First Horton Hears a Who Review

The movie itself is pretty fun - probably Blue Sky's best, most solid work. It's fun, it's amusing, it tugs ever so slightly at the heart strings and it's intelligently put together. I had my doubts, Blue Sky's a great lil' studio - but they haven't really proven they're great stuff yet...at least to me. Their work is visually brilliant but their story department always comes up short (Robots for instance looks amazing - but the story barely makes sense or is even worth telling). Horton from the outside looks amazing - and it is. It's basically what Seuss' drawings would look like if they existed in the real world; colorful, whimsical, and all sorts of twisted.

The only difference this go-round for the studio...is that it's even got a solid story to back it up; and hardly a pop-culture refrence to boot (none actually, outside a rather hilarious anime segment)!Overall it's just a good film.
 
I was kind of slightly dissapointed by the movie. For me, the most enjoyable parts were when the story focused on the Whos. Jim Carrey's antics got a little annoying over time, and even though the anime scene was pretty funny, it seemed really unneccessary. No one in the theater laughed at it.
I also regret seeing this on its opening weekend where the theater is filled with loud screaming kids.
 
Lemme rephrase that... are you guys sure the movie is doing well at the box office isn't just because it's virtually the only family movie out there, and that PG rated family movies always do the best business?

Was there a trailer or something for Ice Age 3?
 
This film is rated G, but I agree. The fact that it is a family film with no real competition is reason enough for its high box office numbers.
 
Sorry to bump this back up again but I had to share my thoughts.

Personally, I thought the film was awful.
Horton's character was completely wrong. He was basically Jim Carry doing a comedy routine in an elephant suit.
Don't get me wrong, I like some of Jim Carry's work and he's a good actor... he just wasn't right for this role/

I did not care for the character designs but the animation was okay I guess. Something with that didn't click with me either. There were some well animated sequences but I thought the chracter animation on Horton and the Mayor looked... way overdone... almost like a Don Bluth film where the characters constantly flail their arms around...

The only scene that I actually laughed at was the dentist scene. The whole sequence (cutting back and forth between Horton and the Who dentist office) was funny and well animated.

The 2D anime sequence, while I thought it was out-of-place, was well done. I wish the whole film was done in 2D.

And WHAT THE CRAP was the deal with all the characters randomly breaking into some old 80s song at the end? That's like the "trend" now with CGI animal movies. It's been happening ever since the first Shrek film.

Anyway, I do not recommend the film... at all. If you want a fun night out with the family just go pop in a classic Disney film or something.
 
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