While I will admit that there is a bit of stretching going on to make an 88-minute movie out of a picture book, directors Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino and writers Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul do a good job of keeping the core story in tact and fleshing out characters and scenarios in fun ways. Dedicated to keeping Whoville safe, Horton heads out to place the speck on a flower at the top of a mountain. Meanwhile, the movement of the speck is creating havoc in Whoville and the Mayor must convince his people of the truth before their town in destroyed. Kangaroo (Carol Burnett) feels that Horton's belief in Whoville will spark imagination in the children, creating rebellion, so she sends out Vlad the vulture (not Vlad the bunny with the cookies) to destroy the clover.

In both Horton's and the Mayor's world, the inhabitants do not believe in the tales of tiny people and huge elephants in the sky, respectively. Turns out, there is a whole town on this speck called Whoville, and Horton makes contact with its Mayor (Steve Carell, TV's THE OFFICE). Determined to protect the tiny person or persons on the speck, Horton catches the piece of dust on a clover. This is a sweet tale that had heart and humor for everyone in the crowd, balancing nicely between the hip and the Seussian.Īs the story goes, Horton the elephant (Jim Carrey, HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS) hears tiny voices coming from a speck of dust floating in the air. But when it was all said and done, and the credits began to roll, I was hooked.

The trailers seemed to show only filler material - recycled gags that have been done many, many times before. Seuss' Geisel had a hard time stretching this same story into a half hour TV special. Seuss track record quite poor, I wasn't expecting much from Blue Sky's CG HORTON HEARS A WHO! I mean even animation legend Chuck Jones and Ted 'Dr.

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