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The Lorax, Movie

The Lorax 2012

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CG animated adaptation of the genius Dr. Seuss book about the Lorax, a stout, mustachioed critter who "speaks for the trees". From the animation studio who made Despicable Me. The directors wrote the screenplay for the last Dr. Seuss movie, Horton Hears a Who! More

Young Ted (voiced by Zac Efron) tries to find the one thing that will win him the affection of the girl of his dreams (Taylor Swift). To do so, he needs to discover the story of the Lorax (Danny DeVito) who defends the Truffula trees and their wee inhabitants from the greedy entrepreneurship of The Once-ler (Ed Helms). Hide

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164 votes / 47 comments The Talk

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    • HoneyRyder

      The animation's brilliant and the bears are so cute!:)

    • Kirk

      Dr Seuss...Genius

    • Adrian

      What have they done to this!

    • awsome

      awsome!!! its so cute and fluffy

    • larissa

      keeeeeeen as!!!!!!!!!!! cannot wait!!!

    • lolly pop

      AMAZING

    • alexis pasley

      AMAZING

    • tt 012

      speechless

    • 101 DYNAMITE

      O.K this is the best movie of all time well.....sorta

    • Ken-Burns

      Loved The Lorax as a book so after 3 beers I'll be in

    • Chris Simpson

      Loved The Lorax as a book so after 3 beers I'll be in

    • georgia

      cute - love how all my childhood stories are becoming animation reality :)

    • thats a woman?

      lol, i want to see this

    • damonkey

      A wonderful book turned into a piece of crass looking garbage. I'm revolted.

    • Mr Suess

      Must say, the first trailer was way better then the 2nd. Doesn't look that great now...

    • I Real Mr Suess

      2nd trailer is far better than 1st one as it actually tells you about the movie/story

    • RexH

      Best Seuss adaptation so far is Horton Hears a Hoo... But this at least looks interesting.

    • reetz

      cute.....

    • bOb

      teenybopper stars voicing a Greenpeace add... no thanks

    • Steph

      Looks like a great film! :)

    • Jason

      See it? I want to work on it

    • Michael

      To me that looks like the Grinch that's hiding in that tower thing

    • redrooster

      CGI on Steroids wow a colourful splender looks great

    • Charlotte

      I. LOVE. Dr. Suess

    • guy

      ok cool

    • Andrew Emin

      Ted is the Regular kid grown up

    • win

      this movie looks good

    • cina 3

      ausome coulorful whats up with u bOb

    • Becca

      now i know what a lorax is :)

    • Cool

      COOOOOOOL

    • Yes

      I wanna see it

    • bria moore

      my fav picture book so cool :)

    • sean maxwell

      Best movie ever

    • kaiya

      cool

    • likeaboss

      lookkks kool i might see it

    • tayla

      only want 2 c it because of TAYLOR SWIFT

    • kc :D

      Watched it its BORING

    • Kc :D

      Its the worst movie i've seen

    • jennifer

      this is actually good for the littlies

    • Lucy

      I really want to see it but not sure about weather it will be great - apparently to little story to make movie legnth

    • Lucy

      Taylor Swift!

    • Carmen

      Zac Efron and Taylor Swift! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • cody

      1D band Katy Perry

    • codster

      1Direction And Katy Perry 4 sure What makes you beautiful and This is the part of me

    • angel skye

      i wanna take my daughter to see but not sure if she wiill like it,shes a bit fussy...

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  • Taylor

    The Lorax rox!

  • Agrree

    i really wanna watch this in 3d because it will be awesome i hope i like it on thursday

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James Croot Flicks Writer

We've been waiting a long time for a film adaptation of Dr Seuss's darkest and most thought-provoking tale, but is this the Lorax film we really needed? The animation looks crisp, there are some moments of inspired 3D (involving white-water rapids and a climatic car chase) and the humming fish are a scene-stealing delight, but there's just something missing in translation from that most powerful book. More

Perhaps it’s the Lorax himself, who seems shunted into the periphery as the focus falls clearly and squarely on young Ted and his girl-inspired tree search. Whilst Danny DeVito is an inspired choice for his voice, he's left with little to do other than be the voice of doom and be the victim of countless acts of physical abuse. Yes, rather than frighten the kiddies with too much environmental gloom (my four-year-old pronounced it scary but not too scary), the producers have instead decided to up the cartoon violence and song-and-dance numbers - which are sadly unmemorable both musically and lyrically (the latter surely a crime given the source material).

Despicable Me director Chris Renaud's fingerprints are clearly all over the film, from the pint-sized villain (Vector with a sharper wardrobe but dodgier haircut) to the Minion-esque Barbaloots, but the subversive humour that marked out that movie is much more muted here. Hide

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Fun film

PhilMoore Flicks Superstar (?)

This is a fun animated film about a boy desperate to impress a girl by finding a real tree. He meets a guy outside of town that tells him a story about meeting The Lorax a critter that speaks for the trees. This is a fun family film with a great message about the environment. I recommend this film

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oh dear should have given it a miss

Michele-Wallis A-Lister (?)

I was really looking forward to this movie. I do enjoy kids movies but this was a big fizzer fizzle to me. Not as good as it was built up to be & I think I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't seen it & just carried the thought of it. I'm not sure if the story would hold the attention of the very young but perhaps the colours would, but I think thats all it's good for. well in my opinion anyway.

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Press Reviews

A.V. Club (USA)

This is a dark story with a heavy message, and it's been transformed into a harmless, pretty confection. In defanging it for comic effect, the filmmakers have done Seuss as much of a disrespectful disservice as if they'd laid on the fart gags. Full review.

Hollywood Reporter

Entertains while delivering it's pro-environmental, anti-greed message wrapped in a bright package of primary colors that truly pop. Full review.

Los Angeles Times

This movie version adds a whole lot of other stuff, most of it not very good and not in keeping with the spirit of the Seuss original. Full review.

New York Times

A noisy, useless piece of junk, reverse-engineered into something resembling popular art in accordance with the reigning imperatives of marketing and brand extension. Full review.

Rolling Stone (USA)

Yikes! Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda direct strictly for short-attention spans on a fruit-loopy palette that made me want to puke. Had Dr. Seuss lived (he died in 1991), I'm confident he would have puked as well. Full review.

Variety (USA)

The key to Seuss' tales, as with all good fables, is not only their cleverness but their surpassing elegance and simplicity, qualities that this busy, over-cluttered contraption of a movie seems entirely uninterested in replicating. Full review.