History WesternAnimation / TheLorax

* CanonForeigner: Ted's family, Audrey, Marie, Wesley, Dan, Rose, Cy, O'Hare, among many others, never appeared in the book.

* CrowdSong: "Let It Grow" and "Thneedville".

* GaspOfLife: The Once-ler shoots upright and gasps after the Lorax revives him via a MagicalDefibrilator made out of two Bar-ba-loots.

The film was released worldwide in March 2, 2012 (coincidentally on which would've been the 108th birthday of the original author).

The film was released worldwide in March 2012.

* AllThereInTheScript: The bar-ba-loots (brown forest critters), except for one easily missed line, are not named in the film, although they are mentioned in the soundtrack album version of "This is the Place" and in the DVD special features. They are named in the book and specal, however, along with the Swomee Swans and Humming Fish.

** The queue of people waiting to pelt the Onceler [[Airplane seems familiar]].

-->'''Once-ler:''' (''gasps'') [[LookBehindYou What's that?!]]
-->''(As the Lorax turns to look, Once-ler quickly drops the axe handle on a Barbaloot, who is clearly too small to lift it.)''
-->'''Once-ler:''' I think he did it.

* PragmaticAdaptation: The Once-ler was made human because the producers felt that keeping him as he is in the book would send the wrong message to kids concerning who is responsible for causing environment destruction in that world. Also this film indicts the environmental blight of urban sprawl as well as unchecked industrialization. There's also the fact that trying to film the story exactly would make for a really depressing movie if you didn't have Ted's struggle to put things right.

** Thneed-Ville is a lot like the Village in ''Series/ThePrisoner''.

* AllThereInTheManual: During the end of "How Bad Can I Be", the Once-ler's family provide a backup chorus. It sounds like generic chanting, but the official soundtrack reveals lyrics that were apparently censored.

** It's never made clear if the man with the Once-ler is his Father or Uncle. However, since the Once-ler is supposed to be like Ted (in a sense), it might be his Uncle, so both Ted and the Once-ler would have missing Fathers.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The Once-ler's face was never revealed in the book or the movie, and it's unknown if he is even human (given his spindly green arms, and the fact that most of Dr. Seuss's characters are weird creatures), although he does say he "speaks for men" and talks about "human opportunities". In the movie, he's fully seen and his younger self is a pretty human.

* AllThereInTheScript: The bar-ba-loots (brown forest critters), except for one easily missed line, are not named in the film, although they are mentioned in the soundtrack album version of "This is the Place" and in the DVD special features. They are named in the book, however, along with the Swomee Swans and Humming Fish.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The Once-ler's face was never revealed in the books, but there he's most likely not human (given his spindly green arms, and the fact that most of Dr. Seuss's characters are weird creatures). In the movie, he's a young man.

* CanonForeigner: Ted's family, Audrey, Marie, Grammy Norma, Cy, O'Hare, among many others, never appeared in the book.

* CanonForeigner: Ted's family, Audrey, and O'Hare never appeared in the book.

''The Lorax'' is a [[AllCGICartoon computer-animated]] family feature film based on [[Literature/TheLorax the book of the same name]] by Creator/DrSeuss. It is the third film by Illumination Entertainment and the second animated film from the team from ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', as well as the writers from ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho''. Creator/DannyDeVito voices the Lorax. New characters include Ted (Creator/ZacEfron), a 12-year-old boy living in the synthetic city of Thneedville who has a crush on a high school girl, Audrey (Music/TaylorSwift), who says that Truffula Trees once populated this area before a city was built over it, and wishes to see them for herself. In an attempt win over her affections, Ted seeks out the home of the Once-ler (Creator/EdHelms), who tells the tale of how he brought down the forest. But once he's discovered leaving town, Aloysius O'Hare (Creator/RobRiggle) and his air company that oversees Thneedville wants to ensure Ted stays in the city and ensure nobody discovers the mess outside the city limits.

The film was released in March 2012.

* ActingOutADaydream: When Tedd imagines himself kissing Audrey, he kisses the cereal box. Mrs. Wiggins implies that this has happened before.

* ActionizedAdaptation: The film adds action scenes that weren't present in either the book or the TV special, like the Lorax and the woodland creatures having to rescue Onceler from his bed falling off a waterfall, or Ted having to fight against O'Hare chasing him during the climax.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The Once-Ler's face was never revealed in the books, but he's most likely not human (given his spindly green arms, and the fact that most of Dr. Seuss's characters are weird creatures). In the movie, he's a young man.

* AffablyEvil: The Once-ler is never maliciously evil, he just fails to recognize the consequences of his actions until it's too late.
* AirQuotes: Once-ler does this when being confronted by Lorax about cutting down all the Truffula trees.

-->'''Once-ler:''' [[LookBehindYou *gasp* What's that?!]]

-->''*As the Lorax turns to look, Once-ler quickly drops the axe handle on a Barbaloot, who is clearly too small to lift it.*''

''The Lorax'' is a [[AllCGICartoon computer-animated]] family feature film based on [[Literature/TheLorax the book of the same name]] by Creator/DrSeuss. It is the third film by Illumination Entertainment and the second animated film from the team from ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', as well as the writers from ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho''. Creator/DannyDeVito voices the Lorax. New characters include Ted (Creator/ZacEfron), a 12-year-old boy living in the synthetic city of Thneedville who has a crush on a high school girl, Audrey (Music/TaylorSwift), who says that Truffula Trees once populated this area before a city was built over it, and wishes to see them for herself. In an attempt win over her affections, Ted seeks out the home of the Once-ler (Ed Helms), who tells the tale of how he brought down the forest. But once he's discovered leaving town, Aloysius O'Hare (Rob Riggle) and his air company that oversees Thneedville wants to ensure Ted stays in the city and ensure nobody discovers the mess outside the city limits.

* UnscientificScience: Whereas the book shows the devastation and pollution the Once-ler has wrought on the land (which is bad enough), the film adaption keeps emphasizing the ''very air'' everyone breathes as being affected. It becomes its [[VillainsActHeroesReact own plot-arc with O'Hare]]. Trees are ***carbon neutral***, as in, they release as much oxygen during the day as they absorb during the night. Deforestation presents us with all kinds of problems - soil erosion, landslides, loss of habitat, loss of wildlife etc, but it doesn't affect our air quality.