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Luigikart64 Since: Jul, 2014
08/06/2014 05:51:35 •••

Hollywood dumbs down a children's Book

ok, i will admit that the animation is very good. It looks like the book. However it really is the only thing going for. While Dr. Seuss's book may have not been the most subtle book in the world, this movie is even less so. The villain of the film is a Captain Planet type villain. Any subtlety or 3 dimenisions is replaced by celebrity voice actors like Taylor Swift, a message that whacks you with a bat saying "SAVE THE TREES, CORPORATIONS ARE BAD", a happy ending which unfortunately replaced the somewhat ambiguous ending, 2 bland kids who are called Zach Afron Boy and Taylor Swift girl who really should have been removed, the animals clearing trying to ape Despicable Me's minions, and pop culture references that really didn't need to be there.

Even the once-ler himself have been somewhat dumbed down. His relationship with the Lorax is explored a little more in detail, but his gradiual change from nice to greedy is rather jarring due to it only being in one song. Also, his annoying family should have not been there in the first place. They basically egg him on rather than the One-ler's own shortcoming, mainly greed, doing that for him.

I would talk about the irony of the Lorax film marketing such as endorsements for Ihop and SU Vs, but i am sure plenty of people have pointed it out. oops, i already did. so i will just do a comparison. Everyone loves How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Now imagine commercials if the Whos-ville town were always going to Walwart, Gamestop, buying stuff with credit cards....yeah that would be somewhat glaring.


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