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Ken Hanke 2012-05-20 19:32:57

Claims that the film truly captures Dr. Seuss' story and spirit are at the very least exaggerated.

Ranjan Matthew 2012-05-20 07:38:51

Jim Carrey fans treat with caution!

The first thing I noticed about the movie was Jim Carrey. All thosefantastic scenes from Ace Ventura scrolled through my mind and Ilaughed pretty hard even before I saw the movie. This, then should be awinner right? WRONG! After the movie I felt like crying. What a wasteof time! But then again, let's look at this movie constructively first.If you've got little kids who laugh at bright colors or simple cartoonhumor like a monkey jumping up and down, this is the film foryou!(well, your kids). The humor seems extremely kiddish and allthrough the movie Carrey seems held back, not letting his usual insanecharacter rip the script in half. The story line taken from Dr. Seuss' book is nice, ingeniouscharacters, creating a little world that exists on a spec full of wackytechnology and even more wacky people. However, the manner in which thecartoon progresses is disappointing. Half the time I kept drawing in mybreath waiting to explode out with laughter at some extremely funnyCarrey scene, but lo and behold, the air did but seep peacefully outwith no laughter to accompany it. The animation and graphics isextremely good, a 10 out of 10 in my opinion and this is what saved thefilm. To sum things up, the film could be a pleasant day out to thecinemas with your little innocent sweet kids and wife or husband, butPLEASE I do not recommend it for anyone older than 16 who's looking fora funny film to watch.

2012-05-16 22:42:03

Delightful, and truely a G-rated movie!

I don't think there's a need to compare this to the original; both in fact are good. I know it doesn't follow the original story - but I didn't care one bit. I really love the visuals of this version. My grandchildren (3, 5, & 8 yrs old) didn't even BLINK during the entire movie, for fear they'd miss something. Now THAT speaks volumes! Great job - well done, very entertaining indeed. I HIGHLY recommend this one.

2012-05-16 08:39:56

Perfect!

This review is from: Horton Hears a Who! (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) (DVD) My daughter loves it. Although when it first came out I fell in love with the movie! Couldnt ask for a better flick!

Kirk Honeycutt 2012-05-16 07:47:52

A delight, brimming with colorful, elastic characters and bountiful wit.

2012-05-16 03:33:08

Hilarious Way to Learn

This review is from: Horton Hears a Who (Single-Disc Edition) (DVD) What can I say except this is thoroughly enjoyable. One of the best animated movies I've seen. First, Dr. Seuss is always entertaining anyway with his weird humor and creations and this is one of his best. Second, you get some of his best work at teaching truths and virtues with the two most noted: Just because you don't see something or you perceive it in a certain way does not take away what the truth could be (misperception, misjudgement) and prejudice (crazy elephants, small people). Third, you have a collection of comedy's finest talents (Jim Carrey, Steve Carell and Carol Burnett among others) doing their thing. This is more than just a kids movie. This is a classic. I thought the original was decent but this version had me laughing so hard I missed parts so I'll be watching this many times before I get tired of it if I even get tired of it. I don't think I will. An elephant may never forget but I do so let's watch it again.

2012-05-15 09:21:24

Not what i hoped!

This review is from: Horton Hears a Who (Single-Disc Edition) (DVD) It is a cute movie ! But some of the things they say are not age appropriate for kids. they call people "blathering boob's"

2012-05-14 20:41:12

great movie on time in good condition.

I received the movie quickly, in great condition. Jesus Christ is the Messiah. He died to save you, a sinner, from going to hell. God is love. Love Him back. Romans 6:23, 10:9-10

Andrew Sarris 2012-05-12 15:39:23

Who among us can resist an animated elephant, or even a lethargic one?

2012-05-12 08:27:53

happy customer

this is a excellent seller..the dvd was in excellent condition and came super fast.thank you for a wonderful easy transaction..

2012-05-07 23:07:42

An animated triumph!

On the island of Nool, in the jungles there lived an Elephant named Horton (Voiced by Jim Carrey) who had some friends like a mouse named Morton (Voiced by Seth Rogen). However the jungle is controlled by a snobby Kangaroo (Voiced by Carol Burnett) whom feels like a boss to our hero, but one day he discovers a speck on a clover that contains a world of people called Whos, the mayor of Whoville (Voiced by Steve Carrell) befriends Horton and the Elephant must try to protect it from the dangers of the Island where he must take the clover with the speck to a safe place where it won't be harmed.Utterly delightful, charming and hilarious adaptation of Dr. Seuss's beloved novel! this animated comedy is one of the best non-pixar CGI animated movies in recent memory. The animation from Blue Sky is absolutely superb and there's plenty of good in-jokes and laughs for adults and teens as well as kids, Jim Carrey perfected the title hero quite well. The film co-stars Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Jesse McCarthy, Jonah Hill and Dan Fogler also do some wonderful vocal performances and the colors with backgrounds are just incredible even some of the traditionally animated sequences done in 2D animation are superb. It's a fresh and creative adaptation of the book without bathroom humor or reused jokes but good timed humor, the film does offer a big moral that sends out like a message to the audience as this is a must see animated movie.This Blu-Ray contains brilliant picture and awesome sound that makes you feel like you saw it at the theater! the extras are terrific like audio commentary, a sneek peek at "Ice Age 3", an "Ice Age" short, Picture-in-Picture bonus View where you watch the movie with a Who but only if you have a Bonus-View enabled player. Digital Copy, Featurettes, deleted scenes, animation screen tests, and game.

2012-05-07 05:53:00

Horton Hears A Who

This review is from: Horton Hears a Who (Single-Disc Edition) (DVD) This is a very good remake of the original movie. Like other Dr. Suess stories it teaches anyone watching it some good morals. It's entertaining for the whole family (even my husband enjoyed it). We bought it for our 18 month old grandson and he loves watching it time and again. Carol Burnett did a great job being a "bad guy" character, and of course Jim Carrey was wonderful as well. I give it 4 stars!

2012-05-06 02:47:38

'an elephant is faithful, 100 percent...'

This review is from: Horton Hears a Who (Single-Disc Edition) (DVD) AT LAST! A Dr. Seuss movie that is...Seuss!Perhaps I should say, first of all, that Dr. Seuss was, at least the estimation of many, a literary genius--though, as goes without saying, of a special variety. There is good reason to suspect that his legacy will survive right along side of Mother Goose, the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen; with the passing centuries, his stories may well only become more and more synonymous with classic, timeless fairy tales and children's fables. He was ahead of his time in more ways than one, and what his editor at Random House has recently said of him is almost a truism: "What his books have to say about fairness, discrimination, peace, the environment, consumerism, and humanity in general is finding more advocates each year."Was Dr. Seuss politically correct? In his beginner books, Dr. Seuss helps children to read by showing what they already know; he mixes a few hundred words from a child's vocabulary with phonetic nonsense words--while at the same time coining new words. He remains true to the fact that alphabetic language is not just a matter of phonics, while at the same time not putting on dreary airs that phonics has nothing to do with alphabetic language. He also tells meaningful stories without talking down to his readers; he tells truths that children can understand but ones which adults need every bit as much to hear. In 'Green Eggs and Ham,' for example, he reminds us not to judge things we don't understand, and that persons can freely be who they are--'I am Sam'--while at the same time not pretending a sweeping presumption that 'good' is purely relative and that 'right and wrong' are simply a matter of the situation: While oblivious to being bombarded by Sam's arguments--'Would you like them here or there?...in a house...with a mouse?'--the character still concludes: 'Say!...I do! I like them, Sam-I-am!...I will eat them ANYWHERE!' In 'The Sneetches,' he points out the absurdity of racism--but free of the hidden prejudice which offers equality as a concession--; 'that day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars, and whether they had one or not, upon thars.' Thars? And in 'Horton Hears a Who' (which invokes Seuss' all-important, whole language concept, 'who-ville'), he teaches that a person's a person, no matter how small--yet with the one still in the kangaroo pouch being that last to realize it: 'ME, TOO!' Political correctness may be defined as morality without any tie to truth. Dr. Seuss tongue-ties the most elaborate political correctness--in favor of the simplest of truths.I've long been a fan of the cartoon versions of both 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' and 'Horton Hears a Who,' and, that being said, I also do think this cinema, computer animated version of the latter is the best "action" adaptation of Seuss' yet made. Visually as well as otherwise, this film somehow or another is unsurpassed in capturing Seuss--and I think 'Horton Hears a Who' is Seuss' masterpiece. Refreshingly, unlike some other movie renditions of Seuss--which have sometimes even seemed intentionally ugly (something not very Seussian)--: who-ville is simply who-ville, as Seuss-like as can be. A delight--and perhaps even something before only beheld in the imagination--even given Seuss' unique and distinctive illustrations in his books; certainly the best use of pure CGI I've seen (not overcoming, of course, its intrinsic limitations).Yet there is also a curious dimension of the film, one which, perhaps despite itself, only goes to show Seuss' genius. The movie takes several liberties with the book, as movies do, but two are especially worth mentioning: In the film, the mayor of who-ville is made out to be the father of a big, even 'absurdly big' family--though of many many girls and just the one boy the mayor wants as heir--; it is the defiance of the baby kangaroo, living in Horton's own Jungle of Nool (albeit still in its mother's pouch), that, in siding with Horton, changes the mind of its mother, who then also finally realizes too that there really are tiny people in the speck on the clover. In the book, by contrast, the mother kangaroo changes her mind on her own, after hearing what Horton could hear all along with his big elephant ears--telling Horton that 'I'm going to protect them with you'--with the baby kangaroo merely echoing her. Curious here too is that the film even throws a punch against home schooling, having the narrow minded, prejudiced, kangaroo mother, speak on its behalf. What was the point of these liberties? To poke fun at big families and home schoolers? Yet these very twists also come together in the end, when in a special way it is just these children of the who-ville mayor, joining forces with the baby in the kangaroo pouch, that finally succeed in conveying the message that Horton tried to convey in vain: 'We are here! We are here! We are here! We are here!' Hollywood underscores Seuss' pro-life message? Curious...Was that dimension already in the book, or not? The standard response of Seuss' widow: no. Was giving a different response the intent of the makers of this movie? That might be strange. So do we have here, instead, a sort of blow-back from a fumbled attempt to man-handle Seuss--and make him speak politically-correct-ese? Was this an attempt automatically foiled, like trying to escape from Chinese finger-cuffs by force, or tampering with a child-resistant cap on a medicine bottle?Some people say that the masterpieces of Mozart or Beethoven or Chopin cannot be truly appreciated or understood unless you know the biographies of the artists, because art, ultimately, is self-expression. Other people say that if art is nothing but self-expression, then the best artists would and should never be appreciated or understood by anyone but themselves. Yet other people say that an artwork itself tells us something about the artist, and in the great, timeless masterpieces, that is precisely because it shaped and influenced the artist as much as anyone else who will ever have contact with it and appreciate it.If Dr. Seuss' 'Horton Hears a Who' does not have a pro-life message, then nor is about McCarthy and 1950s' paranoia, nor is it about celebrating diversity in opinions, values and lifestyles--nor even about the Japanese victims of the atomic blasts, to whom Seuss evidently, in some way, dedicated the story. Perhaps it rises above all of these themes in the same way that Chopin's etudes rise above his love life. Perhaps, in the end, its simply about how carefully we are willing to listen. Whatever the meaning of the story (it seems to me there are multiple levels, and multiple possible interpretations), what does not seem to be left to a matter of opinion is whether or not "there are any whos in who-ville." The truth is the truth no matter how small, and a lie is a lie, no matter how tall.By whatever Seuss-like crooked lines it took to get there, this is a very good film, and faithful enough to Seuss to at least make people--young and old--think, laugh--and really care that all the whos in who-ville shout loud enough to be heard...

2012-05-05 20:17:54

Cute Video

This video is a cute video and gets the message accross "A person is a person no mater how small". I think children of all ages need to remember this.

therankines 2012-05-05 03:44:16

Pretty Good

I thought this film would be kinda kiddish but maybe a few jokes hereand there but not great, but I was wrong. This movie is pretty goodit's funny and there was even a few jokes in there that the smallerchildren probably wouldn't have gotten which were funny. I think thisis a great film for people who like a good cute children's movie. SteveCarell and Jim Carrey are funny as usual just like in most of thereother movies. I think that the ending was good on how JoJo saved thetown when he like didn't care about anything in the movie and thensuddenly saved the town. I wouldn't say this film is awesome andhilarious but it is good and funny in some parts, good family film.

Robert Roten 2012-05-04 12:38:58

The animation is beautiful and the story's nice message of tolerance booms across loud and clear.

Sirus_the_Virus 2012-04-26 12:57:31

cute, funny, one of Dr.Seuss's best films. Not far from The Grinch.

I loved How the Grinch Stole Christmas back in 2000. I hated The Cat inthe Hat back in 2003. Five years after the Cat in the Hat comes HortonHears a who, a very funny and original Dr. Seuss film. it surpass's THeCat in the Hat in every way. It isn't far away from being better thanThe Grinch. Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Will Arnet, Carol Burnett,andothers lend their voice to this clever animation. Of course Dr. Seusswrote it. But to make the film longer, they added a bit to it. Carreyplays Horton the elephant. One day he finds a speck and he hears avoice. This is the voice of the mayor of who-ville(Steve Carell). THeKangaroo(Carol Burnett) tries to force Horton to get rid of it but herefuses. So she goes to Vlad(Will Arnet), a vulture who is hired tokill anything. She hires him to kill the speck. Horton tries to saveWho-Ville in a desperate quest through the jungle of Nool. Horton Hearsa who doesn't disappoint. It actually is very impressive. It is acreative story and film, filled with tons of visuals. Horton hears awho is a near perfect film.

2012-04-26 09:36:59

okay

this movie was okay i think they shot it towards 1-8 year olds who would think its funny im 11 it okay

Glenn Whipp 2012-04-20 22:26:43

As long as it sticks to Seuss -- which, given the brevity of the book, amounts to about a third of the 88-minute running time -- Horton makes for charming, kid-friendly entertainment.

2012-04-20 12:38:26

Horton Who????

As an adult I had mixed feelings about this release. The CGI was was fair to good and it was somewhat of an entertaining movie , but it was too long for a Seuss movie. They dragged the story on-and-on but once again I am an adult now, a child would probably love this title. I think this is a for sure to-rent title. If you have young-ones around the house, maybe you should go ahead and buy, they will probably want to watch it over-and-over again.