The Lorax

(singing) "Humans suck they really really suck! Humans suck they really really really suck! We love to kill the Earth because we're all stupid. All corporations are greedy and evil; and all forest creatures can be enslaved by marshmallows!" I'm not saying that was Grammy worthy but I am saying this is the review of The Lorax. The Lorax takes us on a journey with a young man who, in order to impress a girl, goes and listens to the story of how the land outside of his all plastic town of Thneedville was ravished by corporate greed.

At first I was ready to walk out because the amount of human hating pulpit preaching in the first number alone was enough to make me puke. That, however, eventually subsided and it became a rather enjoyable movie. The story moved along at a good pace and never lost the attention of my kids who we took to see this.The look of the film itself was very visually appealing and my five year old daughter was very happy that it was animated and not another live action piece of Dr. Seuss nonsense.

On the other hand, there seemed to be some disconnect between the animated characters and their voices; there wasn't a good blend of the two which made it difficult not to visualize the actors doing the voices rather than just focusing on the characters in the story. Oh, and by the way, there are so many plot holes and unanswered questions in this movie it was ridiculous. Why would there be snails in a town completely made of plastic? Were the Lorax's only powers, as the spirit of the forest, to make you feel guilty? Couldn't they have used a ladder to harvest the truffula trees? If the Once-ler (the storyteller) had a solution all this time why didn't he fix things years and years and years ago? Not to mention the logistics of holding a people captive behind the walls of a city. Honestly, there was a lot to this movie that didn't make sense and I don't mean that in the fun Dr. Seuss randomness kinda way. This doesn't make the movie awful but you just need to shut of you're brain and enjoy the pretty colors.

If you have kids, go ahead and take them to see this and let yourself be inspired to plant a tree. If you're a small business owner you can take inspiration from this as well. Anyone else besides Al Gore, I'd say don't bother checking this out unless you take some shrooms beforehand. I give The Lorax 2 out of 5 Big Hairy Mustaches although I will probably being buying it on DVD so my kids can watch it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and again...