Dr. Seuss? Horton Hears a Who trailer

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yeah, but more like, Meh, Dr. Seuss's work looks better CGI than in a live action abomination....

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Jim Carrey is sooooooooooo miscast in this, IMO. Horton isn't a crazy kinda guy. In Seuss' book, he was a gentle, earnest easygoing elephant. Chuck Jone's marvelous TV version portrayed the character perfectly. I don't like this spastic, fast-talking re-interpretation AT ALL.

And what do you want to bet that in this movie the "new" Horton farts at least once? :(
 
There will be plenty of fart and poop jokes to go around in these films as usual.

When I first saw the trailer, and I mentioned this in the other movie thread, I don't like how Horton is crazy.
In fact I wouldn't be surprised if this movie is just as raunchy as the Cat in the Hat was.
But at least it's animated.
 
I have to say, I think the 3D animation in Seuss' style looks really good. They really gave life to his characters.

The movie itself...eh, never read the book, so I can't say.
 
I like what he had to say there. I really did. He derides the notion of the film, yet applauds the animation of it. I agree that if they did a sweeter, closer version of the book, this would be a great idea. But this is going to be, as he said, like everything else.

I think Blue Sky has some great animation, but their scripts.... need work. I mean, I liked how Ice Age and Robots were, but if they had stronger scripts they would have gone a lot farther than what they got to.
 
Hey, Animaniacs Family Guy and Shrek didn't even get the "few nice things" treatment.

And yes, he absolutely HAS to put Bob Clampett's Dr. Suess adaptations on a higher plaen than Chuck Jones'
 
Honestly, John K don't like nothin'. I understand what he's getting at, but I am interested in this one for the art design alone, and yes, Horton differs a bit, but I assume they're playing up his weird loner status due to him being the only one that knows there are little people living on that flower.
 
Not artists? I beg to differ.
The best 3D animators in the world at Disney, Pixar, Blue Sky, Dreamworks, Sony Animation etc. come from a traditional animation background and are indeed artists.
 
Agreed. He was fine as the Grinch to me because, despite his spastic nature, he still managed to capture the Grinch's hateful spite perfectly, and insanity fits a villain better than a hero anyway.

But Horton is not a villain, in fact he's as far from a villain as you can get. Why the heck is Carey being cast? Couldn't he just show up in a cameo as the Grinch (Grinch did have a cameo in the Chuck Jones version after all, when that sad song was being sung.)
 
I think he means that they don't capture the essense of the good Doctor's style. And I can't blame him. While this stuff does look good for CGI, it doesn't quite capture that drawing quality that is such a part of Seuss's charm. They can't emulate crosshatching or any of those sharp pen lines that make the books really pop. I mean, even in 3-D merchandise, it just doesn't look right. The closest 3-D counterpart was the Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, a Muppet production (and even then there was something off.)

His work is more suited to a 2-D medium, IMO. I mean, the Chuck Jones specials captured the style in animation form, but they were more like a cross bread between Seuss and Jones's styles (which are lovely together). The only thing I think that captured the style of the books dead on were the Depatie Freling specials. Those are just too underrated. Especially since Sesame Street songwriter Joe Raposo wrote the music for most of them.

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As for the casting, I would have gone Steve Carrel as Horton, and someone else as Steve's part. But if it were up to me, it would have Rob Paulsen or Jim Cummings or someone like that doing the voice.
 
I actually find the CGI in this feature to be a cut above most of the other studios.

I actually find it very promising. Yes, I know that this isn't going to be Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears a Who", despite what the title says. The quirky spin put on this might actually work. My only problem is that some of that dialogue felt a little too sitcomy.
 
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