going to be a feature length Dr. Seuss's ABC in 2013, but it's likely just a vandal.

At least we're not releasing Ass yet

edited 3rd Sep '11 8:00:52 PM by rimpala

Blah.

I thought the original adaptation of The Lorax was pretty good, though.

..

.... whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

This is a love story now? It usually turns out really really really bad when someone adds a love story to something that didn't start out as one.

Oh, the places they'll go...

I actually think most of the adaptations aren't bad.

edited 3rd Sep '11 8:25:26 PM by Shota

"Audrey"

Big "NO!".

^^Honestly? I can't stomach a single glance at Jim Carrey as the Grinch or Mike Myers as the Cat. Live adaptations of stories that were meant to be cartoons do not work. They've tried to do this for far too long and the only film that worked was Popeye. And sure! Blue Sky does great animation work. It doesn't mean they'll make a good Suess film as Horton Hears a Who showed (I mean, their own original work isn't all that great!). They basically took a good, reliable, strong character and made him into a laid back, annoying dumbass. And THAT's considering they could have even animated that flick traditionally and be all the more accurate to Suess's cartooning style as shown from one of Horton's brief and annoying thoughts.

And now we have the Lorax. A powerful story about how Corporal Capitalism proceeds further in its schemes and destroys the beauty of the world for the goals of Profit...! And they've cast who as who? And the story's now mainly about what? Are we not allowed to have a depressing Suess movie? The book was damned heart wrenching. To tack on a love story and then have them make everything better (I can't wait to see how this trainwreck manages to do that) is absurd and against one of the main points of the book. It's supposed to have the ominous ending.

Well, chalk another one up for the film industry. Just like the Once-ler, they're in it for the profit. And I'm not amused.

edited 4th Sep '11 8:03:13 AM by GREGTHECAT

WHICH. IS. EXTREMELY. EXPENSIVE. TO. DO. THESE. DAYS. Why else do you think 3D animation has been more prevalent for feature length animated films these days? It's cheaper! Last I checked, Blue Sky wasn't Studio Ghibli or Disney, so doing a feature length traditionally animated film is out of the question for them.

God, you people and your nostalgia goggles.

I'm not happy about a romance subplot getting a front seat either, just so you know. I just don't care if there's a romance subplot as long as it isn't the most prominent part of the story.

Jesus Christ. Calm down. He didn't say anything bad. O_o

On topic: Wasn't there a lawsuit saying that there would be no more live-adaptations of Dr. Suess stories? Did they just forget about it?

Sorry about that, it's just that this sort of thing annoys me.

And this is a CG animation adaptation, not a life adaptation.

edited 4th Sep '11 9:13:15 AM by annebeeche

^^Last I checked, this movie was an All CG Movie. So I have no idea why it's in here.

^Beat me to it.

edited 4th Sep '11 9:14:32 AM by GREGTHECAT

It's probably because this forum used to just be "Film".

Bleh. Wish we could just group all films together again. Putting some movies in the same area as television just because they're animated is pretty silly.

Anne, Winnie the Pooh cost $30 million. A CGI film like Delgo cost $40 million. Do the math.

Are you serious?

Then what's making 2D animation so hard to do? I though it was the price, but I guess not.

Is it a decreasing number of 2D animators?